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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1918
Page
18
An old advertisement extols pure cocoanut oil as a superior shampoo. It claims common soaps dry scalp and frizz hair, while cocoanut oil cleanses gently, produces rich lather, dries hair evenly, and leaves it silky and fluffy. The oil is inexpensive and widely available at drug stores for family use.
The advertisement touts Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a swift cure for colds and lingering coughs. It claims to loosen phlegm relieve congestion and speed recovery for grippe bronchitis and asthma with proper use.
The War Service Board leases the Potter home at 407 King William Street to establish the first woman’s building in the cantonment cities. Eight days of operation will guide guests who need housework help and a safe stay for mothers sisters wives or relatives of soldiers arriving without lodging. The facility operates at cost and cooperates with Red Cross station matrons Catholic Woman’s Association and the YWCA among others.
Advert reads La Creole hair tonic as superior to other tonics, claiming it cleanses dandruff and improves scalp condition. It asserts the product darkens premature grey and thickens hair, priced $1.20, available from Van Viect Drug Co Memphis.
An old time remedy for gray hair returns in ready to use Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound. This evening routine moistened on a comb darkens gray strands by morning and adds a youthful lustrous look without signaling disease.
A station night incident prompts War Service Board to establish a temporary women and girls shelter with eight day limits, meals, and housework by guests. An employment bureau, staffed by Mrs. Crosby and others, will oversee operations in a leased building with capacity for thirty beds and a small fee for guests who can pay.
Following officers from the aviation department sign reserve corps and report to Keily Piel. The 345th engineers and corps of engineers officers are assigned to active duty. An industrial work survey shows 1,266,061 women in the United States engaged in essential work including 100,600 in munitions factories.
A noted authority explains indigestion as caused by excess stomach acid that ferments food, producing sour fluids and gases. It advises taking four ounces of had with a tablespoonful in water before breakfast, continuing for a week, and using harmless salts from grape and lemon acids with lithia and sodium phosphate to neutralize acidity and aid digestion.
An advertisement targets middle aged women promising youth restoration with Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer. It claims gray hair hides age, offers natural color return without staining the scalp, and adds health benefits. Sold by druggists with money back guarantee.
The War Savings and Thrift Stamp drive is led by a committee headed by Mrs Amos Graves and with hotel booths at the St Anthony Gunter and Menger hotels. Local labor unions will join a Tuesday night meeting at the Trades Council hall to organize a city wide drive. State Director Lipsitz urges immediate action to rally San Antonio and Bexar County to meet the quota and support the war effort.
A mass meeting is set for January 21 at the Gunter Motel to select five citizens to protest rate increases. Representatives from the Retail Merchants, Manufacturers Association, Rotary Club, TTFRA, City Council, and Chamber of Commerce will attend to form a committee to request a city investigation of the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company’s books and costs.
An old newspaper ad promotes Cascarets as a gentle liver and bowel laxative for all ages. It claims quick relief from biliousness headaches bad breath sour stomach and constipation. The copy urges mothers to give Cascarets to children and describes them as candy like and harmless.
A medical discussion explains liver and kidney roles in filtering waste and warns against mineral oils. It recommends drinking water, a hot water premeal, and Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, plus Anuric as an uric acid solvent, and advises reduced meat and more vegetables for health.
At a San Antonio meeting officials backed hiring an expert to study a fair rate, arguing the proposed advance is excessive given service value and operating costs. William Schlessinger noted the company operates without a city franchise, though interstate rights and city commission authority to regulate rates were discussed.
The National Theosophical Lecturer J W Rogers presents five lectures this week on topics including The Invisible Side of War Life After Death Pre existence and Re birth Or with Premonitions and The Supermen These talks begin nightly at 8 15 except Saturday with collection only Adv
The San Antonio Freight Bureau elected a board of eleven directors and officers for the new year at a meeting in the Gunter hotel. A. Pawkett was re elected secretary and manager and S B Weller was named vice chairman with Wallace Carnahan as treasurer. The group pledged support to Director General McAdoo to aid in freight rate work and transportation solutions.
Twelve carloads of rotting foodstuffs in San Antonio rail yards prompt Texas district officials to study arbitrary shipping holds. Eight cars of potatoes, three of apples, and one of lemons are deteriorating and may be unfit within days unless moved, while a petition seeks to shorten the five day railroad hold.
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