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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 11, 1916

Page

23

San Antonio Chorus plans picnic at Lambert Beach tomorrow

The Music Festival Chorus halts work for the season by vote and invites all current and former members with families to a picnic and swimming party at Lambert Beach Brackenridge Park tomorrow evening. Committee: Mrs Edith Resch Mrs F L Carson Miss Lil Nan Furtner Mrs Archie Bacon Mrs W H Joyce. Rehearsals for Haydns Creation resume September 11 with a modern piece likely added.

Music Festival Chorus San Antonio Lambert Beach Brackenridge Park Edith Resch F. L. Carson Lil- Nan Furtner

Music in the Churches at Central Christian and Travis Park

Central Christian Church presents male quartet As God Leads and solo The F e nontg ye Way with Eloise Davies and L D Daggett. Travis Park Methodist Church hosts organ prelude Idylle, quartet Sing Unto the Lord, offertory Allegretto, and organ Marche Solennelle. Quartet members include Mrs. G. E. Gwinn Miss Elsa Harms Chas. M. Lee Gilbert E. Schramm and Miss Mildred Gates at the organ.

Central Christian Church God Travis Park Methodist Church Wely G. E. Gwinn Elsa Harms Chas

Woman’s quarrel ends with a punch line in Chicago News

The Wibbies couple argues over gender superiority and a husband quips that a wife is the one thing men can have that women cannot. An Indiana inventor patents a saddle for mules to carry wounded men, one on each side.

Indiana

Ages of romance behind love match of Russian countess

The engagement of Countess Nada Torchy to Prince George of Battenberg is celebrated as a true love match. Their family histories trace royal alliances from Peter the Great to the Battenbergs, with a lineage linking Pushkin’s era to modern England. Prince George serves in the North Sea as his betrothed waits in London, amid a dynastic tale of morganatic unions and proud English reception.

Nada Torchy Michael Russia Conqueror Erzerum Prince George of Europe Nada Yorky Michael Michaelovitch Prince George Prince Louis of Battenberg England North Sea London Peter the Great Peter Turkey Hannibal Pushkin Empire Alexander II Prince Nicholas of Nassau Grand Duke of Luxembourg Nicholas Countess of Marenberg Nicholas I Alexander III Caucasus Countess Torby Edward Prince of Wales Nada Torby Prince George of Battenberg Battenberg Alsace Pastor Schweppen Hauser Hesse Warsaw Count von Hauke Julia Czarina Julia von Hauke Ierince Alexander of Hesse Rattenberg Prince Louis Alexander Bulgaria Balkan Henry Beatrice Victoria Prince Louis Ts Tnaland Mall House Kensington Park District Prince Princess Louis of Battenberg

A Wise Child and the Landlord’s Mint

A Boston Globe note tells of a miserly landlord collecting rents who pats a little girl and shows a coin he has for her. He asks what she will do with it. The girl looks at it then at the coin and answers Wash it. The tale highlights a child’s practical wit.

Pin Boston Ost

Herbert and the Reading Lesson With the Pigs

A New York World item recalls Herbert who insisted on adding words not in the book during a reading lesson about pigs. He argued that no pig ever said wee twice and then stopped, prompting the teacher to demand the final sentence again.

Herbert New York World

Incarnate Word Graduates Appear In Saturday Commencement

The In carnate Word college and academy held commencement Saturday with honors conferred by Bishop J. W. Shaw. The program included choral pieces, piano and violin solos, readings, and a valedictory about home. Academy diploma ceremonies followed with numerous graduates receiving medals and the Annie Cotter gold medal for Christian doctrine.

Incarnate Word J. W. Shaw College and Academy of the Incarnate Word

Gold medals awarded to Gallagher and Gaffney for Latin and music

Miss Helen Elizabeth Gallagher received the gold medal for Latin proficiency. Miss Winifred Amanda Gaffney and Miss Blanche Agnes Murphy earned gold medals for music.

Rebel at dictatorship Munich demands share of food

Southern German states protest the food dictatorship intended to save the nation from starvation until the harvest. Bavaria Wuerttemberg and Baden produce surplus food and barred exports to Prussia, but now must share hoarded provisions with Prussia, risking hardship and reduced rations.

Munich Prussia Germany Bavaria Wuerttemberg Baden

Native cites lake use for navigation in river tale

A native explains the fish are not very thick in the lake, noting the waterway is partly used for navigation. The Louisville Courier-Journal quotes the exchange, highlighting the lake’s dual role and practical limits for fishing.

Louisville Courier-Journal

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