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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1909
Page
2
Fragmentary notice from the Postoffice at San Antonio Texas mentions building address and an agency in New York Tribune Building. The readable text indicates a matter related to postal service operations and correspondence.
Fragmented text discusses Abdul Hamud and the Yildiz Kiosk, hinting at secrets after the sultan’s departure. It mentions alleged pawn discoveries, harem intrigue, and speculation about what valuables or papers remain, with cultural and political tangents touching vaudeville, security, and finance.
A long comic feature blends a freckle counting joke with a Missouri railroads rate clash. Harlow, a redheaded page at a St. Louis hotel, is wrestled into freckle accounting by railroad men who pay six cents per mark, netting $54.12, while Missouri battles a proposed fare increase. The piece weaves in verse and social satire about profits and law.
San Antonio lawyers and local observers discuss a remarkable Medina River catch of Spanish mackerel seen at the Menger hotel. Delegates at a Pexar hotel meeting are cited praising a certain type of citizen, while unrelated vignettes mention a country parson and talent for languages amid social scenes and musical comedy interests.
A rude notice from Everett True threatens legal action over a complaint about Azore souvenirs and travel card purchases. The nameless correspondent is urged to stay home and settle debts.
Old Aunt Jane is described with harsh verses noting yellow skin and many wrinkles. The narrator mocks boys for being useless while she, though flawed, pretends to help when someone is sick. The poem shifts to performance of blame and pity as Aunt Jane dies to assist a sick boy.
A garbled OCR style collage mentions a Georgia man, forged deeds, foreign names, loom of Roosevelt danger, Mark Twain farming praise, Menelik and Abyssinian quotes, Chicago professors, New York fares up, and a Massachusetts note about marriage ads, all rendered in a satirical, disjointed tone.
A San Antonio front page fragment from March 11, 1935, recalls local events. mentions church services at Joseph’s Catholic Church, a first communion, and military figures such as General Fy and Hon. Ton Huneack. Notes personnel changes and visits, with figures like L. Mahneke and Chandier in transit notices and a planned reconvene in Gardendale.
The readable fragments show garbled names and phrases such as a singer, places like Chicago and Kansas, and scattered proper nouns, but the overall meaning is obscured, leaving no coherent event or identity to summarize. The text appears as damaged OCR with multiple misspellings and incomplete sentences.
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