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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1900
Page
11
An old style advertisement from The Sunday Light highlights nectar beverages and party punch preparations. It promotes table wines brandies whiskies and cordials for social calls parties or home use and lists Henry Mengers shop at 140 West Commerce Street with phone 447.
Promotion notes a westward route labeled AT & S 1 through New Mexico and Arizona with connections at Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver enabling round trip tickets via various paths. Magnified literature will be sent free by W. AL Ster Tey and A. G. PB A or A A. Giason. Denver Road at Fort Worth Texas.
Miss Ferguson, a refined young woman raised near East Lake City, serves as an assistant to the sheriff and executes dangerous tasks. She trains with a revolver to shoot a target at ten yards, fights a notorious burglar, and has conveyed over 108 lunatics to the asylum, often under violent attacks. Despite ridicule, she earns fear and respect from criminals and offers of marriage from many suitors.
Nora Johnson of Braymer survived a deathlike trance and coffin burial after a sudden illness. Her family, fearing death, were shocked when she sat up at her own funeral and described a vision of speaking with the Lord warning of an imminent death within a week. The Johnsons, a respectable farming family, recount a harrowing brush with loss.
An aged pioneer trapper named John Paige in Dubois County Indiana lives secluded among forests. He traps mink, beaver, skunk and fox, gardens a small patch, and greets strangers with wary hospitality. Trade traders and occasional hunters visit for furs, while he remains distant from society, aided by dogs for companionship. Indians inside Bolivia earn shirts and hats from tree bark fibers.
The Dodson household in a Chicago suburb is the setting for a strange tale of a baby’s unwelcome reception by adults and devils, a nocturnal obsession with music, and a dramatic end to the affair as a friend’s plan brings the child calm through a phonograph lullaby. A separate notice highlights Alexander Willis, a rural letter carrier in Cambridge shire, delivering since 1861 with perfect attendance over 36 years and 64,000 miles traveled. Also included is a curious medical anecdote of a screw removal using silk threads and an improbable name misspelling in a New York court.
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