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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
A cautionary note warns that using yellow soaps will redden and roughen hands, causing ongoing irritation and embarrassment. It emphasizes hand care and potential social discomfort from coarse skin. The text reads like a household advice snippet warning against harsh cleansing products.
Readable lists show prices for bananas 20¢ per dozen and various fruits including Japanese fruit, watermelons, cantaloupes, avocados, peaches, pineapples, pears, apples, grapes, and more. Vegetables feature green corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, carrots, cabbage, onions, radishes, and potatoes with assorted per unit or per quantity prices.
A period health and domestic advice column urges systematic exercise and cautions about domestic drudgery. It touts routines for fitness, skin cream use, and time management while urging readers to seek opportunities and improve writing or singing to gain earnings.
Cures eczema quickly with a new drug called Poslam now available in a fifty cent size for small quantities. Since its discovery a year ago it has cured thousands of chronic skin infections and is sold in San Antonio pharmacies or by mail from Emergency Laboratories in New York City. Free samples available by writing to the laboratories.
Mr and Mrs B Clegg hosted a lawn tent dinner in honor of the Doyle Gallagher wedding. Decor featured Texas Amel flags red white and blue electric lights and emulax ferns. Guests included Miss Julia Gallagher Miss Martha Wurzbach and Lt Thorp with corsages and place cards bearing quotes. Other items show travel and guests returning from Austin Epworth by the Sea and New Orleans trips with family notices and social updates.
Mrs Warry Miller visits Galveston for a month. Ava Layer and Frank Hackett announce their marriage for September 17 at St Mary’s church. Ladies host parties in Galveston. several social visits noted. Proposals for cavalry horses advertised by the U S Army in San Antonio with shipment to the Philippines.
A fragmented household guide lists recipes and tips for desserts and preserves. It covers custard like a lemon yolk mixture with milk and sugar, a baked custard with meringue, tomato layering in jars with lard, a holiday Indian punch with tea and lemon, and advice on storing preserves and tender roasts. It mentions vinegar tricks for roasts and keeping fish white and firm.
Chicago Aug 2 Eugene W Chafin formally accepted the Prohibition Party nomination for president. He criticized the old parties for pursuing office on false issues and praised moral leadership. The speech, delivered by Prof Charles Scanlon, framed Lincoln as a Prohibitionist and urged adherence to prohibition as the nation’s moral course.
Read as a fragmentary sermon voice praising temperance, abolition, and the Lincoln era. The speaker laments alcohol’s ruin, urges moral reform, and links a future free society to the 76 Revolution and emancipation. Lines call for national rescue by virtue and firm resolve.
A special meeting is scheduled Friday night at 8 20 at the San Antonio Amusement Club rooms. Those with entitlements in the 12 hour race to be held next Sunday should attend along with signed committees. Rules details will be reviewed and changes urged. attendance is open to all interested.
The Saint Louis Bloomer girls face the San Antonio Athletics tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the city. Hosts hope for an exciting women’s baseball game, with strong crowd hopes as stands fill.
The Hutcheson led squad prepares to depart Friday for Kerrville with plans to play the evening game. The team, featuring 1806 state champions, seeks strong performances and aims to recruit others to bolster its lineup.
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