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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1907
Page
4
A garbled transcript shows New York figures discussing liquor licenses at a Women’s club meeting. The dialogue touches on drink habits, social propriety, and nostalgia for temperance, with scattered references to whisky, farming, and a distant Scottish highlands scene.
Within 146 blocks of the NMW J and GN depot we offer 89 feet fronting Husktea Street with a boarding house. The ground is tied to a new depot site and is expected to rise in value. Exclusive agents McGehee & Matthews list 236 East Houston Street for details.
The article traces the evolution of the modern clown from ancient jesters to English court fools and pantomime figures. It notes the Crown Club founders pushing to revive old-time whiteface clowns, discusses Greek, Roman, and medieval roots, and highlights figures like Grimaldi and Tarleton as precursors to contemporary circus clowns.
Readers and youths submitted line drawings for the Ed line feature. Participants include Christopher Gunkel eight, Elise, Lizzie Selinger twelve, Joe Gerry ten, Dora Mabrite eleven, Elizabeth Blair seven, with addresses on Mason and Matamoros streets and South Alamo.
A roundup of short notices from Texas towns reports a boy injured by a sickle and cart wheel, a meeting electing a club president, a fine for a violator of city rules, church dedication plans with a large turnout expected, two men surrender to authorities in a homicide case, and several dog killings noted in Bagic Pass.
A marauding wolf bitten the town and was shot yesterday by the deputy sheriff after showing symptoms. Fifteen dogs have died since the wolf arrived, while others await further developments. In Goliad Texas on July 18, supplies are being bought in anticipation of effects from the event.
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