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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1913
Page
83
Classified fashion notice describes two garment sizes 20 to 36 priced at 3 dollars. Claims popularity with at least a million wearers worldwide and features Lastiko Webbing hip bands and an Improved Self-Reducing front. May reflect vintage apparel advertising.
An advertisement explains a host of women can use abdominal support without reduction. It details No 306 low bust No 308 medium 53 with Nemo Hostite straps and Lastikops Webbing inside the corset. Abdominal area features a very long skirt and sizes range 18 to 24 priced at $3.00.
Advertising copy from Kops Bros in New York proclaims Nemo Corsets offer at least twice the value in material and making compared with other corsets sold at the same price.
Elmer Ellsworth Reynolds weds Abbie Freelove Vickery Guilfido Hernandez with Apolonia Gala Viz Pedro Rodriguez with Adela Ragavo Rucker Crozier weds Zona D Rucker George Lewis Nobis and Grace Hardy Simon Cerena and Mrs Mercedes Arras Isidro Esquibe and Juanita Lopez documented in marriage licenses listing
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce withdraws its bid to host the 1914 Confederate Veterans reunion, citing the high cost of at least 70000 dollars and the lack of a suitable hall. Officials say rail rate discrimination and the city’s inability to accommodate the crowd influenced the decision, with Chattanooga to host next month.
Morris Klein of the Bronx appeals to Magistrate Murphy in Morris County Court to bar a neighbor woman from talking from 6 am daily through the night. The magistrate jokes that stopping speech is beyond power while Klein threatens to seek the Supreme Court or move if unresolved.
Topeka and Shawnee county will field its first female jurors at the May term of district court. Fifty women are on the jury list, with several in town for service. Some oppose serving if drawn, others are pleased, signaling likely scenes as women seek excuses to avoid duty.
Union Meat Company advertises breakfast pork sausage in one pound boxes available through local butchers and grocers at the price of twenty five cents per pound.
Riverside Restaurant advertises a chicken dinner today and a chicken supper tonight priced at 25 cents each. The brief ad highlights meals offered by the Riverside Restaurant for diners seeking affordable eats.
The San Antonio Congress of Mothers outlined next year’s agenda at a Saturday meeting in the high school auditorium. Proposals include amending the constitution to shift monthly meetings to representative council sessions, creating an executive board, and launching vacant lot gardening projects with school clubs. They also endorsed summer manual training, urged a Mothers Day observance with proclamations and church sermons, and discussed an evening lecture during the medical convention week on bugs and insects.
A Mexican man named Martinez, detained since Thursday, set fire to his clothing in a city jail cell near South Alamo and Adams, nearly killing himself. Officers dragged him out after smoke alarmed the jail. He resisted rescue and warned of plots against him. He is held awaiting transfer to county jail or the asylum once formal charges are filed. He had been placed in a special cell due to violent behavior and fear that someone intended to kill him.
Prof. F. M. Bralley state superintendent of public instruction left for Denton to attend the home coming celebration of the College of Industrial Arts where he is slated to deliver an address.
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