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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1900
Page
8
The Ivy Social Club announces its grand New Year ball at Beethoven Hall on December 31. Committees report nearly complete preparations and the supper plan is supervised to ensure proper service. Theo Artzt will provide the dancing music and tickets cost 50 cents with ladies admitted free.
A local grocery lists items including coffee tea and soap as well as canned fish olives and olives. It promotes Dulling's Chalybeate tonic beverage and highlights Christmas candies and dried fruits with reduced prices.
Christmas closings cancel tomorrow's city council session. Mayor Hicks named Aldermen Barker Richter and O Connor to review the market house with the city engineer. Avenue D residents seek street repairs, and Frank Carpenter requests assessment corrections. The telephone strike talks continue with Special Agent Voster. Fire hose wagon ready after garnish, station 1 duty soon. detectives Garza and Cassiano on duty. Robb resigns to become mounted patrol after New Year.
Messrs T B Johnson O Veith and W C Williams will supervise a 252 committee to award expensive Christmas presents on December 24 at the Empire Opera House. The draws will occur between acts of La Belle Marie, with tickets published in local papers and out of town holders urged to mail their tickets for shipment. Nic Tengg promotes books as gifts.
The Hudson Rye brand is praised for quality and value, deemed the best goods for the money by buyers. The Ronse Liquor Co promotes the product as a trusted choice in the local market.
The Daily Express reports a Friday agreement between Parker-Washington and Alamo Cement to supply cement for the city's street paving. Crews began at San Pedro park clearing grounds and stripping quarries in preparation for the crusher, signaling a serious push toward completion amidst public impatience. The piece notes hopes for curb work and a new asphalt mine in coming weeks, and urges tangible progress over promises.
Alamo City Commercial College is identified as the state’s most favorably known business training school with a listed contact at Shafer and Downey box 1120.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for skin eruptions ulcers boils and blood disorders. It claims slow healing pale skin and painful swellings improve after using B B B with free trial bottles and medical advice offered by Blood Balm Co Atlanta GA.
The San Antonio City National Bank balance sheet shows resources and liabilities as of December 13 1900 with capital stock 160 000 sur plus funds and profits. It lists U S Bonds deposits due from banks and treasury items and a Christmas poem from The Sunday Light with tributes to family and the season.
Beethovens hall hosts Ma Duzenberry and her Gearls on Friday December 28 at 8 30 pm. The program features two towers of performers including Nellie Lytle Lucy Lytle Lizzie Lytle and other named players. Pa Duzenberry Hilgers Male Quartette Club and Gallagher brothers join for the second tower with violin solos by M D Hesse and accompanist Mrs Hesse.
Reports from Liverpool New Orleans Galveston and New York show unchanged cotton prices with firm tones and possible gains, though Saturday trading is off and no definite conclusions can be drawn. Local receipts were light. middling quotes were 11 to 16 cents per pound.
Fire squad responded to three calls. At 3 05 yesterday afternoon box 261 sent firefighters to Mrs Uhl s place on South Presa street where a sugar cane field burned to a fence but was quickly stopped. At 6 10 Friday evening box 12 reported a fire at Dr Carroll s office on Commerce street where flames were put out with no damage. A large pile of brush west of Hackberry Dakota Mesquite and Wyoming streets blazed for hours but the department was not summoned.
A short advertisement invites shoppers to visit Alamo Music at 311 Commerce Street to view a wide range of musical instruments music supplies and latest music. It encourages calling to inquire prices and stock before purchasing a gift.
Professor Rogers of the Grand Opera house orchestra received a Christmas box from his Ohio home. He shares the sample contents including apples walnuts Spanish chestnuts and hickory nuts, praising them as the pro dicks of the old homestead.
Alamo City Comerseric’s College in San Antonio is praised for its reputation among local business schools. Shafer and Downey are listed as the proprietors in the brief notice.
The San Antonio Brewing association presents a bottled beer claimed as second to none in the United States. The advertisement urges try this product to be thoroughly convinced that no finer beer brewert exists worldwide.
The Arnold Stock company arrives for a ten weeks engagement at the Empire Opera House led by manager I. Arnold. The cast includes Laurence Finch Edw Curtis Palmer Morrison Tapley Reamer Boston Young and the Golhe Cleveland Lee Glover Marie Adair and the Dero that Sisters. Opening play La Belle Marie from Empire Theatre New York will be staged with free act introductions and advance ticketing to avoid box office congestion.
Open until 10 o clock from Monday the 17th through Christmas to aid customers choosing pianos and other musical instruments as Christmas gifts. Thos Goggan & Bros invite night shoppers.
Lombliottes will celebrate a Christmas Eve service at San Fernando Cathedral with Shans singing the famous critique de Noel. Raves will play and the choir will sing Adeste Fideles as the bishop delivers the papal benediction received from Rome.
Full stock of holiday goods, wines, liquors, cordials, and cigars offered. Royal Remedy Chimney Sweeper Cough Cure advertised for coughs and colds at 25 cents per bottle, available at all druggists.
Members of Germania lodge No. 1036 I and L of HL invite attendance at the funeral of late sister Nira Fuller. Be at the lodge hall at 2 o'clock today. JACOB WLAER, Secretary. Wanted a few pupils in private lessons in new rapid system of shorthand, six weeks. Address S.8 Daily Light.
The City Brewery promotes The Texas Pride as an excellent beer to accompany quail season. It claims a refined product made from pure ingredients, refined through years of experience, and currently enjoying strong market success.
Hertzberg Jeweler advertises the largest collection of jewelry and miscellaneous articles for Christmas sales. The store highlights a broad range of items and seasonal gift options aimed at holiday shoppers.
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