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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1898
Page
5
A Sunday May 1, 1998 page promotes Dr. Price’s World’s Dispensary Medical Association remedies. It claims Golder cures consumption and related lung diseases with testimonials and letters, plus Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation. The ad urges writing for copies and lists address details.
London letter to the New York Sun exposes in Europe a widespread traffic of child slaves from Naples Caserta and Bari to Marseilles Lyons and beyond. Padrones use false birth certificates and contracts to ship and exploit youngsters as workers beggars and performers, with officials often helpless against certificates and forged papers.
The Tribuna notes Italy’s 1873 law against child labor in street trades remains ineffective against the padrone system. It urges home authorities and church officials to combat the yearly trafficking of children, criticizing police harbor officials and parroco for lax protection and public indifference.
St Louis Globe-Democrat reports a helmet designed for miners to survive in afterdamp. The device weighs six pounds, uses a 100 psi air reservoir with gauge, and delivers fresh air to the wearer through tubes. It features asbestos materials, a neck wool seal, mica viewplates, and a whistle for signaling.
A garbled dialogue from the New York Tribune depicts Irish dockworkers debating signs on the moon and the prospect of war with Spain. A rough confrontation ensues as Pat and Dennis threaten fighting, exchange taunts, then briefly part with a kick as they rise.
Afe Glim merton recalls a playful family scene in Glimmerton with lighthearted quips from his oldest daughter and Teavin. The household maintains a cheerful mood as they share humorous small sayings before breakfast in New York.
A garbled OCR collage presents poems about a maid with rolling fancies and a boastful narrator, interspersed with prankish faux ads and a cartoon-like tale of boys playing soldiers. It weaves in stray references to Boston Transcript style jokes, Candy Cathartic ads, and a light note on Canadian Senator Morrill with Gowen in a brief exchange.
A Gettysburg veteran recounts a brutal moment when he ordered a comrade to return to formation and shot a straggler who would have fired on him. He reflects that killing a fellow soldier weighed heavily, contrasting it with the broader wartime duty of destroying the enemy. The Times-Herald notes the speaker later rose to command and laments the tragedy.
May devotions run through Durie, San Fernando, St Joseph’s, St Mary, St Patrick’s, St Michael’s, and St Peter Claver’s churches. Each site opens with processions, then daily or weekly masses, Rosary and Litany recitations, and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Readings, acts of consecration, and special programs vary by parish with evenings or mornings scheduled throughout May.
A young English officer in a colonial war earns renown for coolness under fire. Rudyard Kipling recounts him guiding a company through a rocky pass in Indus action. When shouted to hurry, he lit a pipe and steadied his men with calm humor.
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