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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 24, 1899

Page

4

Midnight Mass Plans At Catholic Churches Tonight

Christmas nativity services are listed for multiple San Fernando and St Mary’s parishes. San Fernando Cathedral features Blazart’s Twelfth Mass and Adeste Fideles with weiter organist Hoyer. St Mary’s on St Mary’s street performs Mercadante and Landa Sion pieces with a 25 voice choir and 11 instrumentalists. St Joseph’s schedules Midnight Mass at 12:20 am, 6 and 7:30 am low masses, and a 10 am high Mass with a large music program led by Otte Hilgers. Ursuline Convent offers a community Midnight Mass, with other parishes to hold Pontifical masses by Bishop Foret.

Tiatuna Catholic San Fernando Cathedral Eid. Hoyer Blazart Wenshaw Dane Peatlude Fuge Bach al St. Mary's Catholic Church St. Mary’s Street Merceandante J. M. Steinfeldt Mercadante Sv. Joseph's Cyrie Loria St. Cecelia Ofertory Owen Miss . Denerling Bishan Foreet

Who Is a Christian Sign Painted Over Door

A Western man writes of a revival and his father sent to the county house. A Bishop asks about his son’s true religion while a distant settlement receives a door sign reading Who is a Christian. The passage notes trade with Russia and moral reach beyond wealth.

Thie Gating Mary Wir Potter Kekima Pad

Tropical Disease Beri Beri Study Invited by Straits Governor

A memorandum from the Straits Settlement governor invites fellows to study beri beri at the colony. The disease caused 730 deaths in 1896 and 6OZ in 1897. Government offers furnished quarters rent free hospital access and funding for passage. Nature notes the researcher would lack a lab, but opportunities for pathological work would be strong.

Chamberlain Royal Society Straits Settlement Thdis Nature Wright Montreal

Kimberley’s harsh climate masks diamond wealth

In a vivid 19th century view, Klutherley’s Brabecks describe Kimberley as a picturesque yet harsh region with eight month droughts and choking dust storms. The note praises its mild winters and claims the town yields 90 percent of South Africa’s diamonds, while locals still call it a camp.

Klutherley Kimberley Kinderley South Africa Sayy Diggore

American firms craft Japan Crown Prince palace design

American firms outline a new earthquake resistant palace for Japan's Crown Prince. Foundations are underway with steel skeleton rising by February. Granite and marble exterior, 270 by 40 feet, height to be revealed, built in French Renaissance style. An American Chicago engineer to design heating and ventilation and ice manufacturing and electric plant to be added.

Japan Chicago Upce

Judged by a Woman's Walk and Shoes Says Times

A Philadelphia Times observation notes that a person can infer a woman's character from her gait and footwear. Lifting feet plainly signals laziness or ill health, while heavy flat feet suggest a good housekeeper with an aggressive nature. Dragging steps imply indolence.

Philadelphia Times

Fragmented Historic Quips and Quotes Across Uproarious Lines

The text surveys misquoted proverbs and oddities from imagined conversations and headlines. It features a street gang foreman exchange, eccentric business chatter about tailoring and credit, and jumbled references to figures like Lang Mokter and Kruger. A playful collage of outdated snippets and misread names appears as a mosaic of quotes and absurdities.

Verdiet of His Peers in a Mock Clever Quote

A fragment mocks Cleverness in dialogue about Newsome Moore-Briliant and Newel hittle-Dollarn. The quip suggests skepticism toward perceived brilliance and social esteem in a satirical tone.

Newel Dollarn Newsome Moore Puck

A Pounter Miss Potter Notice Golf Costume Banter

A fragment shows remarks about a striking golf costume worn by Miss Potter and Mr Brassey, with Mr Nildlek replying the costume strikes. The text is partial and reads like a playful exchange from a social item in a historical paper.

Miss Potter Mr. Brassey Nildlek

Stomach RItter Ers Medal Contest At Commercial College

Among the scholars of Aleto Chu Commercial College several contests awarded medals and prizes. Prof Shafer awarded four gold medals in advanced bookkeeping for highest excellence. Two leaders were chosen. final written test scored 1744 minutes and perfect 1d percent. Gus Colas won. A Lang closely second. Ailis Ludwick, yellows captain, praised competitors and awarded prizes.

Aleto Chu Commercal College Shafer & Downey Commercial College Dullniz-block Shafer Jim Littog Gus Colas A. Lang Ailis Lillian Ludwick Shaler

Golden Star Council No. 43 Orders Meeting Postponed

The Golden Star Council No. 43 orders its next meeting for Friday evening December 29, 1309, due to Christmas. Members are urged to attend as the regular meeting falls on Christmas Day.

