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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1897
Page
8
The narrative traces a chain of lineage and career moves spanning Vermont to Tennessee, Missouri and China. It highlights Ethan Allen Slehovek’s ties, colonial captors, and a sequence of shifting roles from judge to business leader. Details mix genealogical notes with distant political appointments and travels to Saint Petersburg and Saint Louis.
The article profiles Shaw a longtime lawyer and banker born in Vermont in 1848 who built a political career in Iowa as a conservative Republican. It notes his Cornell College and Iowa College of Law education, practice in Denisod, and active church work with the Methodist church. It also highlights his reputation as an effective orator and his role on Cornell College’s board of directors. A separate item mentions Dijon France voting funds to rail a tree with the oldest poplar in Prince, detailing its height and base girth.
A judge recounts a claim of a dead friend visiting in a vision while driving, timed with the friend’s death the prior day. The tale, told by Judge Jesse J. Phillips, notes no spiritualist belief and speculates only that the dead may not always revisit this world. The item also notes a Kansas woman seeking divorce over snoring and mentions the medical workforce context.
About 40 cowboys gathered at a ranch in California for a boisterous gathering. William Rice was burned while others doused him with brandy and set his clothes alight, a wild incident ending with Rice rolling on the ground to extinguish the flames and survive with burns to hands face and legs. The group then resumed drinking as no arrests followed. A separate note mentions Orlando, Florida, a mare’s appetite for spring chickens, consuming two to three chicks daily despite watchful eyes.
A Florida feature recounts a 12 foot shark caught near Port Tampa with a stomach oddly filled by a barrel of ash, starving despite being full. Also notes Chadwick, a 18 year old boy from Crow’s Inland who is blind in daylight but sees at night, and praises a record $14 225 paid into the government’s pension fund as a sign of improving welfare.
Yora Kail and Lucille Saunders give a going recital at Nantucket on August 26. Charles Kent arrived from Chicago on September 2 and was engaged for the season starting September 3. The Tryin Saints by Frank J. Lalo and Marie Mafidison played in Wilkes-Barre on September 2 to strong notice. Robert Mansell opened his season in Waterbury on September 1 with A Secret Warrant. The first public matinees of the Stan hope Wheatcroft Dramatic School set for December at Hoyt's Theatre. Theaters plan a low handsome venue at Yariouth, N. B. S. The Governors and suffrage debates continue. many actors tour various cities as new business managers take posts. |
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