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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 10, 1898

Page

7

Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription touted for women health

A vintage advertisement extols Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription as cure for female weakness and various ailments tied to motherhood and menstruation. It claims nerve soothing benefits and composes with Galen Medical Discovery to brighten skin. Testimonials praise relief after suffering and endorses a home medical book.

Katy Pierce'n Galden Dr. Pierce Perguson Douglas Station HelLuk Co Mauliata Br. Hietee

Fragmented Sunday Light column with historical quirks

A long miscellany from a Sunday light page covers anecdotes about language in hell, Mexican president Diaz, Geronimo at Fort Sill, railway Edison, London stage star Nellie, and duel legends. It includes jokes on lotteries for souls, a prize raffle at a church, foreign language quips, and card game symbolism for the Kaiser.

Skirt Prices and Odd Notes From Local Page

Fragments show prices like $10.06 and $5.00 for skirts, with scattered phrases such as satay wales tied, AN Say Moody, AN day Cry WOLEF and MARX, indicating a disjointed historical page snippet with catalog or ad style entries and unclear context.

Satay Wales Moody MARX

The Fairies Duty and the Stingy Men

A rural tale opens with a dutiful mother and her undutiful daughter who meets a fairy named Pleasure and is lured to a land of endless pleasures. Duty appears as a second fairy offering a kinder path, but the girl longs for home and struggles to return while facing magical guards and a test of will. The second feature riffs on social manners, focusing on stingy behavior by men in library and social settings, echoing regret and curiosity about romance and courtship in San Antonio. A separate editorial column discusses taxation avoidance by the wealthy, citing Henry George and figures like Vanderbilt as examples of underreported personal property taxes.

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