Red Cross workers urged to curb epidemic risk and aid war effort
Article notes infection preventive measures for Red Cross women in the Chandler Building workrooms with masks and aprons. It describes open rooms, daily health checks, and strict dismissal for illness, plus calls for volunteers to mend socks and garments, collect salvage like tin foil, fruit pits, and linen for France, and to support the Conservation Committee during the war, including a Maryland church event urging communion for Marshal Foch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Reclamation Department
Ted S
Chandler Cr
Chandler
Loseyn and
Crockett Streets
Wir Industries Board
Girls’ Auxiliary
Council of National Defense
Aceandy
San Antonio
France
Wolff & Marx
Protest Over Soaring Orange Prices In San Antonio
John J. Carrington, food administrator, telegraphed Senator Morris Sheppard asking action from the National Food Administration to curb California orange prices or allow imports via Galveston. He notes retailers are not profiting and cites prices of 1.50 a dozen, with high small-orange prices. Medical officers warn sick soldiers rely on oranges and lemons during the epidemic.
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San Antonio
Morris Sheppard
John J. Carrington
Aod
California
Galveston
Carrington
Southern Department
Valor praised for 180th Brigade role in Pershing drive
Governor Hobby received a memorandum praising the Texas and Oklahoma forces of the 180th brigade of the Ninetieth Division trained at Camp Travis San Antonio. The note lauds their September 12 1918 baptism of fire and success in breaking German lines and gaining over 26 square kilometers of territory in the St Mihiel operation.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Alexander
W. J. Towenston
Hobby
Pershing
St. Mihiel
W. A. Kavanaugh
Casper TY
Conradge
Ernest ©. Thompson
Discharges Rise at Camp Travis and Fort Sam Houston
The influenza situation shows rising hospital discharges at Camp Travis and Fort Sam Houston with 184 recovered sent back to duty and 238 discharged from Camp Travis. Recovered pneumonia cases and other severe influenza patients are given short furloughs to recuperate as the first troop movement to Camp Travis is ordered.
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Camp Travis
Fort Sam Houston
Travis
Red Cross
Mary Hope Cummings
St. Paul
Mion
TM. Cummings
France
Vert
Sam Houston
Fred W. Lawrence
L. Dean
Weloetkha
Okla
Corp
Leon R. Davis
A. G. Davis
Thomastown
City influenza outlook cautious but hopeful says health official
City health officer Dr. W. A. King reports a slight drop in new influenza cases and no rise in deaths compared with last week. He cautions weather could raise cases, urges continued precautions, and notes plans to prepare temporary hospitals with Catholic schools buildings offered for use if needed. Local authorities will review to equip an emergency facility.
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W. A. King
King
Father Hume
Treatment checks disease spread of influenza in 1919
Amid Spanish influenza reports in Stockholm and Chicago a special cause study notes methods that may save five lives. The piece discusses treatment checks and the potential for successful approaches to curb the pandemic.
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Stockholm
Sweten
Met
Bexar County Plans $200000 Campaign For War Work Fund
Bexar County aims to raise 200000 to support seven war relief agencies through the United War Work Fund for the coming year. I D Hillyer chairs the county effort assisted by Mrs E C Branch with a district plan led by Nat M Washer. The drive uses a two‑team method in city and county community councils.
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Liberty Loan
United War Works Fund
I .D. Hillyer
Boxar
E. C. Branch
Woman's
Chamber of Commerce
Hillyer
Branch
Oneh
Nat M. Washer
Kendall
Bexar
Herbert L. Nicckernot
Dick OQ. Perrell
Minabeth
C. A. Gummere
Y. M. Coa
Wovers
Washington
Los Angeln
California
England
United Kingdom
Willyer
Welock
Noneré
Southern Military Department
Nexar County
French Army Uses Former Light Editor In World War I
Lieutenant Lansing Beach, once a market editor for The Light and rejected by the U S Army for a minor disability, has joined the French army. He was detached from the American Quartermaster corps and sent with a detachment on special work near the front. He is quartered in an old French chateau and writes of enjoying the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieut
Lansing Beach
the Light
France
Beach
American Quartermaster Corps
Canada
Canadian Medical Corps
London
Ont
Main Avenue to Be Widened From Plaza to Houston Street
The city commission adopted an ordinance to widen and straighten Main Avenue from the south side of Houston Street to the west side of Main, over a little more than a city block. Cost about 75000 dollars with 25000 paid by the city and the rest by property owners. The plan will create a sixty foot street removing a bulge and improve appearance and value. Property owners on both sides share expenses. Mayor Bell authorized to contract with Uvalde Rock Asphalt company to sell an asphalt raising plant, paid by credits on street work. Extra policemen confirmed. Weekly payroll approved at 2597.01.
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City Commission
Main Avenue
Houston Street
Main Vnta
Louis Heuermann
Bell
Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company
Wright
T. Reastey
Meadows Pat Stevens
Ed Dobrowols
Bond for Each Man at Fort Sam Houston
Fourteen hundred dollars was subscribed for the Fourth Issue Liberty Bonds by the fourteen man ordnance supply depot detachment at Fort Sam Houston. Only three men did not subscribe due to marriage and monthly obligations. Purchases were individual, with no company funds to pool. The detachment also pledged itself to further war finance efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordnance Supply Depot
Fort Sam Houster
Detachment to Buy War Sayings Stamps by November End
By month and by the end of November the detachment plans to purchase 40 dollars in War Sayings Stamps. First Lieut Itmar Kulmus serves as commander of the detachment.
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Itmar Kulmus
Wartime Hair Remedy Promises Quick Color Change
The article advertises a home treatment using a powder sold at drug stores to color gray hair black brown or light brown. It claims easy mixing with water, full directions in each box, and that the Orlex powder contains no harmful elements and won’t rub off. It asserts the result makes a gray haired person look twenty years younger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlex
Orlex Spowder
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