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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
2
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In St Louis the National Prosperity association sold 35.5 million dollars of 4 percent city bonds for public improvements. Nineteen bidders, six from outside St Louis, helped set bids well above par, with the issue awarded to St Louis at 2 percent premium. The sale signals investor appetite despite economic fears and notes a broader clash of sentiment and policy challenges ahead.
Louis Jackson argues passenger rates are a tax on individual freight rates and should be reduced, while freight rates stay high to ensure carrier profits. He claims the freight burden falls on consumers, not shippers, and uses New York to Chicago examples to illustrate varying weights and costs.
The text analyzes per capita costs for tobacco coffee tea and freight charges, noting rates vary by item and region. It argues freight rates are too low, cites historical congestion and accidents, and suggests economic bodies should refine rate setting while public seeks safer, faster, fairer service. Taft referenced in a joking line about San Antonio pants at inauguration.
A Chicago Record-Herald piece argues higher beef prices, up to 22 to 25 cents a pound, show the need for dietary restraint and reform. It praises temporary abstinence from meat as a health measure and notes farmers will respond, lowering prices when profitable.
Galveston News argues hog raising will become a key Texas industry. It cites soil and climate favorable for crops feeding hogs, notes feed components like peas alfalfa and potatoes, and suggests grazing in fall and using wells to reduce pumping costs.
A fragmentary poem evokes a night sky scene with silver sickle moonlight, distant stars, and a maternal presence. The lines mix celestial imagery with reflections on dawn, sleep, and kinship, listing mythic and natural images in a dreamlike cadence.
An advertisement urges women to write to Mrs Pinkhar at Lymm Massachusetts for confidential personal illness advice. It claims her thirty years of correspondence with sick women has yielded knowledge that could aid readers. Letters from grateful women are cited as evidence of her helpful power.
A testimonial from Mrs. Norman K. Barnett of Alien Town Pa extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as curing female ailments. The ad asserts thirty years of use and lists conditions like displacements inflammation and nervous prostration as treatable by the root and herb remedy.
The Belle Rifles recruit new members including A Murnohamn G Smith Alhork Mh Gass sting Carel W Prescott James fi Moke and Robert Becker. Weddings occur at St Josephs Church and West Cammerae Street as Miss Baral A Kini Wan weds HR Brie. Police arrest a man for jewelry theft tied to Aselatans City Marshal Joan Cardenas. Mrs E M Rogge travels to Clyde to aid her seriously ill father. Woman's ex changes meets June 18.
Fragmentary text describes celestial events with references to the Sun setting and bodies Mercury Mars in conjunction. Mentions possible sighting near western horizon and dates that are unreadable. Content is garbled with many transcription errors and lacks coherent details.
Chicago readers learn Taft’s 1912 campaign plans center at the Auditorium Annex in the Congress Hotel. Taft secures the famed president’s suite on the Annex second floor for convention week, with the New York Hughes camp to use the south parlors.
Special to The Light Peoria IL June reports the Modern Woodmen of America head camp session in El teenth division. Delegates 034 head officers attend as plans to readjust dues and rules are debated. A parade is planned drawing up to 60 000 visitors while tuberculosis sanitarium site at Colorado Lythige is discussed.
Gonsul Talbot urges legislation across states to require fraternal orders to read their own laws. Over the past two years the order admitted 355 601 new members and paid 14 504 death claims totaling 21 785 578.05. Inquiry reveals many seek cures for kidney bladder troubles with claims of Malay Kildner Cure.
Wanted able bodied unmarried men ages 18 to 25 of good character and temperate habits who can read and write English. For information apply to Recruiting Officer, B01 Moore Building, San Antonio, Texas.
Detachment of the First Field Artillery with eight guns and 320 men and a 99 piece brass band is expected to arrive near Waen Tex on June 19. They will then press on overland toward Leon Springs after a brief halt for local duties.
Houston Texas June 6 report notes a small Texac Car Service meeting with Mike Sweeney elected as manager and Hobert Coline serving as secretary amid a subdued session.
The piece notes a San Antonio gathering debating whether cars and streetcars could operate as efficiently at night as during the day given heavier loads and frequent stops. General DBlanager W. S. Tuttle of the Fraction company offers that more power is needed at night. The discussion reflects curiosity about nighttime traffic efficiency and safety after sundown.
The Light announces multiple candidates for sheriff of Bexar County subject to Democratic primaries including B. D. Lindsey W. J. Goforth James McCloskey and Charles F. Stavens. Also listed are candidates for County Attorney District Clerk Representative District Attorney Constable County Clerk and other offices with primary conditions.
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