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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1915
Page
9
The piece prescribes nightly and morning routines to preserve youthful skin. It urges cheerfulness, warns against worry, and recommends waxing with ceremonial wax, cold cream, and a Saratoga water rinse. It also suggests a facial exercise regimen using powdered talc and hazel water to firm cheeks and chin.
The Fourth Court of Civil Appeals reversed a district ruling and remanded for a temporary injunction blocking $500,000 in bonds to build the Rockport Lamar causeway across Aransas Bay. Justice Anton Moursand wrote that bonds must aid road construction and cannot fund a bridge as claimed. The decision delays the project and may provoke further below court action. The court also advanced the San Antonio incinerator case to next week’s session.
Austin reports the Third Court of Civil Appeals held federal safety rules supersede state law in a Texas case against the Orange & Northwestern Railway. The page lists numerous criminal appeals and Supreme Court actions, including manslaughter submission issues and various affirmations, reversals, and remands.
About 200 000 babies die before reaching age one in the country last year. One half of these deaths are said to be preventable if mothers are strong and infants are breast fed. Scott's Emulsion is advertised to build strength, improve blood, and enhance milk quality during nursing. No alcohol. Sold by Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, New Jersey.
A fashion sale offering a large assortment of dresses priced at 19.75, featuring navy and black French serge and georgette crepe styles with fur trims and elegant detailing, highlighting value and style for shoppers.
A group of San Antonio Scottish Rite Masons learned on their Washington trip that the city will receive a consistory before year’s end. The move enables the thirty first and thirty second degrees to be conferred. a fall reunion is hoped for November 22, 1925. In Washington, the delegation met President Wilson at the White House.
Dr Winship of Boston, editor of the Journal of Ida, will lecture at the high school auditorium on Modern Tendencies in Education. The talk, changed from afternoon to 8 p.m. Thursday by principals, is free and open to teachers and the public on invitation by the board of education.
Commerce street between Soledad street and Santa Rosa avenue will gain a new lighting system under a contract between property owners and the Gas and Electric Company. The system covers a widened section of Commerce street with underground cables, posts, and ornate lamps at 140 candlepower, spaced 69 to 76 feet apart. The property owners guarantee current-cost of 2500 for two years, with the company covering all other expenses. Work on underground cables began this week and proceeds quickly. J C Muusebarh of the Frost estate aided in securing the agreement.
The First Baptist Church, led by Rev. Z Porter, conducts revival services each evening. Women plan ten special prayer meetings Wednesday afternoons at various city locations. Men hold daily afternoon services at Willam Hollard’s home, 229 West Commerce Street, as part of ongoing devotional outreach.
An old advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a reliable mid laxative for constipation with no griping. It cites Mr J H Bristol of Ann Arbor Michigan endorsing the remedy and notes its fifty cent price and wide availability through druggists. The ad claims a century of trusted use and offers a free trial to households.
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