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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
2
A scrambled column from the San Antonio Light references Elmer Clarke and Frederick Logan, mockingly notes questions about sidewalk orders, Hague meetings, and a chorus of sensational topics. It mentions Marie Watterson, football tactics, citrus of deaths, and varied headlines from copper crimes to ship records, ending with a prompt to find the answer.
Texas Southwest gains as agriculture and lands attract northern immigrants. Articles note San Antonio's limited opportunities but Southwest Texas becomes a winter garden with rising sugar cane prospects and cattle shifts. The Rio Grande valley is highlighted for sugar cane due to latitude, mild frost risk, and long maturation, with early railroad expansion tying Brownsville to Corpus Christi and Houston.
The article describes vast irrigation projects and steady plantation growth across Texas especially in the Ho Granite valley and along the Rio Grande. It highlights West Texas Pluck Growers pooling efforts, high salaries for agents, and strong income from cottony acreage, onions, and vegetables. It notes artesian wells, warm underground rivers, and the expectation of rapid population and wealth expansion in Texas within two years, with farmers from Iowa and Illinois drawn to the rich, cultivated lands.
An essay argues the Isthmian locks are too small for modern ships and urges decisive, even extreme, measures. It notes rapid progress in science and construction, compares sea level and lock systems, and foresees Congress funding a vast enlargement while American ingenuity is trusted to prevail.
A clipped, dyspeptic reflection on Colonel Watters and national politics. The speaker riffs on Wick Anger, President Roosevelt, Bryan and currency debates, framing Wattersby as a figure in democratic decline. The piece bristles with satire and likely misread names, hinting at political discontent and confusion in the press.
A vivid sketch of Dinard like Newport, Brittany, where aristocrats seek sensation with moonlit beaches, costume fetes, and ads for cocoa and jam. late notes on fashion and social trends contrast American influence with French restraint.
A collage of brief notices covers population estimates for Canada, a Mexican city bicycle craze, and a critique of pauper rates in Britain. It also reports a Norwegian trawler Diamon battling a massive whale off Magnuss, Grimsby rescuers, the Formosan camphor bureau restricting tree cutting, and Harland & Wolff preparing to launch a new bow for the White Star liner Suevic after a grounding near the Lizard.
A Nashville report recounts Henry Friel of St. John who spent a year living bare in a plain outdoor life to cure consumption. He survived on herbs, game, and fruit, slept on the ground, and now weighs 170 pounds after the trial, contrasting his earlier weight under 120 pounds when he left for Arizona.
A dream narrative mentions Cheng Teshnaed Rad and a dream cobra in a surreal scene. Dr Havelock Ellis is cited as supporting the dreamer’s role in interpreting visions as guidance for awakening insight.
A jumble of reports covers ship repairs near Southampton and a new ship law, a pet Esperanto speaking dog, cheap emigration to Sydney for domestic work, Brooklyn election district registration for John Leary, a humorous German balloonist ad, and remarks on Chinese Imperial University staff and Australian race theories.
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