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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
6
The article discusses rheumatism causes and the lack of a universal remedy. It notes varied success with different treatments, emphasizing that no single drug cures all cases. It highlights anti-kamma tablets as favored by Dr Schultze and claims they relieve pain and nervous-system distress.
Readers send in questions on kidney pain fat reduction and nervous fatigue. Dr Lewis Baker prescribes three grain cadomene tablets and arbolone for weight loss and tonic support. Dozens report cures from his remedies and request his health guide and stamps.
Thursday night events include Automobile Club dance and Knights of Columbus dancing and 500 games. Epworth League and Aunt Hannah quilting party at Y W C A auditorium. Honoring Miss Helen Bates, Mrs F W Kiddle hosts. Friday DAR chapter meeting at 4 pm. Beacon Hill Red Cross at 9 30 am. Woman's Club directors at 10 am. Thelma Neal hosts luncheon at St Anthony. Dean Richardson Auxiliary meets 3 30 pm at St Mark's for officers. Y W A closes season 3 30 pm at Miss Mildred Hagey 1001 Main Ave Missionary tea at 56 pm at Mrs Martindale’s. Junior Red Cross Auxiliary 3 30 pm with Miss Alice Kirkland.
The San Antonio de Bexar chapter plans a picnic on June 14. A A Hyde of Sherman, state field secretary of Christian Endeavor, will address a mass meeting at 8 p m on Thursday evening at Madison Square Presbyterian Church. Hyde travels to Luling Friday for a Christian Endeavor rally. Mrs George W West and Mrs Charles Schreiner Jr hosted a luncheon in the Wolff Marx tea room honoring brides to be Josephine Frost Woodhull and Mary Pauline Fordtran.
Advertisement promotes Zemo from BE. W. Rose Co. of Cleveland Ohio. A 25 cent bottle or 1 dollar for extra large bottle is said to relieve eczema blotches ringworm rashes and similar skin diseases with instant relief from itching. The liquid is described as penetrating non greasy easily applied and inexpensive.
The scene features pink sweet peas and Killarney roses with shaded lights and lace table decor. A mound of fern and pink arrangements centers the table, while silver candlesticks hold pink-topped tapers and bisque statuettes serve as favors. Multiple named brides and guests are listed, along with a note on a postposed B Minor Musical Club dinner dance and a prelude barbecue at Glen Marie hosted by Miss Marguerite Allee Coleman and Thomas Atlee Coleman Jr.
Mr and Mrs J K Beretta will depart Friday morning for Washington D C Richmond Va and New York They will be joined in Washington by their son Jack Beretta a student at Alexandria High School in Alexandria Va
The Elks' Club will inaugurate a series of weekly summer dances on Saturday evening. These affairs promise to be pleasing features of entertainment for the members.
Invitations announce the June 20 wedding of Josephine Frost Woodhull to Lt. Willis Dale Crittenberger of the U S Cavalry at St Mark's Episcopal Church. A reception follows at 115 West French Place with plans to reside at West Point after October 1.
A health spa style ad claims facial resurfacing with mercorized wax to remove dead skin daily. It promises week or two results, with safer daily use and faintly disguises facial aging. It also offers a Saxolite-based solution for deeper wrinkles claiming quick changes.
A social note from Thursday lists attendees including Mesdames A. J. Boles Douglas Dodson J T Dupuy John Coryell Ira Calder and W J Brogan. The Prospect Hill Baptist Church Ladies host a Better Babies Contest Friday at 8 PM with refreshments.
Truck growers of Texas urge the Texas State Council of Defense to curb the home garden movement arguing it will ruin their industry. The executive committee discussed the appeal and other matters including Mexican labor and conscription exemptions. Officers of the Defense Council listed are O. E. Dunlap chairing, R. J. Illeberg as vice chair, J. F. Carl as secretary, and Royal A. Ferris as treasurer.
The temperature peaked at 98 degrees in San Antonio between four and five pm marking the hottest day of the season. Forecasters say heat will continue until a storm system moves east or brings rain. Major Allen Buel notes unsettled conditions with possible showers, though San Antonio saw no rain yet.
The marriage of Thomas T culed and Miss Julia M Rommel occurred Tuesday afternoon with Judge R. Davis reading the nuptials.
Two crew members died when the steamship Hamakua a 646 ton vessel carrying explosives burned yesterday off Maui in the Hawaiian group. The ship was a total loss as word reached Honolulu last night.
A wife confronts her husband as he reenters after a late club meeting about female beauty. He claims he held the most beautiful wife as authority, while she urges him to remove his overcoat and warm up. The scene closes with a hurried, muddled misprint showing the Philadelphia Inquirer reference.
A plan approved after a Thursday meeting assigns four registration boards to supervise the June 6 military census in their districts. The boards, appointed by Mayor Brown and with Mayor-elect Bell’s concurrence, will meet Saturday at City Hall to discuss procedures. City Clerk Fred Fries has registered city jail inmates to determine eligibility for service.
Senate finance committee backs an 80 million dollar War Tax Bill with two cent per pound coffee tax, five cent tea, sugar half cent, and cocoa three cents. It abolishes 12.5 percent war munitions tax, taxes substitutes, and charges imports for coffee and tea. Estimated revenues include sugar fifty million, coffee eighteen million, tea three million, cocoa seven million. Pre May 1 contracts protected by shifting tax burden to importers. House proposal would tax coffee one cent and tea two cents per pound.
In Palestine Texas on May 31 orders were issued in the I. and G. N. shops for part of the force to work ten hours going forward. The reason given is increased work for preparing equipment for possible war service.
Mexican men women and children leaving Texas for Mexico through Del Rio have averaged 50 daily for the last two weeks according to officials. No cause is given but fear of conscription is thought to drive the exodus.
Mrs. Nellie Fishback of Louisville credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing four years of headaches nervousness and loss of appetite after which she regained strength and became able to care for a baby girl. She says the remedy saved her from an operation and encourages others to seek guidance from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for free advice.
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