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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1911
Page
4
Miss Ida St Leon stars in Frederic Thompson's Polly of the Circus at the Grand for four nights starting Sunday October 1 with a Wednesday matinee. Polly uses circus slang in a tender scene with a kindly minister and a sick bed patient, drawing humor and pathos.
The Plaza theater is finishing touches today and should be ready tonight with a buy brisk for opening and early week shows. The Majestic eight acts now playing in Houston draws praise from critics and a San Antonian observer reports three headliners and high quality. Royal program closes strong with large crowds and an even better coming week is promised as five more vaudeville houses join the circuit expanding weekly acts.
Kansas City hosts the twenty-second Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress from November 14 to 17 with about 2400 delegates and 8000 visitors. Governors, senators, representatives and rivers and harbors members plan to discuss federal legislation aiding western development, citing past allocations for Galveston harbor and arid west irrigation.
The column lists multiple social gatherings including James Gallagher Jr’s birthday party at the Gunter hotel and horse shows at the Hermitage. It notes musical club meetings and many afternoon teas at homes around San Pedro Place, Presa Street, and South Alamo. It mentions scholarship honors for Miss Flora Smith and Miss Bessie Meyers, plus the first meeting of the San Antonio chapter of the Southern Association of College Women and plans to collect books and study education.
In a tunnel dark train car Jacques Pernel suspects his wife Juliette and widow Mme Dauville of a kiss from his friend Morand. The quiet ambiguity drives jealousy as he tries to uncover who was kissed while everyone else acts normal. A dinner table misdirection ends with a bouquet and a confessionless tease.
Mrs. Clara Qluff of Mineral Point Missouri describes years of pain and fatigue from womanly troubles. After ineffective medical care she reports rapid improvement following two bottles of Cardus and continued wellness. The ad promotes Cardus as a cure and urges a trial with a mailed wrapper offer.
A tangled tale unfolds as Morand's supposed kiss in a tunnel drives Julia and Jacques to jealousy. Julietta confesses she kissed her own hand, believing Morand and Marguerite shared affection, while Danville remains pleased with her companion's attentions.
Chief Frank Newnam issued instructions to arrest newsboys disturbing the peace on East Crockett Street between 12 and 6 in the morning. Police will patrol Commerce and Houston streets during early hours to curb gatherings of hundreds outside two newspaper offices on Saturdays. Businessmen reported to Mayor Callaghan about loud, boisterous conduct.
The 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show is set to arrive early tomorrow via the San Antonio and Aransas Pass line. Wagons stock and tents will be unloaded quietly as workers observe a day of rest, with amusement tents and the Indian village area opening before performances begin Monday at 2 PM and 8 PM.
The town ticket office will open Monday at 9 oclock in the Fischer Drug Store to sell seats, with standing room never sold and every department assured a good seat.
At a London stockholders meeting Anglo-American Cable and the direct United States Cable Company approved unanimously a nine year lease of lines to Western Union Telegraph Company. The agreement takes effect upon Western Union ratification.
Officials announce a Thursday morning sale of three burros claimed to be smuggled stock in the possession of Juan P. Ibarra. Ibarra was arrested on the complaint and remanded to await grand jury, bail set at 250 dollars.
Rev. I. M. Page of Denver conducts a revival at Government Hill Methodist Church with Rev. J. H. Groseclose as pastor. Page preaches to large crowds and services continue next week with daily 8 p.m. sermons.
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