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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1907
Page
1
Louisville based Inter Southern Life Insurance Co offers a contract to a high grade writer and organizer in San Antonio and Bexar County. Salary and compensation set by guaranteed production. Capital stock listed as $250,000.
Fraternity groups meet at Woodmen hall Red Cross Knights San Antonio Commandery No 7 Knights Templar and other orders. Special seating planned for Red Cross conferring at Knights Templars due to daytime candiate conflict. Recent lodge elections, initiations, stag smoker planned for August 7 and other cross notices across multiple orders.
An enthusiastic meeting yesterday initiated seven candidates and received two petitions for membership. A death in Kentucky prompted a local committee to be appointed and a charter to be dropped for thirty days. The group plans a musical and literary program with refreshments for the August 7 social.
Transfers show multiple parties buying and selling city lots and blocks across numerous streets and additions for sums ranging from 8500 to 250 dollars. Names include Klock Anderson Silcock Delkawite Lackey Bennett Robinson and many others, with references to Frio Bexar and Victoria counties and various city blocks and avenues.
Los Angeles cals July 18 reports a major oil strike in Washington county Utah along the San Pedro Los Angeles east Lake line. The new field is described as extensive with discovery in the Virgin River valley region. The first well 48 miles southwest of Mona on the Salt Lake road flowed about seventy five barrels daily from a depth of 520 feet.
New York July 18 General Appraiser reported on U.S. matting imports from Japan. US bought 95 percent of straw matting, purchasing 685 N52 rolls from Japan last year. England and Canada sales totaled 18 528 and 14 738 rolls respectively, with Japan exporting beyond these figures mainly to Hawaii.
A buyer’s bargain selection includes underskirts and Petticoats priced at 3.50 and 1.98 respectively. Only 80 items available in brown green and pale tones feature 24 inch accordion pleats and fitted tops for a tailored look.
Handkerchiefs offered at 3 cents each with two styles available including hem slitched and corded edge. Original prices listed around 19 cents. sale emphasizes very low fraction of value while stock lasts.
A flurry of arrivals and departures marks a busy period with guests and movers from Galveston, Dallas, Kerrville, and San Antonio, staying at the Now Maveriak and Southern. Notables include W. C. Irvin and spouse, J. M. Collins from Fowstan, and Carl Schieber with wife from Veldena Mexico.
New display of folding fans from Japan with decorated quaint designs and carved sticks offered at 10 cents each and up to 98 cents. Includes a range from plain to ornate styles and smooth or carved handles.
Officials say the city will seek appropriations to expand cemeteries as current plots fill quickly. In November and December availability is limited with several plots held by Indigenous groups. newer sites show higher prices and spaces selling out.
This fragment argues that sanctified common sense should guide human interactions. It asserts that good outcomes cannot justify evil means and that self and others must be treated with moral restraint.
A newspaper item lists clothbound books priced around 50 cents to 19 cents, featuring many titles by Mary J. Holmes Augusta Evans Ralph Connor Hawthorne and others including Beulah The Scarlet Letter The Blithedale Romance The Snow Image and The White Company plus poems by various authors.
The opening last evening drew about a hundred members and guests. The roof garden above the San Antonio National Bank Building showcased decoration and music by a string band. The club plans completion by September 14 with distinguished Mexican and Texas citizens expected on the program.
At The Hague the American delegation urged release of any neutral vessel captured in all cases. The Peruvian delegation pushed limits on applying continental debt principles to government contracts with foreign subjects. Venezuela backed the same concerns and urged peaceful settlement without military or naval force if no contract exists.
The People's National Bank of Gallatin Tennessee remains closed while an outside examiner from Washington audits the books after irregularities were found. President Payne telegraphed for the examiner. cashi er Harris vows to straighten matters. Directors say the bank is solvent and deposits are safe.
Testimony in the Bare Black Hand murder case details the fate of the Ide Adoped Lamina child. A witness described a forced concealment and disposal of the body near a swamp with officers nearby.
Helen Rambie aged thirty one died at 5 PM yesterday of tuberculosis. A Pleasanton resident from Atascosa County she had lived in the city four years. Her body with her mother and two brothers was shipped to Pleasanton for interment yesterday evening.
A grocer and a waitress discuss Postum as a beverage and claimed health benefits. A customer recounts boiling instructions and taste tests claiming Postum improves stomach and bile issues, while praising its supposed health value and value over coffee and tea. The dialogue reflects wartime supply and consumer skepticism.
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