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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1898
Page
11
Odd curiosity from Trenton features a parrot that lays eggs on Good Friday and Easter, recalling dates without an almanac. Nearby Evansville reports a lightning strike that shattered a tree and every window, needing many panes to restore the home.
A garbled collage of cartoonish dialogue and quips from London Punch and others. Snatches reference Miss Hicks, a ballast event, a wolf and lamb fable, a governess, a sixpence, and a bookmaker named Jimmy Stone. The tone is satirical miscellany with stray captions and comic asides.
A New York Times correspondent revisits the 1588 Armada from Lisbon to the English Channel. The Spanish fleet of 129 ships with about 24,000 personnel faced English and privateer threat, fiery fireships, and a hostile storm, ending with heavy losses and retreat to port.
An excerpt notes a distinct community of Du Pont workers near Brandywine in Wel auware. They intermarry within the group, pass jobs father to son, keep to Du Ponte banks about three miles from Wilmington, and maintain own clubs, theater, dance, and a private graveyard. The area is lit by the WW electric plant and remains largely unfamiliar to Wilmington residents.
The article reviews nurse pay from ten dollars monthly in year one and fourteen in year two for pupil nurses, with variations by institution. Head nurses in wards earned twenty to twenty dollars per month, while district purses and private benevolence support the sick poor. Private nurses charged fifteen to twenty five dollars weekly, often covering room rent and unstable income. The piece notes heavy labor and long hours for nurses.
The notice lists North, South, and Express departures with times and destinations for multiple railroads including Southern Pacific, San Antonio and Aransas Pass, and San Antonio and Gulf Short. It notes east and west bound arrivals, intermediate stops, and special trains, plus a short, unclear health ad at the end.
Mrs Minnie Warner Ewing, formerly of St Louis and a Vassar graduate, moved with her ill husband to California. With $4000 she preempted land near Cucamonga and built a five story frame house in three weeks, working as carpenter and shingler. The cost was about 100 dollars and her husband’s health improved.
Royal talk centers on Queen Victoria disapproving of long shooting sessions at Lugland parties while recognizing English love of sport. The Rostan Herald notes a concession of three hours may appease Berlin circles and Westminster among others. The Duke of Westminster hosts guests and guards strict etiquette about the birds and guests' behavior at his hunts.
The article notes ocean creatures like whales and dolphins can store air by breathing at surface intervals. It highlights bat anatomy and a method to inflate a chest store. It then reports on the UK graphic and U S Navy issues, stating total sailors, foreign-born share, and American officers valuing British seamen amid a push for a trained reserve and better personnel.
A archaic note links red sunsets to coming dry air and higher heat, while coppery skies predict rain. The finger-tip pattern superstition claims fingerprints are unique to one in 64 billion, with patterns said to be undangerous and unaltered by life.
A fragmentary chronicle discusses a statesman and a scientist playfully debated light theory. The Washington Star description cites retina waves and color sensation as a guest measures distances from nose to eye to test the theory. The exchange blends science with social satire amid casual banter.
Washington society roiled as careless reporters knocked at the home of Mrs. Wainwright, wife of Lieutenant Commander Wainwright of the Maine, claiming to seek details of the destroyer incident. The shock left her faint and distressed, exposing press indifference to a family's peril.
Curled horsehair from South America is valued for mattresses and furniture stuffing as thousands of horses are bred on the pampas. Hair is tangled by lack of care, many burrs cling to manes and tails, and long strands are separated for furniture and cloth. Also noted are early opera glasses, a coquetry treatise, a Branko dairy egg incident, and a strange Ausfrie house fire meteor-like lore.
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