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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1899
Page
12
Fragmented list shows M Karnotern furniture dealer details and multiple rail and coach schedules. Items include John T Hambleton Co addresses, saloons, various routes to Houston, Victoria, Yoakum, Waco, and Kenedy. Train lines include International and Great Northern, Southern, and West routes with departure times and arrival windows.
A collage of antiquated snippets spans Tribal lore about the Tarahumare and counting limits, a jokey courtroom tale about jury service, Sardinia brigandage quirks, and miscellaneous social observations. The pieces mix travel notes, gossip, and wry humor from various sources, illustrating a fragmented old newspaper page.
In New York the archbishop spoke of a personal history long kept private. He related aiding a penitent man who confessed attempting to rob him, then reformed after receiving help. The donor, Corrigan said, sent yearly payments to support the man’s new life, repaying a debt many years later.
Secretaries Tony and Algerlove report on the 122 army guns and 64 navy pieces captured during the Spanish war. The weapons are deemed worthless except as trophies, with a proposal to move guns from Oquendo Marielereen and Viscaya to the army and Morro castle cannon to the TRV. Army and navy agree on shared ownership of the Santiago haul.
The War Department arranges construction of a refrigerating plant at Manila. It will store 1 000 to 2 000 tons of beef and an equal amount of eggs poultry and other foods. Bids were unsatisfactory so the project was postponed. Meat and rations for Manila are now shipped from Australia incurring demurrage. The plant will cost about 150 000 dollars and be built soon.
The Ca vary Methodist Episcopal church bulletin at One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street and Seventh Avenue New York requests worshipers remove head coverings during service. The notice, printed in heavy type, led to women removing winter hats while men removed none. The piece also notes prices for autographs from Washington to Longfellow and a report on naval shipbuilding versus merchant marine orders. A registrar in London listed a child named Sirdar Kitchener.
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