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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 06, 1899

Page

3

Porto Rico Correspondent Describes Mayaguez Festivities

A Mayaguez correspondent reports on July 49 celebrations marking the reorganization of troops, including a grand banquet, a ball at the Mayaguez opera house, and a parade through Candelaria street to the Military plaza. Soldiers from the Eleventh infantry and Fifth cavalry led a civic pageant with floats of Liberty and Porto Rico, amid music, speeches, and demonstrations of American wealth.

Mayiguez Porto Rico Runior Philippines Eleventh Infantry Ighiad San Antonin Rane Lela Paerty Dive San Munn Tyee Fife Islan Nemins Mayaguex Opera House Santone Als Oelock P Candelaria Street Meulez-Vigo Wirth Teri Liberty Progreas Tsing Sun of Liberty

Stomach Bitters and a City Fire Parade Story

An eccentric, old style chronicle mixes medicinal patent elixirs with a dramatic city fire and parade. It recounts a stomach bitters promotion, a Havana era parade, a blaze response by troops and fire crews, and a scattered roster of island troops with quirky spellings and garbled place names.

Discovery Cures Consumption and Coughs Says Patient

AVATS THE KLONDISE Mr 4 A Thomas of Maryvie Texas credits Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Cough and Cold with curing years of suffering from consumption and hemorrhage. He praises it as priceless even at a hundred dollars a bottle. Trial bottles free at I Kalteyer and Son's drug store. Regular sizes 60 cents and 1.00. Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.

A. Thomas Maryvie Tex Klondike Dr King

Through Colorado Rail Lines Offer Dual Rocky Mountain Routes

The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad outlines two distinct lines across the Rockies, linking Denver to Grand Junction and Grand Junction to Ogden via the Sronta Line and through the Black Canyon. Passengers from Ogden or San Francisco are urged to buy tickets valid both ways via The Scent Line of the World, enabling one route outward and another return. Pamphlets available from Denver offices.

Colorado Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Rockies Tiekele Sronta Denver Grand Junction Bio Grande Betwee Arito SK Hooper Colo

Santone Cigar Ad Promises Uniform Quality

An OCR fragment markets Santone cigars with claims of uniform quality. It lists contact details for James Morse at 61 Commerce Street San Antonio Texas and promises customer satisfaction with a phone number, though several words are garbled.

CHIAS ROSEY Mtr San Antonio Texsa James Morse Eharpear Fools and Lashy Reet Commerce Street

Early Southeast Asian Marriage and Burial Customs

A historical fragment describes continental origin theories of marriage practices, dowries, rites, and the role of a patailou priestess in wedding ceremonies. It notes dowry components, purchase of wives, and post weddings, plus burial customs among Jolo Mindanao Tagalos and Muslim communities, including embalming and coffin traditions.

Wells Matuyr Agia Wis Mary Lee Antone Visayas Altiough Ensian Tadiedfuhov Jacob Wil Rivehel Fiesla Quitlves Patailou Walter Kmnii Conhazil Jolo Mindana Acad Entertain

Hag In puoneiath INEM top of sloup mouniin

MAGE WEMTTARLS Conputny M Cebu reports a description of a structure raised from the ground with bamboo fencing and a pole square. The account notes difficult conveyance and placement details near rocks and eaves, dated June 1, 1890.

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Dubinski Electric Company to Form Manufacturing Plant

A stock venture seeks to establish a factory in Texas to produce tint passenger and heralde elevating goods. The plan promises full local production capacity, employment opportunities, and home capital support, inviting surplus funds from investors for a safe, profitable venture with strong demand.

Ena Wrubl Dubinski Electric Company Hoteton Street Antonia Texas

Mrs Anson JonesLife in 1800s Texas First Lady remembered

The sketch recalls Mrs Anson Jones wife of President Jones a leading figure in early Texas politics born July 24 1819 in Arkansas. It notes her role during her husband’s rise to the presidency 1844 and recounts her widowhood and later life in Houston and Galveston while mentioning a travel advice plug for Chamberlains remedies for travel ailments.

Sonik Soolth Loesas Fontier Wes Nueb Ani Swit Mouston Theoreti John Wondyan Tories Senate of Texas Abe United States Jones Tunea B. Jones Mia G. Asofa Houston Tomes Ant Star Globe-Dumbecar

European industry at the century’s start amid war and upheaval

The article reflects on early 19th century Europe, noting hampered commerce and industry under imperial controls, wartime disruptions, and a depleted workforce. It cites North Sea yards and German conditions as weakened by prolonged conflict, with master and journeyman exodus and widespread impoverishment affecting the iron and rubber trades and related sectors.

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