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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1911
Page
9
Advert describes tomorrow as the greatest day of a large sale with hundreds of new purchases arriving by train. Doors open at 8 o'clock and shoppers are urged to come early for best selections. Highlights include 300 Silk Dresses New Fall Styles at 6.95, shipped last week and expected to arrive in time for the sale.
Rev. John Ridout will assume the Christchurch rectorship September 1 and oversee a new playground with a tennis court and croquet ground for Sunday school children. An interdenominational foreign missions mass meeting is set for Travis Park Church tomorrow at 4 pm. Local social notes list visits, entertainments, and forthcoming fall activities among parishioners and families in San Antonio.
Mrs F J Loring and daughter Emma head to Texas to spend the rest of summer with Mrs Max Shirmacher. Miss Blanche Strong returns to Alpine. Mr and Mrs C L Settle and family depart for Fort Smith Ark. Fred Hummert and daughter Hilda travel to St Louis and New York. Mrs Heap leaves for Springfield Ohio for a month. Miss Sophia King and Miss Quigley go to Colorado Springs for a month. Mrs C Huppertz and son Louis return from Galveston. Mrs James Newcomb returns to Pearsall Thursday. Mr and Mrs C Goodman and Rebecca go to Corpus Christi for several weeks. Mrs Timmons and children visit Mrs M A Parrott in West End. Edith and Eleanor Husher depart for Milford.
A house party planned by the Daughters of the Confederacy and the San Antonio Branch of the Texas Humane Society at Beethoven hall has been postponed from Friday to Monday evening at the same venue.
Mr and Mrs Ferdinand Theis entertained at a four o'clock surprise party for their guest of honor in a private residence. Attendees arrived discreetly and the event proceeded with customary festivities and well wishes.
An Artesia Face Powder feature is advertised as invisible on the skin yet effective at reducing shine and masking defects. The copy promises a cool, clean comfort without a powdery look and hints at additional advantages to be revealed.
An advertisement touts Artesia Face Powder as shielding skin from sun wind burn and tan with four tint options flesh white pink and brunette. The message promises comfort and beauty plus a book of complexion tips on bathing diet and skin and scalp care available free upon request.
Parlors decorated with ferns and roses as dancing and refreshments pleased about seventy five guests.
The Woman's Missionary Society of Prospect Hill Methodist Church will hold a meeting Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the church.
R Clarence Jones reads a paper on education of the public about industries and corporations at the San Antonio Ad club luncheon. Indianapolis Ad Script Club honors the Texas venue for the next national convention and Dallas Ad club extends an August 22 dinner invitation. Committee members Treado Wolff Stiles and Spencer arrange details.
Heads of the traffic departments for the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroads said negotiations are under way for an inter-system sleeper service linking San Antonio and Brownsville. The Brownsville sleeper would be switched to the Sap train, which now departs Corpus Christi, to provide through service for Brownsville business travelers to San Antonio with no changes.
The Real Estate exchange schedules a 12 30 luncheon at the St Anthony hotel with plans to discuss the good roads movement sweeping the state and hopes for out of town participation. Engineers say Alpine waterfalls could power all Swiss railroads.
The thirteenth annual convention of the American Association of Park Superintendents opened in Kansas City with Henry D. Ashley urging beautification and early city planning. He warned about urban pollution and praised Washington as a model for planning and moral improvement.
At a city hospital charity ward during lunch, patients awaited news as attendants carried a patient to surgery. Large bouquets from The Light arrived, lifting dread as inmates hoped for a chance to see their comrade and learn his fate.
H. C. Ross of Houston is a guest at the St. Anthony. Mrs. Mace Stewart, interested in the new Galvez hotel in Galveston, arrived from that city and is registered at the St. Anthony. Miss Margaret Dickson of Laredo is staying at the St. Anthony.
The Epworth League state cabinet meets at 4 p m to receive the nominating committee report for officers for the coming year. Officers will be elected Thursday. The nominating committee includes Glynn Flynn Bryan chairman W P Rylander B P Lane Miss Pearl Crawford Frank Onderdonk and S S McKinney Attendance remains good as delegates prepare for the Texas State Epworth League Sunday School Institute opening Friday for a ten day session.
Three masked men stopped David Lam and his wife on the way home in Revere Beach Massachusetts and robbed them of 500 dollars in cash. The attackers took a net watch and two valuable rings with 450 dollars found in the wife's stocking.
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