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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1913
Page
6
A vintage guide touts Sage Tea and Sulphur to restore gray hair to its natural color. It claims Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Darkens evenly, conditions scalp, and is easy to use with a dampened brush at night for morning results.
Lysander John Appleton recalls a lifelong joke that fails to amuse his wife and daughter. His plan to outwit the family backfires as he discovers the silence around his wit proves women rarely laugh at a married man’s humor.
Mrs. B F Stout hosts a 4 to 6 pm tea for Mrs. John William Lyman. Bohemian Scribblers meet at 3 pm with Mrs Margaret Olive Jordan. Mrs T A Coleman hosted a tea at the Menger for Mrs Joseph H Frost and listed guests. St Patrick's tea at St Anthony hotel honors San Antonio Pen Women. Fiesta planning includes tally ho committees, costumes, flowers, and outriders led by Miss Harriet Bogardus. Attendees include Mrs C W Barrett and guests Mrs Byron Browne and Miss Jeanette Turner Broomell being feted by Rev Clyde W Broomell. Weather delays beacon hill church reception for J E Adams and wife.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt daughter of Colonel and Mrs Theodore Roosevelt will wed Dr Richard Derby of Oyster Bay on Friday April 4 at the Episcopal Church. A reception will follow at Sagamore Hill and the couple plan a honeymoon voyage to Europe the next day.
Wealthy Nassau County residents prepare for spring elections with rumors that millionaires will seek the board of supervisors. Certificate filings show the Nassau County Association, formed by affluent citizens to rid government of crooked politicians. Mrs. Willard D. Straight is noted among the group.
The San Antonio Pen Women met at the Gunter hotel to elect a delegate and an alternate to the League of Southern Women Writers convention in Richmond Virginia. Mrs J Kendrick Collins was unanimously chosen as delegate and Mrs E A Holland as alternate.
Mike Goggan announces Ernest McGill, America's foremost pianist, will perform daily at 225 East Houston Street from 10 to 12 and 8 to 6 this week. The event invites art lovers to listen to McGill play a few pieces on the player piano.
Exercises in memory of Alamo heroes were conducted in Milam square under the De Zavala Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic. Joseph Ryan delivered the afternoon address as Charles Merritt Barnes served as master of ceremonies and raised a Texas flag over the Ben Milam monument. Other speakers included Colonel F. F. Collins and J. A. Navarro with hundreds of students participating from public private Catholic and Protestant schools Sings patriotic songs and hymns marked the event.
The Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder issues in men and women and regulate childhood bladder troubles. Priced at $1.00 with mail order if not available in a local drugstore. Each small bottle provides two months of treatment and is said to nearly always result in a cure. Dr. BE W. Hall listed in St Louis Missouri and druggists carry the remedy.
President Atlee B Ayres of the Fiesta Association hosts a Mexican Dutch dinner Monday night to celebrate the completion and turnover of the new den at Thirteenth and Oak streets. Invites went out Thursday and acceptances came in from almost all guests. About seventy Chamber of Commerce workers and Fiesta members are invited to an informal gathering in the La Orange room.
All San Antonio improvement clubs will be permanently federated at a Crockett public school meeting. The group, formed Monday at the Gunter Hotel, aims to promote healthful sanitary conditions citywide while avoiding political activity. Representatives from all clubs will attend tonight's gathering.
Advertisement touts a laxative product Brom o Quinine with claims to cure a cold in one day and grip in two days. It urges customers to look for the signature of E. W. Grove and sells the remedy for 25 cents.
A promotional notice extols Ely's Cream Balm as instant relief for stuffed nose headaches and catarrh. It promises open air passages, reduced discharge, and faster morning recovery, urging readers to buy a small bottle at any drug store for immediate soothing effects.
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