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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1907
Page
2
The Scientific American and The American weigh placing three people in the locomotive cab as engines grow. Fireman’s duties shift with bigger boilers while advocates urge a third observer on large passenger and freight engines.
The piece argues that current savings banks pay only two percent while postal savings could attract funds. It claims the main advantage is to prevent foreign boarding and move millions of dollars from private hands into government safekeeping, strengthening fiscal stability.
The bulletin from the United States Geological Survey summarizes coal mine accident data from twenty states. It notes that deaths from roof or coal falls dominate, with 892 fatalities, gas and dust explosions at 228, and other causes at 720. Maryland shows the lowest death rate, while Colorado and West Virginia are high, with Missouri also elevated.
The piece argues for a U S parcels post as rival rates lag Germany and others. It cites Germany’s system handling vast mail, lower rates for 11 pound packages, and notes Postmaster General Meyer urging expansion. It suggests express firms lose business but rail and small shops gain through affordable parcel service.
Fragment from a poet identified as Richard Watson Glider in Carter's laments time’s loss of dreams. The verse pleads to spare the speaker’s dreams while acknowledging time’s taking of life, day’s end, and twilight as night approaches.
A fragmented item from the Nashville American notes an address at a Rasex Club gathering in Boston Sant. 10 with uncertain references to a postal save, a Shaw boom, and Cortatyon bonmara. The garbled text mentions a master Kenetel and plans that were to take place before everyone went home to sleep.
The Light corrects a September 12 report claiming State Revenue Agent Captain William McDonald entered City Hall saloon and dismantled pool and billiard tables. It states McDonald never visited the saloon, knows neither Rudolph Krisch nor locality, and his duty concerns revenue enforcement only. The pool tables were altered at Krisch's request by Krisch’s men. The error is regretted.
The Texas issue claims the next census will show population growth of nearly seventy percent in ten years, potentially yielding twenty five congressmen under current apportionment.
The Washington Star notes that J P Morgan, though sometimes misled in art matters, typically understands the value and handling of American treasures as he engages with the market.
A era of varied clippings describes police badges worn over the heart for protection against bullets and sword, with officers sometimes placing them at the waist off duty. The piece notes a long tradition of badges guarding lives and signaling courage in close encounters.
A collage of world notes mentions Niageya Falls power yields and a $46,009,000 annual value, new dryers in wealthy homes, Spitzbergen railway, northern Australia natives, NY public school growth, a Labour candidate’s age policy idea, Belfast and San Francisco dry docks, Tiber and Boxer era figures, and a Persian style palace guard detail with officials visiting twice monthly.
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