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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1917
Page
24
The National League for Woman's Service expands a war cooking program across the 388 branches to teach economy and nutrition. Local captains lead twenty volunteers to cut waste, favor fish and potato meals, and avoid malnutrition while preserving health.
A 45 year old drawing master in Solingen attempted suicide with cyanide, failed, and disposed of the poison the next day before turning to a rope, reflecting wartime substitutions in German press coverage from Geneva.
Mrs Julia Hehn a well known San Antonio resident on a summer chicken ranch told Wagner's Drug Store in the city she recovered from years of stomach kidney and nerve troubles after using Tanlac. She says she has told at least a thousand people about the remedy and her family now uses it. Tanlac is sold in San Antonio by Wagner's Drug Store and ER J H Meier with Tanlac representative Vv.
A man attempted to hang himself with a paper rope which broke. Believing fate favored him, he later visited a well known restaurant and ordered a meat stew, dying two hours later. The incident follows a second failed self harm.
The North German Gazette reports harvests in occupied Roumania and Poland will exceed expectations. It claims central powers will be self-sufficient for another year and able to export grain and other supplies to neighboring neutrals if Allied cuts to food imports persist with U S assistance.
London reports that interned enemy aliens earning sufficient wages will contribute to the support of their British-born wives via guardians boards receiving relief.
A clipped dialogue shows Papa Willis and Willie arguing about school and snobbery. Willis snubs the institution while Willie Pillie remarks on farmer boys and the millionaire crowd, reflecting rural attitudes.
A trio of ration bearers loses comrades to machine gun fire as they wander a war-torn night seeking their unit. They improvise a bayonet assault on German troops, then flee back to the British line with scarce supplies and grim humor. The piece foregrounds battlefield disorientation and lethal improvisation among soldiers.
A book titled Perfect Hair claims to restore natural hair color gradually without visible dye, offering an easy home method. It also promises hair growth and dandruff reduction, mailed free in a peel wrapper by Koskot Laboratory in New York City.
Lugano July 14. Northern Italian papers warn of shrinking coal imports with Genoa receiving 116000 tons in May vs 263000 last year and Savona 19000 tons vs 122000 in May 1916. War disruption raises freight costs and neutrals avoid Italian ports while Rome papers urge ships be pressed into Allied service.
Rome reports that 320 firms owned by citizens of enemy countries have been confiscated and placed under government trustees. A census of foreign-owned properties in Italy is presently underway.
Mademoiselle Genee acted as judge at a blind soldiers dancing competition at St Dunstan's and danced with the first prize winners in London on July 14.
The War Department aims to complete sixteen wooden cantonments by September 1 to train 500,000 draftees. Each site must include health facilities water pipes sewerage streets lighting and telephones. Contracts are awarded with scaled fees up to 10 percent and a $250,000 cap, expediting construction amid red tape cuts.
The War Department reports rapid progress on cantonments with work likely to be completed by September 1 for occupation by the new army of democracy.
A Leip zig famine tale reports a bread thief killed himself after bread theft was exposed. A friend of the son hid guilt. the man fled and was found decapitated on a railway line near Stunzer Flat Station after choosing suicide over prosecution.
London July 14 reports all Wimbledon churches agree to cancel Sunday school picnics this summer due to the war. They will not hold picnics or treats as part of wartime restrictions.
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