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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
6
Recipe fragments describe corn dishes with eggs salt white pepper sugar butter milk and fried chicken pairing. Includes corn relish with peppers cabbage sugar vinegar mustard and boiling steps. guide mentions cutting corn and sealing jars after twenty minutes.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A. began the season with a large turnout at the M.G.A. meeting. Treasurer Mrs. Geo. M. Fairfield reported treasury near the hundred mark, and several life memberships including Mrs. Robert Clark and Mrs. Arthur Hicks were announced. An opening reception is planned for Friday September 25 at the MOA building with Mrs. Neilie Jamison as reception chair.
Social items list visitors and upcoming events across the city. Miss Wilma McKee of Houston joins Miss Dora Neill at 409 Pecan Street before leaving for Houston, while Zessie Pryor visits Fort Worth for Grace Long. Mrs James Walter Burns of Mexico City plans a visit next week, with Mrs Toyer Campbell hosting at 41 Martin Street. Mrs Una will visit San Antonio for the season and Mrs Barry Hyman returns October 1. Prof Wesley Peacock and faculty host a reception Friday at 8 at their residence Weel End for Mrs J Samuels and her guest Miss Tay Simion of Houston after summer in Mountág.
Mrs Millett visited since returning from abroad and sang at the chautauqua to an ovation from about 300 attendees. The note also mentions social updates including friends visiting Emporium and a group traveling through California Yellowstone and Colorado, with various families expected home soon.
Fragmented text discusses love guidance, avoiding a selfish partner, and healing routines. It offers skin care tips with nostrums, nervousness remedies, and maternal counsel on child obedience. References include sun exposure, homemade potions, and general welfare notes from a period style publication.
Tomorrow marks the thirty third anniversary of the storm that destroyed Indianola once Texas main seaport. Surviving witnesses include Col M D Monserrate of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway who keeps a smoothed cross tie as a memento. The inscription notes ties from 1869 and 1887 taken from separate tracks and later removed in 1836.
Five suits were filed in the district clerk’s office this forenoon, each seeking a divorce. May Latierna seeks separation from Charles Latierna. Alendora F. Duff sues Alexander Duff. Leng Zagat sues Ge H. Zagat for separation and restoration of her maiden name. they married April 11, 1238 in Millville New York and separated in May 1908. Logan sues Bertha Logan, married in 1898 and separated in July 1904. Mayme Dixon sues Lenard Dixon in Fifty seventh district court.
Nearly all property owners in Houston are connecting conduits at the property line as street pavement work nears. Telephone lines extend across sidewalks to buildings, anticipating an upcoming ordinance that will require connections after pavement is finished, with tunneling from the sidewalk seen as more expensive than current French connection methods.
A batch of personal notes lists military and civilian guests in San Antonio and at the New Mayerick and the Bexar hotel. Names include General Moore, Alexander Moore, J. Stevens, L. Garrell, George Barnes, Meyers and wife, Bert Tats, H. Collard, C. A. McCracken, Henry Bids, L. Hollinger, W. Zuebl, QO. W. Zuebl, and HB. Base. Visitors arrive from Floresville, Monterey, Durangs, San Luis Potosí, and Houston. locals plan trips to the fair and note upcoming stays at the hotels and cabs nearby.
A long, garbled grocery list shows prices for vegetables fruit and dairy. Items include green corn at 20 cents per dozen, tomatoes at 20–60 cents, cucumbers 5 cents each, squash 2 cents, beans 3 cents a pound, butter 20–26 cents per pound, eggs 4 cents a dozen, okra 5 cents a quart, and many more, with totals and unit notes interspersed. The jumble suggests a market catalog or newspaper advertisement listing numerous farm produce and prices.
The record lists William H. Woller and Hedrig Runge alongside Frank Giles and Maude Gertrude Phatt and Antoulo Guilartes and Francisca Gauna as pairs in an apparent legal or social notice. The scant text identifies three pairs of names without context or dates.
An ad warns that kidney issues can be insidious and fatal if unchecked. It urges taking Foier's Kidney Cure at the first signs of trouble to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease. Rexar Drug Co. is named as the seller.
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