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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1913
Page
7
The Rotary Club minstrel show rehearsals begin at 7 30 tonight at the Gunter Hotel with solo end men and bal lad singers assigned. Max Blum directs with new ideas and a 13 verse overture. A $10 cash prize for best original local end man joke is offered, with jokes due next Friday.
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, harmless cure for indigestion gas and sour stomach. It claims dramatic relief within minutes, offers a money back guarantee, and urges keeping the remedy at home for day or night upset stomachs.
A San Marcos based private detective school is pursuing deserters from the navy. A letter to Navy recruiter C. H. Miller asks for photos of escaped sailors, with a $50 reward cited for capture. Miller forwards the inquiry to Galveston. The new force aims to extend its reach into San Antonio.
Local post offices prepare for the largest postal business ever as circulars go out nationwide. The note urges early mailing of Christmas parcels, secure wrapping, and clear addressing to ensure smooth handling.
The fourth degree assembly of the Knights of Columbus in San Antonio plans a Thanksgiving banquet at the Gunter Hotel on Wednesday night. About 130 guests are to be entertained with Judge M. E. Buckley as toastmaster. Key figures include Joseph A. O'Reilly of Austin as master of the southern province and state and local officers among the speakers.
A four day campaign to boost Y M C A membership from 875 to 1500 was launched at the third annual banquet. Generals of the opposing Suffragette and Anti camps spoke, with State Secretary L A Coulter presiding and R C Jones as toastmaster. The event featured readings and songs and a goal to increase involvement through daily luncheon meetings and member recruitment.
An old fashioned sales pitch touts St Jacobs Oil as a harmless local remedy for rheumatism. It claims to ease pain in joints muscles and bones by applying to the tender area with rapid relief from sciatica lumbago back ache neuralgia and swelling. A small trial bottle is recommended from any drug store with immediate effect.
At an adjourned Texas regents meeting President Mezes report showed student registration up 156 from last year. Mrs. T. L. Brinkley was elected tutor, Ollison Cring as engineering instructor, H. W. Harper named dean of the graduate department. A $4000 DAR scholarship was approved, a new temporary lecture hall building authorized to ease crowding.
Stormy weather and construction delays push the cornerstone ceremony for the YWCA building to Wednesday at four. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas will conduct, with possible replacement officials if the grand master is absent. Rev Arthur G Jones missing shifts invocation. program adjusted accordingly.
Paul Scholz beat J. Alex Sloan in two straight games at the YMCA yesterday afternoon by scores of 11-2 and 11-0. Sloan praised the local expert, comparing him to top players nationwide.
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Ayres plans to market 60 000 irrigated acres near Medina with Natalia as headquarters. A 100 plus visiting real estate leaders will inspect 14 000 acres as the first unit and attend a December 19 convention at Natalia to map sales.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in San Antonio Texas announces a free lecture on Christian Science at The Gunter on ena ona this evening by Francis J Wisse M D a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church Boston Massachusetts The public is cordially invited to attend.
United States Marshal Jacob A. Herring for the southern district of Texas began transferring his headquarters from Galveston to Houston on November 25. The move reflects a reorganization of regional offices and centralizes operations in the city.
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