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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1912
Page
8
Miss Elsie Janis discusses fashion and body image ahead of The Slim Princess at the Grand. She notes high waistlines and clingy gowns to emphasize slenderness, rejects petticoats, and says she stays slim through riding, swimming, dancing, and skating.
An advertisement urging readers to take Hood's Sarsaparilla to cleanse the system and build up health, claiming the medicine supports a successful purification.
Dr. A. R. Beal operates a lungs nose and throat clinic located in the 308 Gunter building. The notice presents a medical professional offering ENT care in a downtown clinic setting.
Mrs Clifton Lane and Mrs J A Davies host a box party at the Orpheum for Miss Bessie Beck. Miss Ruth Kelso hosts a box party for Miss Joyce Stanfield at the Orpheum. Twentieth Century club, Department of philanthropy, and Carnegie library art club planning meetings are set for the Maverick hotel club house and Carnegie library. Mrs Winchester Kelso also hosts an Orpheum box party this afternoon.
San Antonio youths of the Delphian club will launch the club quarters at the Gunter hotel with a Friday night luncheon and card party. An elaborate program is planned with pennant decorations and club colors. chaperones will be the members' parents and a punch bowl will feature a cozy corner.
Mrs J A Davies and Mrs Clifton Lane hosted an afternoon reception at the Orpheum theatre in honor of Miss Bessie Beck with guests Muriel and Adele King Agnes Schasse and Mrs M H Erskin. The Missionary society of McKinley Avenue Church meets tomorrow at 4 pm. The Woman's Christian Temperance union holds a 3 pm business session at Trinity Methodist Church tomorrow.
Miss Maud Romine received a delightful surprise party hosted by Mr and Mrs C E Williams last evening. Refreshments were served to a group including Maud Romine and a long list of friends and neighbors.
See what the Thomas B. Jeffery Company says about their Rambler cross country model in this week’s Saturday Evening Post.
The Gunter serves a business men’s lunch from 12 to 2 30 with a 50 cent price. Elsie Janis leads the original 80 member New York company in The Slim Princess at the Grand tonight. Carriages at 10 45.
The moon dance joins a long line of sensational dances popular in Europe and the United States. Princess Ghika formerly Miss Singer daughter of Charles Singer of Paris sponsors the act and conducted the Cannes Revue of Cannes where it debuted.
Miss M. B. Donoho notes the Free Clinic gathering at 10 30 Thursday morning in International club rooms. The San Antonio Kindergarten association board reported progress at the Kindergarten Training school with Miss Belle Woodson praising student teachers. Directors D A Leary C Schasse and L Miller were elected to fill vacancies. The Phoenix club plans Trish Day with Irish music and readings in an open session. The Central Woman's Christian Temperance Union meets at Trinity Methodist church at 3 30 Thursday. The Ruiz School Mothers club hosts a library fundraiser at the Methodist chapel West End Thursday afternoon at 3 30.
The Shakespeare club will meet in regular session Thursday afternoon at the home of the Misses Baskin with Mrs. J. L. Landrum as leader. The Queen's Daughters of St. Mary's church elect officers Thursday at 3 30 in St. Mary's auditorium. all members urged to attend.
The Fannin School Mothers' club will hold its postponed meeting Friday afternoon at the school with Dr. Frederick Hadra as speaker on the value of an education. The Council of Jewish Women met in regular session yesterday at the club house followed by a social hour hosted by Mrs. Adolph Cohen and others. A Gen D S, Stanley Circle, G A R, also met yesterday afternoon, conducting routine business.
A Free Clinic will hold a meeting at 10 30 in the International club rooms tomorrow morning. The gathering aims to discuss clinic plans and community health services.
An old Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic advert promotes malaria prevention and strengthening the system for both adults and children, priced at 60 cents.
District Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of Chicago addressed the Commercial club here denouncing United States senators who voted for the Payne-Aldrich bill during a recall appeal. The remarks tied the bill to broader political questions and urged accountability.
Lillian Russell praises foot care and warns sore feet cause nervous issues and facial lines. She endorses Calocide compound for soaking to relieve corns calluses bunions and sweaty feet with instant relief. A twenty five cent box is sold by druggists and wholesalers. not a patent medicine.
Dr Charles A R Campbell is listed as a bacteriologist and microscopist specializing in typhoid and malarial fevers. The notice appears in an advertisement for Dreiss' drug store with contact numbers for calling a taxi and two phone lines.
Local stationery and printing outfit runs at 112 West Commerce Street under owner Chris. G Dulling. The ad promises savings and offers phone contact 3338 for customers seeking lower prices.
Judge Landis urged using the initiative referendum and recall as remedies for government conditions. He said conditions demand a remedy to achieve the aims these methods target, whether one believes in them or not.
An advertisement promotes Vita Nuevo Mineral Water as a universal cure claiming it contains all 12 tissue salts and 2890 grains per gallon. It asserts dissolving deposits and toxins, restoring tissue, nervous system harmony, and curing diseases from rheumatism to diabetes and eczema. The notice lists address 421 Avenue E San Antonio Texas and a new phone number.
Officials of the Railway Mail Clerks Association visit San Antonio to engage with members as R L Hughes of St Louis and W A Terrell of Fort Worth tour the south to strengthen ties. At a federal building meeting local clerks elect W L Smith president A S Grigsby vice president M W Weyman recording secretary Edward E Pigott corresponding secretary.
Wolff and Marx hosts a spring opening attracting a large, fashionable crowd despite cold weather. Windows feature white lingerie displays with dresses, lace, gloves, and accessories, including hand embroidered gowns and evening wear. Fashion emphasizes deep colors, oriental tones, and coordinated hats with light dresses.
Commissioner Patrick A. Whitney directs a teacher of instrumental music to work with youthful offenders at the city reformatory on Hart's Island. Aldermen endorse the plan as a spring program offering convicts an optional course of eighty music lessons.
Denver suffragists plan a bold bid featuring Marjorie Hamilton, famed fat reducing expert and calendar girl. They aim to elevate her as a candidate on a beauty platform with the slogan Fat Vanishes Pound a Day. Hamilton says she is busy running her business and would need a political role if offered.
The piece describes wide shepherdess hats with drooping brims and delicate pink and blue trimming plus small flower knots. It highlights a striking hat with a wide brim and rim crown in parrot green silk, pink flowers, and lace quilling finish.
Gonzales Texas March 13 George Ewing a business man announces his candidacy for mayor of Gonzales This announcement sparks a heated campaign as a second contender W L Gordian had announced weeks earlier for the same office.
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