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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1885
Page
1
A mixed week in headlines includes Boone county Kentucky gunfight over a dog leaving two dead, New York reporting 268 failures this week, Grants improving, Oklahoma boomers gathering under leader Couch, and a fatal Illinois Central rail crash near Grenada with multiple deaths and serious injuries.
Employees of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio railway gathered at Firemen's ball Avenue C to express solidarity with the Gould system wage reduction strike in Texas and Missouri. Unanimous resolutions extend sympathy and offer assistance to affected workers, signed by J.J. Holland, committee.
A gay widower schemes to brand a hat marker with his initials and place the star's name in the corner to showcase crewedwork as proof of his appeal. Meanwhile several car loads of fine furniture arrive at L. Wolfgon's and will be sold at hard time prices. calls urged.
Mr. B F Yoakum freight agent reports I G N trains running again and says the road is clear for business. Authorities at Fort Worth Palestine and Marshall are believed to have settled with the strikers though no official word. Passengers are operating as usual. Spring dress goods headline notes L Wolfson receiving a large stock of ladies fabrics including muslins ginghams and cashmeres with matching trimmings.
The Fashion theatre plans a Monday March 9 benefit for the Gosling family with a new program and evening entertainment. Tickets cost 75 cents to one dollar and are available at Rische's opposite the post office.
Louis Sauver, enamored with a vaudeville performer, sits jailed on a charge of cashing a stolen Measra. D. A. Oppenheimer wire notification stopped the check after he passed it at Critzer Bros. The pocketbook with $106.50 was found on him. Sauver, a jack-leg carpenter with Galveston ties, used aliases and borrowed money locally while pursuing the con artist. The case heads to the grand jury.
Mrs Belle Price of 181 Avenue K Galveston writes to the City Physician asking about her relative Mrs Mollie Patton who faced a lunacy charge. She offers help. The note comments on tea or coffee use by students preparing for exams and warns of mental strain and memory loss from excessive caffeine. Spring note and ad fragment conclude.
A shirt maker seeks to end Sunday night courting as it disrupts his business and his workers. He argues many girls are idle Monday mornings due to late sleep after Saturday night dates and dismisses the idea of legal penalties for sparking only on Sundays. The piece reflects old local social norms and contrasts Sunday with Saturday night romance.
A fragmentary piece laments a veto on Sunday courtship and the blue mood of youth, warning that limits on love will dim a girl’s beauty and push her toward nunneries. The text shifts to a poem about sun setting, gold light, and hopeful lines about first love.
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