Keeping the Home Fires Burning in Army YMCAs
A social room in Army YMCA huts offers comfort for soldiers with music, home papers, magazines, checkers, and friendly touches. The Texas camp hosts troops from the southwestern states, with the Southern Department's headquarters in San Antonio, led by executive secretary William B. Adams.
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Army Y. M. C. A
Army Y. M.C. A
Texas
Southern Department
San Antonio
William Be, Adams
New Cure for Gas Gangrene Claim Reported
A Paris dispatch to the Brooklyn Eagle details a Brooklyn army surgeon Maj. James T. Pilcher announcing a new treatment for gas gangrene. The Quine-forme remedy blends quinine acids and thymol in a salt solution. Reported results promise simpler prep and transport, with sterile outcomes after exposure. cited as adjunct to Carrel Dakin methods.
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Brooklyn
Major Pilcher
Pilcher
Auteuil
Pitcher
Health ad promises vigor at any age
An advertisement urges readers that youthfulness depends on condition, not years, claiming kidneys are the weak spot and urging use of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules to keep the body in working order. It promises renewed spirits, muscles, and vitality with regular use and a free trial box offer.
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Wiscard
Claus al
Haarlem
Ime
Ordinance Bans Sidewalk Vehicle Use in Carlsbad Fire Limits
Carlsbad New Mexico adopts Ordinance No 148 prohibiting any person from healing pushing or driving carts wagons or other wheeled vehicles on sidewalks within the city fire limits except trucks used to transfer merchandise to stores or warehouses. Violators face fines from five to twenty six dollars or up to thirty days in jail plus costs with the ordinance effective five days after publication dated September 2 1918 and signed by Mayor D G Grantham and City Clerk Marcus Luke Jr.
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Carlsbad
New Mexico
D. G. Grantham
N. M
Marcus Luke, JR
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Austin D. Crile
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Otim Gilmore
Mercer
Gilmore
Lake Charles
Navy
Jacob J. Smith
Harry Woodman
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