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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
12
Remnant Day offers half price on a wide array of fabrics including voile linens silk tissues and ginghams with short lengths and embroidery remnants marked to about one fourth value. Domestic cambric and sheeting remnants in all widths appear at special prices alongside other short lengths such as gingham calico lawn crepe and shirting madras.
The May issue of the Bexar County Medical Society bulletin urges enforcement of the city spitting ordinance and a law restricting street dust on food. It cites disease risks from sputum spreading diphtheria typhoid and tuberculosis carried by flies or direct contact with contaminated clothing. It notes few arrests since enactment twelve years ago and stresses covering street fruit stands to reduce exposure.
By end of June Mars Venus Saturn and Jupiter will be morning stars. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is advertised as the star medicine for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. Sold by Fischer Drug Co.
Union Meat Company advertises breakfast pork sausage in boxes of one pound each priced at twenty five cents per pound. Customers are urged to place orders with their butcher or grocer. The notice appears in a traditional mid century market listing.
Sunday dinner and supper offered at the Riverside restaurant with chicken or turkey choice. An advertisement lists Granitord and Granocrete products, titled The Economical Pavements and The Modern Pavements, by A Collman plumber with phone contact 397.
A Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company meeting in San Antonio reflected a new public friendly spirit. General Commercial Superintendent P. K. Baker urged replacing rule bound replies with rational explanations to satisfy customers. The session, second in a Southwest Texas series, continues today before moving to Corpus Christi.
An advertisement urges readers to choose Corpus Beach hotel for boating bathing or fishing vacations in Corpus Christi Texas. Descriptive folder available from resident manager W A Roachman. Also promoted are Sam Spell Hardware Co offerings of firearms ammunition cutlery and fishing tackle at 219 Losoya Street.
San Antonio Automobile Club members debated a plan to organize an endurance run to Galveston during the beach races July 26 27 and 28 and referred it to the board for action. They also urged a council committee to press fair treatment of motorists amid alleged traffic ordinance enforcement issues.
A short reader note compares painting a horse and farm upkeep to delaying house and barn painting due to rising paint prices. It argues waiting costs more in the long run as prices creep up and property value suffers, citing DEVOE Moody Hormann as advertiser.
The Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles and dissolves gravel and rheumatism for men and women. It says it regulates bladder troubles in children, with a two month treatment per bottle. Mail order available for $1.90 from Dr. B. W. Hall in St. Louis, Missouri.
An incident yesterday afternoon involved three vehicles owned and driven by W. F. Thompson of Pearsall C. G. Woods of San Antonio and W. D. Keehoe of Houston. The report notes the owners' names and their cities of residence.
The St Anthony Roof Garden is pitched as the town’s coolest dining and listening spot tonight with tenor Charles Cameron Bell as the soloist. Riverside is recommended for meals.
A brief note indicates where friends can be found at the Riverside Restaurant. The message points readers toward this social gathering spot for casual meetups and fellowship.
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