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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1912
Page
21
The article discusses embroidery techniques for a decorative eyelet design that can be used on a waist embellishment or a summer linen dress. It advises using soft ball floss in satin or French stitch, warns against knots and back-cross stitches, and notes color schemes are flexible for a dainty summer look.
Winifred Black counsels a reader to abandon the notion of an exquisite molded form as a career path. She argues real happiness lies in domestic life, warns that artistic temperament leads to loneliness, and urges the reader to embrace a quiet, wholesome future with family and stable work.
The Clarendon Baptist church site at Clarendon and Montgomery streets will house America’s first roof garden playground by day and open air services by night. The rebuilt flat roof will omit a steeple, feature crenellated borders, and steel girders for safety. Summer services will use moving pictures to boost Bible study, per Dr. Francis.
Isaac Danielson, 85, a self described house husband, wandered to amusement venues after a noon errand for thread in Chicago. In Calverly court he claimed his wife’s millinery work freed him to attend to the home and the judge released him after his wife declined jail.
A lone note laments the circus as a once splendid venture. The writer signals lack of joy and restraint, hinting at limited resources and attention with a single pair of oars to steer.
Fragmentary OCR note discusses Hewes-How lineage and a father’s view on his sons behavior. The readable text implies a focus on family discipline and moral conduct, with unclear context or details due to garbled rendering.
A social column revisits the plea to study one’s husband, arguing marriage is a lifelong learning process. The author compares marriage to a school with grades from kindergarten to graduation, detailing lessons in patience, trust, forgiveness, and shared growth.
The New York Sun notes a record month of honeymooners in city hotels. Clerks report many couples from the South, with young brides and grooms seen in lobbies and florists, and a blushing newlywed man reveals he just married after engaging rooms days earlier.
Mrs Dergerlina Fuertado wife of Ernest Fuertado reports in Plymouth Mass that she has given birth to four children one boy and three girls with the boy dying soon after. The five children include the first born last September. The family notes varying birth weights from two and a half to five pounds. Ernest Fuertado who came from Portugal five years ago is described as small in stature while his wife is twenty six. The item ends with a joke about doctors and horse racing lore.
Frances L. Garside sketches Lysander Appleton fearing flies as he tells his family they cause plagues. Daysey Mayme swats a fly and Lysander suffers a comical night of blunders and bruises while he ponders higher costs of living.
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