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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1907
Page
2
A crowded column from the Fear Evening edition mentions the Louisiana Texas duel comparison, a Missouri earthquake belief, and summarises fair preparations for a November 4 rush. It notes a New York man who shot his wife and himself, and references gold movement from Europe impacting Texas optimism.
The Times-Herald and Beaumont Journal discuss a San Antonio banquet honoring Governor Campbell at the International Fair. They warn against Bailey faction influence and Baileyism, predicting harmony at the feast with speakers confined to the Thirtieth Legislature and Baileyism avoided.
The Sun of New York argues army life is repulsive to experienced military men and civilians alike. It contends service attracts few new recruits as the career is intolerable, praising reformers who ban temptations and promote a sanitized soldier’s life.
The passage laments the loss of liberty and pleasure in military life as reformers banish fun from soldiers routines. It argues the army may fill with unfit, unmilitary individuals, risking peace and the army’s effectiveness.
Dr Benjamin Andrews head of the University of Nebraska declares editors who use the mask rate should be hanged but limits the punishment to those who target wealthy men. The board of editors says his wording was not explicit. The outcry prompts talk of his resignation to calm public indignation.
Lumber prices show a decline across grades with checks dropping from 26.60 to 16.50 per unit and yellow pine down 5 to 7. First grade oak falls from 48 to 43 in three months. San Antonio building activity remains steady, and the idea of a lumber trust fades if prices keep easing as standing timber supply has not grown.
An satirical piece from the Nashville Tennessean mocks migration fever as a cattle disease tied to Texas Texan emigration. It hints at a former Tennesseans club forming in Texas to celebrate release from bondage amid prosperity.
A collage of quotations from newspapers noting Texas attitudes and events. References include the Montgomery Advertiser Washington Post Nashville Tennessean Atlanta Constitution Philadelphia Press Cleveland Plaza Dealer Houston Post and others. The pieces lampoon Texas politics culture and opinions with a mix of humor and critique.
Fragmented OCR notes recount outgoing hardships and misfortunes at a rural paper titled Wiel of reading matter in the laque Gunth ie Times. The editor suffers rheumatism, two foreq are dengup, and the gas engine stalls, a string of troubles echoed by Shale, old boy.
The Charleston News and Courier reports on Texas expansion described as a bold crate of space and rooms. It notes eight rooms for Slee of South Carolina and vast additional area resembling Maryland and Massachusetts in scope.
A New York Herald roundup notes artist Morman Sohal’s summer travels through New Mexico with Albert L. Grol, then to the Pacific coast and Narragansett Pier, finally Europe for studies including a painting of the Tinchanted Mesa. Accounts also recount a Russia witness and a New York World survey of skyscraper heights and modern fireproofing, plus brief items on a Boston rooster license, medieval grocer history, a Fontanet powder mill blast, a massive sturgeon catch in Michigan, a Panama Canal tug voyage, and reflections on autumn fashion and credit woes.
In a fragmentary account from Philadelphia, a waiter vents about mistaken identity and tips, claiming wallets and plates from a 100 year old china set prove authenticity. An Antiquary debates cup plates used to protect table linen and tea ware, noting shifts in table manners and serving pieces across eras.
A collage of historical and industrial jottings covers rulers from Roosevelt to Nicholas II, the German taler, Alberta coal lands, the Great Western railway link to Port Arthur, Bible translation efforts in 400 tongues, West Point’s Revolutionary Chain, and fashion items like a jeweled glove and a silver-thread weekly.
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