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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1911
Page
34
A San Francisco magistrate, Judge Weller, fines Grace Hamilton ten dollars after she pleads guilty to speeding. The judge notes women have the ballot and says there is no discrimination, asserting women must face the same penalties as men.
A housewife can cut costs and health risks by using Cottolene for shortening and frying instead of butter or lard. It notes butter is expensive and results are similar to Cottolene, while lard is costlier and harder on digestion, implying fewer doctor bills.
An old advertisement claims Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup soothes teething pain, softens gums, relieves windcolic and diarrhea, and calms infants. It boasts safety, with a price of twenty five cents a bottle and urges mothers to ask for the product by name.
The thimble era began in 1684 with Nicholas Renschoten of Amsterdam. It spread to England as the fingerhat or thumb bell and evolved from costly metal to cheap lead and machine made versions. A thimble represents industry and, with a needles paper, hints a girl should sew or mend. A lost gift occurs with a pincushion.
San Antonio's Grand Opera House hosts Mutt and Jeff with Bud Fisher's cartoon duo, plus a bill including Marvelle the contortionist, Four Dancing Belles, Madden and Fitzpatrick, Billy Barron, Macart and Brad ford, Four Killarney Girls, and Updale's Zoo Circus. The act, praised for music and comedy, attracts broad audiences including Wall Street brokers who buy the American weekly to view the latest Fisher sketches.
The week at the Royal promises laughter and applause as all four acts please with a balanced program. The European import Bimm Bomm Br r r r features greatly with striking electrical effects. The Abduction of Bianca, a one act comedy, showcases Miss Munson and Hal Munson. Sing ven Lee impresses with humor and violin. McGreevey and Bailey dazzle with song and dance. Also noted: 49 604 large farms and the naval title admiral deriving from an Asiatic phrase meaning ruler of the seas.
Sensitive fingers that could open any fate put Jimmy Valentine on the wrong side of cold gray walls but a heart that beat right when he fell in love with the right sort of girl cured his pardon. Alias Jimmy Valentine comes to the Grand Tuesday night and Wednesday shows by Liebler and Company at Wallack's Theatre, New York, after two seasons.
Plaza Theater draws huge crowds as schoolchildren are promised a delightful afternoon with a roller skating stunt by an Updale bear. Next week features the season’s scream A Royal Reception with Rube Welch and Kitty Francis, a tabloid musical comedy with twenty principals in the cast.
A fragmentary testimonial extols Rokman Iterative as a lung remedy tied to fresh eggs and milk, claiming full recovery after consuming the product with rest and prayer. It attributes a recovered life to the remedy, promotes a booklet, and lists Fischer's Drug Store and Hickman F. Suis Philadelphia as sources for more information.
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