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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1899
Page
14
A Leavenworth Times correspondent questions U.S. governance of the Philippine islands after possession. He outlines potential profits from agriculture and trade, describes Spanish colonial abuses, local social conditions, and native customs with notable named places and figures, concluding with a Republic Army correspondent’s note on Kansas regiments.
A fragmented list of old fashioned marriage rules urging patience, kindness, and constant affection. The text emphasizes avoiding anger, practicing self denial, and keeping words of love during absence while neglecting the world and focusing on mutual unselfishness. It reads like a period piece of domestic etiquette.
A table for housewives without scales shows that one fluid ounce equals two tablespoons, one ounce equals two of two tablespoons, and butter or sugar measures convert with various small units. It notes three or four common items and yields approximate weights, including eight drams per ounce and a pound for certain quantities.
A reporter visits Kinney and Praeger to review two new inventions. Kinney explains a prepaid mechanism for electric meters using two electro magnets and a coin chute enabling on demand light without a fixed penny sequence. Praeger demonstrates a burglar-proof window brace and a self calculating device marketed nationwide.
A page fragment lists religious class schedules at temples and churches, a historical and Bible circle meeting, a Purim service, divine services, and a home history class led by Miss Gerlic Frank. It also notes officers elected for San Antonio Branch No. 420 of the Postal Carriers, including President Wm. W. Geiutzen and Treasurer A. Flores. A second item reports a missing valise story tied to a mistaken exchange of galley mail with a farmer on the Southern Pacific line, with an address sought in El Campo Texas. An attempt to recover property via mail exchange is described with little success.
Twelve prisoners were placed in the Waco Bexar County jail last week. Four face charges of assault to murder, one with a pistol, two with theft under 50, and one for rape. One Chinese national is held as an unlawful resident, and another is charged with insanity.
The annual meeting of the San Antonio Drug Company was held yesterday afternoon. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President F. W. Cook, Vice President Geo J Leimitt, Secretary J Kronkosky, Treasurer A Dreles. The board of directors remains unchanged from last year.
Over six days in the Seveniu ward near Tolulo street, ten prisoners allegedly poisoned dogs. The latest victim, Max Landauer's valuable pointer, endured severe pain before it was euthanized to end its suffering.
Mr F A Porat formerly a shipping clerk for I Wolfson has fully recovered from a severe head wound and left Santa Rosa infirmary yesterday afternoon. Friends celebrate his near death experience after weeks of illness. Arthur Romer, a boy living at 21d Blm Street, was run over by D Sullivan's carriage on Wear Commerce Street yesterday afternoon after slipping on wet blocks. He sustained a scalp wound.
PRD INSURANCE DULLING MALLISTIN Trave moved to elegant roomed No. 118 in Houston at corner St Marys street. Phone 415 212-1.
An old advertisement notes Huy the celebrated Dr Mackenzie’s Cough Drops offered at five cents a package through J E Yanies of Dovis Anctiai She ls regimotat at the Lactede.
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