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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1912
Page
28
A 1900s style health note advises women to treat elbows like the face. It prescribes nightly grape fruit halves for bleaching, daily scrubs with soap or peroxide, and gradual smoothing with pumice or oils. It also mentions soothing massage and medical consultation if issues persist.
Rose Pastor Phelps-Stokes told a charity society in Philadelphia a country-week story. She described gathering six country-weekers beneath an old apple tree and reading from a book titled Our Feathered Friends, asking the children to name the feathered friends.
A compilation of multiple retail addresses and vendors including grocers and druggists. Notable entries include A. Black at 801 Fredericksburg Road, Monarch Grocery Co at Flores and Mistletoe, Palace Candy Co, George Keene Druggist at Military Plaza, and Laurel Heights Cash Grocery at 217 McCullough Avenue.
The piece details Greek volunteers abroad growing mustaches to avoid contempt and gain fighting status, the rush back to Greece amid war rumors, rising passage costs, and volunteers funding their own travel. It notes San Antonio Greeks eagerly awaiting front news and sharing tales of Adrianople and a fish myth about Turks.
Herbert Godfrey, Crystal Palace conductor, writes to the London Express explaining rag-time. He defines its essence as anticipation of chief notes by about a beat or partial beat, creating ties and depriving a tune of fresh onbeat notes. He notes rag-time’s restlessness, its relation to syncopation, and its link to American dance trends.
Washington reports progress in blueberry domestication as Frederick C. Colville at the bureau of plant industry grew a berry eleven sixteenths of an inch in diameter at multiple experiment stations. The larger berry could cut picker costs since two thirds of berry price now goes to hand harvesting. Blueberry pies have grown in popularity in recent years.
Paris concert series resume with fragments from Lee Brynes and Marie M leine and Esclarmonde pieces. Beethovens C minor symphony conducted by Chevillard closes the program, noted for its precise timings and orchestral insight.
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