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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
14
Purifying your blood is urged as a spring remedy to restore health and vitality. The advertisement promotes Swift's S. S. S. as a 50 year standard, a vegetable blood tonic claimed to banish contagion, build rich red blood, and relieve aches weakness and fatigue with directions to obtain it from a local druggist or contact the Swift Medical Department in Atlanta Georgia.
British government used widespread ads to recruit, loan, and curb excess purchases. Sir Hedley LeBas led the effort, turning campaigns into a major national enterprise that drew millions of volunteers and billions in loans, with broad public backing and some parliamentary opposition.
A long article reviews World War I recruitment and treasury advertising under Sir Hedley, detailing campaigns appealing to women in Ireland and the New York Guardsman gift, plans for a tractor ambulance, and calls to thrift. It notes ads urging economy, sacrifice, and lending money, plus a vivid civilian and soldier dialogue urging arms and bonds purchases.
A reader appeals to stop harsh salts and alcoholic kidney medicines and try Anuric Tablets. The writer H. H. Fleisher reports relief from kidney and bladder trouble and enlarged prostate diagnosis, claiming improved water clarity, appetite, and health after using Anuric. The notice urges readers to obtain Anuric from drug stores or mail order 10 cent trial package.
Italy imposes sweeping communistic style reforms to reorganize farming on a mutual basis. Landowners must aid tenants, prefects oversee owner tenant relations, and the government funds and loans machinery. Tenants may be exempt from military service if only male left to till soil, and women may work on farms with pay. Laborers receive 75 percent reduced railway fares to move as needed. Special courts and commissions regulate labor, machinery, and animal allocation across provinces to protect crop harvests amid wartime demand. Wheat output falls to 94.1 percent of last year while imports surge. Brown bread becomes common as food supplies tighten. Local Red Cross announces meal provisions and border train movements, with secrecy about schedules.
Fort Worth residents organize meals for soldiers aboard troop trains passing through the city en route to the border. Local women prepare and distribute lunches to guards and troops, reflecting community support during a tense period.
Bids will be received for the erection of South Side High School at Garden and Bismark streets with separate bids for plumbing heating and electric work. Bids open at 11 am July 3 1916 at the School Board office State Bank and Trust Co. A 5000 certified check is required. Plans available at Associated Architects offices. The right to reject any bid is reserved. San Antonio Texas. A Colorado inventor patents a retractable auto rear-cabin top.
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