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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1916
Page
17
Miss Bessie May Maynard of Luther Oklahoma describes severe skin itching and blisters, relieved after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She states four applications and three boxes, with rest at night and eventual healing, in a 1916 letter published with a mail free sample offer.
Orders from the Russian Minister of Agriculture bring German and Hungarian POWs into factory and farm labor alongside Austrian prisoners. Total POW labor in Russia reaches 600,000 with four hundred thousand Austrians and additional German and Hungarian workers. A Georgia man, Jake Jackson, faced assault charges. weapons from both sides were shown in court and the jury delivered a humorous verdict.
An advertisement extols a daily morning internal bath with hot water and limestone phosphate to cleanse the digestive system. It claims improved digestion, fresh breath, and reduced ailments from constipation to biliousness, urging readers to obtain limestone phosphate from drug stores.
The United States seeks to reform the federal penal system under Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory of Austin. Bills propose prison labor for industry like twine textiles and furniture, plus monthly payments to prisoners' families to support dependents and foster livelihood after release.
The article notes U S Navy aviation is in its infancy but will advance with a $3,000,000 appropriation. It reports 30 new school aeroplanes for naval training stations, development of catapult launches, hydroaeroplanes, balloons, and Zeppelin dirgibles, plus long range gun sight support by aircraft.
London reports a further rise in Suez Canal dues as earnings drop due to vessel shifts to the Cape route and reallocation of steamers to British service. Directors also weigh a ten year postwar ban on German and Austrian ships to punish obstruction of the route.
In a humorous tale from Mrs Brown’s household a maid Jane admits her new young man is so modest he does nothing but eat when he visits. Mrs Brown, curious, overhears no talk in the kitchen and learns the punchline about the visitor’s restraint.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce plans an Europe lumber investigation with the Lumber Manufacturers Association FTC and Forest Service. Five commissioners will confer with U S manufacturers before traveling to UK Holland France Southern Europe Northern Africa central empires Norway and Sweden to assess demand and production.
An advertisement touts Williams Treatment for excessive uric acid, rheumatism, kidney and bladder disorders. It claims relief from stiffness, back pain, and nocturnal urination, offering free samples and a 10 cent bottle by mail from The Dr. D. A. Williams Company in East Hampton Connecticut.
A two year survey will map Russia Siberia and Roumania timber sources and European building trades. Commission explores lumber types sizes buyers and importers, with preliminary bulletins to associations and later guidance to U S manufacturers on profitable markets.
A high official at the register-general's office rejects the idea that more male children are born during war. He says the apparent excess of boys in the last three months arises from counting differences between months and misinterpretation rather than a real shift in birth ratios.
The article notes England and Wales births in 1914 show 447 184 boys to 431 912 girls, a 35 per 1000 boy advantage, and argues five year groupings reveal war timing does not alter long term sex ratios. It cites Boer War years 1899-1902 and 1904-56 with variable shifts, and explains higher early male births later balance by a female surplus after age two.
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