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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1902
Page
2
Readers warned to pay subscriptions only to authorized collectors advertised in the paper. The notice urges avoiding unverified collectors and stresses protecting subscribers from scams. Local officials remind residents to use official channels for payments and to report suspicious activity.
City Advertising Manager offers quick artistic displays and write ups. Contact 176 by telephone or send a postal to arrange advertising that delivers the best results.
The Light lists collectors H. Schumacher, Roy Johnson, Harvey Steele, W. Bitter, and Joseph Bali for subscriptions and advertising. Subscribers are urged to obtain a receipt before paying. Manager T. B. Johnson notes this directive.
The regular staff of reporters on the Light includes G. E Martin, Fred W. Mosebach, and Ler Johnson. Special reporters will be supplied with proper credentials by the undersigned.
Written for The Light by the Assistant Postmaster, this ironic piece critiques post offices as convenient nuisances. It lampoons clerks and employers, mocks gossip between official duties, and notes the flirtatious atmosphere in small offices, urging strict discipline and predictable routines.
A lengthy discussion extols tireless postal workers as mere automata able to handle names and offices across the United States. It calls for stamp clerks and carriers who operate instantly, notes postmasters as pivotal yet overburdened, and critiques public expectations and managerial duties within early 20th century mail service.
The text argues the letter never arrived and none of the observations reflect the past event. It suggests making the postmaster a public figure to reveal the shift in perspective, asserting that no sleight of hand could match such a rapid change in view.
Grove's Black Root Liver Pills state an active principle from Black Root that acts on the liver like calomel without griping or nausea. They promise to cure chronic constipation and cost 25 cents.
A reflective verse urges living joy over sorrow. The author Gracie Cornett calls friends to embrace courage faith and cheerful action, honoring the dead by making the living glad and sharing summer cheer.
A passionate plea expresses deep loneliness after a long separation. The speaker longing for physical closeness and emotional support from a departed loved one, asking for a lingering whisper and reassurance that love remains true. The verse explores grief, enduring faith, and the desire to reunite in a heavenly home.
The partnership between W. C. Price and R. D. Jones is dissolved. Price retires and Jones continues the business at the Alamo Plaza in San Antonio. All debts payable to Jones. debts owed by the firm paid by Jones. Dated June 12, 1902.
The city assessor rolls are open from June 1 to August list day, 1902 for the rendition of city property for assessment. Marshall Hicks, Mayor. Attest Otto Praeger, City Clerk.
The Jacksonville Texas correspondent reports 100 carloads of tomatoes from within ten miles sold on the track at 1.25 per crate for the first seven cars, yielding 1200 per car. Average growers earned 1.20 per crate or 3.60 per bushel with fancy quality due to cultivation and good weather. Local commission men serve Northern and Eastern markets, while area residents handle much of the sale. Large shipments and rising quantities are expected in two weeks. peaches average 1.60 per bushel and special fruit trains provide first class service. This farming boosts prosperity for farmers and the state.
The Farm and Ranch reports Prof. J. H. Connell resigns from A. and M. College to become an editor. He will travel among farmers to share knowledge and gain information for readers of the paper.
The report notes only a hundred public telephones in all Belgium and rising pirate activity along the Red Sea coast of Arabia from Jeddah to Bab el-Mandeb. It cites Italy’s cooperative stores expanding, and that 80,331 of 700,000 British decedents left wills. Also mentions Australia’s small population under 4,000,000 with fourteen houses of parliament and seven ministers. A monument to a St Bernard dog to be erected in Alpine glaciers. Turkey bans assemblies. A high Christian official’s ball was interdicted after guests arrived.
The article describes spring and summer fashion trends including striped fabrics, small checks, new silk lace trimmed collars, expanding sleeves, the Du Barry rose, and washable silk embroideries. It also profiles Luis Estrada Palma's Cuban vice president Senor Romero, a renowned lawyer, author, and statesman, and his philanthropic wife Marta Abreu.
