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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
9
Nevada moves to accelerate divorce processing as the governor signs the new law. Observers say within sixty days the state could attract around 1000 people, mostly women from eastern states, seeking marital relief previously denied in other places.
John Cunningham a Rock Island Railway fireman in Iowa City faces a dramatic rescue after coal dumping there traps him between train and coal car. He bears five tons of coal on his shoulders to spare the derailment, with only cuts and bruises reported.
Holiday celebration honoring San Jacinto victory opens April 17 at the Grand opera house with a two part program of peasant gypsy and village maid tableaux. Dances include French fete Tyrolean Orange girls and more as strolling musicians and Master Atlee B Ayers lead a jolly band.
Mrs. T B Palfrey hosts dinner at the Country club for Miss Mabel Underwood of Franklin La. The Woman's club gathers at 3 p m in the club house 201 Camden for officer elections. Mrs B J Owen and Mrs George W Burnet host the Tobin Hill circle from 4 to 6 at Mrs Burnet's Grove Place Madelein Terrace.
Mrs. W. C. Silliman presides as hostess for the annual Woman's club meeting at 8 o'clock this afternoon at the Camden street clubhouse. Receiving with her are Mrs. S. P. Cunningham, Mrs. Reese Wilson and Mrs. 8. G. Tayloe.
A Battle of Flowers association meeting was held at 11 this morning in the Chamber of Commerce with many members present. Decorations from flowers exhibited were chosen and entries were made for twelve electics and twenty carts in the children’s division. A minuet rehearsal for the twelve duchesses proceeded well. Tomorrow features a luncheon at the Country Club by Miss Lucy Maverick for Miss Susan Sturri Blocker’s upcoming marriage to Lieut. Robert H. Lewis at Fort Riley on March 26. A reception program from the Young Women’s Christian Association opening is repeated next Tuesday at the association rooms on Avenue D.
Rev S J Porter to deliver a lecture titled A Trip Through Japan at First Baptist this evening during the service. WCTU meets at 8 o clock tomorrow in the Hicks building. Laurel Heights Musical club to meet tomorrow evening with Mrs Frank Smith. Mrs John W Kokernot hosts at home in Summit Place from 4 to 6 for Mrs L Glenn Kokernot of Alpine. Barnard E Bee chapter DC met to discuss Confederate monuments. Riverside Park Baptist Baraca and Philathea debated whether ill use of the tongue is a greater evil than liquor. negative won. Out of town duchesses for the carnival and maids of honor named from several cities including Waco Austin El Paso and more.
Mrs T B Palfrey gives a 7 o clock dinner at the Country club in honor of Miss Mabel Underwood of Franklin Louisiana a popular San Antonio visitor now at the St Anthony. Prospect Hill Methodist church Woman s Home Mission society meets at 8 o clock tomorrow afternoon in called session. Mrs J W King and sister Miss Malcolm Brown depart for a month with relatives in NavaSota Texas.
Miss Stern will present a paper on Savonarolo the Italian liberator and his era. Miss Virginia Bernard, pupil of Miss Faye Nickerson, will read a piece. Miss Pauline Harris will perform a piano solo to close the program.
Mr and Mrs J L Bierschwale announce the engagement of their daughter Cora Mae to Horace Bradley of Hondo Texas with a forthcoming wedding in the near future.
An old advertisement claims Winslow's Soothing Syrup provides rest and health for mother and child after sixty years of use by millions of mothers. It touts teething relief, pain calming, wind colic cure, and diarrhoea treatment, alleging safety and a 25 cent price.
Madrid reports that work will start soon on a Madrid Valencia railway and a Bilbao Madrid line. American capitalists back the project, financed by a New York bank and a group of U.S. bankers. R. L. Farnham and an American engineer will travel to Paris then London to finalize arrangements.
Dr. Sarah F Herdmann osteopath advertises practice in Gibbs building with residential contact at 3055 blue and phone numbers for inquiries.
Noblesville Indiana April 5 The mystery of a trunk with skeleton parts and a carved ring was solved when Mrs J H Woodmansee widow of a brother to Eugene C Woodmansee of Danville Illinois identified the ring as his. Woodmansee disappeared on his wedding day forty four years ago and was believed murdered for the $500 he carried. The ring was traced by Mrs J H Woodmansee of Cincinnati. Miss Virt waited ten years for her lover, married, and died in 1888.
Twenty five unimproved real estate parcels in Milwaukee were offered today by public spirited residents for use as vegetable gardens for the unemployed. The largest contribution came from a brewing company as the committee on the aid drive plans a meeting midweek to decide on fund disposal from the municipal dance.
A Dixon man, Thomas Elbe, is reportedly growing his third set of teeth. Previously his teeth were so loose he pulled them out with his fingers, fearing a false set. Now his new teeth are plainly visible.
Andrew Toth, released after nineteen years of a twenty year term for a murder he did not commit, plans to sail May 1 to Austria Hungary to reunite with his wife. He recalls his long ordeal, rejects state compensation, and discusses his inlaid wood works and hoped earnings.
Senor Don Luis Graner, Paris salon associate and Spanish painter, praises Pauline Anderson of Tiburon as a Western beauty after painting her portrait in San Francisco. Anderson, a student nurse at Children’s Hospital, turns twenty soon and may gain global acclaim. Graner seeks to paint diverse regional types, with the Western girl already captured. H. C. Carson of New York Central, Houston, is in California on business.
A. P. Ragsdale traveling passenger agent for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway has returned from a business trip to Waco.
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