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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1902
Page
8
A Major, famed for liking liquor, adopts a boy named Mozart Mendelssohn, raising him amid hardship. The boy, a gifted yet frightened musician, winds up guiding the Major toward redemption as they wander home through a blizzard after a final act of shared faith and mercy.
Attractive display at the D. J. Woodward & Co. carriage house offers low prices and quality work in their vehicle line. Trade deals and reasonable terms are available, with emphasis on showcasing fine items.
A long classifieds column lists numerous cottages and houses for sale with various rooms, lot sizes, and improvements. Items include brick cottages and 2 story houses on Avenue D and Government Hill, ranges from 500 to 15 000 dollars, plus several large lots and parcels on East Commerce, South Flores, and Tobin Hill.
An advertisement for Doctor Flippen a general office practitioner offering eye ear nose throat lungs nervous and stomach care with dry hot air baths and massages. It promotes an excursion to Charleston via the Southern Railway with tickets obtainable from Memphis New Orleans agents and lists T P A John M Knight and A G P A Chedttanooga as contacts.
Paris Herald describes a skating costume with a leather cloth skirt, bright drab bands, and a moderately long length. The jacket is astrakhan with small tails and cashmere silk embroidery. The hat is broadtail trimmed with chrysanthemums.
The article notes light green flatters ruddy complexions but overheats them. Delicate green suits pale blondes by adding rosiness, while violet tends to dull most complexions and can give olives a jaundiced look. Blue worsens brunettes, and yellow orange red suit dark complexions by contrasting and enriching their hue.
The article notes eighteenth century styles reemerging this winter with emphasis on empire gowns. Mme Waldeck-Rousseau is highlighted for wearing outfits that suit her, and a Paris house is cited for making empire dresses with elastic bands inside to fit without corsets.
The article contrasts delicate tulle and lace hats suited for garden party wear with the Napoleon hat featuring a fur trimmed brim and velvet folds. It notes the Napoleon hat makes a wise choice and will create a bewitching picture as winter settles in.
A large sailor collar features tucked net with filet lace insertion and kilted net frill. Two cravat ends of net, one shorter, finish with lace bands and kilted frill. The collar claims to transform a plain blouse into a dressy bodice. Also ad for new and second hand sewing machines from $10 at M. J. Hewitt.
A lamp using two independent filaments provides one candle power for normal use and sixteen for night lighting, with a screw socket switch to change filaments. Also notes improved X ray tubes, a human magnet, a swinging German railroad, wireless France tests, nine electric shocks from torpedo rays, a Philadelphia battery, and faster ship lifting in Nova Scotia.
W. K. Morrison of the imperial department in the West Indies reports stingless bees found on Monserrat. He tests modern hive methods to boost honey production amid apiarist belief that honeybees can adapt to many conditions. The stingless honey is clearer and thinner than regular honey.
An English naval architect has invented a method to coal ships at sea delivering 50 to 100 tons per hour, versus 20 tons with Miller’s method. The British admiralty weighs adoption of the new technique.
A method for producing illuminating gas and coal gas at four cents per thousand cubic feet has been discovered. It is believed to revolutionize electric power cost and impact open hearth steel production.
The Curr Wood and Coal Co promotes a Beau Mont Ecrude oil burner as the market’s cheapest and best option. Call to view in operation at their office.
The article argues for the vital role of sound teeth in digestion and health. It emphasizes daily brushing with a small stiff brush, simple powders, rinsing after meals, avoiding rough tooth use, and treating decay early to prevent pain. It also stresses teaching children proper dental care from a young age.
The piece extols sun exposure as a remedy for sleeplessness and pallor, arguing laudanum is a poor soporific while sunshine brings strength and color. It laments women hiding from sun with veils and sunshades and urges more outdoor light for vitality.
A well known authority on mushrooms advises not touching a mushroom with white lower gills. Another rule notes that toadstools cannot be skinned without breaking apart. The onion test suggests boiling half an onion with mushrooms. blue or black color means poison, while unchanged color indicates safety.
How to wash velveteen with a soap lather and warm water dissolved with borax. Turn the garment inside out and dip in and out, soap on the wrong side for very dirty spots, avoid pressing pile flat. Rinse in softened water, use salt if color runs, vinegar if color fades, hang to dry.
How to cook pork fillet by stuffing tenderloin with bread, binding, and roasting. Bake initially ten minutes at high heat then finish in a lower oven for about forty five minutes. Baste with butter and water and serve with stewed apples and cress.
Instructions for forming a stove lining using six parts potter's clay one part plaster of Paris and one part wood ashes. Mix with water to a thick cement, spread evenly, fire the stove, and fill cracks with fresh cement if needed for a durable lining.
Six pounds of Concord grapes with two pounds of sugar. Add half a pint of water and boil until tender. Strain and mix in one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon allspice, one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon pepper and half teaspoon salt plus half a pilot cider vinegar. Boil to thicken then bottle and seal.
Cleaning gilt furniture with a sifted whiting paste made into a cream with alcohol. Rub small areas before the paste hardens. Lightly touch spots with clear alcohol if needed. For heavy dirt or tarnish wash with borax soap suds, wipe dry, then apply the wet whiting and let it dry.
An ad from D. J. Woodward & Co on St. Marys street promotes affordable rigs for the poor and the rich, implying equal access to chases and jazzes through their stable offerings.
A penniless Mississippi teacher Helen Nord saves ten dollars and faces a moral choice between love with Donician and pursuing ambition. She resists a genuine romance as Aphrodite’s doves echo her inner conflict, ending with Helen choosing ambition over love and the pine woods mourning.
All chronic diseases such as Rheumatism Paralysis Strictures Nervous and Stomach troubles reportedly treated by electricity with hot air and electrical tub baths. Massage and removal of Superfluous Hairs Warts Moles and Facial Blemishes offered without pain at the Electrical Sanitarium corner Houston and Soledad streets San Antonio.
Train schedules from Houston to California and North South routes detail departures and arrivals. Key services include the San Antonio Aransas Pass, K and T, and 8. A lines with times for Houston, Smithville, Waco, St Louis, Laredo, Mexico, and local points. Includes San Katy and various branch connections.
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