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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1912
Page
9
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood tonic for debility and run down health. It claims improved color, appetite, energy, and vitality after the first dose and offers a free booklet and samples. Pills are sold by druggists or mailed from Schenectady, with prices listed.
Orpheum players wrap three more San Antonio performances ending Saturday night with J Frank Davis play. City awaits title unveiling chosen by newspaper men. High school students attend en masse. most seats sold. Act features singing, club swinging, operatic bits, and bicycle feats. Plazascope presents latest photo plays.
Two final days allow San Antonians to see Westong's music and Miss Champagne in a lively stage bill at the aza theater. Enlo oore's company performs a tabloid musical comedy with bright songs, dialogue, and dancing, sharing the spotlight with Westony and Archer and Carr.
Exposition Park hosts a large free fireworks show with set pieces and sky rockets. The program runs for several hours with no admission, aiming for good visibility for all. The new playgrounds and rides attract families as attendance grows and the dance hall offers prominent music and popular meals. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad promotes kidney health and clearer skin through blood purification.
Staacke Bros reports arrival of a carload of pony wagons traps and carts inviting customers to purchase and get ponies busy.
The closing session of the fifth district Texas Federation of Women's Clubs met in Gonzales with talks on social uplift and welfare work. Next district meeting will be in Taylor with Mrs. Robert Sheaf inviting attendees.
A vintage advertisement touts Lax Fos as a comprehensive tonic for liver stomach kidneys and bowels with a money back guarantee. It promises overall strength and insides health and urges readers to ask druggists for a second bottle after the first.
The San Antonio Automobile Club board met in President Frederick J. Fielding’s office to handle routine business. An audit of Secretary Pearson’s books will be conducted upon request. Payment of a sign post bill for county road posting was authorized and several new members were approved. Present were Frederick J. Fielding, W. H. Furlong Jr., W. J. Pearson, and EB.
First Church of Christ, Scientist in San Antonio announces a free lecture on Christian Science at Bee thoven hall next Sunday afternoon May 12 1912 at 4 oclock p m by Bliss Knapp member of the Mother Church board of lectureship Boston Mass The public is cordially invited. Top o the Town roof garden opens Saturday evening for summer season with telephone reservations Theo Artzts Orchestra appears at the hotel on first night.
The St Anthony hotel roof garden opens Saturday night in San Antonio with many locals expected. Workmen finished preparations and the venue will begin operation tomorrow night. The dining rooms downstairs will close earlier as the season brings new entertainment from the orchestra and summer innovations.
A field of about 100 golfers from several southern states including Louisiana Tennessee Georgia began 18 hole qualifying for the invitation tournament at the Country Club of Birmingham. The event runs through Saturday with a large dinner music finale.
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