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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
9
Telegrams from John B. Carrington secretary of the Chamber of Commerce reveal details on the Los Angeles balloon school at Camp John Wise while he is in Washington. The messages outline plans, logistics, and anticipated public interest in the event.
A promotional claim offers a guaranteed loss of 10 to 60 pounds with no starvation or strenuous exercise. It advises obtaining a small box of Kerrein at a drug store and following directions to reduce rapidly, improve health, and become more alert and cheerful, with a $100 cash incentive.
Los Angeles proposes moving Camp John Wise observation balloon school to a free site near Los Angeles with buildings and equipment funds. Texas officials dispute the plan. Gen Kenley weighs data on past balloon observer training as Congress and Baker’s department faced protests. Local ranges at Camp Bullis strengthen the case for keeping Wise, while California climate claims face expert pushback. Charter filings in Austin include Petroleum Pipe Line Co of Texas and others, with several amendments and new corporations listed.
British headquarters describe updated gains in the Morlancourt area with 900 prisoners taken, including 400 by Australians who advanced from high ground overlooking Morlancourt. French forces also secured a 3000 yard front near Locre and gained over 500 prisoners. Reports note tough terrain and heavy machine gun fire, with Australians feeding captured Germans and one iron cross bearer surrendered. Aircraft activity remains high with extensive bombing behind German lines.
The Treasury secretary’s daughter Mrs Charles Taber Martin of Chestnut Hill Pa will wed Clayton Platt Jr of Philadelphia. Mrs Martin, oldest McAdoo daughter and widow of Charles Taber Martin, has a young daughter Miss Nona Martin who helped unveil the Statue of Liberty copy during the third Liberty Loan drive in Philadelphia. The wedding date has not been announced.
San Antonio dairy owners met in Chamber of Commerce rooms to discuss milk pricing. President Little of the Dairymen's Association presided as various plans to regulate prices were proposed but no action taken. Major Gardner urged pasteurization of all milk and future butterfat pricing, with Golaz supporting the idea. speakers cited high feed costs and poor business practices as factors in dairies not making ends meet.
A young officer boastfully strides in his new uniform and walks into a chair. His wife rushes to comfort him, asking if the pain is severe. He dismisses her with grand disdain, claiming she knows nothing of war.
A great assortment of the prettiest patterns and colorings in forty inch Verlaine Voiles and yard wide Lor raine Voiles offered for fabric shoppers seeking variety and quality in textured dress fabrics.
A British committee of scientists in Cambridge Glasgow and London universities and several factories hospitals tested war bread made from whole wheat flour with 20 percent other cereals. It fed 20 men nine women and two children for two months with no digestion issues and some health improvements. Among TB patients the mixed bread was preferred and most gained weight.
The article notes that milling by products once discarded are now used to feed humans and livestock, increasing energy from wheat by 1700 billion clo nies yearly and extending the cereal energy supply by over a month. It comments on broad benefits and cites an exchange from the Boston Transcript.
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