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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1912
Page
4
The text lists editors and publishers Charles Diehl and Harrison Beach with pricing figures 50 cents, 6 dollars, 5 dollars, and 2 dollars, indicating a newspaper pricing or subscription structure.
Bryan Callaghan mayor and noted San Antonio figure dies leaving a divided legacy. Friends praised his leadership while critics called him incompetent. The editorial urges healing factional strife and uniting the city to build a greater San Antonio.
The piece surveys party symbols like the elephant for Republicans and the donkey for Democrats, noting public reception and metaphorical traits. It also references the Whigs, a harsh epitaph, and mentions the camel as emblem of the anti nullification party, ending with a note about Colonel Roosevelt.
The article argues olives could thrive in Texas coast terrain, similar to southern California. It cites growing success in California and Arizona, potential high profits, and notes pickling firms’ interest in future crops. It frames olive cultivation as a promising, worth‑the‑experiment industry for Southwest Texas.
A debate over a third party's name yields a proposed emblem the Bull Moose. The animal is praised as strong and headstrong while embodying intolerance to dissent, reflecting the portrayed candidate as bull headed and controlless.
The piece urges Texas leaders to back the San Antonio Rockport and Mexican railroad, arguing the project boosts statewide and regional growth as Gulf ports near a Panama Canal era. It notes Ohio valley preparations and large steel barge investments for Mississippi Gulf transshipment, signaling broader trade shifts.
An article from National Monthly argues that child play rights underpin national strength. It links play and recreation to future citizenship, urges city playgrounds as wise long term investment, and asserts play as a core principle across communities and education.
The piece argues the San Antonio Rockport and Mexican railroad will not only boost Houston but reshape national commerce. It states English capitalists forethought the project, linking Peru Chile Ecuador and Colombia with Texas ports and inland US markets after the canal opens.
Experiments in Germany aim to make walls and ceilings resistant to sound by suspending a wire network from pulleys along walls or ceilings. A plastered slab formed from glue, plaster of paris, and cork granules is applied to the wire, creating a cushion of confined air between the protected surface and the protective layer. The design avoids contact and relies on a colloid plaster composition.
On a distant watering hole the plains herds gather under Emphor bias and mimosa shade. A hungry lion stalks in silence, but a fifteen foot python ambushes the cat and yields a fatal counterstrike. The next day the water remains safe for the herds.
Lillian Lorraine advises practical spring and summer foot care from diet to footwear. She links foot health to nerves and digestion, recommends well fitting shoes, proper stockings, regular baths with salt alum and borax, foot massage, careful nail trimming, and daily drying between toes to prevent corns and callouses.
West Plains resident Anna J. Richart advertises a Angora goat for sale in a playful verse from Linneus Bulletin. The poem claims the goat climbs trees and roofs, eats tin and other wares, and mentions a baby’s yells as a clue to a prankish mischief.
Washington correspondence notes that some senators still dust ink with sand from a box resembling a pepper shaker while others use blotting paper. The supreme court retains vintage habits with law books and sheepskins on desks and a collection of newly cut quill pens used by older practitioners.
An observer recounts buying large firecrackers for a family celebration, only to have his wife soak them in water and suggest a porch flag. He and his children fail to make noise or joy, hearing only a distant cork pop from root beer.
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