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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1907
Page
2
A fragmented San Antonio scorches with talk of sidewalks campaigns, home life, and price worries while global news references the yellow peril, German power, and Vancouver upheavals. The piece hints at political fear, labor congestion, and a looming trial as public sentiment strains between duty, commerce, and international strains.
The article discusses leaders arguing for arming and training, including a plan to keep army and militia sharp, and to introduce rifle shooting courses in schools to create a rapid rise of U S sharpshooters aiming to deter adversaries. It emphasizes war weariness among some yet supports practical marksmanship as national strength.
The coming international postal rules will ease overseas mail costs. Rates drop from half ounce to ounce basis with five to three cent moves per ounce, lowering typical letters. A ten ounce letter will cost eight cents, and a foreign return postage coupon system begins, with six cent coupon value. Postmaster Meyer notes potential for one-rate service between direct sea routes.
The Buffalo Express argues that public conscience is lacking in the security market and blames high finance leaders for using other people's money for personal gain. It contends government policy is not the root cause and attacks Roosevelt era revelations as far more serious than actions by the interstate commerce Commission or the justice department.
A coastal defense warning underscores the risk of a Pacific invasion by Japan and calls for urgent preparedness. It notes veterans, militia, and volunteers lack equipment and training, contending disarmament zealots hinder arming programs and suggest only ready forces can deter conflict. The piece cites past wars and strategic lessons to argue for stronger national defense readiness.
In the Boston Herald item an Owl West notes that the people are too occupied with harvesting crops to attend to Wall Street worries or heed admonitions to cheer up. The piece suggests practical concerns override financial anxieties.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note mentions a stolen pipe valued at 500000 dollars and questions whether any dream can rival such iridescence. A Billville editor quips about a mason and shotgun, while an affine boy predicts an upcoming arrival and a simple plan to foil him.
A devotional poem extols the Creator through cosmic imagery. The speaker marvels at the night sky and heavenly bodies as witnesses to divine power, concluding with praise for the hand that made us. The verse cadence and archaic spellings evoke a classical devotional tone.
A collage of 1900 era statistics and observations covers goats in Europe, female academics in India, Italian immigrants to New York, asbestos and coal mining, Danish and Norwegian student labor, Canadian wage-earners, New York abandoned farms, auto speed controllers in England, and Brazilian coal deposits with prices and tonnage figures.
A sequence of testimonials from U S women across multiple states praising Peruna for relief from catarrh and related ailments. Mrs N P Lawler cites rapid improvement after using Peruna for catarrh and bowels. Mrs Maggie Durbin reports cure of bowel trouble after months of illness. Mrs Julia Braxton credits Peruna with recovery from heart and side pains and renewed stamina. Mrs Anna Grants notes stomach relief and overall well being. Mrs Nettie Bogardwe claims relief from chronic headaches and recommends Peruna and Manalin.
A Wisconsin resident writes that six years of stomach catarrh caused sleep loss and pain after meals. After starting Peruna therapy, appetite returned, strength grew, and health improved, with gratitude toward Dr Harken for life-prolonging aid and regained ability to work. Also mentions another Brooklyn user reporting dramatic improvement and renewed vigor after Peruna treatment.
An English traveler, after a stay in San Antonio, recounts his initial opinion of local courtesy fading amid Yankee bustle. He chats with J W Daley of the International and Great Northern railroad, then visits a barber shop in Terrell where he is asked to shave standing up, prompting his collapse into a chair as a barber offers to use his talent.
Fragmentary narration describes speech with English accent and rural phrases. It mentions people waiting, reactions to sales, and a sense of impatience or caution. Context is indistinct, but focuses on dialect and local mood rather than a clear event or person.
Brigadier General Albert L. Myer wears a heavy virgin gold ring with raised symbols, Cantonese Chinese characters spelling his name. He had it made as a unique keepsake after campaigns in the Philippines and Chinese invasion, later showing the engraving meanings to a prisoner deciphering it on an expedition to a stream in the Philippines.
In a partial OCR fragment, a speaker asks General Myers in Bnghat if a name on the wing is his. After receiving a terse reply, he is told detectors were Crnton and translated them, with unclear meaning and damaged context.
A passenger aboard a northbound train on the International & Great Northern line asked the sleeping car attendant if he could enter the sleeping compartment. George Hunter, Passenger Agent, noted the incident as an example of onboard service constraints.
A traveler aboard a night train questions when he may use the sleeper car and confirms he holds a through sleeper ticket from San Antonio. The conductor explains access is possible at any time, while the man contemplates whether it is an appropriate moment to board.
The fragment recalls early railroad life with agents at San Antonio and Avansay Pass, noting figures like George Ade and Bob Turdelio. It hints at vivid personal trends and catchphrases from St Joseph Missouri days, highlighting a nostalgic look at bygone era personalities and anecdotes.
Turner recalls evenings on the broad curb of Main Street with a group of journalists who later shaped their careers. He notes Field’s reporting during a Kansas City fire, the crew’s social reunions, and the bonds that formed in those old time gatherings, with Visscher and Ade still active in public life.
Frau Mommsen, wife of the renowned Ro mini historian, bore sixteen children. The aging historian, famed for his ideas, often passed by his offspring without recognition. A servant announced the birth of a fourteenth child, prompting the professor to tell him to wait.
The fragmentary text presents a rural scene with a speaker urging someone to perform barn chores and noting a conversation about cows and chores. The language is garbled and contains nonstandard spellings and partial phrases, making it hard to extract a coherent event or clear individuals, organizations, or dates.
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