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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1928
Page
29
A memoir-like reminiscence contrasts the 1880s with later decades, noting changes in electricity vaccination, housing, clothing, and daily life. The narrator recalls scarce gas and coal ranges, the rise of telephones, canneries, vaudeville, nickelodeons, women’s roles, and attitudes toward suffrage, schooling, and work.
A 1928 reminiscence contrasts past and present norms on chaperones and gender roles. It recalls strict supervision of girls, earnings gaps for women, and limited freedoms, noting today’s greater autonomy, education, and leisure for daughters.
In chapter XIX of The Saving of Italy, Vittorio di Fiori describes Fascist punishment methods including shaving Bolsheviks and injecting castor oil, with officials in Adria warning crime will be met with hospital care rather than prison. The text notes election-day intimidation, strictures on drinkers, and a high-risk atmosphere as Fascists pivot to forceful control during civil unrest.
Fasist forces take control as government intervention fails. Large scale punitive raids target workers while most return to jobs. The sudden end of the strike restores order as the regime tightens grip and the middle class reacts to rising tensions.
The passage portrays Mussolini and fascism rising in Italy, replacing Bolshevism after a failed general strike. It extols fascist heroes and martyrs, praising youth sacrifices and the nation’s rebirth under a new, united Italy, with reverence for the unknown soldier and the leadership.
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