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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1913

Page

6

Church Ladies Host Evening Receptions and Tea DanSant

The First Presbyterian Church women host a reception at 8 p.m. in church parlors. Mrs. Lorrain T. Richardson offers a tea dan sant from 6 to 6:30 p.m. at her Fort Sam Houston quarters. The Altar Society of San Fernando Cathedral hosts a Mexican supper and festival at Mrs. M. Baumberger’s home at 923 San Pedro Avenue.

The First Presbyterian Church Altar Society San Fernando Cathedral

Daysey Mayme Proposes Grand Church Benefit Operetta

Daysey Mayme Appleton plans a fundraising operetta The Dandelion Blossom to save the church debt. She envisions a cast of three hundred children with vast audience turnout and even imagines a fortune from admissions before fainting from the scale of her dream.

EditorReads Upside Down Editorial After Printing Error

The Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette editor wrote a pleasing piece titled A Need to Be Careful and the printer ran the editorial page upside down. At last reports the editor was reading the editorial or something just as good, to his printer.

Tuscaloosa

Brownsville Bride Weds in Main Avenue Home

David Lawrence Spero of Brownsville Texas weds Miss Bessie Katz in a home ceremony on Main Avenue. Rabbi Samuel Marks officiates as Corrine Katz and George Katz attend as bridal party. Reception follows with punch and an ice course. couple to travel north.

David Lawrence Spero Brownsville Tex Bessie Katz Main Avenue Corrine+ Katz George Katz Samuel Marks Theodore Kaplan Corpus Christi Ben Wolfman Beeville Spero

The Smart Set at the Grand with Whitney and The Merry Countess

Salem Tutt Whitney leads a large cast in The Wrong Mr President at the Grand with The Smart Set Company. The Merry Countess from New York's Casino Theater headlines Saturday, with music by T L Cornell and lyrics by Whitney assisted by Gladys Unger and Arthur Anderson.

Salem Tutt Whitney Whitney Presient T. L. Cornell Homer Tutt Blanche Thompson Mr Countess Merry Countess San Antonio Casino Theater New York Metropolis Johan Strauss Gladys Unger Arthur Anderson

Mrs Knauff Hosts San Antonio Club Reception

Mrs George Knauff will host a reception in compliment to the San Antonio Self Culture Club at 32 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at her home 309 Warren street. All members are invited.

George Knauff San Antonio Warren Street

San Antonio Mothers Council Opens Season With Meeting

The San Antonio Mothers Council holds its first meeting at 3 30 tomorrow afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce with all members urged to attend to plan the winter work. Julia Lathrop of the Federal Children's Bureau will not be in San Antonio this fall. A membership tea at the YWCA, adorned with pink roses and regina corona, drew about 75 callers.

San Antonio Mothers’ Council Chamber of Commerce Young Women's Christian Association Regina Ruth Muir Mabel K. Stafford Associaton Dallas Noember Miss Pickering Lyceum

Balloonists Aim Northward for Lahm Cup Flight

William F. Assman and Joseph M. O Reilly plan a northward balloon departure from San Antonio to claim the Lahm cup before October 17. They await favorable wind currents and weather bureau guidance after gas filling and ballast checks. Major Allen Buell urges caution but optimism rises as winds shift.

William F. Assman Joseph M. O'Reilly J. Allen Hawley Allen Buell Messrs. Assman O'Reilly Office Weather Bureau Assman San Antonio Mr. O’reilly Buell Texas Mr. O'Reilly Hawley

Thistle Lodge to Meet at Gunter Hotel Room 105

Thistle Lodge auxiliary to Clan MacDuff schedules its regular meeting for 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Room 105 at the Gunter Hotel.

Thistle Lodge Clan MacDuff Gunter Hotel

Hickory Wood pantomime tale about a manager and comedian

Hickory Wood recalls a provincial pantomime where a manager asks to engage the principal comedian for next Christmas. The manager fears laughter will draw attention and raise the actor's salary, yet finds the performer “screamingly funny” only if not watching him.

Hickory Wood Mr. Wood

Notable Guests Lodging At City Hotels

ARoger of Springfield and numerous named guests stay at the Menger Crockett Bowie Bexar St Anthony and Gunter hotels. Travelers include I J Wilson Cuero John D Davies Laredo H M Wilkins Galveston and M R Graham Greenville among many others visiting for the day.

H. P. Roberts Springfield Menger I. J. Wilson Cuero Crockett Leo James Boston Bowie John D. Davies Laredo Bexar J. N. Buese el Paso St. Anthony N. Lucore Sunset Central Lines Houston City W. M. McGee Nixon Savoy M. R. Graham Greenville Gunter George W. Bancroft Orange M. O. McGaffey Luling W. H. Kennedy Vickstown Okla F. E. Stele Thorndale N. Johnson Robert Schalbert Alice H. M. Wilkins Morgan Steamship Line Galveston W. H. Whattney Seymour Haber Waco Menger Hotel P. W. Harral B. L. Moore Fort Worth The James Welsh Seguin T. E. Goff Sherman B. E. Lynch Stockdale Ki. L. Paulus Yoakum G. E. King Corpus Christi Bowie Hotel I. J. Duff Beaumont J. M. Jones Comfort B. R. Tooke Gerald Kahn Dallas G. W. Baxter Karnes City S. A. Austin Tampico F. I. Booth Booth T. C. Davidson Texarkana the Crockett W. C. Fisher Uvalde H. Lucas St. Anthony Hotel Sippel Braunfels

Five Minute Rule Enforced on Commerce Street

Police Chief Lancaster announced a strict enforcement of the five minute ordinance on Commerce Street from Soledad to Alamo. Officers will warn drivers today and begin arrests tomorrow for violations, aiming to protect pedestrians amid building destruction and the widening project.

Commerce Street Lancaster Soledad Alamo Streets Brown

Roast turkey at the Riverside restaurant advert

An advertisement for roast turkey appears from Riverside restaurant. The listing includes contact name Collman the plumber and phone numbers 397.

Itaurant Collman

Langwiez Builds Longest Arch in Reinforced Concrete

The Langwiez project on the Chur Arosa railway in Switzerland will feature a reinforced concrete arch rising 160 feet with a clear span of 830 feet. It will surpass the Risorgimento arch over the Tiber in Rome by about two feet in length and 180 feet in height.

Langwiez Switzerland Chur-Arosa Tiber Rome Italy

Biography hoax fuels Wilfred Wilberforce tale

The manicurist and her sister Mayme describe a forged life story about Wilfred Wilberforce a young poet essayist and song writer born March 29 1885 in Eau Claire Wisconsin. The tale praises his work while neighbors mock the harsh poem The Dying Horse and question his claims as a bragging son.

Mayme Wilfred Simp Wilfred Wilberforce Eau Claire Wisconsin Ruskin Emerson George

Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Ad

An old classified ad features a children’s remedy near a Riverside Restaurant listing. The copy promotes Fletcher's Castoria with phrases aimed at parents seeking soothing for infants and young children.

Fletcher

Sea Food Condemned After Rapid Shipments

City health officials condemn over 1600 pounds of fish and 600 to 700 gallons of oysters after delays in railroad traffic. Inspector Merklin says shipments were unfit upon arrival but no local fish houses received the unsound stock. He notes improved handling and urges continued vigilance. Also cited are reclamation service expenditures and California prune and raisin export gains.

Joe Merklin San Antonio Inspector Merklin Health Department

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