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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1912
Page
40
March sale offers exclusive drapery designs and colors with wide range of cretonnes chintzes madras scrims and marquisettes priced from 5c to 1.75 a yard plus 8 000 yards zephyr madras 86 in wide and 2 000 yards casement cloth. Rugs matting curtains rods and fixtures also featured with substantial reductions and free laying.
House furnishings start tomorrow with a record sale promised by Whittall's. A full line includes Whittall's Wiltons and other rugs at deep discounts, Potter's Linoleum, Bissell sweepers, cocoa mats, and table and couch covers with substantial reductions across all items.
Housekeepers and hotel staff find value in a towel department sale offering 20x40 inch cotton towels 100 dozen per style in white and red, Huck towels 18x36 and 22x44 inch linen blends at 15c each, a top selling 29x40 inch towel at 21c, and 22x44 inch Turkish bath towels at 21c. Orders emphasize heavy, absorbent, durable linen options and discounts.
Large selection of silks and taffeta pieces with hundreds of styles and colors. Prices range from 15 to 69 cents per yard with many fabrics including Pongee silks, Shantung, Baro ness corded silks and Egyptian tissues. Sizing notes and variety imply retail discount at bulk sale.
Exports of fruits and nuts from the United States rose to more than 29 million dollars in 1911, with January exports strong and a forecast that 1912 may surpass last year’s record. The report contrasts rising exports with slower import growth and details major product routes and sources for both imports and exports across apples, prunes, oranges, raisins, olives, figs, grapes, coconuts, lemons, and other commodities.
In Winsted Connecticut a late fall game in a grove by Highland Lake ended with the ace missing from a deck. A red squirrel, nesting in a pine, was found to have carried the ace to its nest, later retrieved by a boy who climbed the tree.
U S Examiner Charles Smith tests Jacob Braun a Jamaica resident applying for citizenship in the Supreme Court Long Island City. Justice Maddox notes with Roosevelt in the race the field is crowded, Braun likely to receive papers anyway.
Major Harley B. Ferguson oversees a plan to raise equipment and implement a new operation. He spends most of his time on site and is a native of North Carolina.
The New York Sun notes Emiliano Zapata, called both bandit and liberator, rose from confiscated land to lead a peasant revolt in Morelos. It traces his exile under Diaz, his alliance with Madero, and his ongoing private war against landowners and officials, arguing his rise reshaped southern Mexico’s politics.
Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz founded a women’s law school in Los Angeles with a registration for admission just begun. She has taught a class of women law students in her office for two years.
Thirteen churchwomen of Westminster Presbyterian in Atlantic City formed the planning committee for a Thirteen Social slated for May 18 to mark the church's thirteenth anniversary. A stroke felled Annie Miller, chairwoman, as the group prepared to depart. she died at home on Massachusetts Avenue. The event has been abandoned.
A traveler in the south meets an old enslaved man who reveals he never gained freedom after the war because he was already married, prompting a poignant remark on the meaning of emancipation.
Capudine claims to cure headaches caused by heat cold stomach troubles and nervousness. The liquid remedy is said to act immediately and ease colds gripp feverishness and nervous tension with prices 25 and 50 cents at drug stores.
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