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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1897
Page
9
A rough collage of notes on politics, advertising, and public life in the capital area. References to newspaper ads, duty shifts, the Monterey consulship, and tax sales hint at local business and civic concerns, with several named figures and places such as San Antonio, Galveston News, and Hotel Campbell noted.
Frank Caldwell shares recollections of gold rush dreams and perils from 1890s Alaska. An elderly witness recalls Calfornia fever, shipboard mutinies, and desperate schemes to hoard wealth while detailing routes, dangers, and the lure of El Dorado. Also notes Mr Henry Benager’s photo gift of Muir Glacier from Glacier Bay during a July visit by Mr and Mrs Langer.
Gussie Diesenbach, who kept a minnow basin at his Lakeview yard, found his bait stock vanish. He emptied the basin and found a well fed moccasin snake that had killed and eaten the minnows. The snake could not escape the basin due to a smooth interior. Also a notice seeks a four to five room house with tent paid in advance and a tenant for property at W, BY box 606, city.
A humorous meditation on waking early and the social compulsion to rise, detailing the restless, irritable morning to a chain of comical misadventures. It contrasts the stubborn alarm with the reluctance of the late sleeper and traces the day’s mischiefs from dawn to night.
The fragment blends fanciful satire on royal titles with a nature loving aside about dawn and woods. It contrasts grand ceremonial scenes with quiet mornings, then shifts to a testimonial for Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, praising its quick relief for a Toddler and noting availability through druggists.
In Pearsall Texas on August 14 observers note the long dry period ends with good rains reviving withered cotton now green. The crop is shorter than expected but rainfall proves valuable to stockmen and farmers. Local social events include a sociable at I A DeVit biss residence and a reception for summer normal staff. Additional notices record music study abroad, a visitor from the Alamo City, and several local business changes amid hard times as the county moves toward prosperity.
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