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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1899
Page
6
Coupon promises five percent discount on any purchase from Henry Meenger located at 140 West Commerce Street. The note invites buying wine from Family Liquor store with a full assortment of California and imported wines at reasonable prices. Telephone contact 447.
Miss M M Rowles, riding near an ostrich pen in South Africa, escaped a furious cock ostrich as Kaffir and Dutch workers vainly fired kerries. An attack killed a Kaffir who sprang to save her, strangled the bird, and Rowles mourned the man who died for her.
The article argues beer replaces pulque in Mexico, noting large breweries in City of Mexico Chihuahua Sonora and Vera Cruz states. It urges readers to invest in San Antonio and Southwest Texas real estate as tax rates may fall, promising profits from safe, timely investments and urging action before prices rise. It targets readers to buy homes, lots, ranches, or farms, promising up-to-date options and favorable prices.
Bishop Cheshire of North Carolina touring the north to raise funds for southern work asserts a North Carolina town prohibits black residents or land ownership and is settled entirely by New Englanders with no southern-born adults among its citizens.
A text notes the empress enjoys a special privilege no predecessor had she may dine at the same table as the emperor and he consults her on political matters. She favors horseback riding and uses a daily private gymnasium for exercise.
The passage notes that insects typically hatch eggs long after parent death, leaving most insects as born orphans with no parental care. It emphasizes the general rule of absence of parental involvement in insect development.
Chicago Record recounts Detectives Slupikowski and Holmes wrestling a stubborn goat from 348 West North avenue. After a barn tumble include a rope over the horns and a back somersault, the officers finally called the patrol wagon to return the animal to John Chikowski of 757 Island avenue.
John G. Angelo an 84 year old ship smith from Pocomoke City Md will be buried under an iron anvil with a sledge hammer on top his unusual tombstone fashioned from his first tool and attached with iron links the whole galvanized at the William H Whiting Co in Baltimore to resist weather Angelo born August 22 1815 began blacksmith apprenticeship June 28 1828 and still works daily at two shipyards in Pocomoke City this unique memorial cost no charge to the family and is displayed at the Whiting store
John T. Hambleton Co offers a Babcock Standard Press for newspaper and job work at 28 by 42 inches, prints full form 5 column 8 pages, 1200 to 1800 an hour. Cash paid for immediate sale. Address T. B. Johnson care Daily Light.
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