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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1911
Page
20
A fragmented inventory items list shows Wild Rose Soap Lux cakes Munyon's Withh Hazel Swift's Cleaner Wool Soap White Cloud Soap with various quantities, including 4 cakes and 5 to 8 boxes. The text reads as a catalog snippet lacking full sentences or context for a fuller report.
Bright novelty bag styles priced at 99 cents each, with velvet and damask options. Braided, fringe, grain seal, and tapestry designs feature gilt trim and cord or strap handles for shopping use. Moderately priced and ready for the season.
Up to 35c ribbons advertised as 21c a yard with half a thousand pieces in stock. Hair bow taffeta ribbons maire ribbons satin borders warp print taffeta ribbons pompadour effects Persian styles plaids black checks and Roman stripes offered in varied patterns.
The Young Men's Christian Association plans a Halloween evening with a campfire story tellin g and stunts. A jack o lantern contest decides the top lantern group for membership points while a Mexican supper awards the best group by November 15. The Dormitory club aims to host a citywide Thanksgiving for visiting men with a banquet and address by Attorney S. G. Tayloe.
Chief of Police Frank Newman and Detective Stowe travel to Dallas to confer with authorities about crooks and pickpockets active around expos. The aim is to learn techniques to curb professional crooks during the San Antonio International Fair opening late next week. Also noted is a brief item about an Ohio woman patenting a rotary table clamp grater.
The Joske Store showcases over 50 bar pins in lengths from 11 inches to 5 inches with styles including stone set enamel rhinestone and miniature medallion designs. Options in solid gold gold filled and jet finishes cover broad southern supply with prices from 25 cents to 3 dollars 50 cents.
A quartet of extraordinary tan hose values offers scarce stock to customers. The Big Store features women's tan hose of silk lisle with garter top and double heel at 50 cents per pair. Also silk hose with lisle top heel and toe, pure silk at 50 cents per pair.
Store ad lists women’s full fashion stockings with ankle embroidery in self or contrast colors, twenty styles priced at 46c a pair. Children’s ribbed and plain hose sizes 5 to 8 offered with broken line stock, values to 50c, now 19c per pair.
Fred Fields 24 died Thursday at a local hospital survived by widow two children parents five brothers and three sisters funeral Saturday 4 pm from 402 Leigh street interment Hermann Sons cemetery services by Rev O Hartmann Emil Meyer 69 pioneer San Antonio resident died at home survived by wife daughter son and brother funeral Saturday 10 am interment city cemetery No 1 Refugio S Aremmano 35 died at home 208 North Leona street survived by husband mother and sister body prepared by Shelley Loring and to be buried in Corpus Christi tonight at 8 30 pm Baraca class officers met at J F Smith home planned activities two new officers chosen and social time after meeting
A Washington Herald item quotes a playful exchange about marriage and work. It notes women leaving firms to marry and others seeking to rejoin when husbands tire of them, illustrating workplace dynamics and social norms of the era.
A five foot diamondback rattler at the Bronx Zoo froze in a self induced hypnosis after keeper Charles Snyder frightened him with a soldering iron. The snake cannot uncoil despite water, steam, or play, and Snyder cites a lesson for magicians to avoid frightening tricks that fix the mind on fear.
Mrs. Hannah Johnson of 104 Van Nostrand Avenue reported an eight foot snake coiled around the hot water pipe in her Jersey City bathroom. Patrolman McConnell helped capture the reptile and it was placed in a barrel at the police station. The prior tenant, William Ulrich, was a snake fancier and may have kept the pet that escaped in the cellar.
Kermit Roosevelt will spend his senior year in luxury at Harvard in the Claverly Hall annex on Mount Auburn Street. He and roommate Henry Holt of New York occupy nearly all the rooms on two floors. Roosevelt previously lived in Claverly, bucking the old yard dormitory custom that many seniors now follow.
Dr. C. B. Weedman testified in court that Mrs. Adaline A. Clark of New London Ohio was sound minded at age 70 and spry enough to kick a chandelier before her death. He described her health and mental state when she made her will as three grandchildren seek to void a deed to Mrs. Mary A. Smith claiming undue influence.
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