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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 16, 1897

Page

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San Antonio Sewer Plans Face Public Health Test

Analysis and discussion of San Antonio sewering plans, stressing the need for scientifically constructed connections and house traps. Notes workers on Commerce Street, the expert oversight, and the broader point that urban sewerage serves dense populations while rural areas have less need.

San Antonio Vother Commerce Street Naormlag Antonio Chen Babylon Rome

Moral sewerage for the city and its failures

A sermon urges moral sanitation as urgently as physical sewers. It argues that urban life generates moral filth needing underground disposal to protect health and civilization, warning against ignoring virtue and warning that without moral plumbing corruption thickens and poisons communities.

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Attempted suicide by razor shocks Miss Alice Garner

From Temple Texas May 15 report from Little Elm community about Miss Alice Garner attempting suicide by cutting her throat with a razor after a dispute with a jealous boyfriend who had been denied access to her home. Doctors believe she will recover. Other notes: brother planning to move her away, and local society events and visits are mentioned.

W. E. Edgar Sherman State Council Order of American Mechanics Grant Tucttie Caldwell Knights of Maccabees Misa Siaggie Armatrang EF. c. Hancock Emma Dougherty Adine Annie Blanchard

Spiritualism Exposed as Humbug by G. S. Lincoln

G. S. Lincoln argues that all religions rely on miracles and that spiritualism is a common fraud. He claims mediums and psychics exploit superstition, proposes fair tests to prove deception, and warns that belief in spiritualism undermines churches and fuels dangerous superstition.

Lincoln

Dr King's New Discovery Promised Safe Cough Cure

A promotional note urges purchasing Dr King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs, and colds arguing it is safe, reliable, and guaranteed or money refunded. It warns against substitutes and claims profits motivate inferior products. Trial offer at F Kolteyer & Son's drug store.

Dr. King F. Kolteyer & Son

A Pine Bargain at Cash Price

A Pine bargain offers a 10 by 156 foot lot with a front and back gallery plus a four room house complete with hall bath hot water three rooms of finish and a full list of household goods. Includes space for feed buggy horse cow two chicken houses over 100 chickens fenced vegetable garden and a neatly kept yard.

Practical joker prose and the earnest use of wit

A whimsical, lively meditation on the comic type the practical joker. It contrasts the lightest word with heavy pun, describes various jokers and their antics, and ends with a surge of laughter as the antidote to life’s troubles.

Dave & Tabor Valentine Donizett Soviety Deay

Religious Reform Critiques 22nd Freedom Anniversary

A long denunciation argues against celebrating slavery’s end with revelry and commerce. The speaker condemns vendors, coarse pleasures, and church interference on Sabbath grounds, urging a return to reverence for past heroes and a sober, principled observance aligned with religious duty. The speaker, a 26 year minister, rejects proposed religious services on the celebration grounds.

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