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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1918
Page
6
Learn about a fireless cooking range that saves food, time, labor, and gas. The educational demo runs Wednesday Thursday and Friday in our store, aligned with the Victory Kitchen. The ranges perform cooking, roasting, boiling, broiling, baking, and stewing.
Capt Chamberlain takes charge of construction at Leon Springs military reservation succeeding Capt Louis R Douglas who is ordered to Washington. Reports hint Fort Sam Houston and Fort Houston area work may be folded into the consolidation as a sewer project for storm water is planned at Fort Sam Houston.
Major Franklin Martin warns Texas doctors that five thousand physicians are needed for the army by July 1 and two thousand for the navy. He outlines army medical requirements and stresses Allied needs, urging immediate professional support as the war escalates. Governor Hobby predicts a stronger spirit and national unity arising from the crisis.
The Texas Railway Surgeons Association held a one day session at Camp Travis with an infirmary tour and field hospital exhibit. Officers elected include President W J Brown Il Paso and Treas Connoly Waco. Retiring and incoming presidents Knox and Brown were guests at a St Anthony Hotel dinner. A patriot mass meeting at Travis Park Methodist Church featured Major General Henry T Allen as chief speaker.
The Consumers Supply Co offers No 1 Tomatoes per dozen for 9 cents and No 2 Tomatoes per dozen for 1.50, No 2 Sugar Corn per dozen for 1.50, No 2 Special Pork and Beans per dozen around 1.00, Lily Milk Small per dozen seven 700, Garnation Milk Small per dozen, Large Pet or Carnation per gallon 1.55, 10 bars Crystal White Soap 5 cents, Creme Oil Soap 10 cents, Palm Olive Soap 0.0, No. 2% Kraut per dozen 1.50, Per Milk Small 7 0c, 10 bars Octagon Soap 4 50. Our object is to have satisfied customers.
Washington announced the appointment of Capt. Charles Schreiner of Kerrville and Sam H. Hill of San Angelo as approved wool buyers for their districts. They will manage the entire clip in their areas under the War Industries Board. Pistol practice for five units of the Ninetieth division began, with ranges and dates set for each unit and twenty five cartridges allowed per man.
In a New Deal era report, Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital exhausts morphine supplies leaving nearly a dozen inmates, dubbed snow birds, without treatment. Federal narcotics actions and a city crackdown on vice lead to arrests for vagrancy as doctors warn about abrupt withdrawal.
A well known society leader’s hair, once gray, is said to be revived by La Creole Hair Dressing. The preparation, not a dye, is combed through to restore color, remove dandruff, and promote healthy scalp and hair growth. Sold by drug stores or $1.20 from Van Vleet Mansfield Drug Co. Memphis Tennessee.
The piece warns that soaps and shampoos often contain alkali that dries the scalp and brittles hair. It recommends plain refined coconut oil as a cheap, grease free cleaner. With water, a teaspoon suffices to produce a rich lather and clean thoroughly. Hair becomes soft, bright, fluffy, and easy to manage while removing dust and dandruff.
Police permit inmate transfers to a city hospital for treatment after morphine stocks run dry. Three men and three women became frantic during the delay and were returned to jail when hospital staff said they had exhausted morphine. An inventor also patents a sectional wooden track for quick on site car use on marshy ground.
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