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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1908
Page
6
A newspaper blurb promotes Ivory Soap as mild pure and free from free alkali suitable for cleaning cut glass furniture pianos oil paint curtains rigs and other articles where ordinary soaps risk damage. It emphasizes a hundred uses where common soaps fail.
T P Green and wife of Gregory arrive and register at the Menger. C Robertson of Mexico City, Abe Goodman of Luling, WN Ragley of Ragley, and Percy Morris of Louisville Nashville railroad guests at the Menger or nearby hotels. John D Armingham of Houston, Joe Kerr, Lt A Johnson, N R Powell, Juan Gil of Mondosex Mexico, Henry M Fuller of New Braunfels, C Chapman and wife of Suther Sand Springs stay at Elite Southern or related hotels.
Advertises Blackburn’s Custom Pillly a purgative praised as meritorious for all ages. Claims past purges were harsh and costly and touts low price options. Also promotes Perlin Masquerade Ball at Alamo Lodge Xa Aes Mony Hall on March 17 with prizes for costumes and an Auto event.
Miss Frances Steiner hosted a refined card party for the Twelfth Night club on Saturday evening with guests including Misses Steiner new and Nina Richardson. Prizes went to Miss Grace Moore for first quiz and Miss Julia Richardson for embroidery consolation as Mrs. J. W. Tahais tro and Mrs. George L. Rane assisted.
A social gathering hosted by Mrs J G Newton featured Luncheon members as guests with a display of Japanese china and plum blossom decor. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Ernest Brown Miss Winter Mount Miss Elizabet Houston and many others from Chicago Milwaukee and New York.
March notes from Victoria Texas detail Mrs Peticclas guests, Mrs Hamilton returning to Cuero, and club meetings led by Mrs Greer. Reports cover a Bear Club gathering, Cleopatra play reception, and the Martled Ladies social at Gen Dlestach’s home. A window dedication for Father Ryan and GI D.G. ceremonies are announced with invitations to members.
A fragment describes a striped material outfit for the average young woman, detailing a two-piece dress with a separate coat and jacket. The skirt is simple with a wide band of striped material and the jacket features velvet decoration, while the wrap mismatches in shade for a striking, unconventional look.
A nostalgic, fragmented guidance piece extols refined fashion and health routines for women. It urges courtesy, culture, and beauty practices, praising high-class tastes, modest dress, and self-care, while warning against coarse behavior and cheap cosmetics.
The text outlines a liquid preparation with four hundred grams of simple syrup ten grains of meta phosphate of lime ten grams of tincture of fennel ten grams of extract of sulega. It prescribes two soupspoonsful in water before each meal and mentions a cold bath each morning with a large sponge to bathe the neck and chest as aids to development.
Teris Mirkin lost to Jack Blackburn in a fast National Athletic Club relay heat on March 46 in Philadelphia. Blackburn forged a late lead in the final rounds to secure the win before a crowded crowd.
A mythic tale recounts Vulcan shaping the world and then forming a woman from elements drawn from nature. The assembled imagery includes the moon, plants, birds, animals, weather, and other forces, presented as the origin of woman before she is given to man.
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