Cream of tartar used in Royal Baking Powder
Cream of tartar derived from grapes is used in Royal Baking Powder as the best and most healthful ingredient for the purpose.
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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1916
Page
1
Cream of tartar derived from grapes is used in Royal Baking Powder as the best and most healthful ingredient for the purpose.
Local residents travel to Llano San Saba and South Texas for visits and pleasure. Fredericksburg figures in business and banking activity with Alfred Vander Stueken and others passing through. The community discusses school expansion, new shops, and housing as it grows, with several residents making trips and a sheriff reelection noted.
Public notices announce several candidates for Gillespie County offices including Sheriff Tax Collector Assessor and District offices in the upcoming November election. A Fredericksburg obituary notes the death of Walter Schoenewolf aged about 11 years, detailing his family, business ties, and funeral services conducted by the Eagles Lodge.
An item appears as an advertisement offering goods for four dollars in the current issue. The notice emphasizes a single price point and directs readers to respond using the listed channel.
Local report notes Stein and Son expand sales with Mound City horseshoe paints kept at the depot yard. The brief item confirms new storage and distribution point for the product line.
A new firm named Krieger Produce Co opens in the Maier building on Main Street beside A W Maier’s saddlery. Proprietors G W Krieger and Julius Krueger, both Gillespie county raised, invite success and reference their advertisement elsewhere in the Standard.
For planting season, Kolmeier and Klier offer a full line of poultry netting wire fencing garden hose hand plows and other garden tools at low prices to meet customer needs.
Probate court proceedings for March 1916 show wills admitted to probate and records made for Molzberger Stein Passmore Hopf Grobe Thiele Heep and Walch estates with independent executors and appraisers named. A temporary administrator was approved for Passmore. A contestant suit against Felix Walch continues. Geo O Hansen, a refugee from Mexico, walked from Washington to Fredericksburg, bearing a $20 bill, and planned to reach San Antonio.
Local dealer promotes the J. I. Case seed shift six shovel spring trip cultivator as the standout model with no equal. Sold by area supplier with limited stock and demonstrations available.
Mr. Arthurr Fischer hunted rattlesnakes on his Wolf Creek ranch spending two days this week. He killed 59 snakes and kept rattles from each as proof of his feat. Snakes ranged from 18 inches to nearly six feet. largest had 14 rattles and a button.
The article notes the power and light plant will relocate from its current site to a new powerhouse near the depot. Bausch and Beckmann have spent months erecting posts and stringing wires to improve the facility, and once the dynamo is installed the move will occur.
Henry Yeager a prominent San Antonio horse and mule buyer spent Saturday at Hotopp and Evers yards. He purchased 26 head of stock and several trades were made by local buyers.
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