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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1898
Page
3
A fragmented catalog of domestic items including brushes, nest eggs, box and vegetable brushes, coat hangers, tea strainers, hammers, mice traps, forks, spoons, writing tablets, match safes, pewter items, trays, napkin rings, stands, oil cans, corkscrews, screwdrivers, paper trays, chains, sponges, cleaning items, stoves, polish, and various kitchen and dining implements, indicating a broad sale or inventory listing.
Catalog of consumer goods offered this week includes Hight-quart tin dish pan Lepanese bread tray Galvanized jean dishes Patent nutmeg graters pinks tempered pierced tavel Wilty fedt clothes fine Mason's shoe dressing Missing Sun stove polish te product handle mincing knife large cotton dish meg Eye Umers Glass lemon squeezers Broad knife Saratoga slicer Shoe daubers Gone mustard sponge Jupanned dust pans Curling irons Liquid glue Wire soap baskets.
Fad Sloan, famed jockey, reportedly killed fifty two live birds at Wood Park on April 25. Daly Jr defeated Reed, Pa, in a shoot-off. Coldron of Reading beat Welch of Philadelphia. Murphy in California participated in a five-bird headstand feat with Roos in San Francisco. Jon Wylcott of Kansas City defeated Wred Gilbert at Watson’s Ground Yard on April 26 for the Kansas City Star Cup. The Texas State Sportsmans Association hosts its 22nd annual meeting in San Antonio May 16-18 as an amateur-only tournament. San Antonio’s weekly shooting at Lake View is today.
At the next board of health meeting the proposal will advance to send two members to southern cities New Orleans Mobile Galveston to observe their sanitary boards for the coming summer. This will aid the San Antonio board in making recommendations to city council for governing the gang station this summer. Mrs Woods, the trance medium, has been called away for a few days on business, will leave May 10.
A fragmented local page item touches on church closures militia sentiment and racial tensions with crude references. It mentions Pearsall Texas district court records, civic events, and travel notes, plus an update on the Reever Hines building project and local social gatherings.
A Lancet summary describes Dr. Goldhurst’s method of using the sartorius muscle graft to restore extension in paralytic quadriceps cases. Five patients treated, three improved, two failed due to attachment issues, with detailed surgical steps and post operative care.
Mr Barry Fillmore of New York a Belknap Cavalry member wrote a march titled A Hot Lime in the Old Town praising the unit. The song praises Cuba and the troops and has drawn praise, with Fillmore’s dog Ringe selected as mascot. The copyrighted work is published by Hoe Time Publishing Company and performed by the troop.
Fragmentary telegraphic report from Washington dated April 18, 1806 outlines a northern expedition in Alaska. It notes failures, materiel shortages, and orders to reorganize export parties, with Captain Brainerd reassigned and references to General Merritum and subsistence commissary.
A garbled description presents a punctuation cure device described as a gum shaped item resembling a small fire pump. It is inserted and pressed to release a gas or action, claimed to be wind resistant. The text overall is unclear and reads like OCR noise.
A promotional blurb touts Electric Bitters as a quick remedy for back pain kidneys malaria and nervous troubles. It claims to purify blood tone the system and restore vigor with constipation headaches fainting and melancholy relief. Guaranteed 50 cents a bottle at Kaltryer & Son's drug store.
The program lists multiple parts with overtures and selections by Thomas, Resch, Hendix, and Strauss, plus a magic act by Prof. Horn. Highlights include The Grand American Fantasia and Plantation Jubilee, with soloists A Cruz and Hehaoter, as Quinn and Reiner advertise the event for Riverside Park today.
Several New York metropolitan insurers offer industrial life policies covering whole families at small weekly premiums. A company manager says women face no extra risk and notes a 20 to 21 age band can yield up to 340 dollars, with gradual increases by age. Policies aimed at burial costs show the appeal of small steady payments across ages from two to twenty-one.
A fragment from the Omaha World-Herald recalls a Fairfield, Nebraska resident scarred by fire. The man’s face was severely burned with eyelids nearly burned away and a mane-like scar covering his head. The vivid description hints at a dramatic, possibly sensational, past event remembered by readers.
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