Railway Time Table Highlights Local and North Texas Routes
The timetable lists trains from Houston and North Texas points, with arrivals and departures for Katy Flyer, St Louis, Frisco and Santa Fe lines. Services connect San Antonio, Aransas Pass, Cuero, Victoria, Yoakum, Rockport, Beeville, Corpus Christi, and Waco routes, noting daily and weekend schedules and a few special departures.
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Simithville
Smithville
Quimreia
Gechoow Sh & GN
North Texas
St. Louis
Memphis
Wato
Texas
Santa “Fe
Santa Fe
Aransas Pass
Boerne
Kerrville
Cuero
Victoria
Yoakum
Mathis
Alice
Houston
Galveston
East
Beeville
Corpus Christi
Rockport
Giddings
Siockdale
Campion
Waco
Sunset
Depot
Fort Worth
Dallas
Kansas
City
North
San Antonio
Stockdale
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Target Practice Circulated by Adjutant General Guessaz
Special to the Sunday Light from Austing Texas dated August 30 reports the Adjutant General's department releasing a circular on target practice. Lieut. Col. C. C. Guessaz emphasizes disciplined aiming and fire control, argues skilled riflemen can rout less accurate troops, and urges volunteers to establish unit shooting ranges with monthly practice. The piece includes anecdotes from Texas volunteers and calls for stricter handling and care of rifles and firing pins.
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Austing
Texas
Adjutant General's Department
C. C. Guessaz
Goddim
Miami
Jay Target
Beeville Teams Set to Face San Antonio September Series
Beeville hosts San Antonio in a September 12 to 14 baseball clash after Beeville crowds praised their local players. The San Antonio squad arrived with a strong lineup and many supporters, while the Beeville group hopes to challenge the visitors with a capable roster led by Morales Lieck Taylor Wright Barry Glaeser Barbour Smith Dobard Magsch Brackets Stader Haze Rowe Bell Allen Hes sler Veltmann Dyoley.
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San’ Antonio
Beeville
Brackett
Bal
Sap
Saftypoon
San Antonio
Ehich
San. Antonio
Morales
Lieck
Taylor
Wright
Barry
Glaeser
Barbour
Smith
Dobard
Magsch
Stader
Haze
Rowe
Bell Allen
Tare
Hessler If
Veltmann
Dyoley
It Needs a Tonic and DeWitts Liver Pills Endorsement
It Needs a Tonic and there are times when your liver needs a tonic. DeWitts Little Early Risers expel poison and act as a liver tonic. W Scote of Milton Pa reports traveling with them for years and would not be without them. They are small easy to take pure vegetation and never gripe. James Clavin C Schasse Wm Appmann are listed as endorsers.
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Che
Erraltie
Misa
DeWitt
W. Scote
Highland Ave
Milton
James Clavin
C. Schasse
Appmann
Yale University
Th Lias
Frank Munsey
Journalus
Saymare Lire
They
Electric light and city life in 1881 New York
A historical column describes early electric lighting in New York and local life in 1881. It notes old Jacques place for sale, Santa Rosa hospital use, ten patients treated, Dr J E Bitte and Breed ing Blair dentists, Frank Fanning as conductor on western extension, two miles of track daily toward El Paso, telegraph operator change, mutton shipments to Paris, a St Marys pupil bitten by moccasin, editor remarks on prosperity, Maverick building walls near Houston Street.
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Ing
New York
Jacques
Santa Rosa Hospital
J. E. Bitte
Breeding & Blair
Frank Fanning
Sunaot
el Paso
Murphy
Amandaier
Paris
France
St. Mary’s College
Adolph Her
Nant
Houston
Grove's Black Root Liver Pills cure constipation
Grove's Black Root Liver Pills advertise an active principle obtained from Black Root. They claim to act on the liver like calomel and leave no bad after effects. The pills promise no griping or sick stomach and are priced at 25 cents.
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Grove
The White Owl Comes to Town
Union workers rally as The White Owl arrives, smoke fills the air near the Alamo site. Protesters call for fair labor conditions while organizers pledge peaceful demonstration and local authorities monitor the scene.