G. I. Scharfpsnberg

Public Notice for City Charter Amendments Texas 1999

The undersigned will apply to the Texas Legislature special session called for the City of Austin on the 88th day of January 1999 to amend City Charter sections 43 and 46. Proposals seek to remove indebtedness limits and require bond propositions to be voted, with signatures from multiple local officials listed. A separate note describes Emil Gatle receiving gifts in advance of Christmas at his California restaurant.

State of Texas Galles Omristaas Emil Gatle Californis Registercat New York

Clock of 20 Foot High Glock At Liverpool Station

The Liverpool Street Great Eastern railway clock in London reaches 20 feet high with four dials 6 feet in diameter. It can hold thirty inside and feeds to eight guests via a roof trap door. It is regulated by electricity, attracting curiosity visitors only. The first illuminated church clock was St Bride's in 1826, with electricity-regulated timekeeping by a London invention. the 103-clock circuit was perfected in 1878.

Liverpool Intreeg Great Eastern Railway London Maginud St. Bride's Chicozo Tribune

Funeral processions and social customs in Peru

The article notes strict social rules for women at funerals and weddings, describing pallbearers with horse drawn hearses, followed by male mourners, and the custom of walking in presence of the dead. It also mentions a bulletin from West Virginia on tremor pine and insects, detailing 197 species and wood-boring beetles causing extensive timber losses in Virginia.

Peru N. Xy, Sun Spence Fine West Virginia Agricntum Appkins Virginia Chicago Tribune

Extermination of Locnats by Cape Agriculture Journal

The Cape Colony agriculture department reports success in eradicating locnats by inoculating them with a fungus. Fungus prepared and sold for 12 cents per tube to applicants. One case showed over 100 Jacueta deaths due to the fungus. lily notes districts without inoculation were more infested.

Cape Department of Agriculture Cape Colony Lily Capr Chigngo Trikmio

Businesslike Woman Draws Stares in Township Dialogue

A fragmented dialogue from various papers quotes a businesslike woman amid domestic and gender role comments. The drummer and grocer praise her competence, while others joke about marriage, independence, and potential threats to traditional norms.

Crne Waian Thal Greece Lndianapolis Journal

Questionable Pastiche of Names and Nonsense

A garbled, fragmentary collage of quoted lines and mock quotations from various sources. The piece combines misheard names, aged figures, and absurd questions, with phrases like “Another Probien” and “No Chatees Rewiywed” suggesting a satirical or nonsensical mockery rather than a coherent article.

Coat of Experience and Contortionist Quip in Chicago Daily News

A fragmented Chicago Daily News fragment remarks on experience as a cost and poverty becoming rare if men can sell their know how. It briefly nods to a contortionist notion and ends with an unclear line about Neva.

Chicago Evening News Chieaga Daily News

Rayner and St Amand union in New Orleans society

Amand descendant Anna St Amand wed Hamilton Rayner at the residence of Mrs Adolphe St Amand in the Seventh district. The ceremony by Father Prim united two prominent Creole families. Rayner, a Southern Pacific executive and former Texas Ranger, is grandson of Colonel William Polk. The bride, a Jefferson parish native with refined education, comes from a storied lineage. Guests included Peter F. Pescud. the couple departed for El Paso after a large gifts reception, reported in Picayune, June 17.

Cipid Brii Adolphe St. Amand Dante Etreat Jamilton Rayner Anna St. Amand Prim Church of the Nelvity Cambroune Street Sean Jefferson Parish Hamilton Rayner Southern Pacific System el Paso Texas Rayner William “Polk Continental Army Susan Spratt Polk Rayner Joseph H. Hyman Stephenville American Monthly Magazine William Polk Sarah Hawkins Polk Thomas Volk Logan Spratt Polk Priscilla Roberta Polk Roberta Pollock Magdalen Tasker Ireland Maryland Lord Baltimore Mr. Rayner North Carolina Kenneth Rayner Congress Treasury Hayes Garfield Arthur Washington TD. G Raleigh N. G Aire Trustes Brandywine Germanstown Camden Gulford Courthouse Euta General Assembly Mecklenburg State Bank of North Bethlehem Philadelphia Hamiltton ‘Rayner Fesus United States Marshal Southern Pacific Railroad Texas Rangers New Orleans Mitlefife Kins Hayner Jg St. Amand Laura Duprey Peter EF. Pescud Southern Pacific Paso Iil Picny ‘Une

Glass Glass ledges in glassware and wallpaper sales

Obscure 1900s ad fragment lists names like Harrett, Nettie Blue, and Maud Dudley, touts licensed to wed and offers from Levering’s cup and Ned Seal Laundry Soap. Ambiguous text references Christmas tide joys and household products with scattered phone and price hints.

Orncar Harrett Nettie Blue R. L. Blorce Mary Lizzle Prattt T. Taylor Laura Har Tle W.F. Sibert M. B. Tobustone Av Stoner Ela Harby T. J. Lancaster Lille Mt. Hour Lewis A. Janin Maud Dudley

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