San Antonio Light Introductory Note
The San Antonio Light outlines its historic lineage as a merger of The San Antonio and The San Antonio Evening Daily and Sunday Morning. It notes its exclusive leased wire status with the Associated Press and its post office mailing as second class matter.
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San Antonio
Ehierea
Advat Aeee
Association of American Advertisers
San Antonio Light
N. W. Ayer & Son
Philadelphia
America
Europe
Southwest Tuberculosis Policy Sparks Press Debate
Harper's Weekly decries Governor Colquitt's call for warnings to indigent consumptives seeking Texas. The piece argues the Southwest bears no obligation to the nation and urges large scale tuberculosis sanitoria in West Texas, funded by the government, as a cure for indigents while allowing paying patients to recuperate away from the public.
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Southwest
Harper's Weekly
Colquitt
Texas
San Antonio
Pecos
Bexarty Medical Association
Austin
Optimistic Prohibitionists Face Imminent Decline
The piece critiques a January Indianapolis conference by Prohibitionists led by Virgil O. Hinshaw, predicting six days of rhetoric but little chance for nationwide نتائج. It argues prohibition lacks economic basis and threatens local self government, with slow progress and eventual historical note.
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Prohibition Party
Indianapolis
Ind
Virgil O. Hinshaw
National Committee
Hinshaw
Republicans
Democratic Organization
Progressive Party
Texas and the Tubercular Dilemma in Public Health Policy
The piece argues Texas should buy land for a tuberculosis camp if humanitarian ideals demand. but voluntary segregation fails due to patient evasion and societal attitudes. It warns a forced colony would become a death trap without iron legislation and highlights the gap between scientific view and public sentiment.
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Harper’s Weekly
Texas
Heaven
Earth
Golf Tennis And Good Roads Resort Ad Attacked
A Southern winter resort ad claims three 18 hole and one hole courses plus roads and hotels near San Antonio. The piece argues San Antonio offers superior golf tennis and auto routes and dismisses the rival as overstating offerings on a mountain location with little nearby.
San Antonio urged to build golf tennis and roads for winter tourists
The piece argues that golf courses tennis courts and good automobile roads would draw thousands of winter visitors to San Antonio. It notes hotels are fully booked and urges local officials led by Judge James R. Davis to provide the amenities. It cites warm climate and potential revenue.
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San Antonio
James R. Davis
New York City
Veryan Round Houses Keep Out the Devil in Cornwall
In Veryan Cornwall a village built over a century ago houses topped with crosses. The round cottages were intended to frighten away the Evil One and keep villagers virtuous under Vicar Jeremiah Trist’s plan. Today the curious rings remain as a historic oddity from Wide World Magazine.
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Cornwall
England
Veryan
Jeremiah Trist
Wide World Magazine
California Oberammergau: San Francisco Bohemian Forest Play
Herman Scheffauer profiles the Bohemian club of San Francisco and its annual outdoor play in a grove. The event, autonomous from public access, is a pure aesthetic rite with famed Bohemian participants, no scenery, and a reverent forest setting drawing international guests each year.
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California
Gordon Craig
Max Reinhardt
Herman Scheffauer
Wide World
Origin of Suffragette Word Traces to London Hyde Park Corner
A New York Sun letter argues that suffragette likely originated in London near Hyde Park rather than in France. It notes the French dictionary lag and jokes about coinages such as martYrette and anaelettes forming a playful trio with suffragette, predicting it will not appear in the academy soon.
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France
London
Hyde Park
Marble Arch
The
Academy
New York Sun
The Traitor Parley in the Brotherhood of the Black Seal
Vera loves Petroff Slavinski a traitor set to die. Ivan Turgoff secretly aids Slavinski to escape death after learning his betrayal of Léstroff. Bobrikoff confronts Turgoff, who explains he acted to save Slavinski for a woman he loves.
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Petroff Slavinski
Secret Court
Brotherhood of the Black Seal
Léstroff
Slavinski
Turgoff
Ivan
Vera
Loris Bobrikoff
Ivan Turgoff
Tomorow
England
Lostroff
Lestroff
Brotherhood
Rascal
Borikoff
Between Two Thieves a Philippic on Louis Napoleon
A critic compares Richard Dehan’s description of Louis Napoleon in Between Two Thieves to historic denunciations by Cicero and Burke. The passage imagines crafting a dark ink from blood and battlefields to write Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince of Pretenders, Emperor of France.
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Cicero
Catiline
Burke
Warren Hastings
Philippic
Richard Dehan
Louis Napoleon
Archangel
Michael
Raphael
Paris
Rue Montmartre
Varna
Lake of
Devna
Crim Tartary
Alma
Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte
France
Lecture platform could hire any former president if needed
The Baltimore Sun notes that in a question of necessity even a former president might find a role on the lecture platform.
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Baltimore Sun
Inevitable Ambush Ends in Fatal Wounding of Turgoff
In a tense confrontation a traitor vows more killings. Ivan Turgoff is mortally wounded by a knife. He drags to the table and grasps Vera's portrait, crying of reunion in the next world as the image seems to murmur I will come.
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Victor Petrovitch
Ivan
Vera
Ivan Turgoff
Slavinski
Latin Quarter
Michael
Letter Enveloped with Full Address Fails to Reach Addressee
A San Antonio letter shown by J R Jernigan at the St Anthony hotel carries an impeccably filled envelope addressed to Mr. John Smith of the St Anthony hotel Iturbide Mex postmarked Nov 28 but the recipient has not appeared at the St Anthony and the letter remains undelivered.
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San Antonio
J. R. Jernigan
The
St. Anthony
Smith
John Smith
St. Anthony Hotel
Firepeorf
F. M. Swearingen and Son
Texas
Iturbide
Mex
Asbestos a Valuable Mineral from Canada
The article notes asbestos largely comes from Canada where it was first found in commercial quantities in 1877 by farmer Fecteau. By 1890 Canada produced 9860 tons valued around $1.25 million, with export to the United States averaging about 15,000 tons yearly for the decade ending 1904, worth roughly $450,000.
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Canada
Fecteau
United States
J. F. Springer
Cassier’s Magazine
Pension urged for Joe Cannon by Mr Carnegie
A letter in the Charleston News and Courier argues that Mr Carnegie should grant a pension to Joe Cannon, claiming no other man in America contributed more to building the Scot's wealth.
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Carnegie
Joe Cannon
America
Charleston News and Courier
Next Best to the White House
Detroit Free Press notes William J. Bryan is seen as a top pick for a leadership post, likening him to a pilot steering the ship of state and suggesting a possible appointment to a high government seat.
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White House
William J. Bryan
Detroit Free Press
North American Review highlights Balkan war, labor, and science
The leading articles review Balkan tensions with The War in the Balkans and An American View and discuss economic questions Is the High Cost of Living Going Higher and The N Vitalism. Other pieces cover poetry, Meredith interviews, science frontiers in Exploring Other Worlds, and labor battles with professional strike breakers amid a broad array of topics. Eight hundred New York chauffeurs win a wage raise to 2.76 for twelve hours.
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North Amercan Review
Balkans
Balka
Svetozar Tonjoroff
Stephen Bonsal
Bulgaria
Irii Fisher
Yale University
John Burrough
Sor Schafer
Robert W. Neese
America
Gabriel Hanotau
North America
France
Ellen Burns Sherman Ha
Pall Mall Gzette
J. P. Collins
George Meredith
Georg Meredith
Darrel Figgis
William Bayard Hale
B. F. Yoakum
Samuel P.* Orth
Mabel Potter Daggett
Iowa
Albion Fellows Bacon
Indiana
George F. Waugh
Alaska
York
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