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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1899
Page
13
Fragmented OCR notes reference trains between San Antonio Stockdale Eagle Pass and Mexico with times around 8 a m 1 pm 2 pm and 12 10 p m 4 28 p m. Mentions arrivals at 7 25 42 m and 4 28. Teaching Stockdale 101 percent unclear.
A long column urges investment in San Antonio and Southwest Texas real estate amid tax relief projections. It claims lower taxes coming, promises rising property values, and invites readers to act now to secure gains. It emphasizes cautious, profitable investment and urges readers to visit or write for current opportunities.
John T. Hambleton & Co lists a summer residence at 104 East Commerce Street for rent or unfurnished with ten rooms, bath, three galleries, large yard, on the highest point of South Helgbhta with south and east front, convenient car service. Also offers a Babcock Standard Press for newspaper and job work, 28x42 Nova, speed 1200 to 1800 per hour, end for sale $5K. Care Daily Light.
A crude clipping warns of Zionist sects blamed for hog destruction across Ontario provinces farmers resist what it calls a religious craze. It cites the Walkerton case involving John Turner and John Fiddis and quotes Leviticus 11:7 on pork uncleanliness as justification for authorities to curb killings.
Thirteen young Cherokee Indians in Wichita form the Anti-American Marriage club pledging death penalty for members who marry outside the race. Women may join if Cherokee, swearing never to wed nonmembers. Members must marry within the tribe once proposals arise, or face grave consequences as described by organizers.
Secretary Loog lowers discharge costs for three year men and naval apprentices. The revised table reduces purchase rates to two thirds of the old price, placing discharges within reach of enlisted personnel.
A floating island measuring one to two acres and four to five feet thick has drifted to Havana Indiana after striking a cabin boat and a wagon bridge pier. Officials consider dynamite to remove the stranded mass as it lies between the pier and shore. A Pennsylvania farmer’s wife near Lebanon is critically injured after a grayhound attack lacerated her hand. West Virginia coal production remains the state’s top mineral industry.
The article details Faneuil Hall’s reconstruction with steel and fireproof materials at a cost of about $100,000 to preserve the Cradle of Liberty. It notes the foundation issues, need for new supports, and deeper digging to solid ground, while recounting the building’s historic origins tied to old Boston merchant Faneuil and the Jolly Bachelor ship.
American woman Ly Nome Nisy Ellen Burdett has just rented the Pompeiian house in Paris built about 40 years ago by Prince Jerome Napoleon. She plans to use it as an American den and tearoom during the 1900 Exposition, expecting to realize funds to purchase the property at the end of six months. The house features a Janga atrium with eight columns and Pompeian vases, and Burdett will attire her staff in Pompeian costumes, offering travel weary Americans a familiar welcome abroad.
Miss E A Philo a white woman died in Savannah Ga at Haven Time a school for colored girls she wished her body not placed in the white Laurel Grove cemetery but with the colored people city officials say no right to deny burial in the colored lot pending promise of enforcement mayor and city attorney rule the city cannot choose burial grounds for white or colored persons the teacher at Haven Dome 57 years old. Decapitation by barbed wire ends farmer Tyer Olsen died near Battle S D when a sled upset his neck was torn by the wire fence. Faneuil Hall in Boston deteriorates guard placed on second floor to warn visitors away from weak spots as reconstruction is planned.
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