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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
10
A 1900s style notice promotes Cascarets as a safe laxative alternative to harsh pills and calomel. It claims Cascarets cleanse the liver and bowels without griping, improve headaches biliousness bad breath sour stomach and even help feverish children when needed.
Dr. Baker answers reader questions on tonics, tonics for nerves and weight gain, cough remedies, dandruff cures, and scalp care. The column promotes three grain salicylates and cadomene tablets, mentholaxene cough syrup, and yellow soap dandruff treatment while noting cantonment plans and army barracks construction.
The War Department will open bids February 1 for materials to build cantonments for regular army troops in the border service. Fort Sam Houston El Paso and Brownsville host quartermaster offices. Construction will begin soon after with troop labor. Estimated lumber and material costs run into thousands as permanent camps are prepared along the border.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe calomel alternative. It claims the tonic cleanses the liver and bowels without griping or sickness, guarantees money back if not effective, and says it is harmless for children.
The return of 16 000 state troops designated by General Funston to leave border duty is near. Units have begun moving and most will depart by January 11. Isolated regiments from Camp Wilson have already left, including Missouri and Kansas signal companies.
Headquarters orders list New York ambulance company and several Pennsylvania units at El Paso to be disposed of. Return movements for Pennsylvania troops are scheduled with signal battalion and division headquarters on January 6, Fourth Infantry on January 6, First Cavalry on January 9, and ambulance company field hospital and field bakery on January 11.
Muskogee Oklahoma January 4 1930s egg admission at a theater will be one strictly fresh egg to gain entry as eggs sell for fifty to sixty cents a dozen the manager states this Saturday afternoon performance will be open to all with the new policy.
A Springfield reader H H Adams age eighty seven describes a severe kidney attack and credits Foley Kidney Pills with the best relief among treatments. A M Fischer also endorses the pills noting their tonic action and quick results.
Advertisement promises instant relief from head colds and catarrh. A small bottle is applied in the nostrils to soothe swollen mucous membranes, clear air passages, and relieve congestion, dryness, and headaches with quick results.
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