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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1918
Page
5
Local Red Cross nursing service asks untrained women and girls in good health to volunteer at once for army hospitals. Those with basic care skills or Red Cross first aid training are preferred, and identification cards will be issued. Temporary service during the influenza emergency.
Women are asked to volunteer for emergency hospital work with preferences consulted where possible. Full information about need and duties is available through Mrs. J. J. Stevens at Red Cross headquarters Chandler Building Crockett 4120.
Sergt J H Klein of the 18th Canadian Battalion, wounded at St Eloi on April 6 and having lost an arm, is in San Antonio to aid Liberty Loan fundraising. He seeks health, work, and supports the committee while staying at the Travelers Hotel, having his services accepted by the Chamber of Commerce.
Two persons were taken to Robert B Green Memorial hospital after knife wounds Sunday. Severiano Reyes of 118 Monterey Street was cut on Santa Rosa Avenue near Buena Vista Street early Sunday. Richards Jenkins a 12 year old of 42 Center Street was stabbed in the abdomen shortly after 7 p.m. The assailants are jailed for the assaults.
A vintage advertisement outlines Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets as a non calomel laxative remedy for chronic constipation and torpid liver. It promises gentle action, no griping, and relief for foul breath and dull fatigue with one or two tablets nightly. Prices 1c and 25c per box.
A free lecture on Christian Science will be given at Beethoven Hall in San Antonio by George Shaw Cook of the Mother Church lecturing board. The public is invited. doors open at 7 PM Monday evening in October. event organized by First Church of Christ Scientist, San Antonio, Texas.
A batch of brief obituaries records deaths of Minnie M Wood aged 28 in a local sanitarium and others including Alexander M Oppenheimer at 420 Maverick Street, Mrs William Kennedy in Durango Mexico, James Hankamer from Sour Lake, Walter J Sien from Galveston educated San Antonio, Eudora Glover Paris Trace, Fred A Babbs Arkansas native, Olaf Johnson born Sweden, and James Otto Burch at 137 Convent Street. Funeral arrangements, surviving relatives, and burial details follow each entry, with various chapels and cemeteries named.
An old advertisement touts S S S as a purely vegetable blood cleanser healing rheumatism catarrh ulcers and blood disorders. It claims roots herbs and barks remove impurities and purify the system, urging readers to buy at drug stores or contact Swift Laboratory in Atlanta for pecular cases.
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