Red Cross Home Service Aids 300000 Families of Servicemen
Washington reports the American Red Cross home service has relieved over 300000 families of servicemen from money troubles and loneliness. The program, funded by a 60000000 war fund, operates through 10000 home service workers and local committees, spending millions monthly to support dependents and ensure communications with troops abroad.
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U. S
Washington, D. C
Thes Ar Council of the American Red Cross
First Red Cross War Fund
Red ‘Ass
America
Sfore
Amer-i
Loneli‘ss
Home Service of the
Ned Cross
Ted Cross War Fund
Red Cross
The
Home Service Committees
Information Service
Easy Way to Stop Waste of Food
Urges quick pest control using Stearns' Electric Paste to combat rats destroying foodstuffs in homes and stores. Claims the product, used by US Government campaigns, will also eradicate sand mites, cornich es, and waterbugs.
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Stearns
Home Service Aims to Aid Fighters Families and Morale
The home service program, sanctioned by the army and navy and President Wilton, seeks to conserve human resources in fighters families, relieve emergencies, supplement government aid for dependents, aid disabled soldiers, provide information to service members and families, and safeguard homes to maintain morale. It welcomes all creeds and races and extends help to any pen nee who accepts it regardless of rank religion or color.
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Europe
Red Cross
Home Service Committee
France
Daily Mail
Red Cross Home Service Committee
Home Service
Army
Navy
Wilton
The
Whale
United States
Rural schools to get county aid for Sept 9 opening
Bexar County commissioners authorize rural districts to borrow funds for the new school year and approve about 20000 in advances to begin operations on September 9. The court also accepted bids for six Ford one ton trucks with dump bodies for road work and approved road improvements on Weredericksburg and Hobrecht roads along with gravel purchases for Castroville Road.
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Bexar County
Courtuesday
Commissioners Court
Universal Car Company
Hobrecht
Calaveras Creek
Lozino
Castroville
August Averages Show Heat Record Near July Peak
The August meteorological summary reports a mean temperature near the August record, with 8.1 degrees daily excess and 54 degrees accumulated excess since January. Maximum humidity peaked around 98 to 89, and 2.41 inches of rain fell for the month with 2.08 inches in a 24 hour period on the fourteenth, yielding eight clear days and three partly cloudy days.
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Weather Bureau
Wadh
FIGHT MUST BE WON General's Order and French Reopen Cities
Special Cable describes American troops at the Soissons and Juvigny area with General orders to win the fight. German prisoners work to repair damage from their shells while French villagers rebuild homes and harvest crops, as wounded and captured soldiers are treated by American medics.
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Janill B. Wood
San Antonio
Youl
Chateau Thierry
France
de Guuerre
Sureon
Workingmen of America pledge to back soldiers in France
The speaker asks Workingmen of America what they promised their boys in France and answers with a pledge to support them every minute of battle. He says workers will supply the factories with tools and fight for liberty and America to help defeat the Kaiser.
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America
France
Liberty
War Industry Recruitment and Labor Cooperation Plea
President urges employers in war work to re train after August the 1918 deadline and recruitment only through the central agency. He asks labor to respond loyally to calls for voluntary enlistment in essential industry and to value spontaneous cooperation as the finest efficiency. The text notes Wilson, a new plant, and the national labor clearing house with 500 branches and 20 000 agents placing 250 000 workers monthly.
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U. 5S
Employment Service
Wooprow Wilson
National Labor Clearing House
United States Public Service Reserve
Bakers Fear Bread Price Cut May Close Mills
Bakers warn wholesale bread price cut from eight to seven and a half cents could shutter several bakeries. They say the move would not lower retail loaf price, only increase grocer profits, while costs for flour and labor rise and margins shrink.
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J*vod
Inere
Tabor
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Beyer
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San Antonio Loan & Trust Co
West Commerce Street
Commissioners’ Court
U.S. Public Service Reserve
Washington
United West States
Department of Labor
Committee On Public Information
San Antonio Automobile Trades Association
Bakers
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