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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
14
Advertises La Creole Hair Dressing to restore dark color to gray hair and moustaches. Claims quick, noticeable results after several applications and is sold in stores or by Mansfield Drug Co for $1.20, universally used by men and women.
Fifteen ill health children under Miss Lock will travel Saturday to Comfort for a new summer camp. The project, funded by the Chamber of Commerce Public Welfare Department with the US Public Health Service and Public Health Nurses Association, includes an 18 by 40 foot building, individual beds and tables, a renovated cottage, and five acres prepared by Comfort Boy Scouts. A flagpole and flag donated. planned July 4 flag raising with visiting camp organizers from San Antonio and Comfort residents.
An ad promotes Sensapersa tablets claiming to double nerve health in ten days. It asserts long term benefit for those with nerve exhaustion, aiding digestion purifying blood strengthening memory clearing the brain and promoting sound sleep.
A vintage advertisement touts SENSAPERSA as a blood tonic and nerve sedative that restores the nervous system to normal. It promises elastic steps and an active brain after ten days, urging immediate use. Two sizes available, 10c and 1.00, from Wagner Drug Store or local druggists.
A desertion case and a refusal of medical treatment were heard at Camp Travis. Private Bates White, Fourth Company, depot brigade, a Black soldier, was found guilty of desertion and initially sentenced to life imprisonment, reduced to twenty years by Col. R. C. Williams. He allegedly deserted April 10 and resisted arrest at Hemphill, Texas. Private Melvin Embry, Veterinary Corps, refused medical treatment to remove a disability and was sentenced to twenty years, later reduced to ten, for refusing treatment to become fit for service amid a hookworm issue. The court martial was the first at the camp involving a soldier who declined medical care.
A boy named Robin Speer aged about a block from East Cincinnati Avenue was rescued from drowning in Brackenridge Park's bathing pool Thursday afternoon after several submersions. He was treated at Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital and later returned home.
The report notes many alien women could not complete registration due to a short supply of blank affidavits. Chief Lancaster said more blanks were expected this afternoon or Saturday, and those unregistered will have a chance to proceed once supplies arrive. Public notices will announce when affidavits arrive.
Heat prompts a new training schedule at Camp Travis with active drills moved to mornings and afternoon sessions shifted to theoretical instruction and conferences. Algo revielle moved to six, first drill after breakfast at seven, replacing seven forty five. Exemption period after inoculation raised to forty eight hours from twenty four. Lieut. Col. John B. Sanford designated for oversee of changes.
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