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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1913
Page
28
Frances L. Garside warns husbands in a sharp Christmas fable about a woman overwhelmed by shopping. She wraps 37 gifts by mail and express, and by mistake perforates her baby with Christmas stickers. The story ends with a caution to be tender and forgiving during the holidays.
Probation Officer J Ross Boles spoke to the Philanthropic Society outlining Bexar County s plan to fund a juvenile training school from bond proceeds or the general fund He argued reform replaces harsh punishment and highlighted the Seabrook School for Boys as a model for humane treatment education and second chances for delinquent youths.
On April 24 when navigation opened, elevators, steamers, and railroad cars at Pt. William and Port Arthur near Lake Superior held more than 42,760,000 bushels of grain awaiting transportation.
Archie L. Holeman owns a rare bound edition of The Rural Repository dated 1827 to 1825 from Hudson New Jersey. The eight surviving copies include notes on marriages deaths and events and a Saratoga Springs mineral springs discovery. The journal references Washington Irving and Columbus writings and lists lottery tickets for sale.
An old will belonging to Eliza vane L. Perry was found among John A. Perry’s papers in Columbus Indiana. It directs a $1000 monument for her husband Simeon Perry and assigns rents from about 100 acres to Ada Perry, who has since died, while real estate goes to John A. Perry with 100 acres to be carved off for various heirs including B Perry Remy, Frank Remy, Frank P. Irwin, Susie Porter and William Irwin. The document may reduce acres for division among Perry heirs as John A. Perry died intestate, leaving about 200 heirs of record.
Total outstanding life insurance policies in Japan amount to about 425 million dollars. The current year's increase averages over 6 million dollars per month, with projections that by year end 1913 effective life insurance business will reach 500 million dollars. There are 36 domestic life insurers operating in the country.
A report notes Greenland potatoes fail to exceed marble size, indicating stunted yields due to climate and soil conditions. Scientists and farmers study methods to improve tuber growth and productivity in Arctic fields.
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