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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1916
Page
5
Yesterday we received 28 dozen new spring hats from Young's in New York. They are here ready for you to look them over and see what’s right for the New York spring style. Our hats are about a season ahead of what you’ve been seeing locally.
Seventeen thousand soldiers stationed at Fort Sam Houston Camp Wilson and Leon Springs received home baked pies cakes and jelly rolls for Thanksgiving. Rotary Club volunteers collected four thousand one hundred pies and five hundred cakes with major thanks to Col. W. S. Hendrick and the contributing housewives and schools. Apportionment assigned pies and cakes to units including Seventh Illinois infantry First Mississippi Second West Virginia Third Illinois and many others with two hundred pies to Fort Sam Houston truck crews and twenty to the recruiting rendezvous.
Mrs. Anna Byrd of Tuscumbia Alabama writes that kidney pills removed back pain and improved her ability to stand. The notice claims Foley Kidney Pills relieve rheumatic pains swollen ankles backache stiff joints sore muscles and disturbed sleep tied to disordered kidneys with physician reports of higher kidney trouble in women.
Brigadier General Henry A. Greene praised San Antonio residents for sending pies cakes and cookies to Camp Wilson for the Twelfth division Thanksgiving meal. Rotary Club housewives and Boerne women contributed items and the soldiers expressed deep gratitude for the gifts and support.
Charleston dispatch reports surplus funds from a citizen relief fund for the August flood on Cabin Creek and Coal River. The relief committee has issued checks to a large number of dependents, each headed by a parent, with more families to come.
With over 2500 persons on the needy list the committee reports Christmas gifts to Foreign Lands. The first 1916 gifts were sent to Shanghai, China and to the Philippine Islands via parcel post, despite placards urging early dispatch.
Indictments charging use of the United States mails to defraud were returned by the federal grand jury on November 18 against John E. Franklin and Charles E. Marsh former Bankers' Trust Company officers. The bonds in each indictment were fixed at $5000. The charges arise from their transactions while officers of the Bankers' Trust Company.
An old article explains kidneys as body scavengers and signals of distress such as backache and headaches. It recommends drinking pure water and taking Anuric, dispensed by druggists, to dissolve uric acid and flush kidneys, noting Dr. Pierce's discovery in Buffalo.
The column offers various old time remedies for common ailments. Three grain stulpherb tablets to aid constipation, cadomene tablets as a tonic, five grain arbolone for reducing fat, three grain hypo-nuclane to improve blood, plain yellow mingos for hair and scalp, balmwort for kidney bladder issues, and mentholaxene cough syrup for severe colds.
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