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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1912
Page
3
A smart two-button cut away suit with heavy pongee colored linen. Features turn-up cuffs high-waisted skirt with pleat front and panel back. Described as superbly tailored and finished, offered at ten dollars.
At Monday’s council meeting the city considers a long term contract with San Antonio Gas & Electric Light for street lighting possibly lowering rates. Also on the agenda Houston Street extension and police pay, with Vice President W B Tuttle and council gas committee negotiating terms.
Years of catarrh and blood disease left Miss Mabel F Dawkins of Fort Wayne Ind weak and wretched until she took Hood’s Sarsaparilla. After two bottles she felt as well as ever and urges others to use it. Available in liquid or Sarsatabs chocolate tablets.
Aldermen discussed gas and electric street lighting costs with no prediction on a contract. City Attorney to review legality of forcing interchanges on telephone companies and rate setting. An ordinance seeks a 10 percent pay raise for police and fire departments. A Starr Heights club plans to urge city cost sharing for Houston street extension. Italian engineers plan a Mont Cenis tunnel to shorten rail to France by about twelve miles.
G A Stowers says negotiations with Karl Hoblitzelle are off for a theater tied to a proposed skyscraper on Main avenue but will not delay construction. The structure will rise ten stories with 64 foot frontage and 86 feet depth, built in the Clower building style. He will begin once remaining ground is secured and remains ready to erect the theater if possible.
William T. Garmand wed Ella M. Jackel and Alexander Crownover with Minnie McKeen. Pablo Olvera and Mrs Juana Lopez appear amid listings as do Grego and Magdalena Schneier. George W. Shaffer ties with Nannette Morrison. Max Maurer with Dora Hahn. Paul Kariger and Amalia Schiedeck. Frederick F E Tegler and Daisy Grace Minor. Isidro Zepeda listed with Feliciano Hernandez in marriage license notices.
An article describes this season's English fashion favored by discriminating American youths. It highlights a close-fitting coat with a bold cutaway below the lower button and narrow trousers. The piece notes Lentz, a tailor, as the source of guidance.
R S Lovett chairman of Harriman lines executive board may arrive in San Antonio this morning on a special train over the San Antonio Aransas Pass railway. He left Houston for Brownsville Friday with Harriman officials, possible return to Houston, others in the party include Kruttschnitt Spence Fay Van Vleck Dunlap Waldo Colburn and Dr R W.
Edward Buckley, found dead with a pistol at St. Francis Home for the Aged, is believed to have left a fortune. Justice Umscheid uncovered abstracts of title for La Salle county lands possibly worth thousands and a letter to the sisters in charge saying God would forgive him. Buckley’s son, expected today, will manage the estate. sealed letters to three sons may be opened later. Inquest testimony continues.
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