School Auditorium Meeting Sets Committee Roles
Night session in the school auditorium will name committees for the af fair. A trophy for the student with highest honors will be decided at the meeting.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1912
Page
22
Local Notices Mention Open Park and Free Band Concerts
Yellow taxicabs advertise calls and phone number 234 while urging families to visit the newly opened park for free band concerts. A soprano soloist headlines the event and reads list includes a touching family death notice for Isaac N. Cunningham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exposition Park
Leap Year Ball by Vineta Lodge in Hermann Hall
A Leap Year Ball hosted by Vineta Lodge No 15 O D H at Hermann Sons hall 228 Garden street drew attendees on Saturday May 11 with tickets at 25 cents. Rain interrupted events after Cinco de Mayo celebrations at Exposition Park ended last night and fireworks were canceled. Many speeches occurred with no politics discussed. The three days of events were praised as one of the most elaborate Mexican celebrations in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vineta Lodge No
Hermann Sons Hall
Garden Street
Exposition Park
San Antonio
Alamo Meat Market Reopens After Short Closure
Local brief notes: Alamo Meat Market at 227 South Alamo has reopened after a two month shutdown. Mrs R A McGowan fined $10 in police court by Judge Buckley for reckless driving related to a April 26 collision at Flores Street and Military Plaza. complainant H B Smith unable to attend. Also: dance at Muths Garden May 8. Cyclone Sermon by Rev John B Green at Carson and Pine tonight with youth and seniors sermons tomorrow and Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. McGowan
Buckley
H. B. Smith
Flores Street
Military Plaza
Smith
John EB. Green
Big Tent
Carson
Pine Streets
Green
Orpheum and Plaza Bills Highlight City Theater Week
The Orpheum presents a San Antonian written drama by J Frank Davis with new actors and a bankers convention affecting matinee days. The Plaza offers Westony the vaudeville pianist, Moore stage acts, Trixie Oliver, De Moine farce, Archer and Carr songs, and various specialty acts with women’s matinees and a school children’s matinee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Plaza
Plaza Theater
Vilmos Westony
Alexander
Westony
Wagner
San Antonians
Moore
Stage Door Johnnies
Archer
Carr
Lynch and
ZeHar
Mosher
Hayes and Mosher
Maria Florence
Plazascope
Dahlmann Wins Omaha Mayoral Primary for Third Term
Jas C Dahlmann mayor of Omaha Nebraska wins a decisive primary for a third term and credits Foley Kidney Pills with relief from kidney trouble. The ad style note urges others with backache rheumatism or bladder issues to try the pills for quick relief via Edwards King Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. McKeen
Cleveland &J
Wichita
Kansas
Foley
Edwards King Drug Co
Jas. C. Dahlmann
Omaha
Neb
Dahlmann
County Board of Equalization Schedules May Meeting in 1912
The Honorable County Commissioners' Court of Bexar County will convene as a Board of Equalization on the second Monday in May 1912, the 13th, to inspect and correct tax assessment lists. County Clerk Franke R. Newton notes the official seal and date in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Equalization
County Commissioners’ Court
Bexar County
Texas
San Antonio
A. D
Obituary notices for Sallie A. Gilbert and Fannie Singer
Sallie A. Gilbert 63 of Schley avenue died last night native of Louisiana has one son and relatives there. body to Sha vano Tex with Sloan Hagg for burial. Fannie Singer 43 died this morning at Brackenridge avenue came from Marlin for treatment. funeral plans awaiting relatives' arrival from Marlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert
Sallie A. Gilbert
Schley Avenue
Louisiana
Sloan & Hagg Undertaking Company
Shavano
Tex
Singer
Fannie Singer
Brackenridge Avenue
Marlin
Taxi Bump Reigns as Boston Dance Craze
The Boston Post notes the Taxi Bump has supplanted the Turkey Trot and Worm Wiggle as the popular dance, pitched by Boston chauffeurs as sponsors. The new step involves sliding twice turning twice skidding and a long run until fuel ends or a collision. The piece compares it to past novelty dances, likening attention to the Mortuary Hug from a New York pharmaceutical ball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Boston
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joske
Joske’s
Arpheu
Orpheum
J. Frank Davis
Count Vilmos Westony
Grand Opera House
Sarah Bernhardt
W. C. Hirzel
Senn
Ste
Chapplain Mills
Fort Sam Houston
W. J. Petrie
St. Paul’s Church
George W. Harris
Prinz’s Hall
Blanco Road
Dixie Social Club
S. Flores St
E. W. Hollings
Wilsow Street
William Edenborn
Torras
San Antonio Humane Society
George L. McCauley
Fred Davison
Hicks
Bexar County Humane Society
Mackay Building
E. M Collins
St. Mary's College Alumni Association
Electric Badd Park
Texas Deague
Waco
SAN Antonio Bronghos
Morris Block & Co
East Houston Street
Foulard
Copenhagen
San Antonio E
Joske’s New
T. J. Cunningham
W. F. Cunningham
Kentucky
Nashville
Drs
Garring & Hatcher
Osteopaths
Gunter Building
Baldwin
Gunter
Dance Owl’s Hall
Ladies’ Nest
Alamo
South Alamo
Muth’s Garden
Staacke Bros
San
Houston Street
Wright Brog
Franke R. Newton
Big Crockery Store
China
Newton, Weller & Wagner CO
Commerce St
San Antonio Loan& Trust Gs
Commerce Street
Geo. W. Brackenridge
Leroy G. Denman
Edwin Chamberlain
M. E. Brackenridge
Ford Herff
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