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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1908
Page
7
Prices for vegetables fruits and miscellaneous items listed with numerous garbled spellings. Items include green corn green peas quart ash vege bunches cherries pears grapes bananas California peaches and more with per unit prices and bulk quantities.
Ely Professor and Mrs Weeley Peacock hosted a large Halloween party for Peacock Military Academy juniors. The lawn glowed with electric lights and jack o lanterns as apples bobbing and floating tea are described, a ghost dance and pumpkin tied fortune reveal initials for the coming year, with many young ladies named among attendees.
A new skin remedy called Polasm is being sold in Bexar Burns Wagner's and other drug stores. Advertisements claim it treats pimples blackheads blotches red nose acne herpes and minor skin troubles with quick relief and healing. An offer of free experimental samples is extended by Emergency Laboratories at 33 West Twenty Fifth Street New York City.
A crowded agenda of social and civic events fills the page. The Swastika Gard Club hosts a 2:30 pm gathering at 901 River Avenue with many members named. The Alamo Mission Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic meets 3 pm at 212 East Nueva Street. Milam School Mothers Club reports an active session with educational amendments endorsed and officers elected. The Two clubs, Milam and Phoenix, plan upcoming meetings and programs featuring local study groups and Shakespeare readings.
A Wednesday 3 o'clock meet of the Men's Club in the Woman's Club rooms and a Thursday 10 o'clock Mothers' Club committee session invite city schools with no mothers' clubs to observe and form new branches. A $5.56 hats display in the Emporium window and a Saturday surprise party for Mr. Fred Schomany featured dancing and refreshments with many attendees listed.
The wedding of Fred Z. Vollmer and Miss Cle Whate is announced to occur at the bride’s home 118 Elm street on November 10. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wrase, and Vollmer is a noted electrician in the city. Meanwhile Emporium Millinery Co advertises new hat styles at 5.50. Mrs. Flowers of Uvalde, staying at the Angelus Hotel, is convalescing.
A fragment lists recipes and instructions for desserts and savory dishes. Instructions cover rhubarb desserts, coffee cake with raisin sponge, Carolina Corn Meat Rolls, tomato butter, mutton rolls, and a sandwich with olive, tomato, and caviar. It includes ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, lard, eggs, milk, and spices, with varied mixing, rolling, and baking steps. The text shows archaic measurements and typographical errors typical of an historical cookbook snippet.
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