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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1899
Page
3
A chaotic public notices page lists medicines, sales, salesmen, and events. It notes high water damages at Brackett and Sahane street, wedding delays, pharmacy promotions, and community appeals while urging readers to buy Herbine, Ballard's Snow Liniment, and DeWitt's Witch Hazel to treat wounds, coughs, and bilious complaints.
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OF INTEREST TO INVENTORS. Co. A. Snow & Co., one of the oldest firms of patent lawyers, with offices opposite the U S Patent Office in Washington, D C, states they have helped procure patents for more than 47 000 inventors and that improved conductions in the Patent Office mean patents may now be more promptly procured than in twenty five years of experience.
A Chicago Post fragment reports a suburban resident and a dealer discussing a peculiar crop called patile-snake melon. The dialogue hints at unusual produce being substituted for normal plants in local lawns.
Reach out notes Chas J Rossy, cigar maker and dealer, opening at branch stand on Houston Street. Line promises popular brands plus own make. locations at Alamo Plaza and House Law Street to patronize for cigars and tobacco products.
A fragment notes a directive urging the hoard of health to place a single sign over every letter box reading Drink Dulling's Sindr Al Water, reflecting public health messaging in a cautionary era.
A spectator at a ball game yesterday afternoon suffered a concussion after a score card fell from the stands. The incident began with a heated exchange involving Algy, Ber Ne, and Cholly before the projectile struck the man.
Taken up and in City Pound on Matamoran street on or about June 1999. One sorrel jack branded H with bar, plus other marks. If not redeemed before sale, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the pound at 1 o'clock a.m. on the specified June day.
A comic line notes prudence in hiding a personal habit from a landlady to avoid higher board costs, implying humor about appetite and clever self preservation.
Science notes discuss Professor Pickering’s proposed name for Saturn’s ninth moon Phoebe, the outer satellites Titan Hyperion and Iapetus forming a family set, and remarks on wireless telegraphy over sea, weather in London, automatic railway couplers in the United States and Africa’s pygmies, plus astronomy photographs at Harvard and old customs in Korea and tobacco use in Korea.
The text notes Korea's largely home grown tobacco, grown by farmers with quality curing issues from hanging to dry. It mentions ample supply and low prices with little imported tobacco. It describes the United States consul general in Seoul detailing a brass bowl pipe with a hollow reed stem, varied in length, and ornate joints, while common people favor shorter pipes for practicality.
Astoria, Ore, hosts a boxing night as John Sullivan arrives with a $1,000 challenge to the giant Swede Hans Andersen. Portland backers flood the streets with bets while locals cash in nets and gear to back the upstart event. The crowd roars as Sullivan lands a sharp opening shot and Andersen collapses, setting the stage for a dramatic clash over the town’s praise and profits.
A Swede and Sullivan clash in a theater scene triggers a late night riot as fishermen sulk and threaten, then Sullivan’s crew departs for Portland. The postmaster notes three months of offshore remittances fall by about 85 percent, forcing Andersen to appeal to Scandinavians again to restore prestige.
A daring lions trainer, Broncho Bill, faced two lions in an Antwerp style cage in Leeds. After a severe head wound, he reentered the cage and drove the lioness back with his stick. Attendants aided with rods before the animal was secured. The crowd cheered as the trainer’s triumph was complete.
The Navris and other Savage races tell of two great volcanoes, Tongariro in the North Island and Taraneki extinct to the west, once allied with a fair white mountain. A myth says their clash caused earthquakes, with the white peak intervening to separate Tongariro and Taraneki, now separated by distance as Cape Egmont stands to the sea. Rumors of underground passages and rumbling caverns buoy the tale as Taranski’s wrath lingers in the eastern sky.
A misspelled and fragmentary note addresses Mr Danheney asking for a photograph for an unspecified purpose. The folio hints at a domestic or social exchange, mentioning Lady Agatha and a Punch-like tone, with unclear context and dates.
A survey of famous bandmasters and their lineages across Europe and America. Dan Godfrey of the Grenadier Guards leads a family of generations of bandmasters, with notable peers like Thomas John Harper, the Fist Grenadier Guards band, and Sousa, American march king, shaping royal and military music worldwide.
The passage lists thirteen U S towns with only numeral names as official post office designations. Examples include Seven Tennessee and Fourteen West Virginia, along with Seventeen Ohio and Seventy-six Kentucky. The text notes missing entries like Quarter Tennessee and Duo Tennessee.
An old note claims DeWiltt’s Witch Hazel Anive cures piles with lasting relief. The ad-like fragment mentions Kolteyer and Bon as recipients or sellers, presenting a bold claim without clinical support.
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