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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1919
Page
4
An old time patent medicine promotion touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a standard remedy for cold and cough relief. The ad claims quick chest and throat relief, fever reduction, and general well being with dosing at 25 to 1.20 dollars and urges readers to buy from druggists nationwide.
A bustling page lists society events and gatherings from Monday through the week at prominent locales such as the Country Club and St. Mary’s Hall. Guests include Mrs. James M. Fareh, Miss Louise Burck, Mrs. George Estes, and many others, with teas, luncheons, and artist’s teas alongside Red Cross and military relief activities.
Claiming to clear stuffed noses from catarrh or colds, the ad promotes Else Cream Balm as a fragrant heatscream that penetrates air passages, relieves inflamed membranes, and promises instant relief after a single application. It urges purchase from a druggist.
Sergt. Charles Nichols from Boerne is cited for extraordinary heroism in action during a recent engagement. Nichols, serving with the engineers, boldly exposed himself to enemy fire to direct artillery and repair a gun position, earning the Distinguished Service Cross for valor and leadership despite heavy casualties.
A garbled OCR fragment blends remarks on peace conference costs with a shipboard incident. It references Germany’s reparations, wartime debts, and a Dardanelles sinking, plus chaotic aboard scene descriptions and partial product ads. Names and places are unreadable, yielding a disjointed, safely neutral record of scattered items.
Fragmentary OCR notes show potato market mentions with references to pounds and local actors. The text lists quantities like 10M pounds and mentions Gracey Gredon and GGRC Ade as entities. Details are garbled and uncertain but indicate regional potato price or supply chatter and pricing context.
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