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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1908
Page
6
A 1910s style guidance piece argues that true beauty stems from character and effort not flattery. It condemns vanity, urges courage, discipline, and steady routines like massage and skin care, and warns against overreliance on talent or flippant excuses in relationships.
A fragmented list shows prices for Japanese plums pomegranates watermelons cantaloupes peaches and berries. It includes various vegetables like green corn beans squash lettuce peppers tomatoes cucumbers and cucumbers with quantities per dozen quart basket or pound and notes miscellaneous dairy and poultry items.
City of San Antonio informs property owners to render properties for taxation for 1908. Assessor books open for ratification, due by September 1 1908. Mayor Callaghan and City Clerk Friars attest the notice.
A fragmented line mentions beat for chickyaa Thom and a shtcked food endorsement with the phrase Try It and reference to two phones. The readable text is sparse and lacks clear context or names.
Society items detail Alan Hayes staying with Judge and Mrs Ward in Corpus Christi for a twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Numerous social visits with Mrs Wheat and Miles Wheat plus Virginia Wheat travel to Louisville. Many residents visit relatives, attend church women’s society meetings, and host or join house parties in Rockport, San Antonio, and Kerrville. A Pleasant Surprise Party honors Lizzie Hart on her sixteenth birthday.
In a Mtent style exchange a woman asks for a home and a shopman replies to wait a few minutes and stay calm. The dialogue captures a street corner moment with terse repartee and restraint.
An elaborate ostrich feathered chapeau of white maline and gold tinsel rosettes is described. The crown rises high at the back with a leftward tilt and is trimmed with choux and white maline, noted as a stylish model for rich evening costumes.
Scores of booths and stalls have been allocated in the main exhibition hall and pavilions at the Inner National Party grounds. Most barn spaces in B C R Q and related areas are taken, with numerous range pens contracted, as exhibitors rush to secure preferred locations before the fair opens.
In Des Moines on July 27 Von J. Bryan awoke to find General James B. Weaver, once a GOP presidential candidate, aboard a Colfax train. Weaver, now aligned with the Democratic Party, urged Bryan amid a lively Newton crowd calling for him. Bryan denied knowing any specifics.
Ginther who runs Hercules iron mines in Ciudad Camareo Mexico says the border revolt talk is a sham and warns troops should not be sent. He notes miners remain at work and that the panic in border states has not harmed his operations. He recalls rumors of workers stirred by agitators but claims no real unrest affects his companies.
George Menuaid, leading cantor of the expresa, travels to Ti Pasa and Couderat to join Mrs. MeQuaid who has spent the summer there. Rutherford and Mrs. Rutherford return from Caryns Chris and Kingawlh to visit Mrs. Rutherford’s sister Mrs. Carmiban. RB. Parker and wife stay at the Menger. W. H. Koknonot and G. M. Stephens registered at the Angelus and other locals noted at the Misson hotel and the Bexar. Miss Pauline Sheppard visits the New Maverick.
Washington July 27 The comptroller acts on the suspension of the First National Bank of Friendly West Virginia with a called of 25000 dollars and a bank failure noted in the day’s dispatch.
Miss Parmelly Walthall seeks a two story housing addition in Woodtown valued at 2100 dollars. Eg Graeber secures a five room dwelling in Calvert Cliewt with a 1400 dollar valuation.
Delicate filling made by thickening hot milk with flour, eggs, and sugar then folded into pastry squares and baked. Also notes on boiling cracked eggs, saving stale bread for economy, making lemon extract, pimento cheese sandwiches, and removing cucumber bitterness by paring stem ends.
Crowds of over 200000 gathered in Constantinople to cheer the sultan as a constitutional promise was declared. Persian subjects telegraphed the shah pledging to adopt Ottoman nationality if the Persian constitution is not enacted.
Logan July 27 reports the seventeenth universal peace conference organized by the Society of Friends. Over 100 societies from 16 countries attend. Prominent figures Edwin Nead and Benj Treylead participate among American delegates. the bishop of Carlisle presides.
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