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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1918
Page
3
San Antonio Printing Co at 130 Soledad St advertises engraved personal greeting cards in a full ring format with prompt delivery for holiday orders.
In Lavernia November marks a double festivity as Mr. and Mrs. Koepp celebrate their golden anniversary and their daughter Miss Mary Koepp becomes the bride of Harry Chambers of San Antonio. Distant events include a pedestrian injury on South Flores Street and a separate case of a driver charged with careless driving.
The Training and Dilution Service cites five factory visits showing training rooms cut turnover and costs. A plant with 135000 employees since Jan 2 lost 4 500 to quitting, costing about 50 dollars per worker. Another factory, using a vestibule school, reduced layoffs and waste, boosting per-month training to 60 percent. Foremen shifted reliance from transient hires to trained workers, with only 2-3 percent leaving monthly and a 26 percent higher output from trained teams versus office-sourced staff.
War Department and Red Cross coordinate a nationwide program for Christmas gifts to soldiers without relatives. Labels and boxes are distributed through Red Cross chapters, with 8000 labels assigned to Besar County and procedures for overseas parcels, post office rules, and packing supplies explained. Nursing resources registration and ongoing relief work continue through November 21 at Chandler Building and local booths.
Mrs. Frank L. Riley, elected on the Democratic ticket last Tuesday, becomes the first woman to hold an elective office in Bexar County. The Red Cross calls for tin foil and other materials as part of war work, with donations pouring in from residents. Workers at Wolff & Marx and the Reclamation Department request volunteers to mend woolen garments for soldiers, bringing thimbles and scissors to the Chandler building where the workroom operates all day.
Obituary notices report Charles Layer learning of his brother John Layer’s death in San Francisco at 66, with survivors including a widow and three sisters, plus brothers and a father all of San Antonio. Other obituaries include Mrs. Catherine Bush, Charles M. Gross, Julia Gibson, and W. T. Gilley with service details and Mission Burial Park interments.
The War era accelerates naturalization as Labor Department grants full citizenship to thousands of service members. Camps Hancock Jackson Sheridan Lee report rapid oaths, with many aliens joining U.S. forces in France as preparations widen for overseas use. A Belgian recruit in Washington embodies patriotic drive fueling enlistment and quick naturalization.
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