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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
16
The Big Store announces a full line of dresses and suits with prices from 12.50 to 50.00. Serges in navy black brown and coronation shades plus messaline and crepe meteor options offered in plain tailored and stylish trimmed styles. Reversible coats in mixtures and coordinating bags available at 17.50 to 35.00.
Revival services at Prospect Hill Baptist Church continue with twenty new members and forty professed faith this period. Baptism will follow tonight’s sermon by Dr Ridley of Beaumont.
An October 14 dance event hosted by the Royal Achates drill team at Mod ee hall with tickets 25 cents is announced. Other notices include a complaint filed against William Simmang for dumping offensive matter on Fredericksburg road and an injunction blocking alleged gambling at the Railway and Pullman Porters' Exchange club with December final hearing planned.
The United States civil service commission lists examinations to fill vacancies in San Antonio with salaries for veterinarian and hull draftsman on November 8 and an electrical assistant on November 22. The electrical assistant salary is 1080 per year. The transcript in the charter contest case advances to the fourth court of civil appeals. a decision is expected next week. County Assessor Albert V. Huth sent the tax rolls to Austin as required by law.
Students at St Marys College performed an auditorium program on St Marys Street with songs recitations and a speech by Edward Fitzgibbon Sr and Brother John assisting.
H. L. Wagner at Avenue C and Houston Street offers a free copy of The Adler ika book promising simple methods to guard against appendicitis and to relieve constipation or gas quickly.
Catalog notices show a wide range of fall outings in checks stripes plaids and plains. Outings double faced 28 inches wide price per yard and 16 yards for $1. Bleached domestic 36 inches wide 16 yards for $1. Cambric 36 inches white at 7c yard. Sheets 63c and hotel sheets 77c. Pillow cases 10c each.
Tyan delivered the concluding address extolling Columbus and his seat in discovering the New World. A promotional notice offers ten day ads starting Friday the 13th run 13 days for the price of ten, at one half cent per word per insertion, with a 11:30 a.m. deadline.
Wiggins was unanimously elected treasurer and Kay M. Mackey secretary of the Real Estate Exchange at yesterday's weekly directors meeting. Other officers for the year had already been chosen. Directors present included Wester Wiggins Smith Jackson Richey Lytle Callahan and Austin.
Sixty three candidates were initiated by the Eagles at their hall on Main Avenue under a special dispensation. Ed Liebrecht, a city fireman, received the full initiation. others were let off easier. Addresses were given by Marcus W. Davis Charles M. Barnes and John M. Richter, the latter the current president of the lodge. The event was highly successful and enjoyable. Dr. Russell Caffery is due back October 14. A Coliman plumber. Both phones.
In two weeks twenty nine applicants were rejected by the U S Navy recruiting office. Physical defects and illiteracy barred many as O B Taylor noted. A color blind youth could not select a color from yarn in a test.
Officials of the Missouri Oklahoma Gulf railroad discussed extending their line south from Denison to Fort Worth or Dallas. They requested a right of way through the county and depot grounds today in Mckinney Texas.
Henry W. Fuller general passenger traffic manager for the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad died in Washington after months of illness. He was among the nation’s best known passenger traffic officials.
An ad claims catarrh is excess secretion with chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane. Hood's Sarsaparilla supposedly acts through the blood to reduce inflammation restore healthy action and radically cure catarrh.
Denver Post reports a 106-year-old woman declines daily nursing care and insists she has not had a bath in twenty years. She communicates in a broad brogue and says she has no intent to die, despite greetings from a visiting nurse and her devoted son who cares for her.
In San Antonio many seek furnished rooms and boarding houses and turn to the local want ads for results. Housekeepers advertise in the Light and offer telephone ads or messenger calls with both phones listed as 176.
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