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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1918
Page
8
Official figures telegraphed to the War Department Saturday night show war risk insurance taken by Camp Travis men amounts to 414 million dollars. Within the last week 32 million was added as recruits arrived and priced policies. Officials believe Camp Travis’s total will compare favorably with other camps.
Fragmentary note lists prices and figures for Our New Firsts Red Inner Tubes. Mentions a sequence of numbers and a stock ticker style entry with small monetary values. The readable bits imply a catalog or price list from a store or supplier. Entities are unclear due to garbled text.
The Army Y M C A Motor Transport Service calls for fifty expert automobile mechanics to go to France. The agency seeks educated, refined men willing to drive and work overseas, with strong skills in rear axles, transmissions, clutches, valve grinding, magnetos and carburetors. Suitable candidates are ages 31 to 60. over 50 face hardship limits.
Carnegie Library offers free copies of food conservation and thrift publications, including two National Garden Commission pamphlets for household aid. The list features titles on kitchen economy, low-cost meals, war food, home canning, vegetable gardening, and storing vegetables and fruits, with a Southern edition of War Vegetable Gardening available while supplies last.
A three days thrift drive on Sellers Kitchen Cabinets offers terms quoted below. This is the second drive and last one for May. If you miss this, you may wait 90 days for the next. Payments are small and hardly missed. The white cabinets are excluded from the sale.
The Chamber of Commerce announced a new government plan to distribute supply contracts to locally economical factories in San Antonio. Secretary-manager John B Carrington will press Washington authorities while an exhibit of potential manufacturable supplies is overseen by Charles M Barnes for local plant managers to inspect and assess.
An advertisement argues for kidney cleansing to improve physical fitness for war readiness. It promotes Anuric double strength tablets costing 60 cents, with testimonial letters from elderly users praising relief from backache rheumatism swollen joints and urinary issues. It urges drinking water and a month long three daily tablets regimen.
San Antonio architect K J Hanak, born in Bohemia, argues for a Bohemian republic after the war to cripple Austria and aid Allied victory. He cites Bohemian unity, historic oppression under Austria, bank assets, population density, and tax power as keys to independence and regional influence, urging U S support and refugee loyalty.
On Monday May 20 new jitney routes will serve Camp Travis for odd and even numbered cars under military numbering rules. Odd route travels from Wilson Street to Avenue D then Eighth Street to Avenue A and Shirley Street to Wilson Street. Even route follows a reverse path via Shirley to West Second Street and West Ninth Street to Eighth Street and Avenue D to Wilson Street.
A Cincinnati inventor names a compound freezone suitable for corns and calluses. Small bottles are sold at drugstores for a few cents. Apply drops to tender areas and soreness vanishes. the corn or callus shrivels enough to be removed with fingers. Millions keep it on hand to ease corn pain.
Ed Raymond longtime Majestic Theater manager resigns to devote full time to Interstate Chemical Company and a sanitary supplies venture organized in San Antonio last summer. He plans a simpler schedule and will remain a respected figure in San Antonio Rotary Club while his successor at the Majestic is sought.
Lloyd's News reports Capt Nicolas Washnhorst a young Russian officer staying in Paris shot himself after drawing five bullets from a revolver. He told a friend fate would decide if he lived or died and died on a second hammer pull. San Antonio notices tax due for 1917 now payable to avoid monthly penalties until May 31, 1918, per Commissioner Andres.
Eleven indictments were returned by the federal grand jury in the Western District of Texas San Antonio Division. The panel was empaneled Monday and concluded Saturday afternoon. Charges include obstructing correspondence, misusing government property, white slave act violations, narcotics sales, false government employee impersonation, stealing government property, and purchasing government property from a soldier.
Private William A. Cunningham of the 65th Company, 17th battalion depot brigade died of pneumonia at Camp Travis on May 17. Funeral and burial planned in Yoakum, Texas, with his father S. B. Cunningham residing there. The notice appears in a local veterans’ category.
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