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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1898
Page
11
The provider announces lower lighting charges from $1.00 to $2.60 per 41,000 cubic feet and fuel rate cut from $1.15 to $1.00 per 1000 cubic feet. Improved gas plant promises better service and customer satisfaction. Report defective service via Telephone 212 or at Alamo Plaza office.
A New York Journal account tells of Nellie Mangan, a 27 year old working girl shot in the head, who survived after severe brain injury. Despite hours without food, she remained alive, with doctors attributing her survival to extraordinary constitution and vitality. The piece also notes her suspected self-inflicted shot amid a jealousy tragedy, and sketches her Irish parentage and resilient life in a boarding house.
A stylish woman visits a Valais Royal jeweler to view a diamond necklace and asks the clerk to notify the proprietor she will accompany her husband to his office. At the doctor’s consultation room the supposed patient demands the necklace or money, becomes agitated, and the jewels vanish with the thief never recovered.
A neighborhood fight near Kerry Patel drew a young Irish boy of about 11 to testify in front of Judge Murphy. Patsy of the Patch identified as principal witness, with his mother noting the boy’s important role in the case.
A fragmentary 19th century piece features a judge questioning an 11 year old on oath amid an Irish scene with a Fatim surname and toad wisdom about worm destruction. It shifts to a note on toads saving farmers money and ends with a lament about London fire investigators paid mere pennies after 14 days of service.
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