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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1899
Page
12
Fragmentary late 19th century railway timetable shows various trains with arrival and departure times. Mentions routes between Eagle Pass Pant California Rockdale San Antonio and San Antoalo, with mixed times for leaves and arrives, though several words are garbled.
A collage of quips and captions from old periodicals includes mock legal quips about bigamy and truthfulness, a parade of pun filled banter on daily life, pets, fashions, and social foibles. Characters named Ally Sloper, Washington, and various magazine tidbits surface amid piecemeal jokes and humorous vignettes.
A promotional article advocates investing in real estate and land in San Antonio and Southwest Texas. It promises lower taxes, safe returns, and profitable opportunities, urging readers to act before prices rise. It appeals to citizens and newcomers, touting “favorable judgments” and urging visits or letters to arrange up-to-date homes, vacant lots, farms, or ranches at attractive prices.
John T. Hambleton & Co advertises a summer residence for rent at 104 East Commerce Street with ten rooms bath galleries and yard plus car service. Also selling a Babcock Standard real for newspaper and job work in San Antonio with 6 column pages 28 by 42 inches and speed 1200 to 1800 per year.
A Boston Globe report says Ylonist sects urge branches in Ottawa and nearby areas, risking a clash with pork packers. The piece links beliefs of devil possession in hogs to calls for action by provincial authorities against those who target pigs, amid debates on animal slaughter and religiously motivated practices.
Thirteen young Cherokees organize an all Cherokee marriage pledge in Wichita Kansas. Members including women swear never to marry outside the race under death penalty and to marry within the tribe as soon as eligible. The group, termed The Anti American Marriage club, plans enforcing the rule by secret penalties and social pressure.
Secretary Long orders a reduction in the price of discharges for three year men and navy apprentices. The revised table lowers rates to about two thirds of the old charges, bringing release costs into the financial reach of enlisted personnel and apprentices who must finance the buyout from other sources of revenue.
A drifting island measuring one to two acres and four to five feet thick has entered the Illinois river near Havana, causing structural shocks to a wagon bridge and threatening to be blown up by authorities. A separate report notes Mia James Dundore gravely ill after a pet dog attack, while West Virginia coal production remains a leading industry with a price of 15 cents.
The article covers plans to reconstruct Faneuil Hall using original materials where possible with a steel fireproof core. It notes the building’s foundation issues, the cost of alterations around $100,000, and describes the historical context including Peter Faneuil’s wealth from the slave trade and the building’s designation as “The Cradle of Liberty.”
An American woman named Misa WMen Burdlett leases the large Pompeiian house in Tarla, built about 40 years ago by Princes Jerome Napoleon. She plans to use the dwelling as an expensive tea and refreshment room during the 1900 exposition, hoping to earn enough in six months to buy the property at its end. The house, famed for its Pompeiian hall and eight supporting columns, remains a curiosity with ornate vases and tropical decor. Ms Dunieil will wear Pompeiian period dress, and the tea room aims to provide rest for travelers amused by foreign ambiance.
Miss E A Philo a white woman died in Savannah Ga at Haven Home a school for colored girls and requested burial with the colored, a wish city officials say cannot be granted as the city cannot sell a lot in the colored cemetery for a white person nor permit burial of a colored person in Wyom etary. Decedent was 37 and single.
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