Peace appeals spread among Mexicans in San Antonio
Expatriated Mexicans in San Antonio seek rules and services from Consul Beltran as American troop entry into Mexico looms. A reformist manifesto is planned urging caution. Laredo editorials score Villa and urge constitutionalist restraint and national unity. Broncho Bob quip closes the clip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Villa
San Antonio
Carranzista
Huertistas
Vasquistas
Porfiristas
Revistas
Cientificos
T. R. Beltran
Carranza
Beltran
Senor Botella
Nuevo Leon
Huerta
Senor Robelo
Texas
United States
Queretaro
la Prensa
la Revista Mexicana
Blood Purifier S S S Promises Rheumatism Relief
An old advertisement touts S S S blood purifier as a cure for rheumatism claiming it renews the life blood and stimulates circulation to expel germs and impurities. It warns against nostrums and urges sending for a booklet or contacting Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, urging immediate treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S
Sciatia
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Renewed collection of suits dresses and coats at 24 75
A renewed collection offers suits in serge gabardine wool poplin and more, dresses in taffeta satin Georgette and Georgette blends, and coats in short loose styles. Prices are set at 24 75, presenting exceptional value for the discerning woman. Third Floor.
Women Footwear and Silk Accessories Promotion
A catalogue item listing women’s white boots at 5.85 dollars and novelty Japanese silks at 5 dollars each with springy bird prints. Also moire silk on first floor with Bakst styled lining, antique German silver frames at 6.95, Ramage mesh designs, and washable satin camisoles at 98 cents on third floor.
Leather Collar and Cuff Sets and Embroidered Options
First floor displays offer collar and cuff sets in leather or fabrics. Prices range from 25 cents for embroidered organdy to 2 dollars for various two tone, colored, and satin edged Georgette sets. Also listed are white organdy collars, blue piped options, silver thread embroidery, and Pierrot dotted Georgette varieties with ribbon ties. Additional styles priced at 1.19, 1.95, 1.50, and 2 dollars.
Infants White Coats Special at Three Price Points
Three groups of infants coats in long and short styles crafted from fine white cashmere with embroidery and braid trim. Priced at $2.95 $3.95 and a hand-embroidered group at $4.95. Third floor.
Hats for Spring Shapes on Third Floor
Untrimmed hats priced at $2.50 feature wide variety including sailor styles and distinctive designs in white black gray and spring shades. Light trimming needed to become stylish and effective with many shapes and straws available in the display on the third floor.
March Sale of Home Furnishings Offers New Items
The sale features thirty six inch voile in white cream and ecru with double satin border at 19 cents per yard on the second floor. All linen double satin damask sixty two inches wide in several patterns priced at 1 1 50 and 2 per yard with napkins 6 50 and 7 50 per dozen. Extra size hemmed Marseilles spreads reduced to 2 59 from 3. Lengths 108 and 81 inches, made from sturdy sheeting, torn hemmed and ironed on the second floor.
Towels at $1 a Dozen Offered in Quality Huck
Classified shopper note offers 18x36 inch red striped red Huck towels at $1 per dozen. Quality described as excellent with good weight and hemmed. Local sale likely within a department or general store.
To Be Made Into Suits or Skirts for Spring and Summer
Woolen fabrics in black and white effects ready for tailoring into suits skirts or coats. Light-weight all wool suiting from 0.79 to 2.19 per yard across several widths. Washable white Golfine offered in three grades 0.50 0.75 and 1.00 per yard. Second floor.
Children and Misses Spring Hats Delicate straw designs
A charming display of spring hats for children and up to the flapper age. Leghorn Milans Panamas fancy straws and silks trimmed with roses garlands ribbons with poke mushroom and flap brim shapes. Prices from 1.95 and up on the first floor.
Crepe fashions show dainty, sheer quality and trim charm
In fabric described as good quality and sheer, crepe garments are praised for splendid wear. Designs are plainly made to highlight the material, with high and low collars, apron effects, fichu styles, and frilled fronts offering attractive trimming.
Water stop ends flow at big oil well in Alta Vista field
Raburn and Dingman report the Alta Vista field oil well ceased flowing between midnight and 7 AM due to suboil water breaking through a narrow stratum. Water acts as a cap, reducing production though the well remains valuable. Plans include pumping on the new well and building another derrick across the road on the Oppenheimer tract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raburn & Dingman
Alta Vista
B. L. Raburn
Oppenheimer Tract
Curran’s Flea Folly Wearing Down a Judge
Seumas McManus recalls John Philpot Curran in Ireland where fleas disrupt a night’s rest at a country hotel. Curran quips that sleep was impossible and the fleas would have dragged him to their lair if united instead of split by party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seumas McManus
John Philpot Curran
Ireland
Curran
Arrah
New York Tribune
Obituary for Burton Z Boughner Former Joske Brother Employee
Burton Z Boughner died at his Clarksburg West Virginia home last Thursday as reported in San Antonio He is survived by his widow Hilda and daughter Louise both of San Antonio his mother Ada and four brothers Wally Charles Dan and Lemuel and a sister also in Clarksburg Interment followed in Clarksburg West Virginia
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton Z. Boughner
Joske Brothers Company
Clarksburg
W. Va
San Antonio
Hilda Boughner
Louise Boughner
Ada Boughner
Wally
Charles
Dan
Lemuel Boughner
Mrs Petty Dies in Gibsland La Widow of C F Petty
Telegram to W A Petty from C F Petty reports the death of Mrs C F Petty in Gibsland Louisiana. Born Hat fie Reynolds daughter of Sherman Reynolds of Bastrop she will be buried in Bastrop with funeral set for Monday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Petty
Gibsland
W. A. Petty
Cannibalism Question Baffles Young Reader
A New York Post item features a child's misunderstanding about missionaries and cannibals. The scene shows a back‑and‑forth with a mother and child, touching on heaven and mission work in a humorous exchange.
