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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1915
Page
13
A bulletin from the local post office outlines postage increases for parcel delivery. Rates set at 1 cent for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional pound, with variations for routes over 300 miles and for shortest regular mail paths, sparking noted confusion about first pound charges between Junction City Temple and San Antonio routes.
Three separate blazes caused by unknown causes broke out around 8 and 8 40 Friday morning. At 10138 Nort Sabcedo street two fires damaged the exterior of a home, estimated at about 200 dollars, halted quickly. kerosene traces suggest arson. Investigations by police are underway. A separate fire at 15520 Frigny Street damaged a store and home, with investigations continuing.
A garbled historical passage debates hands as a key to human evolution and mind, contrasting evolutionist and hand mystic views. It notes the hand as a primary instrument shaping thought, skill, and toolmaking, with references to animal hands and the hand’s influence on destiny and intellect.
The text compares the mobility and structure of the human hand to that of apes, noting the thumb’s relative length, the prehensile capability of the fingers, and the wrist’s neural and muscular factors. It cites Wallace on the foot’s vertical alignment and the hand’s superior dexterity as key to erect posture and tree climbing.
A vivid World War I field dispatch describes La Bassée areas as quiet and hot corners with shelling, mud, and hedges. It notes improvised fortifications, stray wheat buried by shells, and the peril faced by soldiers and peasants, including wounded men and medical corps ambulances.
An improvised rescue operation moved wounded soldiers from the battle area to a clearing station. Specialists in dangerous transport loaded patients into trucks and state vehicles, then transferred them to a white hospital ship for evacuation to Brand, marking a life and war effort incident amid public safety and ambulance responses.
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