Exorbitant Army Rent Provokes City Hearing
Army officers and soldiers complain of high rents in San Antonio as landlords and agents raise prices. A Wednesday hearing at the Chamber of Commerce will hear complaints to curb profiteering, with Fort Sam Houston and Camp Travis officials noting the growing issue and plans to publish a list of offending owners and lodgings for action.
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San Antonio
Square Deal Association
Chamber of Commerce
Sandford
Art Sam Houston
Camp
Lravis
Kellyield
San Antonis
City of Heart
Fort Sam Houston
Swlinti
Venercle
Government housing plan eyed as rental relief
A San Antonio meeting of the Square Deal Association will hear complaints from diverse businesses including a transfer company hotel jitney service drink stand and laundry. Officials may consider municipal shoe shine parlors as part of a broader approach to the rental problem with parallels to a Washington plan housing 2000 war workers.
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Department of Tabor
Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation
Washington
San Antonio
Square Deal Association
Men of Spanish American War to Hold Manila Anniversary Meet
About a dozen veterans of the Spanish American War and others who served in China during the Boxer uprising will attend a dinner at the YWCA Hostess House, Camp Travis, Tuesday evening for the twentieth Manila capture anniversary. Capt Barker and Maj Farrell organized invitations. Barrell will be boastmaster.
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Camp Travis
Manila
Barker
Maj
P. J. H. Farrell
Army of the Philippines Society
Y Barrell
Ening
Captain Barker
Anna Held Death Believed From Rare Myeloma Disease
New York Aug 18 Actress Anna Held died after a months long illness described as multiple myeloma a rare bone marrow cancer. Doctors cited her willpower and resilience, noting tight corseting may have contributed to the illness while detailing her long career and marriage to Florenz Ziegfeld.
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New York
Anna Held
Miss Held
Anna Hel
Paris
London
Anna
Holland
Florenz Ziegfeld
Florena Ziegfeld Jr
Mr. Ziegfeld
Diane Held
Otero
United States
Joan of
Anna Hold
Comediennes
Th. Kahler
Lsit
Milwaukee
Hair turns white in moments or over years lore and facts
In a Milwaukeee Free Dress column Rene Baby debunks sudden hair whitening myths and explains pigment loss. The article notes hair color remains durable yet fades with pigment gland failure, aging, or grief. It cites Marie Antoinette as an example of preexisting gray and mentions eyelash lifespans and a French ace flying over Berlin with limited detail.
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Dee Eay
Rene Baby
Marie Antoinette
Just Once Try Dodson's Liver Tone Health Ad
A vintage style testimonial advertises Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable remedy to replace calomel. It promises quick relief from sluggish bowels, bilious feelings, and headaches, claiming it cleanses bile and gut waste without causing salivation. It urges readers to buy at a drugstore and retry if unsatisfied.
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Dodson
Women dentists serve gratis for war effort
Three hundred sixty five volunteer women dentists nationwide join the American Women’s Hospitals dental committee and the Preparedness League. They work with the Red Cross and Dr De Tam Kinney as chair, serving at home and abroad with free services to the government, screening troops and filling thousands of teeth.
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America
Dental Committee
American Women's Hospitals
Preparedness League
Philadelphia
Red Cross
de Tam Kinney
Dental
Europe
This Is The Age Of Youth Hair Dye Ad
Strands of gray hair concern many. La Creole Hair Dressing promises even dark color and a youthful appearance. It is advertised as effective for gray hair beard and mustache and sold in drug stores or by mail for 1.20 from Van Vleet Manxfield Drug Co Memphis Tenn.
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van Vleet - Manxfield’’ Drug O
Memphis
Tenn
Loyalty not issue in Martin's trial rules judge West
In Austin on August 13 Judge Duval West ruled that loyalty questions would not be discussed in the Clarence Martin trial. Cross-examination began with a dispute over loyalty while Martin testified he wrote letters to Ottmers to avoid public knowledge, and he defended his actions as protecting clients. West limited inquiries to the single case, disallowing references to other defendants or alleged disloyal remarks.
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Martin
West
Austin
Tex
Duval West
Clarence Martin
United States
Moses
Trudge West
Ottmers
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Grand Jury
Robertson
Alartin
Paca
Gillespie County
Prices Equalized by Square Deal Subcommittee
Findings by the subcommittee of druggists and confectioners under the Square Deal Association report prices and sizes are uniform across the city. Attendees included leading druggists, confectioners, and several army men. The committee aims to standardize pricing and quantities, with recommendations to be acted on at Wednesday’s association meeting.
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Stuare Deai Association
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America's Greatest Woman’s Magazine
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