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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1911
Page
6
H C King addressed the Real Estate Exchange urging better San Antonio roads as essential to civilization and growth. He warned wretched streets cost residents $100 per person yearly and argued proper pavements are the city’s best, most economical investment for prosperity.
The first West Indian hurricane of the season has appeared off the South Carolina coast and is causing extensive property damage. The article reflects on future methods to avert storm destruction, comparing past innovations like the telephone and airship.
The piece argues storms cost billions in losses yet can be mitigated by the Weather Bureau and advancing science. It compares storm prediction to Franklin's harnessing of electricity and predicts future control of tornadoes and hurricanes, enabling safer, less fearsome weather.
Representative Fred S Jackson of Kansas asks Taft to convene a world congress on remodelling alphabets into a universal sound notation. The piece argues such a system cannot convey identical meanings across languages and recalls historical writing systems, noting English sounds and letters are not universally replicable.
The article discusses attention on slang suppression by guardians of proper speech. It notes youth warned to study approved masters who reject slang, while the younger generation resists, offering a retort that stuns the critics with its boldness.
The piece argues slang can fuel a genius like Shakespeare in a modern era, blending slang and patois with rapid invention. It warns rules would fail to restrain a universal talent, yielding bold, unfettered expression while cautioning slang as a double edged tool to be wielded with care.
Brigadier General Frederick Funston recounts a wound received during a firefight near Malolos and San Fernando. He describes bloodied hands, medical aid, and a hasty improvised counterattack led by General Wheaton after a mistaken assessment of the situation.
The article explains chicken pox as a highly contagious illness mainly in children, more common in the south, with fever preceding eruption. It warns against sharing drinking cups in schools, urging individual cups and strict hygiene, noting vaccination has no effect on chicken pox.
Texas farmers organize Split Log Drag clubs with Cooke County hosting eleven groups. The county funds a drag for each club, territories span about six miles, and members pay 50 cents monthly. Town merchants join, arguing good roads increase trade and town life, urging wider adoption of the inexpensive, effective drag.
The New York Sun reports on the Vanderbilt residence fence removal and curb work at Forty-eighth Street. Sightseers crowd the site as changes to C. P. Huntington's house progress, prompting questions about the fence’s reported cost of 150000.
An observer describes watching ants carry a lit match and a blade of grass from an underground hill, noting their swift cooperative effort. The anecdote likens their behavior to communal action and civic cleanliness without human intervention.
A narrator recalls recurring debtors who borrow small sums and vanish. A friend lends a dollar on a late night corner, only to see the borrower try to change a ten into coins, then claim the money belongs to another party as they vanish into a smoking room.
Poem by J. G. Whittier contemplates nature as a perpetual hymn. Nature and sea offer worship through waves, winds, and forests, while the earth, sky, and stars form a living temple. The work contrasts nature’s pious chorus with mankind’s prayerless heart.
A Paris contemporary reports a motor bus service between Jaffa and Jerusalem. The Italian initiator hopes visitors reach the holy sepulcher by motor, a concept viewed by some as an abomination yet steadily attracting riders through the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
A 1910 poem by Geo. Matthew Adan narrates a solitary vigil of brooding and tears. The speaker recalls slights, ventures into tea, cheeks filled with brine, and the clash with a hausfrau who mocks genius and urges coping through labor and song.
The piece urges broad government transparency before presidential nominations and judicial appointments. It demands disclosure of funding sources behind nominations ownership of newspapers and the influence of vested interests, urging a democratic congress to trigger a sustained publicity campaign through upcoming elections.
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