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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1898
Page
11
Local utility announces cut in lighting gas price to 2.60 per 1000 cubic feet and fuel gas at 5.60 per 1000 cubic feet. Upgraded gas plant promises cheaper service and better customer care at the Alamo Plaza office, telephone 212, with prompt remedy for any defects.
A local note urges residents to visit Sunset Wood Co. to compare low prices on groceries and patent flour. The writer praises fresh, healthy goods and mentions a nearby grocery man switching to Sunset Wood Co. for better quality and value.
The story recounts Mestyn Baved Derior Bill and Jobe Morton of Winamas, distressed by chronic pain, who visits Tippecanoe River where a strange remedy involving cold water ends with him catching a ten pound fish. A doctor’s bill follows and the incident concludes with the fish meal.
A St Louis car conductor recalls a staged hold-up that turned into a fright when a friend flashed a nickel to his forehead during a hoax. The piece then shifts to London’s St Marie Woolnoth church where a rail underpass was built beneath the church to accommodate the Metropolitan line. It ends noting Kansas abandoned towns with houses moved to farms and barns.
Rural districts face frequent burglaries by tramps as merchants test threats like trap guns dynamite alarms and bells. Some use electric wires and city power to light and ring bells while others install balanced weights and loud devices to deter theft, though some traps injure owners or cause property damage. A separate note discusses hypnotism regulation and insanity risks for single men versus married men.
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