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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1907
Page
23
New fall goods arrive daily by express, forcing stock cleanout. This week offers half the regular price on many ready to wear garments including lingerie waists linen suits linen skirts silk jumper suits and parasols. A major value event designed to attract bargain seekers.
December Paris column laments cars as "engines of death" polluting avenues and killing trees. An inquiry links fumes and road tar to plant decay as thirty thousand cars plow city streets daily. Police data frame accidents against expanding dust, urging decision on keeping trees or more traffic.
Special Cable reports in Paris that Swiss hotels face a strike threat as workers fear Japanese staff will be dismissed. Japanese employees, long favored in Geneva Lucerne and Zurich hotels, are said to provide careful service and learning the trade. Proposals to end the practice spark tension amid fashion season and a social whirl that includes high society nuptials and royal alignments in France.
The article notes no clear annual record of Arabian horses origin. Homer Davenport discusses one breed of Arabian horse in Woman's Home Companion. Five primary families named the Khamsoh descend from five mares tied to Solomon legends when battle called them back to war.
A twelve hundred ton wreck of the old British minef ar Viper lies in the hold of the dismasted Wildwood, now arrived at St John New Brunswick from Bermuda in tow of the Gladisson. The Viper was one of the Confederate weapons intended to attack the U S Navy during the Civil War but was confiscated by Britain and later sent to Bermuda.
Special Cable to The Light Berlin reports tensions rising between Russia and China in the Far East. Russian merchants accuse Chinese authorities of provoking Russia while Japanese agents recruit former officers for incursions, with German consuls noting large Chinese troop concentrations in Manchuria. German officials fear an imminent Sino Russian clash as Russian and German merchants consider exiting Manchuria.
A large wagon built by the Planeer Mis ing company of Seattle is headed for Nome Alaska to haul freight across tundra. It features eighteen inch tires, two foot wheel diameters, ten foot rims, and a twenty six foot long dolly with a height over seven feet. Built in Alt Meda California for $700, the wagon is claimed to be the world’s largest wagon and will enter service this spring.
Special Cable reports Mrs Leiter, mother and diplomat, captivating at Lord Carvon’s country house now in Wit Wor, as her son Liam appears pressed to enter politics. Mrs Leiter, staying with Tulloeh Joes’ family, plans to spend most of the year in this country.
An employee in a western city tests an invention for street railways. A passenger’s weight on the lower sky triggers a buzzer and brakes at once, warning the motor car and stopping the car as it reaches the platform or ground. Contact pens are set in the stop and triggered by weight.
Fragmentary OCR piece hints at social judgment and fear of public perception. May reference dress, mimicry, and concerns about how others view a person's status or wealth. Missing clear events or identities limits firm reporting.
An excerpt details 1817 Texas post offices Galveston Houston and Austin and postmaster salaries over 200 a year. It covers franking privileges, 1847 regulations, contracts for gas service in Texas, and salaries of San Antonio officials. It notes 1848 appropriations and the 1847 postmaster general Cave Johnson and staff, postage rates, and newspaper postage rules.
Laura T. Ronaldson, a wealthy New York bachelor girl, led a solitary life with odd fads including dressing in Indian costume. Her body was found in her apartment after an apparent suicide. neighbors recall hearing a Russian symphony on the night of her death.
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