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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1899
Page
12
An elderly farmer declines grand promises of prosperity as a young man touts agricultural progress and new gear. The old man stresses practical work, weekly dinners, and steady craft over flashy promises, noting welkins are not sought and that daily labor and reflection are his measure of progress.
A report from Minnesota describes hail damaged wheat and a curious method from Italy to deter storms. In San Giorgio Monferrato funnel shaped cannons directed upward fired as the storm approached, creating a rift in the cloud and driving the hail away. The piece compares similar improvised protections in Oklahoma against cyclones.
The excerpt collates historical notes on naval design from 1789 to 1610, mentioning Napoleon's floating fortress 1609 609 feet long with three turrets, the Royal Prince as England's first line of battleship, and the first frigate. It blends quotable vintage snippets from Chicago Chronicle and other fixtures with a humorous modern text about pie and proposals. It includes brief dialogues from What to Eat and Philadelphia Call and a line about a freckled girl in Detroit Journal.
An old resident recalls Wilf Pluggett's past conduct and the wedding scheme. The tale involves a hurried courtship, a preacher, and rumors of elopement amid village chatter.
A collage of humorous quips from era papers highlights a spoof telephone hat request, a loud night with a drum, a paraphrasing genius and a wary suitor. Witty blasts poke at misunderstanding, worry, and self knowledge in breezy captions.
Timetable snippets show daily departures from Boerne Kerrville Houston and Waco lines, with variations on Saturdays Sundays and holidays. Arrivals include San Antonio from Boerne Kerrville and stockdale connections. connections to Eagle Pass Mexico and California noted along with North South routes and Gulf lines.
Mail departures and arrivals shown for multiple rail lines and routes. Timings include daily, weekly, and weekend services with specific stops such as Pleasanton Spring Branch Gallagher’s Ranch Helotes Kerry II SA East North West and various railways. Stated that some routes run daily except Sunday and several schedules list morning and evening departures.
The Denver Rio Grande and associated lines offer multiple routes between Denver Grand Junction and Ogden via Leadville Glenwood Springs or Marshall Pass Black Canyon. Tourists may buy round trip via either Scenic Tone route, with pamphlets available from Wooper G P I A Denyer Col for details. New through schedules from the M K & T Ry list east and west bound trains between San Marcos Smithville Lockhart with connections to other lines, praise for service. Limited time low fares to Cincinnati October 22 to 17 with one fare round trip via tours via New Orleans or Memphis, sleeper options, further info from Colonel T H Kingsley.
An eyewitness account recalls a dramatic June night in 1882 when a bear attacked a cattle herd on a remote Maine plantation near Clamson on the Penobscot River. The bull fought the bear while a 300-pound cow and a wounded steer, later healed, endured and survived. A steer aided the herd after the clash, guiding the others away as the bear was killed by the steer’s final thrust.
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