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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1907
Page
2
A garbled Boston-like column from The San Antonio Light offers scattered jokes about fairs weather and politics. It mentions San Antonio day and taft Europe and Cananea reopening while touching on banks and currency tensions in New York and Washington.
A speech discusses $78,000,000 in relief and $8,000,000 in gold, with plans for $25,000,000 in additional national currency issues. It argues the market will recover and notes the currency system’s flaws, urging Congress to reform next session toward a stable, adaptable currency.
A Newark led critique blasts a New York publishers’ bulky volume for citing San Antonio’s population as 13,245 while the city’s own estimates push past 90,000 and forecast 169,000 by the next census. The piece calls the book antiquated and misinformed, urging accuracy and truth.
A garbled report recounts Senator Bourne of Oregon pitching a $1000 reward to a parson for a pro-Roosevelt third-term bid. Roosevelt rebuffed Bourne’s plan, while Bourne’s effort drew mixed reaction and faded in White House scrutiny as Taft's backers pivoted toward a lath boom.
The nation’s newspapers urge calm and prudent action by banks to aid legitimate obligations while resisting rash draws. They praise prompt bank measures but warn against hoarding money as speculation fears drive consumer concern. Confidence will return faster if banks support businesses and the public with cautious, conservative intervention.
A highly ornate ode praises a beloved figure with celestial imagery and nature as chorus. The verse extols radiant beauty and enduring charm as moonlit paths, winds, and evening lead toward an ideal motherfold, while companions walk beside the day and years pour forth.
Dispatches recount a Payne County manhunt and a deputy’s tense bargaining over a $25 reward for Thomas Staith. In Oklahoma and Kansas, authorities coordinate a prisoner exchange while a quirky exchange tests nerve. Separate notes review insanity trends among foreign-born populations, soda-water industry growth, and a Philadelphia Ledger remark on wage raises and farming outlooks.
A discussion on insomnia outlines lifestyle changes to improve sleep including avoiding brain work before bed, evening routines, warm baths, and dim lighting for imaginations. In a separate item, a New York Tribune notice advertises a kingdom for sale, listing throne and royal regalia at 206000, with a sensational note on a skull throne and exotic terms.
The Philadelphia Record recounts odd requests from readers and a tale of a hatless man traveling Europe in search of Roosevelt style teeth. A New York stewards tale of a hatless traveler links health and happiness to living without a hat while soda water emerges as a national staple.
Scraps recount diverse topics from 19th century issues: Brooklyn frame houses averaging 4100 dollars and Bronx brick homes around 6500, a report on transatlantic passenger landings, cotton trade shifts with Egypt behind, parks repurposed as sobriety depots, and a glimpse of census figures for China. It also covers rising hardwood lumber cuts, wheat and cotton freight rates, and evolving weapon regulation with bayonet and sword designs amid war lessons.
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