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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1913
Page
6
A vintage drugstore advertisement promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a simple solution to gray, faded, or streaked hair. It touts dandruff relief, itchy scalp treatment, and hair darkening with natural looking, even results, claiming a bottle costs about 50 cents and works after a few applications.
Paris February 18 The French government under Premier Briand seeks to expand army strength to counter German measures. A first credit of about 16 million dollars for immediate munitions and wagons, followed by 100 million for rearmament across all branches. The plan extends term of service. cabinet and military experts have endorsed it. Public reaction notes German army peacetime growth to 850000 and socialist papers oppose only the three year service return.
A national militia concept akin to the Swiss system is being explored. The proposal emerged in the chamber of deputies during discussions on army estimates led by socialist leader M. Juares.
Miss Emmeline C. Upham, longtime Washington society reporter, dies at 79. Funeral set for tomorrow. Known to White House staff and diplomatic circles, her journalism spanned pre Civil War days to recent years and she contributed to a leading magazine.
Illinois band to skip ragtime for the suffrage parade in Washington on March 3. The delegation will be led by its own band playing the new Equality March and a program of patriotic numbers including America Battle Hymn of the Republic and Onward Christian Soldiers.
Mrs J M Eskridge hosts Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club at 2 o clock. Mrs B H Spier and Mrs R H Nagel host Twentieth Century Study Club at home 6504 West Magnolia Avenue from 8 until 6 for members.
The ballroom of the St Anthony Hotel hosts Mme Harriet Labadie’s dramatic reading of Percy MacKaye’s Tomorrow with patronesses led by Mesdames Coleman Martin Lewis Lockwood Wheat and many others. Winter visitors include Mrs Edward Mead Johnson Jr of Jersey City and Mrs G R Robertson with Miss Mabel Joy Robertson. Alamo Heights Reading Club to meet at 8 pm at 638 Patterson avenue for a farewell party for Mrs Owens bound for California.
The Eleanor Brackenridge School Mothers' Club holds a 3:30 p.m. meeting at 323 Baet Park Ave hosted by Mrs. H. Granjean. San Antonio Self-Culture Club meets yesterday with lessons from Act II Henry VIII led by Mrs. J. T. Smith. Government Hill Literary Club gathers tomorrow at 410 Carson St with a musical program led by Mrs. Allen Nichols. Phoenix Literary Club plans a double lesson tomorrow afternoon after missing last week. Tuesday Musical Auxiliary Chorus meets 10 a.m. tomorrow at Mrs. Eli Hertzberg’s home 6521 West Macon St.
Letters from Burlington and Scanida describe relief from nervous weakness, pale appearance, and backache after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Virginia Minnesota reader reports improved appetite and energy, while another notes calmer nerves and reduced pain. The ad urges women with menstrual and digestive troubles to seek restoration through the remedy.
Texas railroad commissioners plan March 11 meeting to consider amendments to fruit, vegetable and refrigeration tariffs. Proposals include lowering minimum strawberry and blackberry car load to 17,000 pounds, allowing mixed carloads at article rates, increasing stopovers to five, cutting carload rate to 3 dollars, and shifting car cleaning and bracing costs from shippers to carriers.
A digest lists new Texas corporations and amendments filed in Austin on February 18 including Consumers' Wholesale Grocery of Dallas. Mesa Realty of El Paso. The Coughran Gin and Mill Co of Coughran. Burns and Hamilton Co of Fort Worth. Law-Sprinkel Mercantile Co of Cameron. City Real Estate Co of Dallas. Texlahoma Oil Co of Houston. Doran Realty Co of Dallas. Trinity Rice Co of Beaumont. and amendments raising capital for several firms. Also noted are Momesen-Dunnegan-Ryan Co of El Paso and Lacul State Bank of Sacul. The report closes with a note on rising rice prices in China due to famine and war.
If you have weakly inflamed eyes headache dizziness and nausea consult Dr J Harvey Moore at 204 Gunter building for evaluation and care.
A suffrage mass meeting at Carnegie Hall urged women police officers and women judges in children's courts, plus sex hygiene teaching in public schools. Speaker Mrs. Joseph Brown of Hull House spoke alongside Miss Jane Addams who sails soon for Egypt. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw asked for campaign funds and more than $60,000 was pledged.
The one year old Equal Franchise Society of San Antonio celebrated its first birthday with a luncheon at the St Anthony. Miss Maria B Fenwick presided as officers outlined growth from eight members to 550. George W Peck gave a lighthearted talk, while Mrs Charles Florian and others stressed the suffrage push and a state bill by Burmeister with strong local backing.
A Virginia mother describes her toddler's severe eczema and relentless itching. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with curing the child after months of distress, noting the products' availability and a free skin book sample offer. The ad promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment with prices and a mailed free sample.
A lively Austin gathering hears Senator mockingly claim he is "out of politics" and would rather lose by good women than win by bad men. L P Barnes of Chattanooga discusses Justice Right and Equity while Mrs. L E Walker of the Franchise Society outlines state legislative sentiment and calls for public instruction.
The Travelers' Protective Association board of directors will hold its semi annual meeting in Corpus Christi on the coming Saturday. More than fifteen officers and directors are expected to attend with the main agenda to arrange the 1913 state convention.
Miss Clara Weimers earns valedictorian honors with the highest average as 57 graduates receive diplomas at Beethoven Hall. Judge Don A. Bliss presents diplomas as the ceremony features a Colonial Tableaux Vivant and a student orchestra under Prof. Romberg, followed by a dance.
An advertisement extols Cottolene as the best fat for frying French Fried Potatoes asserting richer crisper results than butter or lard at a lower cost. It claims medical authorities and culinary experts endorse Cottolene as purer and safer than lard and urges readers to switch.
A long register of individuals including Jake Robert Bain Lettie Braunsch weig Julius P Barclay Lida Brown George William Brinklow Lucile Capt Thomas J Chiado Edith H Cocke Israel H Chasman Helen Carhart Joe Cusack Ada Gertrude Campbell Herbert Davis Genevieve Dague Andrew W Dilworth Arthur Donaldson Fred Fries Harold F Gill Lola Ruth Griffith C Stuart Glazbrook Leona Hall Nadine Hull Lorena E Isom HughS James Ethel Jackson Amanda Jonas Sidney Richard Kaliski Lucie Keblinger Horace M King Mabel Knox C Fernando Lehman Helen Lord Leary Bertram David Lewin Ollie Marshall J Wilfred Martin Irene Morris J George Miller Kathryn McKenna Byron J Wankervis Elouise Ochse Gustav A Pagenstecher Bessie Pape Roy M Porter Barbara Ripley H Cecil Bussey Marguerite Sartor Arthur Shnitzer Leonora Smith Thomas Arthur Sheehan Bertie Gertrude Sutton Arthur P Thayer Elena Taaffe Neil Eldredge Travers Hilda Wegel Kent Whitaker Clara Wiemers.
Perfection oil cook stoves offered at special prices of 7.50 and 9.50 dollars at Hofheinz Hardware Store. Local deal highlights affordable cooking heat and bargain hardware options for shoppers.
Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No 144 United Confederate Veterans faces an empty treasury. A benefit show at Plaza Theater on March 12, with proceeds to aid needy veterans, features a soldiers act and songs in uniform, tickets sold by the camp and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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