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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1902
Page
11
Chess room note from George C Moffet at San Antonio Chess Checkera and Whist Club in Alamo Building room 19. Contains PROBLEM No 35 by J Paul Taylor with Black three pieces.
A long chess column discusses a White to move mate in two problem with seven White pieces against three Black. It quotes editorials praising artistry and noting numerous solutions, then shifts to tournament updates in Texas and Missouri, highlighting players, matches, and new gambit ideas.
Dallas reader laments slow replies due to heavy mail volume and busy schedule. Fredericksburg correspondent notes a familiar problem from last year and asks another look at puzzle No. 34. Waco promises to review and publish a dual next week while No. 34 remains under study.
The Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia traveled to New York on Decoration Day for the annual over the board match with the Manhattan Chess Club. New York prevailed 9 to 6 to claim the cup, despite notable performances by B Lasker’s brother and others. Sussman and Hawes, among others, defeated top Brooklyn players as the New England and New York rivals showcased the synthetic chess approach and celebrated victories across several boards.
The notes describe a chess duel where Black sacrifices Kt to fix White, building a defensive fortress on the queen side. White seeks a breach with pawns while remaining slow in execution. The key point is a center pawn sacrifice and forced exchanges leading to a hopeless White position, with mate looming after several moves.
An old remedy touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as soothing teething pain for children, calming gums, and curing wind colic. It asserts usage by millions of mothers over sixty years, sold by druggists worldwide for twenty five cents a bottle.
A vintage tonic asserts it removes sluggish bilious feeling common in hot weather. It promises strength vigor appetite and cheerful spirits from prickly ash based formula.
A brief medicinal ad-style note promoting PRICKLY ASH BITTERS to improve liver function and bowel regularity, claiming renewed vigor for work and easier daily tasks.
The Christian Advocate notes the value of cultivating daily enjoyment and optimism. It urges embracing humor and the sunny side of every experience to strengthen character, brighten environments, and aid longevity, contrasting with the dampening effect of gloom.
The essay argues life is a sequence of tissue changes with the body functioning like a machine dependent on food. It notes parts die after birth, decay proceeds in nails and hair, and all organs renew or decay, with skin constantly peeling. Food nourishes current tissue and disposes of prior material.
A Woman's Home Companion excerpt explains migration habits among birds. Smaller species like flycatchers wrens and bluebirds move mainly at night to avoid predators, while larger birds such as hawks crows swallows and hummingbirds migrate in daylight. Canada geese may travel by day or night. Birds typically fly three miles high, using rivers mountains and coastlines to guide their routes, old birds teaching the paths to the young.
A book on Middle Ages manners describes dining customs with a napper tablecloth a saltcellar bread and wine cups but no knives or plates. Knives were personal items carried in girdles and guests were told to bring no unsecured knives to the table indicating each guest kept a clean personal blade.
The visitor to Burma notices many bells around pagodas hung on sacred posts. The bells are sweet toned but have no tongues. A worshiper strikes a bell with a wooden mallet to attract the god's attention while praying before the pagoda.
A remark about a royal car near Arriccla claims pheasants helped right the vehicle. The London Globe notes this as the reverse of a printer’s error that misstated Lord X as going out with fiends to shoot peasants.
The famed performer balanced four billiard balls on a cue to astonish the vaudeville audience. A heckler taunted him, betting he cannot balance a set of books.
A Philadelphia Record note quotes a householder saying the new meter seems small and a gas company employee replying it will fit the bill. The exchange highlights uncertainties in utility installations and customer assurances.
Weep on a gravestone or seek the line at Maverick and Bexar Drug OD while Clarke offers typewriter supplies at 214 220 Soledad street in a terse ad style.
Dan the deerhound belonging to L. Meachamp of Homer Louisiana breaks a rope, runs into the woods, and returns with the master's hat. He leads Mrs. Meachamp and her son to Mr. Meachamp, who has fallen into a ditch and broken his leg. The dog’s frantic effort to escape is tied to a possible knowing of the accident.
The article describes a chicken snake called Tetan that can unhinge its jaws to swallow a full Texas cottontail rabbit head first. After resetting its jaws the snake rests six hours while gastric juice digests the meal, with no indigestion reported. The snake also captures chickens, song birds, turkey eggs and rats as simple pastimes.
A puzzling Latin line is translated as I cease from my work the sower will wear away his wheels. The sentence reads the same backward as forward and the initial letters spell the first word. Each word mirrors another by last letters read backward, with equal counts of letters and words.
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts a witty episode about a woman with a sharp business head. Before Harold sailed for Europe he proposed by letter and asked for a telegraph reply. Instead she wired a formal acceptance to prevent extra charges from the telegraph company.
A historic remedy explains using gutta perch tissue from a druggist moistened with oil, wrapped around the corn, edges sealed with turpentine, and feathered edges dabbed with turpentine to unite. After four days, remove the dressing to lift the corn with a penknife.
A critic argues that a single eyeglass harms vision by leaving one eye unused and overstraining the other. The piece asserts continued strain risks grave health consequences and urges avoidance of monocular use.
In the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph account a character named Sprockets asks about a bicycle wheel damaged in a collision. Dinwiddie replies that it ought to be retired or retired as a humorous exchange.
Quote from Chicago News contrasts Biggs and Diggs on trades. Both insist on getting a benefit upfront, and both acknowledge later regret when they fail to secure a favorable boot in exchanges.
A legal notice references Maverick Clarke Litho Company Lithographing and embossing works in connection with the case. The filing names the firm as a party and directs action at the company’s address on file with the court.
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