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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1913

Page

10

Women’s clubs hold meetings in San Antonio venues

The San Antonio Musical Club plans its annual meeting at 3 pm tomorrow at the Travis Club. The B Minor Musical Club will meet at 3 30 pm tomorrow at 632 Porter Street. The Thursday Club of the YWCA formed yesterday for maids’ workers, with a small yet enthusiastic turnout and a call for host families to cooperate.

San Antonio Musical Club Travis Club B Minor Porter Street Young Woman's Christian Association

Camp Fire Girls Club Plans Weekly Holiday Meetings

The passage notes a Camp Fire Girls group intending to give the girls a holiday on Thursdays while organizing. The article mentions plans to form the club into a Camp Fire Band once sufficiently organized.

Camp Fire Proposed for New Class at YWCA

The Thursday Club plans to form a Camp Fire for girls in domestic service at the YWCA. Miss Rosalie Venable originated the idea, with Ruth Muir in charge of Camp Fire work. The club will designate Thursday afternoons as the “afternoon off” and invite all eligible girls to join.

Young Woman's Christian Association Rosalie Venable Courant Ruth Muir

Guaranty Title Business Declared Insurance Under State Law

The Texas Attorney General ruled that tithe guaranty companies that guarantee land titles operate as an insurance business. Such firms chartered for title guarantees must fall under the State Department of Insurance and Banking and follow applicable insurance laws. The ruling was delivered to Insurance Commissioner Gill in Austin.

Austin Tex Attorney General's Department State Department of Insurance and Banking Gill

Visit by Bohn Family to See Austins Before Germany Trip

Mr and Mrs F J Bohn and children plus Henry Bohn Jr of Austin visited their parents Mr and Mrs H Bohn last Sunday. They plan to leave Saturday for Germany.

F. J. Bohn Henry Bohn Jr Austin H. Bohn Germany

Ladies' Auxiliary to Meet at Railroad YMCA Social

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Railroad YMCA will hold its postponed social meeting at 8 o'clock this evening.

Ladies Ladies’ Auxiliary Railroad

Social Calendar Highlights Local Events Tonight

Miss Margaret Graham hosts a dancing party at the St Anthony from 8 to 11 p m. Powers School of Expression presents A Rose of Plymouth Town at 8 30 p m at the Royal Theater. Fort Sam Houston officers host a Friday night hop at the Post gymnasium. St Marys Hall junior and senior classes dance at 8 30 p m at Turner Hall.

Margaret Graham St. Anthony Powers School of Expression and Dramatic Art Plymouth Town Royal Theater Fort Sam Houston Post Gymnasium St. Mary's Hall Turner Hall

Charity Card Party Attracts San Antonio Society

Prominent social leaders plan a May 14 charity card party at the Gunter Hotel to benefit the Protestant Orphans Home. Guests may host a table all afternoon with no progressive games, playing five hundred or auction bridge for about thirty prizes on display from donors.

Gunter

Hot Springs Liver Buttons Promise Quick Health Boost

Purely promotional copy advertises Hot Springs Liver Buttons from Arkansas as a gentle remedy for constipation and liver cleansing. Claims include clearer eyes, less dizziness, more energy, better sleep, and improved mood after a few days. Product marketed by Hot Springs Reece Company with a 25 cent price and free sample offer.

Caromel Hot Springs Arkansas Hot Springs Reece Company

Resinol Ointment Relieves Severe Itching Case

Brooklyn resident Adolph Schoen describes persistent itching and skin eruption. After trying various remedies he used Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap, reporting relief and cure within a month. The advertisement promotes Resinol products as dermatologic aids prescribed for eighteen years and available through physicians and druggists.

Brooklyn Adolph Schoen Shipherd Avenue Resinol Baltimore

Five Hundred Club Hostess and Local Society Notes

Miss Celeste Philippi hosts the Tuesday Afternoon Five Hundred Club at her home on West Magnolia Avenue Beacon Hill. Guests include Misses Georgia, Nell, Gray, Katherine Farmer, Judith Joyce, Helen Gregory, Eliza beth Beeley, Ella Mae Bailey, Carrie Figh, Ida Rawls, Lena Michel, Lucille Smith, Eugenia Tanner and host Melitta Faust. Alamo Heights Methodist ChurchMusic program set for 8:15 tonight on Broadway featuring Alamo Heights Band Estudiantine and multiple soloists. Annie Jones to entertain Y W A at 3:30 tomorrow at Mrs Emmett Reagan’s Drexel avenue home. A card party for the Protestant Orphans Home is planned with a meeting tomorrow at 10 AM on the Gunter Hotel mezzanine.

Celeste Philippi Five Hundred” Club Georgiaigh Nell, Gray Katherine Farmer Judith Joyce Helen Gregory Elizabeth Beeley Ella Mae Bailey Carrie Figh Ida” Rawls Lena Michel Lucille Smith Eugenia Tanner Annie Jones First Baptist Church Emmett Reagan Drexel Avenue Orphans’ Home Gunter Hotel

Woman Thief Is 73 in New York Case

Ellen Mantell, a frail elderly woman with a 15 year prison record, was arraigned at police headquarters for picking pockets in a Sixth Avenue department store. She said she was ill and penniless and admitted temptation. The detective noted her age, nearly eighty.

New York Detective Bureau Police Headquarters Burns Ellen Mantell Sixth Avenue

Vaudeville Growth Highlighted at Plaza Theater

Amelia Bingham headlines the Plaza in Great Moments from Great Plays with a peak act style that omits filler and shows only the climax. Joseph Howard will follow next week as vaudeville evolves toward concise high impact performances. The Alaskan Siberian pictures at Grand Opera House attract large crowds with an educational lecture accompanying the film and tomorrow matinee offers half price to ladies and children. Tonight features amateur night with new local talent.

Amelia Bingham Plaza Theater Miss Bingham Joseph Howard The Plaza Mr. Howard Grand Opera House Arctics

Flowers of the Mind and the Beauty of Living

A meditation on cultivating inner beauty through nature art literature and memory. The speaker urges storing impressions of beauty visiting galleries reading about great lives and deeds to paint a hopeful background in life and mind.

Lece Jonich

Mind's idle thoughts shape a beauty within

A meditation on inner beauty and mental cultivation. The text suggests that by valuing the beauty of the mind, one will attract beauty from the world, bringing joy to the heart and transforming the earth into a heaven.

Earth

Old-Time Breakfast Pork Sausage and Local Medical Crisis

An advertisement for one pound boxes of breakfast pork sausage from Union Meat Company appears beside a dramatic report on Dr John W Poole of Sheepshead Bay who, during a gangrene operation, was wounded and rushed to Dr A H Bogart for life saving aid. The piece notes Poole’s peril and rapid transport to Bogart’s home in Brooklyn.

Union Meat Company New York John W. Poole Brooklyn A. H. Bogart Poole Methodist Episcopal Hospital Voorhees Avenue East Thirteenth Street Sheepshead Bay Dr. Poole Dr. Bogart Seventh Avenue

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