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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1913
Page
7
A vintage advertisement touts Parisian Sage as a rare cure for dandruff and hair loss. It claims to destroy dandruff microbes, soothe scalp itch, and promote luxuriant, lustrous hair for women and children. A large bottle costs 50 cents at drug and toilet goods counters.
San Antonio organization of commercial men will elect local officers and delegates to the state convention of United Commercial Travelers at their Knights of Columbus Hall on Houston and Navarro streets Saturday night. Secretary H. T. Matthews urges full attendance. the event precedes other dances and social events listed in the notice compilation.
City hall staff received vouchers this morning and pay periods announced. Starting at 2 PM today police and later hospital and health departments will receive wages. Tomorrow afternoon street cleaning sanitation parks river ditches and plaza workers will be paid, with fire department employees also scheduled to be paid from 2 PM.
An advertisement for Pleasurable Physic priced at 10c or 25c offers medicine for constipation bilious ness stomach liver and bowel trouble promising improved health and feelings. Try Blackburn's Casca Royal Pills once and prove it.
Windom Kansas resident Miss Mary A Horner describes displacement bladder trouble and bearing down pains. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after doctors failed. The ad urges women with female troubles to try the remedy and contact E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential advice.
Saturday the street commissioner department will receive February salaries. Chief Miller absent. Detective Lawrence leads the bureau in his absence. Miller left last night for New Orleans to testify in a Mann Act white slavery case. Two women were charged and arrested in this city by detectives on information from Crescent City police.
An advertisement urges customers in the market for hams bacon lard and compound to call two ninety two for an attractive price. It emphasizes that the article is made at home should not deter purchase and asserts the goods meet the very best standard.
To the consumer a push likens dining in to a taste of home versus meals shipped from Chicago Kansas City or Omaha promoting Union Meat Company products and home prepared meals.
In Summit Point Anna Belle Emery describes years of pain from ulcers and poor health and credits Cardui with restoring her strength. She urges other women to try the tonic, noting it has helped many for over fifty years and offering guidance from Chattanooga Medicine Co. through its Ladies Advisory Dept.
The Houston Chamber of Commerce launches a citywide drive to raise 70000 to buy the South Texas exposition grounds known as Vicks Park, with options on adjoining land to create a hundred acre fair complex. Officials warn delaying could cost 250000 later. San Antonio urged to act to keep the site intact.
The executive committee of the Southern Settlement and Development Organization met in Baltimore with over twenty leaders from Southern transportation, agriculture, and commerce sectors. They discussed fundraising plans to advance industrial and agricultural development in the region, with 8S. Davis Warfield presiding.
An old fashioned health claim advertises Cascarets as the best internal cleaner to maintain bowels liver and stomach. It promises immediate relief and a morning straighten up after a night’s sleep, with a 10 cent box keeping heads clear and digestion sweet for months. It urges including children for gentle cleansing inside.
David Bispham greatest American baritone headlines at the Grand Opera House next Tuesday in a Press Club of San Antonio event featuring Edgar Allan Poe s The Raven with music by Arthur Bergh. Gilbert accompanies on piano as Bispham delivers a dramatic all English program and the audience opens sales today. Also in Austin news, several charters filed including The Fleischmann Company and Interstate Cotton Oil Refining Company plus amendments and dissolutions.
Many cases of Piles have been cured by a trial package of Pyramid Pile Remedy without further treatment. When it proves its value to you, get more from your druggist at 50e a box, and be sure you get the kind you ask for. Simply fill out free coupon below and mail today. Save yourself from the surgeon's knife and its torture, the doctor and his bills.
The third free lecture by Prof J G Carter Troop on The Dramatists of Today will be at 8 15 p m Friday in Carnegie Hall with Maurice Maeterlinck as the subject. Troop notes Maeterlinck is a distinguished literary man and dramatist. his works aim to reveal life’s mystery through simple, bare symbolism. He plans two lectures next week, Tuesday and Friday nights.
Mike Goggan invites the public to visit his piano store at 225 East Houston Street daily from 2 a.m. to 8 p.m. to hear Ernest McGill, America’s leading player pianist, perform classical and popular selections on the player piano during his concert tour. Musicians are urged to attend.
Paris reports the cabinet presenting a military bill to parliament to raise army service to three years. The ministry says adoption is essential for France and European peace, with exceptions for families with six or more children.
Department of Insurance and Banking of Texas certifies that the South western Casualty Insurance Company of San Antonio has complied with state laws and is authorized to do business in Texas for the year ending February 28, 1914. A. Collman, plumber, listed with phones 397.
The funeral for Mrs. Sadie I. Campa, who died Tuesday night, was held from 510 North Frio street with services at St. Mary's Church and burial in St. Mary's Cemetery. Survived by her husband G. Campa and five children, plus a relative in Dallas. J W Currie, 41, traveling salesman, died in a local sanitarium. native of Mississippi, resident of San Antonio for two years. Interment set for Bryan. funeral by Shelley Loring. Joseph Dettling, 50, German native, died at home on Mary street. survived by widow and children in San Antonio, two sisters in Akron, a brother in Grand Ledge. funeral at 6 pm at Shelley Loring with St. Mary’s services and burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Trinidad Guerra Sr aged 69 died yesterday afternoon at his home 520 Leigh street after a lifelong San Antonio resident. Funeral services begin at 10 from the residence and continue at San Fernando Cathedral at 10 30 with burial at San Fernando Cemetery. He leaves a widow three sons and a daughter, all of San Antonio.
Ernest McGill, America's foremost player-pianist, performs daily at Mike Goggan's piano store 225 East Houston Street this week from 10 to 12 in the morning and 3 to 6 in the afternoon. Admission is free.
A Louisville Courier Journal cartoon caption notes a wife and husband exchange thin talk about words. The witty line plays on the idea that short blunt words are the ones that fit through a tight edge.
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