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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1911
Page
9
Katherine M. Joseph editor issues publication contact details and office lines for newsroom correspondence. The notice specifies the sender's name and address for editorial communication and outlines phone numbers for office and home use.
Miss Flora Briggs entertains Gamma Kappa Chi at her Elmira Street home in a Polo tea event. Fort Sam Houston hosts polo tea on the Lower Parade Ground from five to seven in the afternoon.
Miss Flora Briggs entertained the Gamma Kappa Chi club at her Elmira street home with a five hundred party. Four tables were set on the porch for twelve players. punch, salad, and ices were served. The gathering listed numerous attendees and social updates from area residents. A separate item reports a shattered plate glass window at the Bexar drug store after a transom swung and caused damage, with a loss of 05.
General Duncan directs Fort Sam Houston to assign Second Lieutenant Ray C. Hill as quartermaster and commissary to permanent detail at Leon Springs range with twelve enlisted men to relieve civilian staff. The detachment departs tomorrow and will be under Sergeant Daniel Ball after instruction. Lieutenant Hill returns to Fort Sam Houston, others report to Fort Riley for a mounted service school course by September 25.
The Santa Fe railroad will start a new weekly train named Santa Fe de Luxe from December 1 between Chicago and Los Angeles via Kansas City and Albuquerque. It will require a 25 dollar extra fare each way and run in 63 hours Chicago to Los Angeles and 51 hours Kansas City to Los Angeles. Westbound depart Chicago 8 PM, Kansas City 8 AM, arrive Los Angeles 9 AM third morning. eastbound depart Los Angeles 6 PM, arrive Chicago 11 AM third morning. The train features compartments, drawing room and observation sleeping cars, a club car and dining car, with steel frame and wood interiors, plus staff including a barber and ladies maid.
Eleanor Hall, 26, daughter of Nathan Hall, manages the Richland Springs ranch in San Saba County Texas. She dammed Richland Creek to create a water reservoir boosting 4000 acres of range value and proving critics wrong as she drives sales, sets prices, and oversees four ranch hands.
Mrs T Suffern, a Newport tailor, maintains her summer home as a hub of dinner parties and social entertainments attended by local residents and visiting guests.
Manuel A Esteva consul general at large brings 2000 members from Mexican societies together for a three day independence celebration at San Pedro park starting September 15. A censorship committee will bar political content, with the Orden de Amigos del Pueblo joining after ensuring a politics free program. The Junta Patriotica remains uncommitted, overseeing Bowen's island events.
Bank president Henry Fussing learns that documents vanished not by theft but by being misplaced and wrapped in wrapping paper by his wife after a rain. Private detective John Doecker uses disguise and careful inquiry to uncover the chain of events and recover the papers, returning them on the desk. The twist reveals misunderstanding and discretion as key.
A meeting of the Young Men's Business League will convene tonight at 8 o'clock at the St Anthony Hotel. The session will discuss key matters, including the Boosterfest plans for September. The league, over 200 members, aims to grow to 600 after the event.
Preparations for the international fair opening November 3 are under way led by Secretary J M Vance. J Lynn Thomas of the U S Department of Agriculture arranged an elaborate dairy exhibit to educate the public on proper milk and butter handling with Jersey cows contributing milk for display and a silo to cure green feed for stock.
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