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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1922
Page
5
Society events fill pages with guests and hostess lists headed by Edna de Laltier leaving for Houston. Merry Maids dances, Valentine teas, and concerts fill February through April. Civic leagues plan plant distributions, Mothers clubs host silver teas, and church groups organize charity and social sessions at Carnegie Hall, St Mark's, and city venues.
Ongoing week ending 1922 includes sales of carcass beef from San Antonio and Trex. shipments sold out. Prices cited as several cents per unit. Readable items show ragged entries and inconsistent figures from Swift & Company trading notes.
Aughust Toll, a pioneer druggist in New Braunfels, died Saturday at age 82. He was born in Goettingen, Germany, studied at Göttingen University, and helped establish the firm Toll and Talley, later Toll’s Drugstore, retiring after 1877. Funeral services were held at 4 o clock as mourners gathered. He is survived by his wife, Miss Caroline Messer, two sons Alfred and Sheolare, and daughters Mrs. Otte Scho and Mrs. Starcke.
Sunday drew anglers to Medina river with strong bass bite and big creel. Amateur and semi pro teams trained at parks while anglers reported limits of ten for Douglas Lawrence and Todd Mathews opposite Turk's Head. Bass season opened in Medina on February 28 and closed in March and April.
A San Antonio actress, Glad ia Coleman, returned to the Majestic to perform this week and announced she would remain a San Antonian. The former high school alumna's stage work drew praise, with observers noting her natural talent and rising career as a key attraction in this week’s entertainment plans.
In Washington a theater scene unfolds as talk ties Majestic Sunday Miss Gold Man to President Harding and President Wilson. Her return to San Antonio follows with its own quiet thrill, though the moment in Washington remains a notable memory.
The first major Boy Scout flag presentation at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio honored Troop No. 1. Rev. Kemp presented flags donated by a congregant as Eagle Scouts Alan Ale Garry and Joha Bugelking stood with color guards Clarkson Groos and Charles Leel Jr. The ceremony, led by Scoutmasters Leel, Poncoast and Bergstrom, drew a large congregation and followed the May organization of the troop, with plans to start a second troop next summer.
A suit in Terry county court seeks ownership of a paint pony used by actor Neal Hart in a San Antonio film. ALitt Good of Brownfield claims the animal, now with Neal Hart or his company, and a sequestration writ is held by the Terry County sheriff. The case cites damages and a requested judgment for 300, with the horse earlier moved to El Paso and then Hau Antonin, threatening production if seized.
Washington society reels from Knickerbocker Theater disaster as arms conference ends. Parties and dinners shift to mournful, steady pace with diplomats and officials hosting gatherings amid the aftermath and reflections on the tragedy.
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