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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1917
Page
12
Wartime finance pushes cosmetic costs higher as creams soaps perfumes and powders show wide increases. Prices for jars cakes and bottles rise 20 to 25 percent on average with some items up to 100 percent amid costlier packaging and imports. Targeted readers include beauty buyers and retailers noting uneven pass through while luxury and essential items shift in value.
The University of Texas board reshuffle details new members and resignations. Wilbur Mien of Ayetin resigns. Lr. Kiner of Aastly appears permanent. The roster includes Kemp, We Littletied, and other Austin figures. Next meeting will elect a new chair as the board settles university expenditures and authority.
A flood of garbled text references Laurel Heights and a water main project, mentioning a planned replacement and associated civic actions. The fragmentary note cites a public works effort, local streets, and potential funding or election steps, but details are largely unreadable.
The article reports Col W J Chitty and Col Chil ey at a meeting with Dan Travis and General Weary Allen on opening a public highway to ease traffic to the aviation post. They praise soldiers and merchants while noting opposition to the rais outside to solicit patrons and questioning orderly conduct of vendors.
Congress leaders depart Washington for home with plans to speak at events in Oklahoma and Missouri, then Port St. Lucie. The trip continues as representatives head back by Saturday while officials from the agriculture department attend the National Association of Agricultural Committees convention in Hoysnington.
Chariog Harrison Cweed, a widely known Trend attorney and insurer, died yesterday at age 93 in New York Ont. He served as eternal counsel for the Central Pacific and Chesapeake rail lines and later became general counsel of the joint party. He had recently retired and was a partner in the law firm Rose log Spier & te, with ties to former military service.
An ad claims La Cropte Sula restores natural dark shade to gray hair, reducing dandruff and shedding. It promises a soft even tone and a fetched look, available via drug stores with a money back guarantee, or for $1.20 from Vai Vieak Doug Co in Memphis.
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