Instructions on cooking potatoes for salad while hot, selecting regular brown beans for Boston baked beans, and assembling a high tea menu at 6 o clock. Tips cover canned tomatoes with a touch of sugar, salt and white pepper, butter, and an aspice mayonnaise using transparent jelly for a shiny finish. Red celery is praised when properly prepared, with steps to boil, drain, cut, batter dip and fry to golden brown.
Walker Whiteside continues in standard roles in the far west. Robin Hood will be revived for five weeks in New York starting September first. Critics in New York credit Robert Edeson with rising stardom. A W Pinero is drafting a comedy for Jobin Hare. Minnie Dupree will be a next season star in A Rose of Plymouth Town. Hila Thomas and Lou Hall will headline The Fishermans Daughter next season. The London run of Are You a Mayor closed after Shaftesbury Theatre run. Paderewski’s success writing Mario inspires a new Polish opera in progress.
Grace Hastings bred to Metallas 2 11 Royal Victor 2 08 will be tried again this season. Little Joker 2 12% by Forest Hal is used on the road in Buffalo. Chase by Keeler 2 13% owned by J F Drusen entered by Scott Hudson. Charles Sumner 2 10 by Eva Chimes 2 18 owned by John McGuire of New York. Aldine Medium 2 15 by Riley Medium 2 10 joined stable of George H. Ketcham. Merry Pat 2 174 by Patcben Wilkes driven on the road by Tom Sharkey. George Urban Jr of Buffalo bought Paul Smith 2 184 for driving.
We are invited to open branch stores in several large cities illustrating the popularity of our teas and coffees. Holland, The Tesene.
Brazil’s newly elected president is a lawyer who has held a leading bar position. He will be inaugurated on November 15, the anniversary of Brazil’s independence proclamation. The term of office is four years.
Miss Clara Huntington of San Francisco heiress to millions marries Mr. Gilbert Brooks Perkins of Covington Kentucky. The bride inherits a great fortune from relative Collis P Huntington, the railroad magnate, and is daughter of H B Huntington, a wealthy heir.
Booth Tarkington, noted author of The Gentleman From Indiana and Beaucaire, was nominated on the Republican ticket in Indianapolis primaries, winning by a wide margin in a strongly Republican district. Also advertised new and second hand sewing machines from $3.00 at M. J. Hewitt's, 110 West Commerce Street.
In this humorous tale a cobbler resists paying police for protection and ends up clobbered, watched by officers, and harassed by a temperance policeman who demands protection money. The bully policing ends with the cobbler beaten, humiliated, and briefly saved by his worried wife and townsfolk.
A Washington Star excerpt features Mr. Cumrox boasting of giving his daughters advantages and culture. He predicts future husbands will face criticism of grammar and deportment and suggests they deserve generous treatment. The exchange exposes social expectations and satire in a concise, witty frame.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution recalls a tale of heated kinship and dueling bravado in which two brothers feud and a crowd expects pistol fights but instead discovers homemade razors as the weapon of choice. The excerpt uses dialect to explore racial and social tensions in a frontier setting.
A Chicago News quip notes near the pole the explorers seek a poker game. The first ex plorer laments dull times and proposes cards, the second asks for a suitable game, and they settle on a “freeze out” in poker, illustrating how circumstance rules.
A Chicago publication notes a playful exchange as a parrot asks why monkeys possess long tails, reflecting a lighthearted moment likely in a domestic or classroom setting.
Atchison Globe notes a man arrives at the depot and amid crowds kisses distant kin he barely knows while when kissing a woman he likes is expected but often faced with public scrutiny. The piece uses humor to critique social expectations around affection and propriety.
A Chicago Record-Herald piece portrays a man perplexed by his wife’s changing preferences for other men. He lists doctors pastors and teachers as suitors she admires, noting none resemble him though he is confident in his looks. He wonders why charming men fail to resemble his own image.
Historic business listing references Eny rson and Co and Holland's Tea and Coffee Store at 227 West Commerce Street with telephone contact.
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