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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
2
A fragmented column riffs on marriages and candidates with jokes about a Billy goat and Teddy bear post Election. It notes pork prices in San Antonio, weather forecasts, a Thaw trial reprise, and editorials about Georgia bartenders. It touches on the Waters-Pierce case, Thaw’s legacy, Vesuvius activity, and looming campaigns in Texas and beyond.
Reform supporters mobilized a grand jury causing Kansas City's criminal courts to clog with 938 cases from Sunday rolation. The cosmopolitan city branded nearly 1000 residents as criminals for actions once not crimes, as reform advocates pressed to redefine behavior.
In Kansas City the enforcement of blue laws is foreground, exposing a boot black the theatrics manager barber and cigar seller as criminals. The piece notes reform zeal and questions how long such waves will last, while discussing ship subsidies and potential policy changes under the Dingley act.
The crop reporting board of the Bureau of Statistics estimates 1907 8 cotton production at 5 1,968,000 pounds excluding lint, about 11,678,006 bales of 500 pounds gross. State breakdown lists Mississippi 1,136,000 bales, South Carolina 1,601,000, Arkansas 796,000, North Carolina 604,000, Georgia 1,818,000, Alabama 1,216,000, Virginia 714,090, Missouri 40,000, Oklahoma 915,000, Louisiana 712,000, Tennessee 22,000, Florida 64,000.
Washington dispatch notes Taft will urge Congress to cut the Philippine tariff on sugar and tobacco while lawmakers resist. The Tribune says the Philippine committee is packed to block reform, with Lodge presiding. Republicans fear campaign politics and Democrats would struggle to attack a broadly just measure.
A letter from a department head shows a young worker offered a promotion path with higher pay, while Charles Mellen’s career in railroads highlights that sustained effort builds opportunity. Mellen’s rise from clerk to president of multiple lines underscores the motto that hard work yields advancement.
A Brookline resident reportedly treats warts by lightly passing a hand over the affected area, a method contrasted with historic folk practices in New England. The piece catalogs old cures from meat burial to bean shells and moonlit washings, noting the present scientific progress and recalling figures like Oliver Cromwell.
Advert says new absorption treatment cures piles at home. Promises immediate relief and permanent care. warns of bleeding itching protruding piles and offers free trial sample with local references. MailMrs M Summers Notre Dame Ind for details.
A sanitized clipping notes rapid social change in Lahore within five years with native elites' families airing in public, men driving in open cars, and women appearing in public with less restraint, calling for observation of family relations amid evolving norms. The passage also references snakes in Florida and diversions on innovation and safety, ending with brief notes on gendered progress and public life.
San Antonio highlights include a stage performance of Elizabeth at the opera house with D P Bowers and Joseph Wheelock. Juan Rodriguez, age 60, dies at home. Miss Nordhaus elected to the Singing and Social club. Mikado Chass tournament winners named. Colonel Augustus Belknap proposes advertising bans on property features to keep the city presentable. R H Burney elected to the state senate travels to Austin. Belknap Rifles announce a grand military Hop and plume drill. A city council vote reelects A Duerler as fire chief and approves milk supply inspection ordinance.
A London reader notes lingering belief in Kaffir bone divination among whites in the Transvaal since 1851. The Kaffir doctor uses bones to foretell futures and cure ailments, with whites sometimes seeking or participating in readings to seek relief from fevers and toothache.
The article discusses how Japan’s hot baths were once condemned by Western standards yet later defended by European and Japanese medical experts. It notes bath practices, skin cleansing, and the belief that high temperature water opens skin pores and aids health.
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