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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
2
A jumble of short items covers weather hints, sports talk about the Bronchos finishing best, interviews with Beyan, rising radium prices, and crowded San Antonio schools with out-of-town pupils. Mentions embargoes, registry activity for a San Antonio event, railroads discussing congestion relief, and a harvester trust payout affecting Texas dealers. Governor Campbell versus Colquitt rivalry hints at upcoming rail and public service policy buzz.
The world honors Richard Mansfield a famed actor and intense personality who rose to prominence over twenty five years. Born on Heligoland in May 1800s, he blended genius ambition and restless energy, praised for intellect offstage yet accused of egotism and sharp temper. He studied in England and Germany, worked with D Oyly Carte in London, earned a then lavish $15 weekly salary, and returned to the United States for his first major appearance in New York.
July movement overall lighter than a year ago with grain receipts at interior markets well below 1906 figures. Despite iron ore shipping being affected by the Lake Superior strike, overall lake traffic set a record high for freight tonnage, while meat product shipments and lumber exports rose from prior years. building permits declined, and car handling increased, signaling uneven but active trade patterns across regions.
In September 1882 Mansfield appeared in several plays including Rip Van Winkte and A Varisian Romance and later in 1886 starred in Archibald Ch. Gunter's Prince Karl in Boston and Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He produced his own Mansion in New York and King Richard I in London. Known as actor and playwright, he excelled in French and German drama, was a gifted musician, linguist, and writer who published essays and three books. His dramatic success and devotion to theater marked him as a true genius.
A Chicago Record Herald page presents a pasted mix of verse and anecdotes. It includes a humorous ballad about a dog and a thwarted love, a London science gag about microbes at a party, a Harper’s Weekly style moral anecdote about a rich woman’s dog bill, and a New York banker’s reply about employing a banker’s son with lavish eccentricities. The items read as a collage of late 19th century light pieces and social satire.
Mrs. Cox of Gloster Place Forest Hall celebrated her 105th birthday with friends when stung on the neck by a wasp and died the following night. Her husband, who died this year, was 98. The report notes her long health and ability to read and sew without glasses. Also included are miscellaneous poetry lines and a New York Press note on ancient Japanese class structure.
A jumble of items: the Khedive’s London visit, New York firemen count, cattle and weather lore, dental tools in Japan, early electric token systems, Burne-Jones quotes, attacks by wild cats in Paris, rising world gold and US output, German bacteriologists claim a typhus serum from horses, Lord Kelvin’s long career, Melbourne’s John Bateman legacy.
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