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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1907
Page
2
A garbled sampler reports Tae Texas team improvements at Camp Perry yet anxieties linger in Pleasanton over a sound like a railroad. Mentions include Worchester pleading guilty, Sir Thomas Lipton cup bid, foreshadowed Irish woes, Roosevelt youths, The Hague clash, Sam Antonio growth, Alamo Beach editors oyster plans, and ancestral oyster farms hinting at breweries.
Harper's Weekly argues Taft will study the Philippine experiment and may abandon it if elections show natives unlikely to sustain self government. It questions whether elected members will support immediate independence and opposes continuing U S troops, predicting dissolution of the Pilipino legislature and postponed elections.
A Department of Agriculture publication explains how national forests now fuel US economic growth by supplying timber. It notes shifting practices from depletion to sustainable harvesting, with pine and other timbers increasingly valued in the Lake States and the South, and discusses government land sales and prices shaping public policy.
The text advocates conserving public timber as a strategic reserve against private monopolies and eventual depletion. It argues that private timber dominates the Pacific Coast and will meet demand until exhausted, while public forests should regulate prices, curb speculation, and sustain lumber industries as fires and decay impact growth. It stresses future shortages and the role of forests in stabilizing supply and prices.
A political-tinged column questions Haldane's stance on wartime contracts. it notes US-made horseshoes sold to a foreign government, mocks protectionist logic, and ends with a parable linking a horseshoe nail to a kingdom. The piece contrasts US wages and living standards with British tolerance of pauper labor.
The people favor continuation of Roosevelt era policies and identify with his name and fame. If Republicans nominate a candidate strongly linked to corporate depredations or machine politics, voters may abandon the party for the Democrats. Men do not make issues, Isaacs make men and crush other men.
A fragmentary poem fragment presents Charles Hanson Towne’s lines on a poet whose public songs hide deeper feelings. Children born from his joyful verse are said to carry his heart’s ache until they someday sing it aloud across spring.
A reflective poem recalls returning to places of youth in Boston, hearing faded voices and viewing old scenes, while choosing not to relive the past to avoid bitterness. The speaker contemplates time, memory, and the irreversible passage of years as the page closes on former days.
A Portland Maine revival tale tells how Petar Foley began to lose hearing yet learned to read telegraph messages by touch. He typed with a copperplate hand, occasionally snatching the sounder, and achieved rapid, accurate transmission on the Western Union New York wire.
A Philadelphia Inquirer report describes a complicated hospital incident at Norristown involving 18 year old Mits Baker and an employee named Mead. A spate of presumed romantic tension led to a sprain and a hotel like altercation, with lingering questions about motive and care.
Scraps describe diverse topics from church and education to commerce and law. Mentions include English clergy chapters in Australia, Australian demijohn production, Bishop Lucknow’s diocese, Duchess of Aosta, silver dollar concessions in New York, rising restaurant surcharges, missionary publishing staff in India, a Newcastle harbor chaplaincy, and a reform movement in England led by church leaders. A stray courtroom anecdote closes with garbled dialect.
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