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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1907
Page
3
The notice lists multipurpose ads for a bookkeeper and deliveryman, a business manager, a barber trainee, a yard worker, a blacksmith helper, candy factory workers, a cook, a baker, and other roles. Also includes a movable furniture and tool shop, a piano tuner, lawnmower sharpening, and a messenger employment service, all aiming to hire quickly.
Two Italian musicians were struck and instantly killed by a northbound Santa Fe train a short distance from Mesilla. Their instruments lay nearby. the bodies were found with one reportedly dismembered, suggesting they lay on the track to rest. In Lufkin a Black man claiming to be from the North was jailed after clashing with local officials. a Colt revolver was seized and his views on Texans shifted.
Choice sections quarters or halves of land from the Las Vegas New Mexico grant. Land described as fertile black soil with ample rainfall and abundant water in a most desirable climate. Free trip to purchasers. Address Private Party 100 Light Office.
Reported accidents crimes and oddities across Texas including Amoy Riehwancon thrown from a horse with fatal neck injuries near Floresville. Mrs Middleton and Miss Fannie Cartwellgal bitten by a polecat in Decatur seeking Pasteur Institute treatment. carpenter J. J. Starr dies after a fall at Cananea railway roundhouse. A monster watermelon weighs 109% pounds near Fort Worth, wolves threaten Sherman livestock, Uncle Billy Stillson burned in Palestine, Labor Day speech planned in Teague, four saloon men arrested in Dallas for Sunday laws, Thomas Owen dies after a shooting in Galveston, saloons closed in El Paso under license crackdown, and a Teething Syrup advertisement closes the items.
In Houston in August a Russian boy of about 20 named Ivaan Baguif was stranded at Union Station after losing a ticket. He had never eaten meat before and, after a faithful street acquaintance fed him bread and watermelons, he received fare to California with seven loaves and two watermelons in his basket.
In this Light column item from August 19 1886 Miss Bethe Danenhauer age 13 lies seriously ill at home while Louis A Hornung remains gravely ill at Nie Sagi Rosa hospital with typhoid fever. A house on Olive street is destroyed by fire causing 1200 in loss. C W Clawson shows improvement after burn injuries. The carpet union plans a meeting at the Firemen’s ball Saturday night. A cattle drought and water shortage injure livestock. Ida Konzman and Shavid Sanders wedding held at parents’ home. A fishing party led by City Attorney Newton and D P Deison returns from Kerr and Kendall counties reporting a rough trip. United States Army seeks able bodied unmarried males 21 to 35 for enlistment.
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