Southwest Texas Doctors 10 Meet in San Antonio
The fourth semi annual meeting of the Southwest Texas District Medical Society will be held in San Antonio at the Bedell building on Tuesday and Wednesday. Delegates from Bexar Atascosa Comal Gonzales Guadalupe Karnes Kerr Kendall Gillespie Bandera La Salle Frio Medina Uvalde Edwards Val Verde Bee Cameron Hidalgo Jim Wells Kleberg Nueces San Patricio Webb counties attend. The event opens at 9 30 each day with sessions morning and afternoon and concludes with a banquet at the Menger Hotel.
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Southwest Texas District Medical Society
San Antonio
Bexar County Medical Society
Bedell
Bexar
Atascosa
Comal
Gonzales
Guadalupe
Karnes
Kerr
Kendall
Gillespie
Bandera
la Salle
Frio
Medina Uvalde
Edwards
Val Verde
Bee
Cameron
Hidalgo
Jim Wells
Kleberg
Nueces
San Patricio
Webb
Philip Cook
Brown
F. C. Walsh
Morning Dresses at Bargain Prices
A note on morning dresses offered in several styles priced from 1.25 to 2.95. The ad markets ginghams and lawns in attractive patterns, suited for porch, home or neighborhood wear and outings.
Elegant Silk Petticoats At Deep Sale Price
Wide full petticoats in Dresden printed taffeta Pussy Willow and plain taffeta move with new dress modes. Some feature three tier flounces scalloped and Van Dyke effects. Others show Dresden figured taffeta insertions and accordion pleating. Now $5.95 down from $7.50 to $12.50 on third floor.
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Dresden
Dainty Summer Dresses Fabrics On Sale
White and colored wash fabrics for dainty summer dresses now planned. Silk mixed Marquisettes 50c to $1, Voiles embroidered in colors, Pompadour Voiles 25c to 71c, Floral Figured Voices 1.50 range, Lorraine Tissue 2.50, Striped Suitings 1.50, White Normandy 20c, White Oxford 89c, Non-crushable Linen Suiting 85c, novelty white voices 35c. (Second Floor.)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorraine
Normandy
Silk yard wide fabrics offered at special price
All-Silk Yard-Wide Pongee priced at 1 per yard for suits skirts waists and dust coats. Heavy 36 inch silk offered at 1 per yard. Black silks in several finishes from 89 cents to 2 dollars per yard. Wash silks for sports costumes in white striped grounds 1 to 2 dollars per yard. Also yard-wide colored taffeta plains with various favorable spring and summer shades.
Vacation for Gerard Ambassador at Berlin
Word reaches from Berlin that American Ambassador James W. Gerard is authorized to leave his post for a vacation. He may travel to Switzerland after a skiing injury left him not fully recovered. State Department officials say the leave holds no political significance at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
James W. Gerard
Berlin
Switzerland
State Department
Gerard
Saturday Orange Day Festival at the Menger Hotel
The Festival of the Orange will be celebrated at the Menger Hotel next Saturday afternoon. John S. Mitchell of the Hollenbeck Hotel Los Angeles chairs the planning committee. The event features orange decorations, orange meals, a dansant, and special features. San Antonio celebration stories will be clipped for California hotels for publicity.
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Menger
John S. Mitchell
Hollenbeck
Los Angeles
California
San Antonio
San Antonio Plans First Observance of Holiday
A San Antonio official notes the city will observe a new holiday as a statewide and national celebration grows. The orange industry gains attention with an upcoming review in the Rio Grande Valley and a cross country tour aimed at winter tourists. California asks states to celebrate, while managers expect more travelers through San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande Valley
California
Edwin H. Lee
Menger
San Antonio
Doctors Contract Typhus While Abroad
Doctors Rusk and Kolitsky of the Rockefeller expedition to Mexico have contracted typhus and are being brought to Nuevo Laredo for quarantine. They and colleagues from Mount Sinai Hospital left January 27 for Aguascalientes armed with apparatus serum and typhus vaccine. Guinea pigs were used for scientific study.
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Laredo
Tex
Rusk
Kolitsky
New York
Rockefeller
Mexico
Nuevo Laredo
Carlos Rusk
Peter Kolitsky
George Baehr
Mount Sinai Hospital
Aguascalientes
Harry Plota
Bulgin
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el Progreso
Columbus
N. M
Wilson
Broncho Bob
Pete
Washington
I. S. S. Com
Coats
Cleopatra
Shepherd
Saul Woetson
Kayser
Labor
U.S
The
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Sheley-Loring Undertaking Co
Litte Madei
Heavn
Reix
New York Eying Post
Southwest Texas Doctors
District Medical Society
District Society
C. P. Yeager
L. J. Manhoff
Aransas Paes
W. A. King
W. N. Wardlaw
Corpus Christi
C. S. Venable
W. H. Hargis
J. A. McIntosh
George H. Moody
State Medical Association
Walter Walthall
Katy
L. B. Shepherd
Dallas
Southwestern
Chicago & Alton
Texas Passenger & Ticket Agents’ Association
G. E. Scott
St. Louis
M. M. Drake
Parsons
J. B. Frawley
Kansas City
Union Pacific
C. A. Brawner
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
Oxford
Messaline
Duchesse Satin
Faille
Peau de Soie
Taffeta
Charmeuse
Poplin
Menger Hotel
Rockefeller Institute
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