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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1911
Page
15
The article chronicles early San Antonio schooling from 1789 led by Don Jose de la Mata, detailing long-ago schedules, punishments, and cramped classrooms. It contrasts 18th century practices with modern school days and notes later Mexican reforms that shifted school funding to municipalities.
San Antonio Press club schedules an afternoon gathering at 4 o clock in the Gunter hotel dungeon. New departures will be announced by the new board of governors and members may approve committees for immediate action. Local tailor Abrams Koenig & Co. advertised.
The text argues for a single neutral language to unite humanity and reduce cross cultural hostility. It promotes Esperanto as a practical, neutral medium that could enable equal rights to language, preserve national languages and religions inwardly, and remove external animosities through universal communication. It envisions a future where nations coexist without domination or humiliation.
T P Robinson longtime Austin resident and Confederate veteran died at the Austin sanitarium at age seventy. He lived in Austin since 1880 after earlier stints in Houston and Galveston. Survived by his widow four sons W A P T P Jr and Merrill P Robinson and two daughters Mrs J J Brydson and Mrs J A Greathouse. Funeral held this afternoon with interment at Oakwood cemetery.
The first snow of the season fell in Springfield Missouri this morning. Large flakes covered the ground briefly for about an hour before melting on contact with the earth. The snow arrived before any frost in the Ozarks this fall.
The San Antonio postal savings bank opened with 520 dollars on its first day. Many deposits were small with most popular being one dollar. Woodhull Lemman a 12 year old led the morning crowd, while no girls deposited and an 8 year old begged to, but could not join. Overall, officials called the first day a success.
Birth records show multiple births including a girl for Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Sullivan on October 17 at Dakota Street and a boy for Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips on October 18 at Canton Street. Additional entries include a girl for Mr. and Mrs. R. Graves on October 17 at Wyeth Hospital and a birth for Mr. and Mrs. George H. on October 10 at Aransas Avenue. An entry notes Mn and Mrs. E Bot with a birth on El Paso Street.
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