Sewing Machine Ad From The Singer Mfg Co
A classified note offers to sell a sewing machine. Contact The Singer Manufacturing Company at 320 E Houston Street for details and pricing.
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E. Houston St
Singer Mfg Co
Mame Cigar Se Tops Sap Antonio's White Owl
A vivid note from the cigar scene proclaims Mame Cigar Se as unbeatable. Sap Antonio’s White Owl brand receives a contrasting prideful mention in the same review.
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Antonio
White Owl
Teachers Assigned for San Antonio Public Schools
Superintendent Wolf announced the assignment of teachers for the coming term. The list covers high school and No.1 through No. 12 schools with principals, assistant principals, and teachers by room and street locations, including special departments and colored schools. Notable entries include Main avenue sites for Lukin Scofield Pessels Bringhurst Mackensen and Williams, and No. 1 Sam Houston with Edith Symington Mary McDonald Ella Felder among others.
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Wolf
Public Hools
Cunningham
Main Avenue
Chas. J. Lukin
Scofield
C. Pessels
W. L. Bringhurst
B. Mackensen
Elizabeth Rait
Anna ~ Jones
Mannie F. E. Dawson
Sam Houston
V. ©. Williams
Edith
Symington
Elizabeth Erste
Mary McDonald
Ella A. Felder
Gia Underwood
Otto Pfeiffer
Hirm Pirie
Margaret Bradford
Emma
Westcott
Mamie Habedl
Louise Jary
Austin
Marshall Street
Edwina Robb
Flora McNeil
Emmet Johnson
Hannah Piccard
Jones
Annie Gallasary McCulloch
Minnie Rieder
Adai Gibbons
Nellie M. Warren
Alpha Dial
Burnett Latitte
Manon Oe
Columbia Rossy
An Oltersdorf
Ela
Stone
Ee Lavaca Street
X FE
Steigart
Lilie S. Gohmert
Alice Stone
Lenora Mitchell
Fannie L. Boyle
Emmie
Hsental Garden Street
F. M. Halbert
A. Carroll
Lizzie ‘Tynan
Lakeside
Briscoe
Os. Flores
Robbie Cook
Sarah D. Adana
H. Patrick. Smith School
South, Heights
Ellen M. Preston
B. Booginger
Lina A. Perlitz
Emma Gutzeit
Karl Alplish— Ther
Cred
Principa
Mamie DeHam
Maria Jimenez
Sewing Department
Anna E. Hilton
Colored
Leagers
Ipansies
Caney School
J.oe Lowery
Seaien
Minnie. Bell
C.K. Jones
Bettie Turner
Mary Blanck
Brackenridge
Morris
Henrietta Boyd
Maggie Hill
W. Minter
College Entertainment at Alamo City Business College
Free program presented in the rooms of the Alamo City Business College on Monday evening features Part I with piano overture Stars and Stripes Forever, Sousa Bee Prot. Voight, recitation When Papa Was Sick by Miss Jennie Golden, violin solo Cavatina by Ralf, vocal solos By the Song Susquehanna Shore and Can You Blame Me for Loving That Man, mandolin and guitar trio by Misses Helen and Ida Scheutze and Prof L J Scheutze, and Part II with Poet and Peasant piano duet by Surprise Temple and Prof B Voight, vocal solos Life's Gale and Trovatorn by Corinne Dollini, Verdí solo by H Lidbk, and various specialties including George T Walker and O J Beheutz.
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Voight
Harris
Jennie Golden
Ralf
H. Licék
Susquehanna Shore
T. Walker
V Balanahan
Miss Alline Walker
Helen
Ida Scheutze
L. J. Scheutze
Frankie Temple
B. Voight
Gale
See- Rae Sof
Corinne Dollini
Duliniz
Vern
Il ‘Trovatorn
Verdi Mr
Geo. T. Walker Pret
J. Beheutze
EB. Voight
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Promoted for Teething
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a 60 year remedy used by millions of mothers for teething colic and diarrhea in children. It claims to soothe, soften gums, calm palin, and wind colic. Sold by druggists worldwide for twenty five cents a bottle.
