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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1913
Page
14
Tonight a meeting of the Elks ministress participants is urged for all wanting to perform. Next Friday Rabbi Samuel Marks lectures on The Merchant of Venice at Temple Beth El with a large crowd anticipated.
A collage of small items including taxi ads, dentist offices, and club events. Umbrella theft at police court noted. artist and musician photos, dance shows, and a grand masquerade ball announced. Citizenship declarations filed by Pujol and Polson amid civic notices and entertainment listings.
In a classified style notice Union Meat Company urges buyers to request hams bacon lard and compound by phone 292 highlighting home made quality. An accompanying ad promotes Riverside Restaurant with daily turkey or chicken meals and a specials menu including shrimp frog legs and pompano at 25 cents.
Miss Belle H Bennett and Mrs W R McDonald of the Woman's Missionary Council spoke at Travis Park Church uncovering a broad field for settlement work in San Antonio. They urged improvements in sanitation infant mortality and foreigner assimilation alongside better wages and social conditions. They planned to open house club and kindergarten projects and to send a second deaconess to Laredo in April.
Mrs E L Snow of the Wolff and Marx Company identified a $90 gown stolen December 18 after detectives arrested a man trying to sell it for $3. She viewed the dress at police headquarters and the owner may press charges shortly.
The Central Congregational Church women met at Mrs. J. C. Pray's home to discuss church music and the annual dinner. A choir committee was formed and a letter from Dr. Briggs welcomed the first annual dinner at the Gunter hotel on January 23. Charlotte, a new Texas town 48 miles south of San Antonio, will open with a free barbecue and lots auction next Tuesday. A special I&GN train will depart January 14 for buyers, with round trip $1.40 and railroad fare refunded. Also noted is the grand opening of a local undertaking company’s auto ambulance service at 221 E Commerce.
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