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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
2
A jumble of argumentative items concerns Roosevelt and Bryan, railroad delays, Texas crops, and political maneuvers. References to New York, San Antonio, Houston, and Portland mix with speculative takes on tariffs, Pullman cars, and railroads. The piece blends opinion with brief mentions of figures and places without a clear single event or narrative.
San Antonio sees record building despite severe unoccupied housing and scarce hotel rooms as demand soars. The city attracts new permanent residents from across the country, creating a steady, enduring expansion and investment opportunities.
A fragment from a British view notes anti Americanism in the wealthy classes and public morals, with a hint of broader cultural tensions. The piece cites a London Bystander article praising Prince Wilhelm of Sweden as part of a distant public debate.
A London society column notes a quarrel among Newport hostesses over a bone to entertain a royal figure. It condemns anew Britain’s press chatter and unfurls Parisian gossip about the widow Mrs Whitt and the Yerkes divorce, contrasting English scandal with America’s virtues.
The Atlanta Georgian defends Grover Cleveland as an unjustly mauled ex president. It argues he faced fierce abuse for decades but will be remembered as a strong, courageous leader with steadfast policy and integrity.
Statistics from the Bureau of Statistics show patent and proprietary medicines exporting widely to seventy nine countries in 1905. Total value reached 6,089,001 dollars with major growth over prior years.
The New Haven Evening Register and The New York Herald report a single contingency for Roosevelt to seek re election. If anti policies opponents speak loudly enough to threaten renomination he may run to vindicate strength. If challengers doubt his aim the President may refuse. A large portion of the public might welcome the clash while bluffing critics risk misreading the policy.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Oklahoma's push for statehood despite objections from Secretary Tat and others. It discusses GOP efforts to block admission before the next presidential campaign, arguing that rejection would hurt Republicans more than losing Democratic electoral votes in return.
Seedless dates touted as a Texas innovation imagine seedless fruit like dates and seedless oranges. The article notes Jotn Closner farm six miles down the Rio Grande from HL Aalgo growing Mem trees planted in 2384 and bearing seabreds datex for three years. If propagated commercially, the Texan variety could surpass common species and boost local novelty farming.
A collage of historical notes mentions pest costs at 50 dollars, world railways valued at 27 778 000 000 dollars, American apples exports around 750 000 barrels, Japanese workers labeled by trade, Mnvetopes dating to 1839, theater plans in New York for 120 new plays, Revel excavations revealing Jericho foundations, gospel missionaries active in English hop fields, the Church Missionary Society of Great Britain with 45 stations and 1 885 missionaries, early converts baptized among Mohammedans at Zaria Zugwell, and rising prospects for the Cape church in South Africa.
A long miscellany of tales covers a Philadelphia farmer’s son trading ten dollar gold pieces for silver and small notes, Egyptian antiquities and tomb offerings, whimsical motifs in London toy mascots, vaudeville humor, a ghoulish anecdote of a gatekeeper, merchant-prince rules of Alexander Stewart, a humorous dentist confrontation, and Arkansas fried chicken lore as observed in travel notes.
A maple tree on the WN Hall farm in Chester VI draws attention for its unusual form. It appears as two trunks joined about twenty feet from the ground, with lower bodies about eighteen inches in diameter. The two sections join to form a round trunk about two feet in diameter above the join, though the tree is weak sounding and tall.
The fragment notes a colonial debate to open liquor markets to natives, warns of jeopardizing mission heritage, and describes odd housing in Bush Side with upside down hooks. It also mentions a memorial brass at Grayne church, the Texas permanent school fund, a proposal for kissing rooms at railways, graft views on New York city employees, and Princess Fedora of Schleswig-Holstein’s nervous German novel and fiancé’s death.
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