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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
3
A dance scheduled for Friday night at a city hotel hall is organized by the soldiers’ relief box committee of the Red Cross. Funds raised at the event will aid soldiers in need and feature music and refreshments for attendees.
The article notes a planned fair to be well attended and invites soldiers to participate. It mentions funds to be spent on goods, with plans to send boys from the area to Christmas houses and deploy them via ships. It highlights about 800 local youths in foreign service and the need to quickly recruit more to fill vacancies.
Fragmented OCR style content shows garbled phrases about military bearing and naturalists, with scattered names and locations. The readable parts mention two addresses and a dialogue that hints at weathered authority but no clear event, date, or outcome. The text lacks coherent narrative to identify a definite story or person.
An article discusses ideals of beauty and complexion, praising fair skin and the desire for white looks. It critiques or notes remedies and routines women use to achieve lighter skin, including powders and routines, while describing social pressures around beauty standards. The piece references products and methods, with emphasis on perceived desirability of pale complexions.
Society notes list numerous events including the marriage of Arthur Hughes Muir to Heleny Guenx Ibex at St Mark's Episcopal Church and a dance at the Guitter. The calendar also mentions suffrage talks, charity parties, Red Cross meetings, parish activities, and a Mozart Society rehearsal with a Beethoven social to follow.
Fort Sam Houston hosts benefit bazaars and entertainments coordinated by local women groups and schools. The Barenty Teachers Association of Morrill High plans a reception, while Mary Isabel Gallagher merges with Robert Ott Lytle in a fall wedding. The Needlework Circle promotes a piano and vocal program for Mexican mission support.
At the Theaters Thrill at the Majestic a carillon mercy drummer a pricy attraction this week at the Majestic Theater Pur Pitys Sake stars Charles Withers as Cy Spilvens in a village opry house cross roads setting Spilvens hops tickets plays overture works effects and makes announcements in a performance marked by stage noise and bustle
An early 20th century advertisement touts Browndtone hair dye claiming instant brown to black results with no mixing, simple application, and a money back style guarantee. It lists pricing around $115 and mentions Kenton Pharmacy and multiple druggists as distributors.
The week’s bill features the Four Swers with a spoof act and a tableaux of works by Holt and Voseante. Maria Loatd, Nudler, Stef ani Philips, and Fernu belicu with acts at Noyal Theatre, Pantages Vaudeville, and the Grand Playhouse. Miss Emmy Bunting stars a moral drama at the Opera House, with Cosmo Hamilton’s script and a country girl plot resolved by fate.
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