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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1919
Page
3
The listing boasts the city’s most complete auto parts department with hundreds of new items added in the last two weeks. A window display features a thousand attractively priced pieces, inviting customers to view a wide and varied assortment.
Weekly sale listing prices on auto parts and accessories. Includes tubes, spark plugs, patching, cleaners, bearings, belts, tools, hub parts, radiators, wheels, and related items. Notable items: Ford cranking device, folding trunks, Firestone demountables, Dayton wheels, and Mosler spark plugs at sale prices.
A retailer announces a year round department expansion dedicating a Jone pyramid counter to small dogs and 2009 square feet in the warehouse for 40 wheel goods of every description.
Fragmentary OCR text provides unclear items and garbled phrases with no coherent events or identifiable persons or organizations to summarize into a proper news item.
A citywide health crusade for children emphasizes daily health chores to build lifelong habits. Eleven daily tasks include hand washing, teeth care, deep breathing, outdoor play, and adequate sleep. Badges mark progress while a school record lists participants, with a large public celebration planned at Camp Travis on Washington's Birthday and interlinked welfare groups organizing events.
A vintage advertisement-like fragment touts calcium wafers as a remedy for complexion defects and skin issues. It claims the product cleanses impurities, smooths dryness and flaking, and improves appearance, urging readers to try samples through a free trial.
Incomplete OCR text shows a Marshall Michigan fragment with unclear names and a mix of phrases. No coherent event or action emerges, leaving limited factual detail to summarize as a brief news item. The readable elements include a place name Marshall and scattered words, not a clear report.
Artillerymen at Camp Stanley seek home connections through the Home Folks Service as hundreds of stationed soldiers arrive in San Antonio. Letters from Detroit and Dunkirk indicate a strong desire to reconnect with former communities, with requests for local friends and addresses. The program, held in coordination with Camp Stanley and War Department courtesy, aims to link soldiers with civilian hosts for convalescent and morale support.
Civilians supply home city wishes and requests for service members in wartime. The editor notes exchanges of letters between soldiers and civilians, inviting home town names and affiliations from many states and cities. The piece lists numerous towns and counties, urging identification by section of city or neighborhood for metropolitan readers.
An advertisement touts Drew't hurt a bit and Freezone as a painless corn remover. It promises quick relief for corns between toes and on the bunion area with a tiny dab of Freezone from drug stores, claiming no forcible removal or irritation.
The Texas Eagle from San Antonio Texas dated February 10 1919 offers a concise public notice or item from the publication with address 217 Central Office Build San Antonio Texas. It repeats title and location facts without additional context or details.
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