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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1897
Page
5
Fancy bodices with bright plaids are paired with quiet skirts. A gray mousseline de soie bodice with black ribbon trim and mauve gray bolero is described. Narrow belts remain fashionable, with tips on belt materials and fastening. Veils, hats, and gloves are covered, stressing practicality and period style.
The article discusses green and purple hat trends, noting tasteful combinations for women. It highlights a tall green hat with a zigzag bow and black plume, violet clusters, and a green white satin straw hat with thistles and purple WMaca. It urges readers to trust well styled color pairings over flashy designer creations.
A readable fragment notes grotesque effects from high coloring in hats. It describes blending purple shades from lilac to violet to purplish red, creating down tipped hats that from a distance resemble a single large pansy blossom at the edge of its curled petal.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a vegetable tonic that tones stomach nerves and stimulates the liver and kidneys to purify blood. It claims appetite and digestion improvements and rates the product as the best blood purifier and nerve tonic, selling at one dollar per bottle at F Ralteyer & Son's drug store.
Joe Jackson, a colored porter for Gus Klampt's saloon in the Southert hotel, had his shirt burned by heat from an incandescent lamp after rain made it wet. The shirt caught fire and the lamp globe shattered, frightening him.
Frohsinn Singing association hosts a May fest on May 9 with a railway excursion. San Antonio and Gulf Shore line now reaches the oak grove. Refreshments amusements and music planned. Train departs Nolan Street depot at 3 a.m. returns by 6 p.m. Round trip fare 25 cents.
A concrete floor and cement work are to be finished ASAP in the battery room of the central fire alarm station in City Hall due to chemical leaks from the cell bath. The leaking substance is seeping onto the floor and through the second floor ceiling, threatening plaster.
Fragmented directory item lists multiple dentists with addresses across San Antonio. Names include Breeding and Colier, H M Hunter, G W Phillips, A Pagenstecher, Welsh and Smith, Cain and Graham, Love and Downie, J Foster, and others with partial street details. The OCR is incomplete and inconsistent.
A 19th century exhortation urges mothers to seek intelligent, gentle family dentists for children. It condemns ostentatious gold crowns, quack clinics, and self styled experts who overrate experience. Emphasizes early care, honesty, and individualized treatment over sensational advertising.
Cash price 1306 includes lot, east front property with 4 rooms, gallery, oil finish, hot water, full furnishings, carpets, garden, fruit trees, and livestock housing for horse, cow, and chickens. Over 100 chickens, vegetable garden, law books, and office furniture. Near courthouse and depot, quiet neighborhood, running water, newly furnished, likely rent around 15.60 monthly.
A scrambled OCR fragment lists baggage transfer notes and assorted ads. Items mention a broken window pane at a hall tower, prices for insect dust, mosquito stoppers, a 113 Avenue address, a baby death at 419 Monterey, inquests opened, and various local tradesmen including Ed Steves & Sons, J Dillwood, and Richtenpianzo dealers, all amid brief notices and street references.
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