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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
4
A city ad urges shoppers to buy El Barta furnishes before the season ends. The notice names Kemp, Be, Ph. G, and Pruitt Commission Co and lists phone numbers 121 and 169-1 for placing orders. The message stresses limited stock with about twenty days left and urges merchants to call promptly.
About 160 children from three divisions of Loyal Temperance Legion gathered at San Pedro Park for a prohibition rally under Mrs JF Evans Mrs Amy Baker and Mrs Eaton. Rev C W Carter spoke and many Mexican children attended. the event ended with a picnic supper and watermelon feast.
New York celebrated Independence Day with loud explosions and large firework sales. Police faced crowds as injuries were anticipated and tetanus antitoxin stocks prepared in hospitals. In Chicago, officials enforced safer rules, aiming to reduce casualties, with several accidents and arrests reported during the early festivities.
El Paso Tex July 4 heavy downpour since 1892 drenched the city with one and a half inches in under two hours causing great damage. Two unknown men drowned in the Rio Grande as rails and roads washed out. Cellars filled and streets flooded. Railroads were washed away and a street near the Sheldon hotel was flooded as three blocks of the El Paso & Southwestern line were displaced.
In Korea at Pingyang a Japanese soldier ran amuck through the American Methodist mission premises assaulting a Korean caretaker with a bayonet. He was arrested by order of Prince Li and sentenced to two terms of hard labor. The regiment’s officers face confinement for three to seven days for home violation charges.
Fragmentary OCR notes show names and numbers including Elroy Brown and references to a new phone 2363. The text also mentions taxers and an entity MeBilroy with four rows, but details are unclear and no coherent event or outcome is evident.
Tet Monte California July 4 Rear Admiral Cimrley M Thomas retired died last night of a heart stroke The death shocked his widow his daughter and friends He spoke of good health recently He was born in Philadelphia October 1 1846 and joined the naval academy from Pennsylvania in 1861 graduating four years later He served as ensign then master and reached captain and rear admiral ranks in 1899 and 1905 The career included coast survey geodetic service lighthouse and training service
A garbled tale from a Herman Lax cafe in San Antonio features a dialectged wanderer asking a man how to care for the 'ure s and a punchline about painting them red. A newlywed couple rides Carter Mullaly hacks to the depot, triggering a reflective monologue on happiness and time.
In Texas a three year old girl, Celia Delsher, died after being left alone at home and attacked by thousands of ants near Tonle, Oklahoma. The child expired the next night from convulsions. The incident prompted warnings about child supervision.
At a recent meeting the Central Democratic Anti-Prohibition club endorsed candidates for various local and judicial offices. Names include Moward Dwyer for Thirty-seventh district judge and Bg Buckley for Fifty-seventh district judge, with Andres Coy and I C Baker for district attorney and county judge Phil H Shook alongside sheriff B D Lindsay and county clerk Nivian By Warn. Other endorsed roles include county treasurer A Huth and school superintendent Steviart, plus precinct and commissioner positions across multiple wards.
State Superintendent Cousins announces adoption of new textbooks for the next five years. List includes New Century Spelling Book, Cyr's Primer, Our Country's Reader, and various grammar and geography volumes from Dallas and Austin publishers. A circular with prices and law will be printed and distributed in a few days. A deep waterways convention is planned in Corsicana November 19 and 20 with officials and delegates from Texas commercial groups attending.
Local churches report ongoing protracted meetings and regular Sunday services. Baptist groups meet at 220 Austin Street and 420 Austin street with Rev J Adlerton and Elder Bill Johnson. Westminster Presbyterian at Garden and King William and other parishes hold morning and evening services with various pastors and Sunday schools.
Multiple local churches publish their services for the day and week. St Mark’s Episcopal lists Holy Communion at 7 20 and a morning service at 11, with evening service at 3 30. St John’s Episcopal notes services at 11 with Rev Hutcheson. St Paul’s Government Hill announces morning prayer and holy communion at noon and Sunday school at 1 40. Lutheran St John’s Grace lists Sunday school 9 30 and service 3 30 with a quarterly meeting July 7. Grace English Lutheran notes Sunday school 9 30 and morning service 10 80, with a Sunday evening service and a congregational meeting. Several churches urge attendance by members and visitors for upcoming plans and quarterly meetings.
Rev T H Weagan, a prominent Baptist minister, was struck by lightning while finishing a sermon at a Baptist church in Beaumont Texas last night. A man named Yancey was knocked down but later revived. The deceased arrived today for interment.
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