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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1897
Page
5
The article surveys theater wear and accessories, detailing gauze scarves with sheer cutouts, silver gray satin gowns with pearl and gold embroidery, and velvet coats with beaded fronts. It notes sleeve styles, fabrics, and color trends, urging tasteful, seasonally appropriate dress for box seating and promenade outings.
Aguide describes applying beads to a skirt for a French look. It outlines selecting bead colors, placing beads at repeating pattern points, and layering fronts with lace edges and satin cuffs. It emphasizes step by step beading to transform plain skirts into ornate beadwork designs.
Fashion evolution described with velvet trims and black and white garniture in gowns, detailing velvets, chiffons, and silk fronts. Also a public notice announcing renewal of a $10,000 frontier defense claim and a separate $10,480 claim for minute men, plus a dated sequence of historical events from January calendar entries.
Notice from San Antonio Texas that the registrar will open voter books on the first Tuesday in January 1897 at the city hall on Biliary plaza. Registers will remain open twenty consecutive days except Sundays from 8 am to 8 pm. Voters should provide name street number ward and precinct to speed registration. Phil Shardein registrar. 12-26-1897 Sloan Shelley undertakers listed.
An odd collection of hunters from Alabama Texas and beyond recounts quail hunts at Gum Hollow Copano and nearby bays near San Antonio and Waco They describe red heads sprigs blue bills and a remarkable mounted specimen while noting large bags and a controversial boast about killing 5000 quail in a season By midwinter plans are laid for a major tournament at San Pedro Springs with two thousand dollars in prize money and the Powder Cup contest amid speculation about a famed visitor’s hunting claims.
A Kalamazoo Michigan notice advertises a free prescription claimed to cure nervous debility in men. The unnamed author, H. Olds, invites readers to write for the remedy, asserting it stems from years of research and will restore strength and vigor without cost.
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