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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1898
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text depicts heated campaign chatter amid bets and local power fears. Mentions Tom Johnson Max Futur and Peter Jonas Hor, urging voters to keep city and county separate while condemning Democratic gains and urging moral candidates. Political tension blends with social lines and gambling metaphors.
A sprawling, fragmented plea column accuses commissioners and officials of double pay, pension boosts, and tax manipulation while urging voters to back reformist candidates. It cites Sullivay, Campbell, Bell, and others, rails against gambling and liquor interests, and pledges to keep city and county bosses separate.
Cheerful young Wichita residents report prominent Kansans including Mia and Mary F Lease and ex governor Morrill forming a Dian committee to reimburse Howard Gould for a large debt. They plan church sock fundraisers and entertaining events to raise money, with county countywide support anticipated. A gray horse with a branded shoulder appears in a separate note.
A fragmented feature on watchmaking families and social roles recounts Americ an Dutch gifted craftspeople. It admires precision in eyewear, notes clean homes, and highlights women as social leaders while describing a wartime era professor and several named figures with distant ties to Washington and Pittsburgh.
The article traces a century of export growth from the United States, noting a shift from agricultural to manufacturing dominance. It cites Commissioner Greeley on patent-driven machinery advances and gives historical export shares from 1880, 1870, and 1890, highlighting the rise of American industry and technology. The piece mentions Cincinnati Post as the source and ends with a note about home pictures at the King Saloon.
An advertisement touts Paine's Celery Compound as a universal remedy. It claims Prof Edward E Phelps of Dartmouth and Yale credentials back the cure for sleeplessness, nervous disorders, and impaired blood, promising renewed appetite and vigor. The piece boasts wide endorsement by doctors and public figures, presenting the preparation as a premier nineteenth century medical breakthrough.
A fragmentary moralizing list urges married women to avoid self neglect, vanity, gossip, temper, and public displays. It emphasizes fidelity, household duties, cheerful temper, proper behavior at home and in church, and warns against ascribing to women unworthy freedoms. The text reflects era norms about female propriety and domestic duty.
A Maralaya resident reports rapid rat and rabbit depredations in the Azores. They ruin bananas oranges grapes and crops, attack houses and fields. Farmers wonder if introducing mongooses might help, citing Jamacit as a warning and noting wild pigs and escaped partridges complicate control.
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