A Social Affair
A brief society notice about a musical evening for invited guests at Austin's Driskill Hotel, featuring the pupils of a local music teacher.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · December 24, 1896 · Page 6
1 min readQuite a pleasant evening is predicted for invited guests Tuesday evening, at the Driskill hotel. Upon this occasion the pupils of Mrs. A. Walthersdorf, assisted by Misses [...] Johnson, [...] Davis and Messrs. Warner and West, will entertain all callers, and incidental to the gathering a most delightful musicale is promised.
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