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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1915
Page
3
The Fiesta Den association seeks to issue bonds to fund a larger entertainment program. Plans include securing funds and coordinating with local groups to stage a wider event, with details remaining under discussion as officials review options.
The article extols cocoanut oil soap as a pure cleanser for hair and scalp. It says it cleans efficiently without harming the hair, keeps the scalp moist, and leaves hair soft, manageable, and shiny. It notes the soap is inexpensive and available at most drug stores.
The association proposes building the den workshop at a cost of 6000 and offering bonds to business at 100 each. 8 percent interest funded by renting the workshop at 40 per month yielding 480 annually, with bonds redeemable when funds allow. The Fiesta den location near Portermenth andak streets valued about 4600 with 2000 outstanding, a two year old structure for housing and storage.
A San Antonio graduate chapter of PRO Gaming Delta plans a Founders Day reunion in Austin on May 4 with about thirty members expected to attend. Alumni from multiple chapters will join the event at the University Wes campus with a luncheon and officer elections. Walter W. McAllister named president, Conkey treasurer, Arthur Surkamp secretary, and reelects for G Larter and Mey Barber to secret offices.
Officials of the Texas Telephone Company including B. C. Blimeyar president and H. Kepler general superintendent leave Waco for Marlin to complete dilation plans for taking over the Southwestern plant in Marlin by the Texas Company.
Miss Mary McDowell of Chicago spoke before the San Antonio Equal Franchise Society at the Gunter hotel on city governance and sanitation. She argued women, as housekeepers and homemakers, belong in city affairs and should push for cleaner, safer neighborhoods while noting laws protect workers and that existing city systems ignore women’s needs.
A fragmented account shows a speaker noting that births and welfare conditions are registered at city hall and that women lack the vote to influence policy. Dr Mary Harper urged Chinese medical methods for prevention, praising early prevention though milk ordinances are poorly enforced due to understaffing.
Aimed at alleviating floods along Sie Peary and Houston streets, Mayor Brown and city engineers consider widening the creek channel and possibly tunneling beneath buildings. The plan would narrow sections at Commerce to Lyscott streets and enlarge bridges, with opposition from property owners over sewers and cost concerns.
To give better service when gas main work on South Presa Street and Warwick Boulevard is finished in a few days, sections of a new feed main will be connected from the gas plant to South lores and across South Presa to Highland Park forming a new circuit. The project extends a citywide gas system with a notable Ray main in Alam Heights and beyond city limits, improving delivery to outlying districts.
A 2 36 p m Saturday program at the W. A theater features 700 views from the Panama Pacific Exposition and scenes traveling to San Francisco Los Angeles Denver and other cities. The event, under YWCA direction, is led by Miss Florence Pattee and Mrs. Thomas B. Romney of San Antonio.
A society page lists fundraisers at Mrs Richard Johnsons home to aid Southwest Tex Hap City Sanitarium, garden parties at Riverside Park, and a Mothers Club Mothers Day event. Readers are invited to dances, a street fair program by Alamo Heights Mothers Club, and weddings and society notices from San Antonio with fashion, menus, and guest lists.
An old advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a universal cure for child illnesses. It promises quick relief from constipation and stomach issues by cleansing the bowels. It claims gentle, natural results and urges parents to ask their druggist for the product.
The Aleivrlenl closed at the Carc argin Wwrary on Wednesday and reopened Thursday to receive donations for the historian cullec Uaw. The exhibit drew general collectors including pictures and letters, guiding the library to become a stable deposit for old San Antonio memorabilia. The library owns valuable pictures of San Antonio in two old days.
A dubious patient asks for medicine to cure stomach and bowel distress. The doctor prescribes hypo tablets and a three grain sulpher druggist’s kit, with directions, claiming relief for dyspepsia bronchial trouble and associated symptoms. The piece centers on medical claims and patient questions about tonics, tonics, and remedies.
Yer April 28 Amstin reports J W Williams, member of the railroad commission, will resign from the post after several months in office. Williams is said to be near full recovery from recent injuries or illness, with plans to return home soon.
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