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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
9
A newspaper snippet advertises free delivery for all orders five dollars or more. It lists numerous deli items with per pound prices and mentions several meats cheeses and canned goods. The ad promotes a Sunday cooking plan featuring salads and meats and highlights Gengler's Famous Home Boiled Ham and assorted sausages.
A readable price list highlights prices for cakes cookies and pastries such as large layer cake 50c each angel cake 30c each and assorted cookies 15c per dozen. It also advertises teas roasted coffee and groceries like Rio Roasted and Ground 13c per pound and Gunpowder tea varieties priced at 33c for an 1-8 ounce package.
Readable items include Fancy Potatoes per pound Carnation Milk large and small tins O R O Apricots No 243 2c 8c can Spoon Tea Cream of Wheat Dime Milk Georgia Cane Syrup tin. This snippet shows a mid century grocery ad with assorted staples and unit pricing.
The Gengler Key Kash Stores are listed with multiple locations including Travis 551 Crockett 4298 5279 693 678 597 Office and Warehouse 359 E Commerce Delicatessen 107 Bowie Store 900 E Commerce.
Gengler's Bakery advertises a Staff o Life special offering two full loaves of bread for Saturday with details on price and purchase conditions.
Weekly notices cover a Dixie Social Club dance at W O W hall with Willett’s wedestra, plus a Greeters meeting at the Menger hotel planning a Texas State Hotel Clerks' Association convention. Reports note March fire losses of 89700 dollars, thefts of money and goods, car thefts, prowlers, and an arrest spree including two drivers after a horse and buggy collision.
In Burbank Florida Mrs Florence Rogers describes severe ailments including stomach chest and back pain and nervousness. After a year and a half of poor health she used Cardui and within two weeks could work fully except washing and soon did all chores. She recommends Cardui to other women and notes it is sold by druggists.
A guide advises avoiding harsh soaps and alkali for hair care. Plain massified coconut oil is recommended for its greaseless, cheap, long lasting benefits. Using water to activate, it produces rich lather, cleanses well, rinses easily, and leaves hair soft bright and manageable while removing dust dirt and dandruff.
Alfonso Newton and A Reben tish face charges for killing and skinning two yearlings at Union stockyards. Their signed confessions are with Sheriff Tobin, and the hides have been recovered. Wet End Lake opens with a water carnival and Easter Sunday dance.
County Criminal Judge Nelson Lytle ruled the sidewalk ordinance violated state limits by imposing a penalty higher than allowed. He quashed the complaint against E. D. Henry, effectively voiding the ordinance and halting many sidewalk condemnation convictions.
A 70 year old Mexican man was arrested at West Commerce street after dairyman J M Cooper traced a daily milk and cream theft over 24 days. The thief was found in the act taking dairy products from homes and restaurants and was jailed after police arrived.
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