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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
11
A matinee at Washer Bros. featured 165 exclusive gowns by Russian designers displayed to several thousand women. Gowns ranged from harem and pantaloon skirts to elegant evening styles with hand embroidery and painted motifs. Shadow coats, empire waists, and a variety of fabrics highlighted the most complete San Antonio exhibition of spring fashion.
A San Antonio resident, A. R. Heidrich of 701 Montana St., testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills gave prompt lasting relief for back and kidney pain nearly three years after first use. He notes others have spoken highly of the remedy as well. For sale by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
Mrs. M. B. Hutchins hosts at 3 PM to honor Miss Annette Schmitt and Miss Anna Bess Moore. Miss Ruth Kelso gives tea for Miss Roy Denman from 4 to 6 PM. Mrs. Will A. Morriss and Mrs. EB Jersig host luncheon at noon at the Woman's Club on Camden Street. Mrs. William Leah Martin receives at 8:30 PM in honor of the San Antonio Musical Club. Lt and Mrs Charles F Kerr of the Infantry post welcome guests from 8 to 11 PM in their quarters.
Mrs E P Jersig and Mrs Will A Morriss hosted a prettily arranged luncheon with a St Patrick motif featuring green and white decor and shamrock place cards. The guest list included club members and several guests while other items note informally hosted events for Miss Inez Foster and upcoming church auxiliary meetings and a cattlemen convention reception at the Menger hotel.
Mrs M B Hutchins entertained this afternoon at five for two season debutantes Miss Annette Schmitt and Miss Anna Bess Moore. St Patrick decorations and elaborate favors marked the event with hostesses Miss Lydia Moore Miss Elsie Schmitt Miss Elizabeth Kilgore and Miss Mildred Thomas assisting. The guest list included Mesdames W C Modie Lee Kilgore Frank Davis Hall P A Ivancich George Ranney H B Affleck etc along with many other ladies and Misses Schmitt Moore Shiner Schasse Mayer Cotton Mc Campbell Jones Stevens Sroufe Thomas Tyrasch and more.
A busy social afternoon features Miss Ruth Kelso and Miss Roy Denman at a Miss Kelso tea, with a St Patrick’s tea by Mrs Hayden Smith for the Ladies’ Aid of Central Christian church tomorrow. Mrs C A Baird hosts the High Five club gathering with St Patrick decor and visitors from Detroit Chicago and Tuscola. The Beacon Hill Mothers Club plans a March 17 Mexican supper for the piano fund, with committees named. A ceremony unites Miss Cecile Haas and Samuel Irving Miller of Galveston at the Haas home on Elmira Street, decorated in white and green with an arch of smilax, roses, palms and ferns as Mendelssohn’s Wedding March plays.
The mothers' club of Riverside Park school will host a tea at the home of Mrs. L. B. Rollins, corner of Whiting and Uvalde, Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. All school patrons and club members are invited.
The St Patrick s day party planned for tomorrow afternoon at the Y W C A has been abandoned due to moving.
The Stephen F Austin Mothers Club meets tomorrow at 8:30 PM in the school building. Miss Belle Dilgarde will address the group on playground work. Hostesses include Mrs Dinwiddie Holleman Breen Herff Hearne and Miss Breeding. Miss Breeding will entertain Travis Park Methodist church Young Ladies society from 3:30 to 6:00 PM with a St Patrick’s party assisted by several women.
Mrs. S G Newton presides over a Chamber of Commerce session with many attendees. Flower chariot chairmen were named for the out of town duchesses ride and arrangements for a French fete are under way as a key city attraction. A separate notice calls bids to furnish fuel lights water ice and supplies for the United States courthouse and post office in San Antonio for the 1911–1912 fiscal year with bidding due by April 6 1911.
Mrs Lease of Eaton Rapids Michigan credits MI-DNA and MI-ONA with relief and cure from long standing stomach illness. She details severe pains, digestion problems, and nervous weakness before using the products. The ad promises a money back guarantee and sells a large box for 50 cents at Bexar Drug and druggists.
Ten members of the American Film company travel to San Antonio to shoot wartime dramas with troops at Fort Sam Houston. The group stays at the St. Anthony for a week, then plans a Pacific coast trip before returning to Chicago. Kerrigan notes actors often feel self conscious before cameras but find film work brighter and safer than stage work in daylight.
Visiting bishops including Gallagher of Galveston Meer echaert of Oklahoma Allen of Mobile Vanderven of Louisiana bless students at St Marys parochial school. The group also included Father Feeney representing Dallas and Monsignors Lavelle Neissens among others.
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