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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1918
Page
9
An ioneering home remedy touts M L Stands San Mentho Laxene Cold Cone and Catarret Medicine for coughs and colds. It instructs mixing 4-4 of a pound of sugar with boiling water to make a pint of syrup, sold by a well stocked druggist, promising safe relief without hair, drugs, or side effects and offering money back guarantee.
A plan outlines Maj Alfred Sands as acting chief with a Tuesday meeting to discuss consolidating allied department offices at Cam Travisty Headquarters. The move retains key inspectors and staff, reorganizes the staff layout, and brings administrative departments into a unified group while shifting the licenses and supply functions from the staff chain.
Military surgeons will receive special instruction on trench foot disability from prolonged trench service. Lectures cover war wounds to the head abdomen and upper limbs with notes on thorax pelvis and leg injuries. Instructors include Capt Mengstler Lt Young and Lieut Gordon among others detailing fractures antiseptics and trauma care.
Colonel McCarthy announces formation of nine army mule trains and two later groups to support supply lines. He asserts mules retain value amid powerful mule trains, noting fourteen newly packed trains and the need for capable packers and drivers as soldiers transfer to pack trains.
Brig. Gen. W. J. Johnston states that relative rank in the National Army will not affect promotion. A War Department letter cited says promotion is not by seniority but by demonstrated fitness and commanding officers' recommendations. Temporary commissions and holdovers may be revoked if officers are not qualified for service, and some may revert to former regular Army status or retire.
France presses for the death penalty as Bolo’s trial concludes. Prosecutors present expert accounts and rebut defenses while the defendant and his brother contest the telegrams authenticity. No verdict announced at today’s sitting.
Proceedings reveal political pressure and document disputes as prosecutors argue for wartime immunity while defense presses for August and September 1917 papers. Testimony links Bolo Pasha to Abbas Hitmi and German propaganda, with calls to halt further arrests amid international tensions.
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