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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
8
A health advertisement promotes the Nemo Wonderlift Bandlet as a natural aid. It explains that strong abdominal walls support organs and that excess fat weakens this support, suggesting the product works with nature to provide better stability.
The Wonderlift Band is advertised as elastic yet firm for lifting the abdomen and organs into proper alignment. It claims preventive benefits for weakened muscles, a healthier posture, and a sleeker, more symmetrical figure, marketed as the most stylish alternative to corsets.
An advertisement for corsets presents two distinct models for extreme body types. No. 998 suits very large customers with heavy abdomens. No. 557 fits very slim figures with sharp hips. Sizes 18 to 26, five dollars. Nemo Hygienic Fashion Institute, New York.
Full rehearsal of all Fiesta fete participants at 8:46 a.m. at the Grand Opera House. Easter egg hunt for First Presbyterian Church primaries at 4 p.m. on the church lawn. Multiple church events include cake sales at East Houston Street and Fischer's drug store plus Wolff & Marx store. Gunter dansant afternoon, Debs guest in town, and Milam School Mothers Club officers elected. Various social gatherings, box parties, and a coronation box arrangement noted. End with local notices of upcoming garden party and a wedding in Corpus Christi.
The first squadron of the third cavalry from Fort Brown will leave late today for Mercedes Texas to occupy the border post opened by the transfer of the sixth cavalry to Columbus New Mexico.
The Raiders feature at Grand Opera House returns for a final showing with H B Warner and Dorothy Dalton in a Wall Street drama about ruin and rescue. A Keystone comedy An Oily Scoundrel accompanies the program. Amateur night at Queen theater showcases local acts and vaudeville pieces along with Lubin features and two three reel dramas. Unique cabaret at Majestic, Fattys Birthday Party, promises surprises with Ed Raymond steering and Flanagan and Neely contributing acts. Nazimovas attraction heads the current lineup.
San Antonio women are urged to consider Vinci as a proven strength creator based on customer letters. A Saratoga Springs wife testifies Vinci rebuilt her energy and appearance after years of strain, with druggists naming Vinci as a top tonic made from cod liver elements iron peptonate and beef peptone in medicinal wine.
The play by Marion Craig Wentworth portrays mothers and wives facing sacrifice and public scrutiny as they oppose a war they view as unjust. The drama focuses on personal courage, social pressure, and collective action in a tense wartime setting.
The Mississippi proposition to fund bishops for race and language duties failed by 680 votes at the conference level. Among clergy and lay delegates, combined results showed 4 921 affirmative and 2 481 negative, with lay votes totaling 3 300 for and 2 425 against. The Wilmington veto proposal failed by 1 517 ministers and 960 lay members, while the Colorado proposal granting honorary retirement privileges and absentee voting carried a minister and lay majority of 2 012 and 818 respectively. all become law if approved at Saratoga Springs on May 1.
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