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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1907
Page
4
A historic note outlines a shifting policy on mailing souvenir cards. Post office warnings, forbidding unsealed or lightly sealed cards, have led manufacturers to push tissue envelopes with cutouts. Mailers may use one cent stamps, but cards with enclosures or written content face two cent postage or dead letter fate.
The Cuba Agricultural League led by Ferdinando Castro petitions Govern or MMa Bona seeking remedies for Cuba's economic ills. They denounce the reciprocity treaty with the United States as renounced, accusing the American sugar combine of controlling refineries and harming planters. The petition urges U S intervention to preserve civilization and address the crisis.
A San Antonio city page recalls 21 years past with杂 robbery of Clas. Coliin and a burglary that spared jewels. It notes the Brotherhood of Rutlwae Prakimus opening with a Brunt pendé. Rowdy crime and social bits mix with local weddings and a necklace theft involving a man named Forguran. The Lone Star Lit meeting installed YD as president.
The National Civic Federation opens a four day meeting at Studebaker hall with about 600 delegates led by President Nicholas Murray Butler. Ralph Basler arrives to run federation headquarters as notable figures including Samuel Gompers and Seth Low prepare to attend and discuss tariffs and labor’s role in trust regulation.
Wanted for Unite Stren army, able bodied unmarried men 21 to 35, U.S. citizens, good character and temperate, who can read and write English. Information at recruiting office Moore building Avenue C and Houston street. Also advertising lumber and builders hardware from BD Steves & Sons, promoting large stock and right prices.
Anica volton growers hear a warning from Macara, the world’s largest cotton producer. He cautions that maintaining abnormally high raw cotton prices cripples export trade as nations seek alternatives. The message, delivered at a European manufacturers’ banquet, urges stable pricing to avoid shifting sourcing away from the United States.
The Belknap Rifles eighth annual banquet and reunion gathers San Antonio veterans from the famed unit. Since 1884 the company earned interstate drill prizes, notably at Washington and Galveston, with Captain R. I. Green and leaders like Robert T. Green guiding clout. Tonight’s events include roll calls and toastmaster James Ravis.
Frederick Mn and his wife Paye Gealiin Magill were acquitted of murdering Mrs. Magill after the jury failed to find corpus delicti. The state argued the couple coerced Mrs. Magill, aided by letters she wrote before her death expressing fear and plans to remarry if harm came to her. Witnesses said Mrs. Magill often spoke of violence and requested marriage to Faye Graham if she died. The case focused on letters and alleged threats amid testimony about her unhappy home life.
New Orleans October 19 Judge L D Sanders ordered return of nearly two thousand acres of Louisiana land in the Bradford case. James L Bradford wealthy New Orleans resident sentenced to two years for conspiracy to defraud the United States. About five hundred acres are restored to the government. Bradford pardoned by President Roosevelt and due to be released Sunday after serving four months. He paid the $7000 fine today.
Fragment mentions a penalty labeled AB with an associated date and a figure 34193, but lacks context on parties or actions. The readable part suggests a quantified penalty event or calculation tied to a specific date in an ongoing report. The rest remains unreadable, preventing fuller identification.
New York dated report states veteran landscape painter Joh Bunyan Bristol, famed for Lake Champlain and Adirondack works, has paralysis and may not paint again. He, 81, is hospitalized at St Luke's. Bristol showed at the latest National exhibition. The Bexar Drug Co offers all night service with medicine delivery and preventive specials.
Chicago officials push a taximeter ordinance to curb overcharging in taxis. The measure mandates visible meters showing miles traveled and fare, with inspections by public works and cab detention until fixed. If adopted, Chicago would be first major city to require such devices, following New York and European cities where meter use varies by regulation.
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