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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1915
Page
3
Household readers are urged to inspect food labels under the Pure Food Law which requires ingredients to be listed. High grade baking powders use cream of tartar from grapes, with Royal Baking Powder cited as top quality and healthful. Lower grades rely on alum or mineral acids, condemned by physicians. labels reveal contents such as cream of tartar, alum or phosphate.
Wika Marjorie Stinson, youngest licensed aviator, will exhibit at Seguin showcasing practical uses of aircraft for power, war, and mail service. The program includes a U S Post Office demonstration and a bomb dropping display, with flights from Fort Sam Houston to Seguin and a later leg toward the Statue of Liberty transcontinental flight plans.
The April issue of the Matin tenueigh school students magazine features a graduation banquet penning by Edith Symington. It includes student poems and stories and an editorial criticizing the public’s interest in monthly entertainment events hosted by local music societies in San Antonio.
Battery A Third Flatd Artillery leaves San Antonio in May for Starts Wisconsin to attend a training camp. The march to Chicago then to the destination covers about 260 miles by rail then road. The unit recently returned from Brownsville and will soon move toward Laredo before heading northeast.
Fragmentary birth notices list several families and dates in 1928. Names include Mr and Mrs Lopes at 208 South Laredo Street and Mr and Mrs Gonzotee with April 28. Another entry shows May 9 for a Bowen birth at 208 South Preen Street with partial names and misreadings.
Burial permits issued for Hilzabeth Tanner aged 44 and others in the Burleson area. Names include J. H. Rudish, Mey Burleson, North Olive, Euwerd Jackenn, and Albert Dowgin with varied ages and dates noted for May observances. Community officials list entries from local morgues and flighty transcriptions.
European War draws large crowds to Frisco Exposition with promises of free trips and fortune telling gimmicks. The San Antonio Light promotes a plan offering 30 to 100 certificates to win a free journey, urging readers to subscribe and send names to the Exposition Editor.
A string of thefts reported across San Antonio area Monday night and Tuesday morning. Burglars pried into EB Barry’s grocery at 501 South Flores and stole chewing gum, cigars, sardines, and salmon. WN. Tryer’s horse and buggy at Alamo Plaza were taken, and items from A. Goodwyn’s home on East Commerce Street were stolen Tuesday. Thieves also took 260 pounds of white view and fifteen gallons of oil from a new building in Alamo Heights. Police received descriptions and investigated sightings around the city.
An elderly woman identified as Mrs M Meyer was found unconscious with multiple wounds beside the streetcar tracks near Wyoming Street and taken to Santa Rosa Hospital. Police recovered a letter suggesting former Los Angeles residence and a card bearing the name Anna Weber. A purse held 87 in currency and a hammer was found nearby.
In Society notes for the day, numerous clubs and church groups arrange meetings and events. Daughters of the American Revolution, First Evan elical, Christ Episcopal and various women’s clubs host teas, musicales, and receptions at homes and churches. Prominent social hosts include Mesdames Woods, Weeman, Harner, Ayres, and Soolgsan. A wedding party and birthday tea highlight the week, with decorated interiors and formal entertainments for Mrs String Price Adams and General Punaton.
San Antonio area children respond to free travel tickets offer revealing strong navy knowledge. Winners of letter contest will attend Lyman Howe Travel Festival at the Grand Opera House, viewing warship photos and travel pictures as part of a civic education effort.
A scattered reading lists social gatherings at the homes of Mrs Howard and Miss Willa Saeger with reports on club meetings, anniversaries, and feasts. Also includes wedding announcements, upcoming officer inductions, and sale notices from Nichols Grocery with prices on staples and a birthday party for Weber siblings.
Deputies and sheriffs hunt a suspected organized gang after widespread thefts and horse losses across eastern and northern Bexar County, with stolen mounts, a buggy, and merchandise reported. Investigations span Selma to San Antonio as authorities pursue leads and check multiple county stores.
Fifteen hundred or more delegates gathered for the Master Bakers' Association of Texas meeting at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. John Gottlob of Galveston opened discussions on bread leakage and delivery economics as 100 delegates arrived amid train delays and auto travel.
Debach Houster and Henry Muerke of Austin discuss an accounting system for bakeries, while Wenrr Stude of Houston leads a general discussion on souvenirs gifts and parishings. Ed Goodman Dale ng Arthur's Dougherty Fort Worth and Joseph Schuepy Dal ag Senerah Alsuceton. The Turners dance night features Travis Ol musicians performing doubly enjoyable Tuesday evening.
A reader from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania signs as TB Carpenter, describing dramatic relief from rheumatic pains after sharing five bottles of Fotey Widney Pity. Though both in their seventies, they declare themselves cured and urge others to stop disturbing the owed remedy. The misspelled note lists backache swollen joints and sore muscles as relieved by the product.
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