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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
2
The San Antonio Light founded 1881 publishes daily and Sunday editions. Info lists editors, management, circulation inquiries, and agency representation in New York and Chicago.
A subscriber bulletin instructs readers to supply both old and new addresses to ensure proper delivery. It notes irregular delivery and provides the office telephone number 176 for updates. The terse item emphasizes prompt notification to the newspaper office.
Publisher's notice urges subscribers to pay money only to authorized call sectors and warns against incorrect sources. It cautions that errors may occur if payments go to non approved channels. The text emphasizes avoiding fraudulent carriers and ensuring correct payment paths.
A letter condemns excessive factory noise and bells that disturb San Antonio residents. It argues for limiting whistle use, citing health and rights concerns, and notes similar efforts in New York and Galveston, urging City Hall to curb nuisance sounds. It also touches on campus hazing and public behavior.
The article notes reprisals and interference in private and public rights linked to university matters. Gov Campbell commends refusal to lease the state's plant to a private firm. Ranger and militia threats loom as broom brokers face market moves with prices at $120 per ton for 1000 tons and broom factories raising low-grade prices.
The El Paso Herald notes Governor Campbell asserts a hard line on enforcing saloon laws and refuses to sign commissions for local officials until saloon conduct aligns with state law. He targets Sunday openings and vows to appoint compliant officers, signaling a push for a law abiding Texas.
A Rawlins editorial argues for women's rights with humorous, assertive rhetoric. It praises female suffrage, calls for ballot access, and urges lawmakers to grant women the vote to improve society, portraying women as essential to progress. The piece blends satire with strong pro suffrage sentiment.
An old advertisement touts a blood purifying remedy, claiming to guard healthy bodies through pure blood. It alleges to cure scrofula, eczema, eruptions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervous debility, fatigue, and indigestion, promising overall system buildup.
Mussers Ney and Joe Braden visit from D Hants. Sunset train six hours late. City Engineer Maury completes San Antonio map showing every street and subdivision. Sleet causes pedestrians to fall. Police detain vagrants arriving on freight trains. Mariner Rankin to La Grange for holidays. Mrs Dr Staniford of Waco to spend holidays with relatives in the city. Excavation for federal building nearing completion with day-work for concrete. Christmas services planned in churches. Pastores to be held in the Mexican settlement with lanterns on high poles.
Sahaily photos are framed in a glossy nobby gold frame at McDonalds Art store, showcasing the portraits with a classic display style.
A compact social reflection on money's pull and how wealth noises grab notice. The piece argues that the sight of money, coins, or a purse instantly diverts crowds, even among strangers, due to deep seated instinct to seek wealth across life’s moments.
A humorous analysis of self styled conspirators and naive would be schemers. It contrasts natural bent toward deceit with bungling attempts, noting the difficulty of maintaining secrecy and the flawed artistry of the genuine conspirator.
Stanley circle of the Ladies of the G A R entertained the veteran group at Women Hall yesterday afternoon. About 60 people attended a dinner featuring beans ham potatoes salad and cake. Commander Brooks opened with a flag presentation and 12 old veterans were named honorary members. Speakers from the G A R and Ladies circle praised the gathering as a success and a sign of growing local support for the organization.
In New York on Christmas morning, yard long stockings will hang from the lowest girders of the new Queensboro Bridge spanning the East River. The display, arranged by the Queensboro Bridge Celebration association, will be hung by volunteers for river men and guests aboard river vessels.
stockings will be hung so they can be reached with a pole from the walls of the tugs tobacco service also gloves and presents will be placed in the stockings
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