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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1897
Page
3
An advertisement touts Munyon's Nerve Core as a cure for nervous exhaustion and related symptoms such as low spirits irritability and sleeplessness. It markets Monson's Vitaliser as a restorative tonic and mentions personal medical advice and a special cure for each disease.
A breezy theatre chronicle notes Tessie Bartlett Dayia singing Dolores in The Serenade in London next summer while Fanny Davenport sails for Europe in June to source costumes. It mentions Henry Miller as Eric Temple, Melbourne MacDowell in Fenny Davenport, and Law and society figures like Lew Rosen and Elizabeth Marbury traveling for summer assignments.
Murphy left Jay for San Antonio on business. Chas Rosa began a two day visit to San Antonio. Conductor Smith and wife from San Antonio passed through from Yopo Chico en route home. Joseph Synder of Monterey traveled yesterday from San Antonio. A night guard at Fort McIntosh halted a suspicious man on the I w beat and escorted him to the Cros Regale.
A verbose promotional piece outlines economical cottage design for moderate means. It describes a four-room first floor plus three on the second, with spacious kitchen pantry dining flow, portable range, water boiler, and ample storage. Construction emphasizes solid foundations, plastered interiors, timber framing, and furnace heating within a $3,000 budget.
Baltimore architect William A. Goodrich argues red façades cause optic and astigmatic distortions, noting twisting nerve effects that bend light and impair vision. He favors mellow whites and yellows for luxury street appearances and cites a Paris landlord’s red storefront harming sales.
A damaged fragment describes sheet music for two cents a copy. It mentions various phrases about melodies and headings, with garbled terms like ready fretches ful sine and regier torigecent. The text reads as an old time catalog notice with unclear titles and costly engravings.
Devine notices report local figures, including J OG Trey and J A Crawford in San Antonio. Bee Candy Co’s Mr Zimmerman, Steve Howard and wife visit, Anne Bradshaw returns home, and a school tax petition circulates for a 2 cent rate. Oil mill plans loom and new teachers hired for next session. Pleasanton items mention Judge Langston at court, a San Antonio asylum breakout, merchant Mummeneive in town, and cattle shipments by John Martin and Walter Cook.
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