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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1899
Page
11
Notice records show Mrs Blair of 443 Commerce Street and the City Clerk's office at Atcasi issuing notices. The fragment references a routine official notice process with addresses and clerical identifiers.
A report from Kew Gardens highlights California pine trees and the AustAustralian wattle, genus acacia, requiring high heat to open seeds. Seeds often lie dormant until a bushfire triggers germination, with rapid forest regrowth within a year. The white cedar is noted as highly fire sensitive, and teak seeds are described as germinating only after intense heat.
A late 19th century note cites a 300 year old monument to Francis II of Bretagne and Margaret in Nantes cathedral. A carved stone tablet was found with a story of a poor boy who served the stonecutters, guided by priests, and later ordered by Duchess Anne to craft the grand monument to Duke and Duchess Bretagne.
Col Funston, famed for his action in the Philippines, wrote home to the Topeka Capital before hostilities. He chides critics of the war and mocks those who equate independence with license to cause trouble. He calls Filipinos illiterate and semi savage and urges stern discipline as settlers arrive on the reservation.
An instructor tests English volunteers who mock him. a lone man steps up and orders the company with a joke drill command "tendon" causing the group to disperse to the canteen. The tale notes Buddhist wandering customs and shams of drill.
A London caterer explains how catering firms pay commissions to join clubs, societies, and committees to secure feast contracts. He notes paying for subscriptions and fees, registering convivia and other bodies, and spending freely at meetings to win hundreds of events.
A Chicago Chronicle excerpt recalls sailors after Manila, a gunner's mate and souch lesan aboard, and four wheelmen ashore, trading stories of alcohol and a WWI style supply. A beer shipment of 60 barrels arrived post-battle, with two girls shown on barrel labels. Officers sent one picture forward to enlisted men.
The article recounts Kipling learning engineering details from mechanic Cressy during visits to New Haven. Bentley notes Kipling’s curiosity, collecting colloquial names of parts, and two months later obtaining a rough sketch and clarified explanation that finally clicked. The anecdote illustrates his surprising grasp of technicalities.
A quirky, mixed bag of made up game laws and odd population facts appears from a down east editor. The text lists bizarre billing windows for book agents and a chaotic set of phrases, followed by demographic notes on doctors in Russia and America, and European blindness gender trends. It also notes France’s presidential term record with a resignation during a second term.
The London gossip notes MPs may wear hats in the chamber with no rules on headgear shape. It highlights tricks by A J Balfour and the Duke of Devonshire balancing hats, Tim Healy balancing brim on pince-nez, and hints that hats signal political tension near Mr Henry's seat as government fear grows.
The article recounts an Indian traveling performance in an inland market. A lean drummer and a flamboyantly dressed partner manipulate a bamboo tray of rice and grain, performing rapid gyrations that nearly scatter the contents before revealing two separated piles. The feat astonishes onlookers amid a vivid, somewhat grotesque description.
An article discusses a cynical view of a merchant’s lunch with a stenographer, labeling it a fraud in piety. It then reports Harvard University’s 24 year service pension plan, the earliest American general retirement system, funded since 1880 totaling 340,000. It also notes Chilean women using strange bed warmers to heat feet in cold weather by placing them on a dog.
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