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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
5
Christmas services are announced across multiple churches in San Antonio. Methodist and Presbyterian congregations schedule morning and evening sermons, Sunday schools, Epworth Leagues, and Christmas trees. Other denominations including Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, and Baptist share services with specific sermon topics and event times.
An advertisement notes middle age brings kidney and bladder ailments and urinary irregularities. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills as a regulating and strengthening remedy available through Edwards King Drug Co.
Katherine M. Joseph, editor notes publication details. The program lists Bach Handel Roma and Hawley pieces with soprano solos by M. McAllister and Mrs. T. B. Meier, choir works and organ postludes. The choir cantatas will be sung in German.
Dr and Mrs J H Bindley host an evening dance at the St Anthony for Miss Irene and Carlton Bindley. Colonel and Mrs Harry L Roberts of Fort Sam Houston give an evening luncheon for Miss Claude Coleman. A Casino hall dance features home from school girls for the holidays.
The Sphinx club held a grand march at 9 PM led by G. T. Yonker and Miss Terry Marley in a Christmas colored setting at the St Anthony hotel. A dinner dance followed at 11 PM with seven courses, La France roses, and twelve dances. Chaperones included Judge and Mrs. Kelso and others. about 150 guests attended.
Miss Lucile McIlhenny entertained the Five Hundred club at her West Wood lawn avenue home. Sixteen guests occupied the four tables and Miss Margaret Braswell won the prize.
Mrs John W Vance travels to Houston for holidays with Capt John W Vance. L B Tarlton of Franklin La visits with sister Mrs D W Stafford on Pecan street for holidays. Miss Martha Sadler of Corpus Christi visits sister on Pecan street. The Grand hosted a box party for Claude Coleman with Joseph Frost and Edward Mellon of Pittsburg as hosts. A Menger Hotel dinner followed. The guest list includes Claude Coleman Marguerite Coleman Eda Kampmann Julia Armstrong Kathleen Scott Jean Aubrey Bodien Martin Eleanor Stevens I B Kampmann Mayhew Cresson Reed Jones Armstrong Robert Kampmann Franz Groos Semp Russ Capt Irving J Carr and others.
Mrs. Jefferson D. Childs entertained at a Mexican supper Friday night and at a Plaza box party with guests Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Evans and Harold Evans of Sonora and Jefferson D. Childs Jr. The Rock Hill Hunt club Christmas morning drag hunt starts at 10:30 from Laurel Heights club house. Spectators view a real hunt from the veranda while hounds mingle with the huntsman horn. A reception and punch follow at the club house.
Christmas morning service at 10 30 with holy communion will be led by Rev O W Hartmann. Christmas evening at 7 30 features a children's festival with an organ program.
The First Presbyterian Church hosted a children’s festival at 7:30 pm featuring the play Santa Claus Partners directed by Mrs. Ralph Rogers Ogden and Miss Nellie Paschal. Santa distributed candy and fruit after the performance with a large cast of titled roles and numerous participants.
The Travis Park Society, organized by Rev. W. A. Godbey, held its first meeting in the Travis Park Methodist church parlor. It aims to perform broad local philanthropic and social work with about 100 members, 78 of whom are charter members. Officers elected for the next year include President Mrs. Joe L. Hill and Vice President Mrs. W. C. Moore.
Review by R J Howell of Tracy Ohio praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for his wife’s severe lung symptoms and chronic cough. He claims relief from one to three bottles and a complete cure without opiates or strong drugs, urging buyers not to accept substitutes from Edwards King Drug Co.
Tables are being reserved at the St. Anthony hotel for a New Year's celebration a sonece de lux at 10 30 p m on December 30.
Engraved cards and writing sets offered by Maverick Clarke Litho Co at Soledad Street. The shop presents embossed stationery and gentlemen's gifts as part of its product range.
A brief item notes Dr Keeling, dentist, located in the Moore building at 517, emphasizing special attention to patient comfort and personalized service. The call to action suggests arranging a taxi to the office.
Two miners Joseph Reed and Joseph Levan were trapped at the Lehigh Valley Coal company packet colliery in Shenandoah Pennsylvania after a rush of coal and refuse. They were rescued uninjured early today and will spend Christmas at home with their families as rescue teams worked in relays to reach them.
An old advertisement promotes Eimer & Amend remedies for rheumatism with the claim it will relieve symptoms. It notes the product is available at druggists and provides a New York city listing.
A reader critiques magazine articles praising extreme frugality using flour sacks and matting for underwear and sunbonnets. The note condemns such vanity and calls for real economy from hardworking women, warning against manufactured standards and the glamorization of poverty.
The St Anthony hotel will celebrate New Year's with a souper de lux served Saturday December 30 at 10 30 p m with a special menu and festivities.
Riebe Undertaking Co. provides auto ambulance service at 221 BE. Com. Phone 341.
Excerpt notes a January article quoting college women desiring four children. It cites Harvard class marriage data from 1884 to 1889 showing average children per married graduate ranging from 1.67 to 2.07 and 19 to 28 percent of graduates without children.
A fragment discusses views of young men and women on family size, noting men’s statements about typical generation and women’s desire for four to five children. It mentions Mr Schauffleran and suggests few women expressed no desire for children.
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