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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1917
Page
12
Mrs Vaughn instructs mothers in kitchen arts at Light’s Cooking School. Friday program features flaked fish on half shell fluting potatoes Delmonico pudding sauce cake caramel icing boiled dressing grapefruit salad. She rejects the notion that baby’s colic is natural.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims calomel causes salivation and sickness, while Liver Tone cleanses the liver without side effects and leaves users cheerful and ready for work.
Mrs Vaughn leads an Economic School talk on proper baby nutrition and family meals, arguing correct food boosts growth and happiness. Demonstrations featured tissue-building foods with White Crest Flour and a Duplex Cooker prize drawn for local residents. Friday’s session at 2:30 will include a musical program before the lecture.
Mrs. Vaughn demonstrates a method to cook an old hen so it becomes tender and palatable. The instructions emphasize careful preparation and cooking steps to improve texture and flavor.
An article by L W Bower MD explains backache from kidney disorder and uric acid buildup. It recommends sparing meat, drinking water, and taking Anuric (double strength) before meals. Physicians at Dr Pierce’s Institution tested Anuric and endorses its use.
Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn shows cake decorating and baking techniques at The San Antonio Light Free Home Economics School. Readers learn she makes edible blossoms and offers reliable recipes, including orange gelatine salad and salmon cutlets, with practical, results‑oriented advice and weekly demonstrations.
Police found Mrs. G. R. Nelsons Hudson six hours after it was stolen on East Houston Street. It had overturned six miles from San Antonio on the new Suther land Springs road with no injuries evident. A second theft involved a five passenger Ford owned by R. H. Peters of Path Texas, reported stolen at 9 45 p m from Jefferson Street near the Bexar Hotel carrying number 195.
A thirty day reprieve was granted by Governor Ferguson to Hodge Marion who faced hanging in Waxahachie on Friday. The pause allows time to review an application to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.
An oil stove exploded in a two story apartment at 3103 West Houston street at 10 30 Thursday morning causing only slight damage. Residents Mrs W O Sadler and Mrs J B Stoddard were present.
Friday dances for family and friends at Moose Hall feature the Homen Bros Orchestra. Attorney J. F. Carl advertises legal services from the Bedell Building, Crockett 1250.
An auto owned by J. S. Wagner of 505 San Pedro avenue reported stolen Wednesday afternoon was recovered by police at 10 o’clock Wednesday night and restored to Wagner. The car was abandoned at Buena Vista and San Saba streets and brought to the station by Motorcycle Officer Kohr, then claimed by Wagner.
This Home Remedy Adverts Cascarets as a safe, gentle laxative for liver and bowels. It claims quick relief from headaches biliousness bad breath coated tongue sour stomach and constipation. Markets to mothers as safe for sick children and easy to take like candy.
Fourth man in the case was arrested here by detectives Ruhnke and Flores. The capture follows earlier detentions in the investigation led by Detective Craven.
Advertisers can reach a growing pool of future homeowners in San Antonio by placing Light Want Ads to target subscribers directly.
Horace E. Wilson, a lawyer at 616 17 State Bank Building, listed with Cr. 8281. Hertzberg and Kercheville, attorneys at law, located in the 605 610 Brady Building.
The last will and testament of Ebenezer Treat Alling, who died January 30 at Harvard Massachusetts, was filed for probate Thursday in the office of County Clerk Frank R. Newton. The estate valued at 2500 is bequeathed to his children with The Central Trust Company named as executor.
O Connell Loan Co at 112 East Houston Street advertises all kinds of collateral loans with a window display to attract customers.
Rabbi Samuel Marks will address Temple Beth El Friday evening on wealth and its uses. Services start at 8 o clock and the public is invited.
Children's mask ball set for Sunday February 18 for Hermann Sons members and their families only. Advance notice appears in local advertisement.
An advertisement urges taking a course of Harlandale hot sulphur baths to ease nervous disorders insomnia and after effects of grip. It promotes the medical properties of the hot sulphur water and instructs readers to take the South Flores Harlandale car.
Mrs E B Parsons supervisor of the Public Health Nurse Association will speak for fifteen minutes to the girls in the extension department of the Young Woman's Christian Association between 8 and 8 15 Thursday evening. She will then attend the Business Woman's Club meeting where she will address the group on public health.
A program of dramatic readings will be held Friday evening between 7 and 8 o'clock at the base hospital Fort Sam Houston. Miss Vera Schafer of the YWCA extension department arranged the event to be presented by pupils of the Powers School of Expression. Next Wednesday evening the YWCA social committee plans a musical program at the hospital. Ernestine Friedmann, acting YWCA secretary, spoke on The Development of Woman's Welfare Work in Texas before the City Club at the Gunter Hotel lunch.
San Antonio local Barbers Union 187 held a seven teenth anniversary smoker at Trades Council Hall on Wednesday night. More than 150 members attended the Dutch lunch as President Mike Mahl served as toastmaster and urged staunch unionism while speakers highlighted the importance of displaying the union card.
Health advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a time honored remedy to cleanse kidneys and bladder, relieve congestion, and expel poisons. It claims government chemists approve the product and urges readers to buy at the drugstore with refund if not as represented.
A San Antonio drug store advertises J B L Cascades for internal bathing claiming it removes intestinal toxins. Dr E W Southall of Geneseo endorses bowel washing’s health benefits and the shop offers a free booklet titled Why Man of Today Is Only 50 Per Cent Efficient.
An advertisement for a Japanese restaurant offering chop suey dishes priced around 3246 cr. An advance notice advert highlights a dining option with Chinese style fare featured at the Japanese venue.
The Reichstag main committee will convene next Wednesday, the day before the Reichstag assembles, in Berlin. Wireless news from Sayville confirms the schedule for the session.
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