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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1908
Page
6
Local market price list for fruits vegetables and poultry. Items include bananas peaches grapes and cucumbers with per dozen per pound and per basket rates. Also lists butter honey onions peppers okra radishes and poultry prices.
A reconstructed recipe for chicken salad with celery and a light vinegar oil dressing. Ingredients include boiled chicken, white celery, lemon, almond skins, crackers, crushed crackers, and a cream finish. Dressing combines vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, and sugar with optional mayonnaise and cream.
Society news items report numerous residents and visitors across San Antonio and nearby, including Miss Mary Cowley at 200 Lavaca street, Mrs Suzephine Goodhue of Beanville expected in October to visit sister Mrs Ed McClanaahan at 118 Gy Hay Street, Miss Josephine Haltom joining for the winter, and Miss Nave Andrews with Miss Claire Andrews returning to Beaumont. The Harvard Ti Bee chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy holds a meeting at the President’s home on South Alamo Street. Queen’s Daughters plan a special meeting tomorrow at 4 at the Helly rooms on St Mary’s street. Elizabeth Touston visiting Austin with cousin Mrs A Faulkner. Louise Ward returning to Houston. Miss Mary Lee Fisher visiting Mitch Kathleen Sikes. Waters Cunnoh returned from Galveston with sister Mrs Fred B Von Harten accompanying home. Mr and Mrs Chas C Neleyn visiting City of Mexico. Miss Hay on Howie and others noted. Jethel Starrison, summering in Mexico, expected home next week.
A vintage column offers advice on self improvement and grooming, urging readers to cultivate better character, pursue education in literature and English, and adopt an amiable demeanor. It discusses skin care, hair removal methods, and maintaining a healthy, youthful complexion through simple daily habits.
New York and Sopid wire reports indicate needlewomen in the navy yard face wage cuts due to competition from labor-saving machinery. The workers, daughters of veterans, have toiled by hand, earning low wages while the department weighs upgrading allowances. Some offer lower paid positions with new perks elsewhere, but the needlewomen refuse to abandon their labor.
A string of visitors and residents are listed at San Antonio area hotels including Mrs J W Petry and daughter from Siabinas Mexico, Gofeander J G Rice from Mexico, T Waddy Tate Chicago Western railroad agent in Dallas, and many others from Corpus Christi, Gonzales, Laredo, Victoria, and beyond. Names, origins, and brief travel notes fill the daily social roundup.
A subscription banquet is planned at the International Club next Wednesday night to commemorate Mexican independence. Invitations limited to three guests include Galabacales Mayor Cal Taghag General Albert Myer and Senor Mavique Ornelly. Chair O A Chapaty says many club members will attend with registration before 6 pm and tables set on the roof garden.
A 14-year-old boy, Tohnnie Oftiley, suffered the loss of an eye following injuries from a wall hook device at 126 Soledad Street, according to local injury reports. The incident occurred when the boy was driving a wall-mounted piece and a stick struck his left eye, leading to the severe injury.
A moral sermon argues men must live up to human rights and dignity. It contrasts man’s potential with clams, urging men to embrace responsibility, chastity, and ambition, and to reject “clam” behavior that wastes intellect and virtue. It stresses self-control, legality, and personal progress.
General superintendent W. Clark of the G. N. railroad reported this morning that 100 new box cars would be added by October to meet the cotton movement demand. Engine damage from a recent fire near Lor has prompted repairs, with officials noting no payment for architectural changes. Clark, accompanied by J. Q. Ditler, plans to visit north Texas tomorrow.
A fire in Waxahachie caused extensive damage today at the Billa County Loan company and nearby properties. The blaze destroyed the building and several adjacent structures, with authorities estimating losses near eight thousand dollars and no immediate reports of serious injuries.
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