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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
10
Dorothy Dix laments the social toll of unlimited telephone use, praising the device’s usefulness yet condemning its excess. She ridicules the constant chatter of Mrs Legion and notes how telephonitis disrupts work, meals, and sleep, calling for reform through a Woman's Christian Temperance Telephone movement.
The listing presents a daily menu including breakfast items such as juice toast bacon crisps poppy seed rolls and coffee. Luncheon features mock chicken salad lager sandwiches pear chips sweet wafers cocoa and grape juice toast with a starch-thickened grape juice method and layered buttered layer sandwiches with a seasoned filling. Ring up 1355 blue for the new phone and antiseptic laundry note.
Local ad for D D Prescription from Fischer's Drug Store in the Gibbs Building San Antonio Texas touts Oil of Winter green thymos and soothing ingredients claimed to stop burning and heal skin overnight with available $1.00 or 25 cent bottles.
A fashion note describes a black chiffon bolero over satin blouse with scalloped lace trim. The piece is praised for its simple lines and warned to suit only exceptionally good figures.
A luncheon discussion among six women centers on motherhood and the claim that mothers cannot see their children as individuals. The speaker argues maternal authority crushes individuality, noting many mothers resist giving up control for their children's independence. Touring cars, cut rate ads, and local business notes appear at the end.
A reader asks about hair and beauty remedies. The column prescribes cocoa butter neck and elbow massages, vaseline for eyebrows, scalp oiling and shampoo, and cautions on home dyes. It also shares specific tonics and exercises for hair, skin, and body care.
Cynthia Grey urges mothers to stop opening daughters letters and gifts arguing it damages trust and kinship. She cites a reader called Blue Eyes whose mother reads her correspondence and notes how such intrusions harm the daughter’s sense of ownership and respect. The piece warns that insistence on guardianship can wreck family harmony and urges fair shared rules.
The passage offers child development tips on allowing a baby to crawl and walk at its own pace to avoid bowing legs. It includes an endorsement of Foley’s Honey and Tar for cough relief and a promotion for Bexar Drug Co. It also describes evening gowns featuring silk brocade with gold thread embroidery and a biblike low waist.
A physician reports happiness and gratitude from young women treated with a flesh forming product named three grain hypo nuclane tablets. The remedy supposedly increases weight after months of use and is now sold by top physicians and apothecary shops in sealed packages with self administration instructions.
An advertisement touts Pain Away Pills as a fast solution for headaches and acute pain. It urges readers to try the product and claims rapid relief.
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