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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1916
Page
6
Lentz, Tailor at 312 W. Commerce advertises custom suits crafted for each customer rather than for stock. The copy emphasizes tailored fit and personal service from The Home Tailor.
A 1920s style exhortation says women can save five dollars an hour by dry cleaning with gasoline and Solvite. It instructs mixing two ounces of Solvite with two gallons of gasoline, then cleaning items outdoors away from fire as gasoline fumes are flammable. It lists fabrics and garments that can be cleaned and notes no pressing is needed.
Washington officials and carmen union members ratified an arbitration agreement after a two day street car strike crippled the city. About 1500 carmen attended a mass meeting on March 7 to approve the deal with company representatives. The plan centers on rebuilding service with a 60 cent fare for Sutherland Springs round trip Sundays at 7:55 am by Southern Pacific.
Mrs. W H Rhoades of Asheville writes that after years of monthly abdominal and back pains she found relief with Cardui and Black-Draught. She reports steady improvement over four years, advises sick neighbors to use Cardui, and notes lasting health since starting the regimen. Cardui described as the woman’s tonic sold by druggists.
Wagner Drug Store offers Mi-o-na with a money back guarantee if it does not relieve symptoms of dyspepsia indigestion and related ailments. The ad touts hundreds of boxes sold with no complaints and urges sufferers to try the remedy at fifty cents per box with store promise to refund if ineffective.
A Catholic Women’s Educational League gathering was held at 3 20 PM at the Catholic Women’s Club. The brief notice records the meeting time and location with no further details.
The South Side Community Center meets at Mrs. Morris home to discuss affiliating with the City Federation of Clubs. German Literary Club officers are elected. A Grand Opera House Cabaret Scene features many participants. Numerous social gatherings and hostesses are listed for charity and club activities.
A promotional piece urges drinking a glass of real hot water with limestone phosphate each morning on an empty stomach. It claims this clears stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels of waste, toxins, and sour bile, improves appetite, and brightens the complexion, asserting quick health benefits and low cost.
Beaumont social scene features Mrs. G B Smith hosting guests for a visit by Mrs. Carrie Louise Dunning of New York before her Houston trip. The Woman's Club hosts a luncheon at the Carolina toga room honoring Dunning with hyacinth and narcissus blooms. City Federation marks Miss Eleanor Brackenridge eightieth birthday with a grand Gunter ballroom celebration featuring toasts, a violet cake, and floral arrangements.
Advertises Wednesday specials on ham bacon and laundry soap. Beat hams 19c per pound, picnic hams 14 a half. breakfast bacon 20c per pound. laundry soap 12 bars for 25c cash. Brand claims to be the lowest price in town. Nichols Gro Co on 207 Avenue Cr. 61.
Walter Chapman sues Corpus Christi in district court seeking 10000 dollars for losses from illness in his family and depreciation of property value. He claims fumes from municipal sewer department septic tanks near his home caused the damages.
Amusements feature Henry W Savage presents the dramatic spectacle Everywoman at the Grand Opera House starting Wednesday with a matinee. Based on the morality play Everyman, the production surveys women's frailties and paths to happiness, with music by Dr George Whitefield Chadwick and an entire symphony orchestra accompanying the score.
Operetta Sari by Henry W. Savage set for Friday Saturday and Sunday at the Grand Opera House with a Saturday matinee. Music by Emmrich Kalman, book by C C S Cushing and E P Heath. A simple human plot with songs and Hungarian dance, noted gowns, and strong acting. Seats now selling.
The Birth of a Nation gains worldwide reach beyond the United States as Canadian audiences embrace the spectacle. Producers plan international tours with companies already opening in England and others en route to Australia, South Africa, Cuba and South America.
Miss Madge Caldwell stars at the Majestic in A Telephone Tangle. The primadona of light operas, Caldwell previously impressed in The Chocolate Soldier with the popular My Hero ballad. In this show she has one song and portrays the telephone operator who disrupts the plot.
A persuasive ad style note claims thin people can gain weight by using Sargol tablets. It asserts the body’s digestion is faulty and promises 5 to 8 pounds of lasting fat in two weeks, with gains reported from 10 to 25 pounds monthly by users. The tablets are described as a blend of six assimilative elements sold for weight gain with a money back guarantee.
A detailed lineup features Reine Davies with exclusive songs, Joe Whitehead, Dan Sherman & Co., Bud Fagg and Julia White, the Three Chums, and the Durmani Trio plus Crane Wilbur in A Law Unto Himself. Mary Fuller stars in Madam Cubist, a two reel Universal feature with a Paris inspired wardrobe. Tonight at 8:45, 100 souvenir spoons with Ethel Clayton image given to ladies.
President Wilson's picks David R. Francis of Missouri and Joseph H. Shea of Indiana were confirmed by the Senate. Francis will be ambassador to Russia, succeeding George T. Marye, whose health declined amid the war era duties. Shea becomes ambassador to Chile as the Chile post opens after Marye’s departure.
Lieutenant Commander Harry G. Black of Galveston, commander of the Texas naval militia, received Navy Department permission to cruise on the destroyers Flusser and Reid in southern waters to gain necessary experience, Adjutant General Henry Hutchings reported.
District Judge F G Chambliss travels to Pearsall to hold district court for J F Mullally in the Forty Ninth District. Mullally sits in Beeville while Governor Ferguson appoints him to hear the local option contest filed by four saloonmen challenging the victory of the prohibition position.
Paris officials vote 4,700,000 francs to erect hospital grounds huts for open air treatment of 2500 tubercular soldiers. city council acts to expand care amid ongoing TB challenges in the capital.
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