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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1899
Page
8
The notice extols gas range benefits highlighting pay only for usage, no cost to start a fire, no cost to stop, and no waste. It promises connection free rests and reduced gas prices for cooking, emphasizing efficiency and affordability.
City passenger agent Morris to relieve Lawless in the Capitol City while on vacation. He also may take a post in the office of General Passenger Agent Price at Palestine. Southern Pacific and other lines report no through freight on Morgen due to quarantine. A large Mexican International engine now serves San Antonio to Del Rio with shimmering lettering. Pay car delays persist, blamed on floods at Brackett and Richmond East. three new baggage and express cars added to the SA&DL fleet.
Reported activities include a public concert by the infantry band led by Prof. Lorenzo Kopf at San Pedro Springs park from 4:40 to 11 p.m. today, with a program of marches waltzes and overtures. Major Togan Congug notes equipment and postal matters. personnel changes include dishonorable discharge for Walter McGee and prison sentence for Jack Wood. Major John A. Logan to arrive. legal holiday Labor Day to be observed. horse shipments and quartermaster duties updated. an investigation board convened at Camp Capron into a private Fleming incident.
A third week in August test by Dr. Ghis A St. Campbell and two sanitary officers poured coal oil and red fuchsin into Laurel Heights cesspools to trace contamination from the sewer system. No color appeared in San Pedro springs, indicating deep, uncontaminated water. Golanic Lecomte, a Mexican man about 45, was prostrated by heat on West Commerce Street and taken to the city hospital in serious condition.
Fragmentary OCR yields a quirky reading aloud scene with scattered phrases and names. The piece features odd dialogue snippets about storytelling, fatigue, and a wary big man confronting a cautious partner as a Detroit reference appears amid miscellaneous wording.
Disjointed exchanges mix gossip and snippets from edited conversations. Characters like Dire and Reginald appear amid fragmentary lines about weather, salaries, and long‑lost relatives, with scattered city references and odd spellings.
The article notes the post office will operate on Labor Day with adjusted deliveries. Carriers plan two daytime downtown snail deliveries and one in residential areas, while general delivery windows stay open over noon. Officers cite Sunday as a factor and mention staff vacations and a fishing trip by Arthur D. James.
Dam City Dramatic Co presents the melodrama Botany Bay at the Grand Opera House on Monday September 4 with matinee and night shows. Prices 25, 85, and 60 cents. The cast and staff include Weis Hanford Sass Crawford Fiallery Burke Hoard Piety Gook Smith DeSoto Martin Goldchaux Toh maeller Hayles Wothers Melix Deeing Ed Whaler and others. Prof Doraco lark awaits a successor after resignation.
Report from the city describes J Armstrong and A W Silyinga of the Texas Rangers arriving in plain clothes with belts of ears and pistols, pursuing stolen mules from Mio Geaoah Gley and headed to Beeville. Also notes the Eastern Star installation at Masonic hall with multiple officers named and a later humane allowance anecdote about a French coffee house incident.
Fragmentary chatter presents a scattered, humorous glimpse of newsroom banter and editor talk. The text references San Francisco Examiner and Texas editors, noting graphic phrases and social chatter without a coherent narrative or clear event.
The Casinos lead the bowling league with 1247 pins, followed by the Turners 1160 and Beethovens 1193, as teams report weekly gains and losses. High scores include Beethovens 802, Casinos 259 in a single game, while the Ivys average the lowest single game at 195. Labor Day postponements shift upcoming matches to September 15 and 21, with prize committee set to designate three awards for display.
An OCR damaged item shows a Shakespeare quote about mind and face with a boy interrupting, a father son exchange, and stray lines referencing a newspaper, pork sausages, and a prison tag. The readable text hints at a page collage rather than a single coherent story.
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