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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 05, 1897

Page

12

Jonah and the Arbor Day Boat Rescue

An inshore crowd gathers for California Arbor Day on a San Francisco bay island voyage led by General Howard. Aboard Jonah’s old whaleboat, a blond prankster endangers the voyage, a young girl in black comforts a fragile man, and as the boat struggles toward the Golden Gate, Jonah fights cold and fear, clinging to hope that a final plea for help may reach shore.

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Little Sammy and the Cream on the Porch

A playful vignette from The Wellesley Magazine recounts a neighborhood scene with Little Sammy asking for more cream at a great house. The narrator notes the boy’s longing gaze as cream is finally offered, ending the moment with a quiet river memory and a lingering, bittersweet mood.

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Fragmented Tale of Funeral Arrangements and National Pride

A garbled excerpt recounts Sethora touring a town socializing with locals and visiting a funeral supply shop where the clerk is pressed to furnish every item for a funeral from carriages to corpses. The piece shifts to Walter Besant praising American patriotism and ends with a London Spectator note on British horticultural plants and bulbs.

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