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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1911
Page
10
In Carson City Nevada Warden Baker promotes prison gambling as a diversion for convicts with prison money. Games include roulette faro chuck a luck Klondyke and fan tan with strict rules and honor system. Critics may launch an investigation into the model prison.
London reports the death of Kitty Grayson at Bryan in the Wigan coal field. At nearly ninety six she was the last pitwoman, a collector’s drawer in her youth before Lord Ashley’s act of 1843 barred underground work for women and children. A separate item notes a golf ball traveled 200 yards in Essex, and a new poultry roost uses perforated iron tubing treated to kill insects.
A historical piece argues there is no credible evidence for underground passages linking the Alamo, missions, and other sites in San Antonio. It notes aqueducts and culverts misinterpreted as tunnels, cites mayor Thielepape era ditches, and states records offer no proof of subterranean routes.
In Venango county three men found a large black snake in a bee tree forty feet up. Bees covered the serpent after it consumed much honey. Professor Surface said the scenario is plausible though unlikely, noting snakes sometimes enter hives and sip honey.
The city hall mascot Billy, a sleek Pei of a cat, rose from a tiny rescued kitten to a beloved figure in Mayor Callaghan's office. He grew fat on germ filled milk samples given by the city bacteriologist, attends council meetings, and charms staff and visitors alike.
A Louisville wedding crowd learned the groom Mr Leslie R Hann was already married when Henry Walters announced no wedding would occur. The certificate circulated showed Mr Hann and Mrs Helen V Gibson had wed quietly two days earlier after the groom’s return from Chicago. The groom, once a newspaper man in New York Montgomery and New Orleans, now works with the Associated Press Louisville bureau.
Germany imported more than three thousand tons of fruit waste in 1910 mainly apple and pear peelings and cores to be used by jelly manufacturers.
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