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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1912
Page
4
The Jubilee in San Antonio features 2:30 to 5:00 p m chariot and motorcycle races on the track with Tobin's team delivering stirring spectacle. A sacred concert by Ellery's band follows, and Monday will present the Siege and Fall of the Alamo in the circle before the grand stand.
The Jubilee association showcases Ellery's band plus two aerial acts drawing big crowds. Madame La Bella performs Daredevil Hurley high above the grounds and is caught midair by her husband after a steep launch. The Flying Ricketts, a trio, deliver several daring trapeze feats to thrill spectators.
Four San Antonio German Maennerchor societies join for a vocal program at the German village jubilee grounds following Ellery's Band concert. Beethoven Lieder Kranz Frohsinn and Deutscher Maennerchor members perform separately due to lack of a single chair, with interludes by a local band.
Extended invitations to take part in the program have been sent, but no assurance of attendance from any group has been received. Members from other societies arriving in San Antonio today will participate.
Despite no prizes in the floral department, a grand display of flowers and plants graces the floral building under Mrs Atlee B Ayres with Miss Etta Hummell and Mrs W M McKinney assisting A shipment of hundreds of rare fish from San Marcos government hatcheries is now in the glass aquarium center stage while potted plants cascade atop the tank Exhibitors include Chris Hauser P D Hauser Walter Schumann F C Suchey Mrs Albert Steyes Mrs J E Rielly and Otto Locke of New Braunfels Mr Locke also funds 2000 cut flowers for the exhibit.
The main building hosts booths for San Antonio merchants and manufacturers with educational displays for consumers and retailers. An emphasis on “San Antonio-made products” features in the machinery hall while agricultural counties install exhibits, Bee county leading with corn and the Bee Girls Canning Club. Frio and others near completion as the hall fills.
Two rusted antique French cannon barrels over a hundred years old arrived at the jubilee grounds and were placed near the woman's building. Loaned to the jubilee association, they were found during Gibbs building excavations. Efforts to link them to the Alamo siege fail, and they bear a French royal coat of arms despite rust.
A New York man patents a garbage can design with a detachable wire trap that captures items entering the can while insects are said to be destroyed. A dialog line from Chicago News notes a leap year joke about Ella and Btella.
Governor O B Colquitt faced persistent suffrage questions during Harvest Jubilee opening day. He reiterated opposition to women's suffrage while handling crowd pressures with poise and courtesy. The German village ceremony drew a large turnout before the governor’s party moved to further jubilee events.
Governor Colquitt faced women in San Antonio urging Votes for Women at the Jubilee reception and playground speech. He reiterated opposition to woman suffrage while a chorus of supporters pressed for the cause, culminating in a post event theater party and a closing note of hospitality. Excursion rates for Harvest Jubilee travel were announced for railroads serving the city.
Comedian and leading woman “Balkan Princess” teased Gov. O. B. Colquitt during a busy evening as a guest of the social event. The act provided humor while Colquitt listened amid a packed audience.
The excerpt reproduces a derogatory portrayal of Black people with a mammy figure and a child questioning purchases. It includes dialect and dismissive attitudes, reflecting historical racial stereotypes and humor without modern context. The cited sources are National Monthly and Detroit Free Press quotations.
San Antonio Mayor A. H. Jones, sworn in sixty days ago, has reorganized street cleaning and sanitation, restructured police and fire departments, and built advisory citizen committees to unite a divided council. He oversees new contracts for paving, water, and fire protection, lowers overdraft interest, and plans a sanitary sewer contour map, audit, and health board reforms while maintaining a strict work ethic and daily public access.
A long advertisement extols Clay Burton Vance a palm reader who claims to reveal lives from handwriting and birth dates. The piece includes a testimonial from Prof. Dixon and urges readers to request free life readings by sending full name birth date and a verse, with postage details.
Visiting newspaper men in the city for Press Day at the Harvest Jubilee will be hosted by the Press club. Clubroom staff at the Gunter hotel will register guests and extend Harvest Festival courtesies. At 3 PM the press men meet at Jubilee grounds in The Light and The Express booths to renew acquaintance and pledge friendship.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip cites Armageddon and a bull moose reference. A Berlin nerve specialist favors knitting in bed as an effective antidote for tired nerves.
Mrs A Biggam of Kansas City Missouri describes a simple home formula to darken gray hair and promote growth. The mix uses bay rum Barbo Compound glycerine and water applied twice weekly then biweekly for maintenance. She says it relieves itching dandruff and scalp issues and leaves hair soft glossy and less gray.
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