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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1911
Page
19
Church plans a Press day exerciser on June 29 at 605 Crosby Street the home of Mrs R J Torbert. Several local residents and families are noted for upcoming travel and visits including Irene G Brown heading to the University of Texas law school in Austin.
A fragmentary dialogue discusses beauty products and fashion items. Ida urges a first class beauty parlor to remove neck wrinkles, Tessie offers a mailed wash for oily skin, and a product called spurmax is recommended as a complexion beautifier purchasable at drugstores.
Fashion notes urge women to own two types of large dress hats for spring and summer. One smart style suits luncheon wear with tailored suits, the other picturesque hat pairs with a lingerie gown for midsummer days. The conical crown and brim curve shape is highlighted as the season’s smartest hat.
An observer recounts two city officials sharing a lunch and light chatter as they laugh at a playful home front joke. The scene captures genuine mirth easing tired faces and reveals suburban anxieties about city life and names, ending with a playful jab at married life.
In San Antonio hotels the June wedding mood fills parks and missions. Newlyweds stroll in sunshine with parasols, browse curbside windows, and attend motion pictures as couples seek to forget costs and savor present pleasures under the Alamo shadow.
Advertised as a guaranteed flesh building aid, Samose allegedly converts meals into fat to raise flesh, improve nerves, and health. The King Pattison Drug Co promises to refund if customers do not gain plump, rosy flesh, stressing no risk in buying.
Rumors aside, this season features ostrich plumes and feather trich bands on hats. Designers trim with long straight quills in emerald green coral royal blue purple and white. Feathers are cheaper than curled French tips though still a luxury for many jackets.
A L, an 1911 graduate of St Marys College, entertained his classmates this week at the reunion gathering. The event brought together former students to reminisce and share updates on their lives since graduation.
A West End lake pavilion hosted an evening dance with refreshments and chaperones listed. The 1911 graduates named include Louis Fink L J Gittinger Henry Pancoast Chas Murphy Stumberg Murt McCarthy and others with many attendees named from local families.
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