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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1908
Page
22
San Antonio de Bexar hosts the Daughters of the American Revolution and invited guests as plans unfold for a Washington's Birthday reception at Mrs John Stevens home. A large entertainment for the Women’s clubs is planned with Self Culture and Twentieth Century clubs hosting events at local residences in coming weeks.
Belle Dilgaride and other members of the women's clubs greet guests at 1712 Buena Vieta treated in Wertnesigy. The event will feature a gathering Wednesday afternoon with Mrs L Hilyer as hostess leading discussions among the mothers clubs and other women’s groups in the city.
A short notice highlights one of the brightest Attie children in San Antonio, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank, living at 11S South Smith Street. The child, age four, is popular in the neighborhood, with references to portraits of high quality and tone.
An eclectic column offers grief as strength, marriage guidance, and cosmetic tips. It mixes aphorisms on resilience with beauty treatments, hair care, and social commentary, naming Adele Kine and Louisa amid debates on divorce, confidence, and appearance.
A garbled listing of grocery prices shows vegetables and fruits with assorted prices per quart, pound, or dozen. Items include green peas, tomatoes, cabbage, garlic, potatoes, beans, cranberries, grapes, apples, oranges, peaches, and more. Also notes fish and poultry specials, honey, butter, and seeds. The text is a fragmented OCR from a market ad with numerous misspellings.
Milwaukee Sentinel reports on anchors built for battleships. Five men forged a 17 800 pound anchor, then produced sets of four for shipment. These massive anchors, fifteen feet long from crown to shackle, 32 inch grips, versatile for stormy seas, are destined for Atlantic fleet battleships at naval yards.
A fragmented recipe collection describes desserts and savory dishes. It includes a butter sugar batter for cakes with chocolate and vanilla, then rabbit ragout with onions carrots tomatoes and potatoes, plus a corn chowder style dish with bacon and milk. The text preserves origins in a vintage kitchen context.
A kitchen fragment outlines giblet gravy preparation with washing and simmering giblets, straining broth, and returning chopped giblets. It describes new dressings for hash, brown gravy with spinach, asparagus, mushrooms, and sherry, plus mashed potato balls, peanut stuffing for turkey, peanut sauce, and a duck dressing with herbs and vegetables.
A damaged recipe fragment describes stuffing an esy plant with ham breading and onion followed by a liver dish. It outlines boiling, soaking, and mixing steps with onion juice, mace, parsley, and brown flour, then cooking briefly.
The Harper’s Bazaar summary notes insights from a broad survey of women’s work in New York and reform movements. It cites wage ranges for city clerks and other roles, rising wages with experience, and evolving attire. It also covers reformers in women’s prisons, education and public health advances, and women’s voter participation and appointments in Boston and other areas.
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