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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1915
Page
6
In a lively city scene a girl on Quincy Street wins a box of Mary Garden Chocolates daily as names from the directory are printed in The Light want ads. The Stono and Booky discuss picking up an order at Wagner's Drug Store, hoping their names appear.
City of San Antonio leads a beautification effort for the Carnegie Library with plans to plant four large urns of ferns and evergreens at entrances and interior decor uses four palmettos and cuttings from numerous donors including Mrs. Roxsom and Miss Gallagher. The Texas State Library Association convention boosted fern and palm decorations across the library, and librarian Miss Elizabeth West aims to make the display permanent. Also notice: Fort Sam Houston invites sealed bids by November 5 1915 for a corrugated steel storehouse construction.
Ben Hur Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine plans a Liberty Bell Ceremonial in San Antonio with full dress attire and an escort of honor. A parade along St Mary’s Street precedes a 2:20 PM business session, followed by a banquet at St Anthony Hotel and a Shrine ball at Scottish Rite cathedral. Nearby events include a Houston trip and Austin ceremony, with officer elections set for December 10.
On Saturday night in a block of North Pine Street, thieves raided three chicken coops. Victim ER. Hy Fried rich offered a $60 reward for the culprits. Nine black Orpington pullets were found killed the next morning, with heads left at the coop. Coops of GF. Bickel and Z. B. Smith also lost birds. A separate note mentions a gipsy camp near Pleasanton Road shifting after a shooting and vagrancy arrests.
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