Personal notices from the Menger hotel and city
A string of social items lists guests and return trips. Frank H Bushick Mattie Nelson Clara Sinnott and Miss Hardie are noted as returning or being abroad. St Louis visitors Mark Jacobs Barry Trammell E B Sloan in Louisville, and many other locals and travelers are listed with brief notes on where they came from or stayed.
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Mattie Nelson
Glidden
Clara Sinnott
Hardie
Sanderson
Tex
Mark Jacobs
Barry Trammell
St. Louis
Menger
B. Sloan
Louisville
Quarthe
New York
W. W. Shely
Rio Grande City
Miller
W. Pendleton
James Rochelle
Gonzales
With Reed
Chicago
Evansville
Frank Riley
George Surkey
Corpus Christi
Neal Morrison
Charles Waller
Houston
Galveston
T.F. Harwood
B. Robertson
Waelder
H. Smith
Cincinnati
J. C. Brashee
Irene Warsham
Floresville
Aby Leahy
Brownsville
Susie Bennett
Hattie Brewster
Pleasanton
H. C. van Cleave
Pacific Roek Art
For Sale Cheap Newspapers at Daily Light Office
A classified notice offers 50 000 newspapers for wrapping and packing. Advertises Alamo Cigar and The White Owl, urging readers to call or visit the Daily Light office to inspect the stock.
Mortuary notice of two deaths in city hospital
Agapite Garcia an aged Mexican woman dies at the city hospital after long residence in San Antonio. Alberto Sustalta aged 30 died suddenly at 310 Monterey street from heart failure. Details drawn from incomplete lines about medical care and possible witnesses.
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Agapite Garcia
San Antonio
Alberto Sustalta
Monterey Street
Ventory
Adams
Sit Beli Conquest
Graspit Circulates Rent Relief Petition
Chicago News notes Graspit circulated a petition yesterday to raise funds enabling a poor widow to pay her rent. Diggs comments that Graspit is a decent man, adding he owns the widow’s house.
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Biggs
Graspit
Diggs
Chicago News
Linion Men Smoke the Alamo Union Men Smoke the Alamo
A brief clash involving Linion and union factions at the Alamo is described with limited readable detail. The fragment notes smoke and conflict around the historic site, suggesting a tense Protest era scene. Specific names, dates, or outcomes are not provided in the readable portion.
Tales of Insurance Men Shop Talk Anecdotes
An ancient spinster questions fire insurance over an odd policy, testing the agent with a claim to insure her house for 909 and asking if a larger payout would occur after a fire. The dialogue reveals the wary, sometimes humorous, world of honest and crooked insurance talks in a New York locale.
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Tha Ali
Shelver
Tray Tie
Ammon
Pak
New York City
Oustad
Christian community forgives and aids a young woman
A Galveston News lesson extols forgiveness after a young woman was induced to elope. Rather than condemn, the community helped her rebuild a respectable life, reflecting practical Christianity that spares many from ruin. The piece contrasts eastern impatience with western mercy.
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Lotnsro
New York Man Criticizes Texas Romance Chances
The Bonham News cites a prominent New Yorker mockingly praising Texas as a land with many fine girls. He says he would have wed if he came, noting that affinity and good ones abound in the state, and that life here could have offered him a suitable match.
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The
Bonham News
New York
Hiny Weis
Texas
Watch for the White Owl The Political Girl
A witty dialogue about bachelor girls entering politics contrasts with male behavior. The piece notes evolving roles and sympathy for masculine lapses, as quoted from The Pilgrim for September and attributed to Pthel MS Colson.
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Toreek
Colson
Talk of the town and teachers needed in schools
The note discusses need for male teachers to balance feminine influence in schools. It urges robust masculine minds with stern urgency and athletic interests to guide boys and girls, praising athletic and academic vigor as beneficial to youth development.
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Piakay
Holmes Smith
Livgiew
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