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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1916
Page
6
A reader asks how to tell if baking powder contains cream of tartar or alternatives like alum or phosphate by checking the label. The note highlights ingredient labeling and common substitutions in baking powders.
Tonight at the Majestic vaudeville offers Hermine Shane headlining The Last of the Quakers after a famed Interstate circuit run. Douglas Fairbanks stars in His Picture in the Paper at the Grand as five other attractions, including motion pictures.
The ad touts Mother's Friend as a safe external remedy easing muscle pains nerves and maternal functions during expectancy. It claims long usage and offers a free copy of a book about motherhood from Bradfield Regulator Co. and invites readers to obtain a bottle from any druggist.
Woolf presents a five artist lineup with Nellie V Nichols singing and comedy. Fay and the Two Coolies headline a blackface minstrel number. The Crisps perform The Call of the Sixties with old and new songs. Karl Emmy’s terriers and Kartelli’s slack-wire act thrill. Douglas Fairbanks stars in His Picture in the Paper with a Griffith ensemble. Willie Collier appears in a Keystone comedy Better Late Than Never.
Guadalupe Sierra is jailed in Corpus Christi awaiting a $200 bond after an alleged rural area robbery last Friday. Federal authorities charge him with removing a parcel post package from a rural mailbox. He pleaded guilty at the examining trial.
Tuesday notes from the Society Calendar feature Automobile Club dancing class, Ne Peats Woman's Club picnic at Brackenridge Park, Tuesday Musical Auxiliary Chorus at 10 am with Mrs. Eli Hertzberg, and Ladies' Aid at Prospect Hill Christian Church at 2 pm. German Classics Reading Circle at 3 pm studies Goethe's Torquato Tasso. Mrs. Hamilton Hawkins hosts lunch at Carolina tea room with post matrons and visiting guests from New York and Paris.
An old home recipe for restoring natural hair color uses Sage Tea and Sulphur now sold as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound. A bottle costs about 50 cents and darkens hair evenly in a few applications without obvious telltales. It is a cosmetic, not a disease cure.
The Texas state fire insurance commission will run a temporary Paris office for about a week to help residents obtain data for new policies and rate setting. A. R. Andrews, secretary, led inspectors F. C. Bonham and T. G. Barrow to Paris to establish the site and assist claim data as officials assess a reported $10,000,000 property loss with about half insured.
Governor Ferguson announces the board of managers for the proposed state colony for the feeble minded near Austin. Appointees are Mrs. William Bacon of Greenville Churchill Bartlett of Marlin and Dr. Joe Gilbert of Austin with ex officio Prof. W F Doughty and Dr A Caswell Ellis. The act provides 100000 dollars with 50000 available this year and 50000 next year.
The board aims to outline the steps and proceed with establishing the colony, detailing the framework, governance, and initial settlement efforts to set the project in motion.
SEGUIN Texas March 28 The ongoing drought cripples farming as little rain since Christmas leaves soil dry and seed waiting for moisture. Domestic water shortage prompts farmers to haul from the Guad alpe river. Advertisements list rail travel options with limited service and fares.
Lawrence Stephenson aged 19 leaves Corpus Christi in a small wagon drawn by two horses bound for San Antonio. He will live a gypsy life on the road doing his own cooking washing and sleeping outdoors all to improve his health. The voyage begins March 28 in the local effort reported from Corpus Christi.
Proposals for draft and pack mules are to be received at Fort Sam Houston Office Depot Quartermaster until 11 am Central Time on April 6 1916 for furnishing 80 draft and 10 pack mules. The notice also mentions Grove's tonic and a travel listing to Eagle Pass with dates in April and a Southern Pacific reference.
W H Saltsman of Corpus Christi and Port Aransas aged 45 was drowned in Corpus Christi bay yesterday morning a note left in his room ascribed the act to ill health.
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