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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1912
Page
7
An advertisement claims pimples blotches and skin eruptions are caused by impurities in the blood and that Stuart's Calcium Wafers purify the blood. It promises quick, harmless results, a clearer face in days and a 50 cent box available at drug stores.
Archduke Francis Charles heir to Austria Hungary and future emperor has begun studies at Stonyhurst College near Clitheroe England as a philosophy student. He will learn English with private lessons and study philosophy logic and psychology while enjoying sports like riding fishing shooting and golf.
The parcels post will launch January 1 with an eleven pound weight limit and a zone based rate structure. Rates use twelve denominations and distinctive red stamps. each post office becomes a center within its zone grid.
An advertisement touts Blackburn's Casca Royal Pills as the quickest permanent remedy for constipation biliousness stomach liver and bowel trouble. Described as a physic tonic and purifier, priced 10c and 26c, distributed by druggists.
The plan covers nearly all express company routes and over 1,000,000 rural delivery miles. It needs new equipment like hampers for parcels and will likely have early inefficiencies as the system adjusts. A committee led by Chief Inspector Sharp and others finalized the details with Postmaster General Hitchcock aiming to start January 1.
A 10-year-old boy from Cynwyst Merionethshire was sent on an errand and perished in the act. The incident occurred as he attempted to deliver a message for his parents Mr. and Mrs. Pidysweh. The narrative notes the boy’s valiant effort and the fatal outcome.
A child attempting to cross a flooded river Alver on wires across a missing footbridge fell into the swollen waters after tiring and was carried away by the flood despite a nearby blacksmith’s desperate efforts to reach him.
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