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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1927
Page
14
A rambling reminiscence contrasts the Kaiser’s famed Sun in the South Seas with a family debate over travel and weather. George resists tropical dreams for a hardy winter and the narrator recalls past cold seasons, sleds, and Christmas contrasts, ending with a Sunday scene at Hewthorne Club.
A group recalls harsher winters from decades past with tall stories of deep snows ten above and blizzards. Elders boast of Maine freezes, 1760 blizzards, and ice in a washstand pitcher as younger listeners react with astonishment.
A Reno-like narrator recalls lessons from a veteran businessman about lifelong truths. He lists four core maxims: work for honest people, avoid meddling in others lives, quit threats of quitting, and never slight youth. He cites honesty, hard work, and sowing what you reap as timeless guides.
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for headache nasal congestion sore throat and feverish feeling. Claims twelve 1 dose relief with regular dosing every ten hours and that it keeps bowels open while removing poisons. Sold for thirty five cents at drug stores.
A 43 year old girl confessed to plans to wreck the Cannonball Express near Lewiston Auburn outlined by a group of youths. Railroad ties were placed on tracks under cover of darkness, halted by a track walker who alerted the engine crew.
Armour resident Jack Wolfe a credit store attaché sought to compel payment by force telling a creditor he would beat him until he paid. The confrontation began after Wolfe presented a bill for work on the new Armour schoolhouse and the creditor mocked him. Wolfe then used his fists to insist on payment.
Altoona Pa Jan 5 Engineer R B Crum 57 died after his head struck a baggage car while leaning from a car window as the Red Arrow passenger train arrived. The train did not stop at a point near here. the conductor used the emergency brake to halt it. Crum died in a local hospital about thirty minutes later.
In Florence Helen fears a theft by Mrs. Burnham after finding her vanished garnet necklace from Vienna. Warren doubts the claim as they secretly plan to report the loss while debating how to handle the Burnhams at dinner. The pair contemplates deception and travel on to Rome as the mystery deepens.
Port Arthur Texas notices Mrs D D Williams endorses Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a reliable health aid. She claims it rebuilt her strength and improved wellbeing, urging others to obtain the liquid or tablet form from their local druggist and requesting free advice from Pierce’s Invalids' Hotel.
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