Women club activities and social events in San Antonio
San Antonio women’s clubs plan a busy post Christmas year with philanthropy goals a home for delinquent girls civics flower shows and study programs. The Chicago Women’s Club is highlighted for its history ground breaking philanthropy and civic reform efforts.
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Department of Philanthropy
Women's Club
Department of Civics
Department of Music and Literature
Council of Jewish Women
Rabbi Cohen
Galveston
Southwest
Southern Association of College Women
Gibbons and
Self-Culture Clubs
Chicago Women’s Club
San Antonio
Chicago
Reform Department
Chicago Tribune
Art Institute
Legal Aid Society
Children's Hospital Society
Children's Hospital
School Children’s Aid Society
Juvenile Protective Agency
Testament for soldiers sold to aid Bible fund
A vest pocket Testament bound in khaki would be a meaningful Christmas message for soldiers away from home. Each 25 cents contributed to THE ARMY TESTAMENT FUND of the American Bible Society supports furnishing Testaments, with Rev. W. F. Jordan, secretary, Y M C A Building, or via telephone Travis 5037.
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The
American Bible Society
W. F. Jordan
Y. M. C. A. Bldg
Telephone
Travis
Week of Society Highlights at Fort Sam Houston
Social calendar lists open houses and dances through the week at Fort Sam Houston and San Antonio hotels. Notable events include Mr. and Mrs. Oppenheimer hosting a dinner for Miss Joske and Dr. Oppenheimer, Cotillion Club dances, and weddings in Temple Beth El and St. Mark's Episcopal Church.
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Mildred
Mary Nelson Johnson
Fort Sam Jtouston
Remount
Cross-Country Saddle Club
Jesse Oppenheimer
Henry Oppenheimer
Joske
F. G. Oppenheimer
Harry E. Wilkins
Marjorie Wilkins
San Antonio
D. J. Straus
St. Mark’s’ Episcopal Church
R. J. Boyle
Carey Avenue
Bessie Spears
Hiram Partee
Menger
Hester Schreiner
Jeanette Hagelstein
Constance Ball
Eleanor Barclay
Dorothy Gage
Gertrude Negley
Reta Tau Zetas
Gunter
Jack Beretta
Chow Chows Dance for Christmas at St Anthony
The Chow Chows entertained with a Christmas dance at St Anthony last evening. Programs bore the club seal on an orange background. Parents served as chaperones. Hosts included John Shook as president and a long list of officers and committee members.
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St. Anthony
John Shook
Wayne Parks
Edward Corrigan
Werner Rennett
Dwight Bourne
Jack Withers
Arthur Kohler
Frank Seymour
Joiner Cartwright
Edward Tarrant
John Parks
Richard Howard
Frederick Cartwright
Earl Hanson
Frix Hopkins Wedding at Alamo Heights Home
Gordon T. Frix of Tampico Mexico and Ruth Hopkins were wed Thursday evening at the home of F. W. Hopkins in Alamo Heights. Rev J H Gloseclose officiated with Lucie Hopkins playing. The bride wore plum charmeuse with Georgette and bead trim and carried pink Killarney roses. The couple will reside at the Gunter until January 10 before returning to Tampico.
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Gunter
Tampico
Mysterious Set Hosts Christmas Dance at Mea Ger
The Mysterious Set entertained with its Christmas dance at Mea Ger Friday night. Green and gold club colors adorned the walls. Twenty dances were logged on programs, with the club emblem on the cover ornament. A fragment notes a wrist watch and a tongue remark as part of the dialogue.
Poems Worth Remembering for the First Grade
The poem describes a man riding at night in storms and on a highway. It recalls recurring galloping travel as moon and wind set the scene and ships struggle at sea. Robert Louis Stevenson is cited as the author.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Gustava and December in a child’s Christmas tale
A vivid Victorian vignette follows Gustava sharing breakfast with a cat, a hen, doves, and a dog while sparrows and a crow watch from outside. The scene closes with her mother returning, as Celia Thaxter contributes a reflective verse about December and Christmas.
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Gustava
Kitty
Terrier
Biddy
Doves
Celia Thaxter
Glorious Christmas Hymn Passage by L. J. Ginney
Text depicts reverent scenes of devotion and praise around the nativity with references to the star, child, king and Christ born. Poetic narration describes people kneeling in snow and voices of praise interweaving with a ringing chime.
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Orient
Christ
L. J. Ginney
Opportunity Knocks at Every Man's Door Quote
The Loulaville Courier Journal quotes a proverb about opportunity arriving for all yet notes many settle for small ventures like peanut stands instead of pursuing bigger goals such as a bank. The saying contrasts everyday chances with ambitious dreams.
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Loulaville Courier-Journal
Mysterious Austrian Prime Minister Hid Married Life
The Budapest Abendblatt reveals Count Stuergkh secretly wed Miss Hermine Fuchs of Graz in Nice after a Riviera trip in 1892. He continued to pose as a bachelor after buying a villa for his wife and kept separate apartments in Vienna, with a reportedly happy but discreet marriage. Class Plans Special Program. A White Christmas will be observed by Fidelis Class of First Baptist Church at 10.00 Sunday morning to support Buckner's Orphans Home in Dallas.
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Vienna
Budapest
Miss Fuchs
Nice
Fidelis
First Baptist Church
Buckner’s Orphans’ Home
Dallas
Cassiano Lane Wedding Solemnized at San Fernando Cathedral
Joe H. Cassiano and Miss Mary Lane of Smithville were married Thursday afternoon in San Fernando Cathedral. Only family members attended the ceremony.
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Cassiano-Lane
Joe H. Cassiano
Mary Lane
Smithville
San Fernando Cathedral
Mark Twain's Timely Island Wish Aboard Kanawha
Mark Twain, famed author and sailor, faced a violent gale south of Cuba aboard the Kanawha with H. H. Rogers. Amid the Caribbean seas he clung to the rail and asked for a tiny Island as a playful wish from the steward in a moment of sea sickness.
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Mark Twain
H. H. Rogers
Cuba
Caribbean
Mr. Clemens
Mark
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Lowe
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Methodist Church
William Blocker
Soledad Street
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South Laredo Street
Agudas Achim
Isabel Jacobs
David Kanter
M. Gerstein
Beatrice Berg
Scheftelman
Kahn
Carr
B. E. Witte
the St. Anthony
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House of
Hertzberg
Blum
Neckwear
Emil Blum Company
Little Gustava
Dog Rags
Rags
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Crow
December
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Emas
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Hurd’s
Whiting’s
Pabst Engraving Co
Peacock Alley
Joy
Old Sol
California
Crockett
T. B. Baker
ST. Anthony’s
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