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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
6
Democratic legislators in Sacramento plan caucus discussion on enacting an alien land law this session to prevent Japanese from acquiring land in California. About twenty bills touching Japanese immigration and regulation are being prepared by numerous lawmakers.
A recipe for KC Jelly Roll using flour salt baking powder lemon rind eggs sugar milk and jelly. It notes the KC Cook's Book is illustrated and free via sending the certificate packed in KC Baking Powder cans to the Jacques Mrc Co Ill and promises a 64 page volume.
Mrs Bodien Martin hosts a Grand Opera House box party for Lieut Hodges. Mrs Allardyce honors Mrs Stumberg with a Mexican dinner. Dr Moore treats Miss Ruth Kelso to a Grand Opera House box party. Mrs Guggenheim entertains Mrs Livingston of Chicago with a Grand Opera House box party.
Walker of Center Point and Mr and Mrs Caldwell of Center Point visit to see The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Louis Schreiner and wife from Kerrville arrive to visit Charlotte Walker. Mrs Jensen of Omaha visits Dr and Mrs Combe. Rachel Plummer returns from Chicago. Elizabeth Moore spends Christmas in Eddy Texas. Winnifred Staercker returns home to Cuero after holiday stay with Mattie Dittmar.
The Siren opened at Tulane Theater last night and is praised as an operette with harmonious colorful music and outstanding dancing. Donald Brian and Carroll McComas propel the show with exceptional dance, likened to Terpsichore, as much a musical drama as a light operetta. Brian appears again at the Grand tonight and tomorrow matinee and night.
A 19th or early 20th century beauty tip advocates nightly masking with mercorized wax to slough old skin and reveal new, clear complexion. It promises rapid results and notes wax and saxolite products as remedies, with a hazel wash for firming lines.
Grace Beatty presided as hostess to the Graduate Kindergartners Club at George Leroy Brown Kindergarten. Members discussed Mothers Meetings and included Rachel Plummer Elizabeth Moore Teetsey O’Hair from St. Louis Mattie Talbot Elizabeth Applewhite Blake Hartwell Winnifred Staerker from Cuero and Beulah B Patterson. A universal missions prayer service is planned at St Mark's Episcopal Church.
At The Plaza this week the vaudeville show impresses with strong attendance despite cold weather. Joe Cook titled The Jack of all Trades delivers dance, song, monologue, juggling, wire walking and magic in a rapid, varied set that keeps the audience engaged.
The Aborn English Grand Opera Company announces a four night stand at the Grand Opera House January 10 through 13. After ten years in select cities the ensemble now adds shorter engagements in musical centers and arrives in this city with a strong audience for high class opera. The program includes Madam Butterfly Lohengrin Il Trovatore The Tales of Hoffmann and Lucia di Lammermoor with performances Friday through Monday.
Dorothea Fergus 24 died at 409 East Laurel due to health concerns. her mother and four sisters survive. Dora List 74 died at 335 Callaghan Avenue. three sons and a daughter survive. funeral at Jasmer residence, Lutheran cemetery. William Gauger 37 died from the city address 328 Walters. buried at Knights of Pythias cemetery. Mrs. T. E. Goodson death noted in Palestine. funeral planned there. Ben N. Peck 56, Gonzales merchant, died after hospital operation. funeral arranged by Sloan & Hagg. survived by widow and four children and relatives in several cities.
The Gimbel Delicatessen offers a business lunch from noon to 2 pm for ladies and gentlemen.
A crate of strawberries arrived in Dallas today from Alvin Texas. The article notes the shipment but does not disclose the price.
Work on Bowen Island to carve a new river channel was halted after City Attorney Ryan intervened. An ordinance introduced by Alderman Lipscomb would grant owners the right to cut the channel and claim river-bed land in exchange for opening a street between the river and Garden street. The council yet to read the measure, while authorities insist no work proceed until the ordinance is acted upon.
A string of visitors and arrivals at San Antonio hotels includes Co H Carlton of Houston J C Kane of Fort Worth Mrs H L Holle and Mrs C G DeBoer of Madison 8 D Alex Williamson of Dallas BE G Bower of Dallas S W Castle of Sedalia Mo L P Haile of Dallas Mr and Mrs O M L Walker of Oklahoma City J Shuffield of Beaumont W J Bissett of Charlotte Tex Charles Port of Fort Worth Mrs George M Connor of Fowlerton Tex Mrs Lillian Furry of Springdale Ark A C Kendry of Dallas P F Dunne and daughter of Corpus Christi Co E Eastman of Waco and E Howard of Dallas W H Anderson of Hearne F F Pipkin of Beaumont among arrivals at the Bexar Bowie Menger Crockett St Anthony and Savoy hotels.
Local notices list numerous visitors and hotel guests in San Antonio including T A Hunter Beeville at Savoy Magus Smith Pearsall on business at Gunter Temple D Smith Fredericksburg at Menger and others from Houston Dallas Corpus Christi Galveston and more Also a formal 1913 construction bid invitation from Fort Sam Houston for concrete project work at Leon Springs with bid deadline and address for R H Rolfe Constructing Q M
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