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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1912
Page
10
Albert T. Fitts will preach at Beacon Hill Christian Mission located at Blanco Road and Craig Place on Sunday morning at 11 o clock. The sermon topic is A Model Church.
San Antonio Humane Society Officers George L. McAuley and Fred Davison listed with contact numbers 324 Hicks Building. Old phone 71. Nights and Sundays 4726 and 2782.
San Antonio alumni of Southwestern University will host a Sunday luncheon at the St. Anthony hotel at 12:30 in honor of Dr. C. M. Bishop president of Southwestern. Proxy Bishop a favorite with students is noted for his democratic spirit. He will preach tomorrow at Travis Park Methodist church.
Dr. N E Forest an eye ear and throat specialist has moved his practice from the Frost building to 411 Main Avenue.
Members of the medical section of the American Life convention will be welcomed by Governor Colquitt at the St. Anthony hotel next Wednesday for the annual meeting. Medical directors of about 100 life insurance companies will attend, making the gathering highly important. On Tuesday the Texas Life association will hold a state meeting with an address by J. H. Kirkpatrick starting at 10 oclock.
San Antonio public schools superintendent Charles J. Lukin will attend the National Education Association convention in St. Louis starting February 27 for a three day session. He departs tonight for Kansas City to inspect area schools and may visit Fort Worth on the return trip to study its public school system. He is under the Bexar County Humane Society listed as office 211 Mackay building with humane officer E M Collins and old day phone 2409 night and Sunday 6877.
Rebecca J. Fisher of Austin and DRT president arrived in San Antonio yesterday to inspect ongoing work. The visit underscores preservation efforts and the organization’s statewide presence.
A patent medicine notice touts Ozomulsion cod liver oil emulsion as boosting weak appetites and general strength in children. It claims fresh air plus Ozomulsion yields rosy, jolly kids who grow quickly and stay active, with a 3-ounce bottle mailed to those sending their address to Ozomulsion in New York.
State Inspector J. B. Nitschke and team completed work on Alamo buildings while the governor prepares the reconstruction. The governor, awaiting data from Mexican archives in Mexico City, has yet to disclose many project details to the public.
Our contracting department is ready for business now is the time to get cheap figures on painting and papering. A McDonald old phone 886. Dance at Math s Saturday February 24.
The Stevens-Huntress club will gather Sunday at 3 p m in Owls hall located at 220 Soledad. Members are urged to attend.
A. H. Gans former manager of the Mercantile Collection and Adjusting agency will go to Waco tonight to head the stationery department at Hill Printing and Stationery company. Gans previously worked for the Waco firm before moving to San Antonio.
J C O hair will deliver an address at the men s meeting Sunday at 3 30 in the YMCA auditorium. His topic is I Am the Door.
The James Lewis Baraca class of Government Hill Methodist church will discuss The Other Fellow as Sunday morning’s lesson. The group aims to grow membership and boost attendance, with many members expected to attend.
A debate at the high school senate on whether there should be a limit to land ownership ended with the negative winning. Judges K Harris W Marshall and E Glover upheld the decision, with E Racey Wilbur Martin supporting the affirmative. Frank Heck served as critic and Earl Taylor delivered an essay on The Medina Dam Project.
Chief Deputy United States Marshal Frederick H. Keller and Deputy T. H. Holilamon will leave for Waco tonight to attend the February session of the federal district court which opens Monday. Judge Ward R. Meek will sit in for Judge T. S. Maxey, who remains on the federal appeals bench in New Orleans.
Workmen finished cleaning and dusting the Orpheum as San Antonians prepare to attend the opening bill The Commuters at 8 15 tonight The theater features cream and old rose decor three seating tiers auto boxes and excellent acoustics with full stage equipment and electric devices for lavish productions
The Orpheum sale of seats has been heavy and the house will be full tonight a number of box parties will represent San Antonio people Judge and Mrs A W Seeligson Mr and Mrs Dwight E Potter Dr and Mrs T T Jackson with W F McCaleb and Dunscomb others entertain guests George Huntress John R Lunsford Etc ensembles include the Fenstermaker party and several other families Monday night the San Antonio German club reserves twelve box parties with seventy two seats
Governor Colquitt urges a regional tuberculosis conference to aid indigent consumptives. He has asked governors of Arizona California Colorado Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma and Utah to appoint delegates and to send names to R J Newton acting executive secretary of the Anti Tuberculosis association in Austin.
The third season of The Flirting Princess debuts at the Grand with Harry Bulger leading the original big company in this terrpsichorean musical comedy. The program also features Willard Simms & Co in Minders Furnished Flat, The Three Hickey Brothers, Hanlon Dean Hanlon, Carl De Marest, the Kubelik of vaudeville, Southern Singing Girls, The Three Richardsons in The New Pupil, Stefi and Deni, Hungarian gypsies, and the Plazascope in new motion pictures.
Next Monday and Tuesday the Jules Layolle's French Grand Opera company of New Orleans will present a limited engagement in this theater. The troupe, 125 strong, includes chorus and ballet from major European houses under M. Jules Layelle. Repertoire for San Antonio includes La Favorite Donizetti Carmen and Rigoletto and seat sales are heavy.
The new Orpheum on Houston street opens at 7 with patrons viewing the house ahead of the 8:15 curtain for The Commuters. The Forbes comedy debuts in stock for San Antonio with a matinee at 2:30 and an 8:15 evening show tomorrow, amid lavish decor and stage readiness.
A last show caps a week at the Plaza theater before the current season takes a pause. Performers prepare for the closing act and a temporary halt in programming follows.
Two performances close the best vaudeville show this season at the Royal Playhouse. The bill features De Balestriers Teddy bears Mitzie Admond Ray Lewis and Rutherford and Munroe plus Three American Comiques and an oriental dancer. Manager Kaufman promises another strong bill next week.
George Kidd, a Houston expert accountant, is auditing Harris county records in the comptroller's department in Austin. He is examining county official accounts and reviewing the Harris county books.
Prof. Co. A. Peterson, superintendent of Yoakum public schools, has been elected to the faculty of Southwest Texas State Normal at San Marcos for the summer term and has accepted.
Austin and vicinity endured a heavy afternoon rain yesterday with precipitation spanning Travis County. The timely shower is expected to benefit farmers across the area.
The Corpus Christi city council called an election for March 25 to issue $150,000 in bonds to pay the city's share of street paving costs. The council also voted to accept the general paying act of the Thirty first Texas legislature.
An advertisement notes a topical remedy for piles promising curing itch in six to fourteen days. The druggist offers a refund if not effective and advertises a 50 cent price with included hemorrhoid relief claim.
The attorney general's department approves an amendment changing the Kansas City Mexico & Orient railway of Texas headquarters from Sweetwater to San Antonio. After long Sweetwater resistance, the last injunction is vacated and the headquarters will be at San Angelo.
Mrs Jen nie Bell of Keechi describes extreme weakness with a heavy head and inability to lift her baby. After trying ineffective remedies she uses Cardui the woman's tonic and recovers, urging others to seek relief from the same remedy.
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