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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1911
Page
8
Women suffering illness are invited to communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts. All letters are read by women and answered. The company guarantees privacy and consent for testimonials. A free 80 page Text Book is available by mail from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
Katherine M Joseph editor notes contact changes and office phone updates for publication. Old number 176 replaced by 1359 new line, home number 2862 remains for correspondence.
The Musical Round Table meets at noon at the Woman's Club house. Mrs. Peters hosts for her daughter Martha Elizabeth from 4 to 6 pm. Alamo Heights Mothers' club gathers at 4 pm at the school. Miss Ruth Taylor hosts the Tusitila club at 3 30 pm. YWCA board meets at 10 am in the association rooms. Ursuline alumnae gather at 4 pm at the academy. Alamo Mission chapter, DRT meets at 4 pm at the Menger. First Baptist Sunday school children meet at 4 40 pm at the school.
Mrs Raymond Meyers hosts an all day party on Howard Street in honor of Miss Marie Vanlandingham ahead of an early fall marriage. The Woman's Missionary society meets at 3 30 tomorrow at McKinley Avenue Methodist church. Miss Hermine Patridge honors Miss Lucile Featherstone of New Orleans with a dance at her San Pedro avenue home. Attendees include Featherston Vinson Harper Grigg Flannagan Henderson Haile Taft Gallagher Pryor Smith and Partridge family members among others. The Chiltons marry at the Hummel home on King William Street and will reside in San Antonio after visiting California and Missouri. Various social visits and church society activities follow including Beacon Hill Baptist Ladies Aid electing officers and planning a Friday missionary meeting and a penny drive by Beacon Hill children.
Healthful hints suggest using leftover syrup from canned fruit or grape juice and adding Duffy's malt whiskey, ice, and water. A fresh egg may be added and shaken to improve nourish, claimed by Dr. Thomas Love of Atlanta as unequaled for fever patients.
A dainty hostess Miss Martha Elizabeth Peters celebrated her fourth birthday with a 4 to 6 pm party. Guests included Armine Jones Emile Tureter John Loustaunan Larkin Smith Bessie Gaile Goodloe Reagan Vernon William French Whisenant Joyce Garret Lida Heightner Annie Marie and T J Tilson. The dining room was decorated in red flowers and favors were imitation cigars and footballs filled with bonbons. Miss Spencer Tarrant of Corsicana arrives today to spend winter with Mrs E C Tarrant. Miss Hulda Becker returns from Kansas City Milwaukee to visit relatives Mr and Mrs Charles Goodman and daughter Rebecca.
Miss Florence Bateman entertained friends with a city hay ride ending at Hot Wells for luncheon. The party included Jessie Haymaker Anna Heinisch Ida Edwards Nellie Edwards Emmy Currey Elizabeth Beeley Nora Goldbeck Emma Schuetzer Gideon Parks Louis Edwards Frank Baldus Woodson Yancey Leslie Bunch George Taft Adolph Baldus Eugene Goldbeck Herman Goldbeck and Roland Roemer.
Mrs. William Hanes hosted a 4 to 6 pm afternoon gathering at her Pine street home in honor of her sister Mrs. H. J. Holmes of Memphis Tennessee. Attendees included Mrs. H. H. Stone, Miss Leonora Haynes, Miss Alice Stone, Ada Hanes and Josephine Hanes.
The Mysterious Seven club was entertained yesterday at Miss Hermeone Bedwell’s Elmira street home. Guests included Misses Marie Vanlandingham Ruth McWhirt Emma Smith Eva Clayton Virginia Atkinson Opie Bristow Helen Roberts and Mesdames L. C. Pinn Raymond Myers Albert Stevenson Pearl Joplin. A full day ended with a multi course noon dinner.
Notices from the Sunset lines show the appointment of John K. Fahey as superintendent of transportation for the Louisiana Western and Morgan's Louisiana & Texas railroad and Steamship company at Lake Charles, and general superintendent of the Louisiana & Pacific at DeRidder. He succeeds C. M. Boswell who resigned to join another company. Fahey is a familiar city figure, formerly inspector for the Sunset Central lines.
County rural schools are 80 percent in operation after opening Monday with the rest to begin next week. Morill Chapel near Harlandale delays due to unfinished addition. A new 16 by 30 foot iron working room at the high school houses a lathe, speed lathe, drill press, grinder, saw, jointer, and wood working machinery for eight pupils per period.
Gabriel Silvas, a laborer, was fined 15 dollars after being arrested for disturbing the peace. He claimed amnesia and could not testify, saying he thought he was at his own home. Margarita Alvarado reported waking to a man near her bed and striking him with a shoe, knocking him to the floor.
Stores display Rosy-Posy Papier Poudre and Rouge Books with soft chamois-like paper marketed as moisture and shine removers. The Rosalma Co. of Louisville Ky offers free samples of these beauty aids for public use.
In a tale by F. St. Mars, Brownie the cheerful water rat evades a pursuing brown rat and a lurking pike. Using a tunnel trap and a desperate water-escape, Brownie escapes while the rival is swallowed by the pike. Brownie returns to lead his family to safety by the river reeds.
The ad touts Hall's Texas Wonder claiming cures for kidney bladder and rheumatic issues. It offers a one dollar bottle with a 60 day treatment and local testimonials. Dr E W Hall 2926 Olive St St Louis Mo lists druggists as sellers.
Dr. John C. Drennon a Cannon county physician and 1901 state senator from Cannon Rutherford and DeKalb counties killed himself at his Woodbury home at 4 30 this morning. He left no known motive and was survived by a widow and two sons.
Luther Guthrie describes his wife’s decade of severe headaches and $300 in medical bills before Cardui, taken since October, curing her symptoms and preventing further attacks. He praises Cardui as a women’s remedy and urges others to try it, noting its 50 years of use and offering guidance from Chattanooga Medicine Co. for home treatment.
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