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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
5
A destitute man asks a passerby for bread for his wife and children. The stranger refuses to exploit his situation, offering instead kind words and silence, telling him to keep his family and not to take advantage. The tale appears in Tit-Bits.
A New York lawyer recalls a man convicted of stealing by a "down east" judge famed for kindness. The judge asks the prisoner if he has ever been sentenced to imprisonment and the man replies with a tearful “Never.” The judge consoles him gently.
Made in San Antonio products will be tested by the senior class at Main Avenue High School under Emma Pirie supervisor of domestic science. Sixteen girls will conduct a scientific study comparing value and cost with products from other areas and plan a Texas products collection focused on local manufacturers.
County school children will build a half mile of road in front of each school to spark interest in a future road bond. Superintendent John B. Stripling asks for an expert to supervise a ten day campaign around October 1 and to organize residents for the effort.
Governor Marcus H. Holcomb and Adjutant General General George A. Cole travel to Nogales Arizona to inspect the Connecticut National Guard on the border. They meet General Funston at Fort Sam Houston and plan to stay several days before California and home via San Francisco.
A Philadelphia North American piece traces the Virginia creeper from Virginia to Europe and across North America noting its cultivation in Venice and broad reach. It contrasts the five leaflets of Virginia creeper with poison ivy’s three and mentions its clingy tendrils and a disk that can bear two pounds.
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