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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1918
Page
14
Air Service Enlistment Drive Targets San Antonio Craftsmen
Lieut Col Vos Quackenbush announces an immediate enlistment and induction push for expert blacksmiths and woodworkers in San Antonio and vicinity. Draft age rules apply. non draftees may enlist, while draftees may be inducted if deferred or fit for overseas service. Inductions occur at Kelly Field headquarters with training in propeller making and related trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Service
Vos. Quackenbush
Kelly Kiel
Adjutant General's Office
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Name Change Plea for Local Farm Loan Official
Carl Germaniens Schneider, 82, manager of Liberty Trust Company farm loan department, seeks to change his name to Charles Gordon Snyder. He states he and his father were born in America. his grandfather German and grandmother French. He lives at 202 Walnut Street and came from Memphis last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Germaniens Schneider
Liberty Lrast Company
Charles Gordon Snyder
Schneider
Walnut Street
Kansas City
Memphis
America
Germany
France
Great Old Remedy for Skin Diseases
An advertise promising eight eight eight as a purely vegetable blood purifier and tonic for skin eruptions and related diseases. Claims the product cleanses blood, relieves pimples, and prevents further suffering. urges readers to obtain 8.8.S. from a druggist and contact the Medical Director in Atlanta for expert advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Cavalry Units to Form Nucleus of Field Artillery
Cavalry regiments at Camp Stanley Leon Springs will be reorganized into field artillery regiments as part of the 18th division. Units will transfer to Camp Travis or remain at Leon Springs for reorganization and training. Fort Sam Houston 300th Cavalry moves to Camp Bowie Fort Worth. Captain John H. McNeely arrives at Camp Travis as first officer reported to USth division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Stanley
Leon Springs
Camp Travis
Southern Department
300Th Cavalry
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Bowie
Fort Worth
808Rd
304Th Cavalry
48Rd
304Th
Booth Cavalry
44Th
16Th
52Nd
53Rd
54Th Field Artillery
Nua
800Th Cavalry
S7th
S7th Field Artillery
Vth
Usth Division
John H. McNeely
Camp
Howie
San Antonio Emerges as New Motion Picture Center
Sunset Pictures signs five year deals with Frank Rowell and Benjamin J. Hampton making San Antonio a film hub. Hampton will distribute Sunset pictures with at least four releases annually and may film many projects locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunset Pictures , Corporation
Frank Rowell
Benjamin J. Hampton
San Antonio
Lowell
Mr. Hampton
Indus
She Korfeir
Hampton
Broadway
Wampton
Vitagraph
Vparalta
Hex Reach
W. TH. Woodkinson
Paramount Company
Warren Kerrigan
Bessie Barrisenle
Louise Glaum
Henry B. Walthall
Mr. Taimpron
Sunset Pictures
Hodkinson
Brisk Texas Infantry Recruiting in San Antonio Area
Recruiters report ongoing enlistment in San Antonio with expeditions to nearby towns. Captain O Riley lists eight men from You Okny and seven from Boerne for a machine gun company while Capt L Digan builds a group of forty at St Hedwick. Washington orders to halt new enlistments not affecting the infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Infantry
San Antonio
O'Riley
You Okny
Boerne
L. Digan
St. Hedwick
Washington
Paper substitutes flood Berlin ads in wartime listing
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung on March 6 printed ads touting paper substitutes for dresses aprons business suits shoe manufacture upholstery and tapestries. Other items include trunks bags pillow cases and mattresses with a range of Jut tet sale offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
el Rex
How Our Forces Are Billeted in France
Herbert Corey reports for the National Geographic Society on American troops billeted in French villages near the front. He describes the dark streets, improvised beds, billeting chalks on walls, and the rugged conditions as officers and men endure war’s logistics and upkeep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Herbert Corey
National Geographic Society
Plans for San Antonio School Year by Superintendent Meek
Superintendent Charles M Meek returns to San Antonio after lecturing on school administration at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He begins organizing the school staff for the new year and preparing for the joint county institute in early September. He cites wartime teacher shortages in manual training departments as a nationwide issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Meek
Charles 8. Meek
San’ Antonio
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Woman Doctor Receives High Honor from French
Paris Dr Daisy M Orieman Robinson on Red Cross Children's Bureau staff in France has won the medal of honor from the French minister of war. The gold medal honors work among epidemics for her service to French wounded as assistant to Dr Paul Gaston at Montpelier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Daisy M. Orieman Robinson
Children's Bureau
American Red Cross
France
Robinson
Paul Gaston
Montpelier
Derwillow The Famous Beautifier Promoted
Phousands use this skin tonic claiming to erase sun damage wrinkles tan freckles sallow skin and spots. It supposedly tinges cheeks with rose color and makes the face look ten years younger with a youthful complexion. Large announcement to follow in this paper.
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Nielson Grocery Co
San Pedro Ave
His Name
Texas
B. R. Webb
Charles Steele
Adjt
Phil H. Shook
Wallace Newton
I. L. Dingman
E. 8. O'Reilly
FIRST
State National Bank Building
Travis
Sunset Corporation
Omy
India
Zie
Woodbury
Mennen
Tal Long
Arcadia Rouge
Luxor Rouge Herpicide
Luxor
Pond's
Pinaud
Lugram
Nadindla Hind
Long
Copenhagen
Palm Beach
Wolff & Marx CO
Mexico
Tennessee
Philippine Constabuluary
Nebraska
Milwaukee
Derwillo
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