San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-04
SHORT SNAPS.

Let's keep on talking about big
market house.
Are all grand jurors like Caesars
wife? Not much.
Recorder Ronse makes as liberal
judge as a merchant.
\ grand juror has a strong scent for
the faults of the other fellow.
If you want to reach the city trade
place your advertising in the Daily
Light
ency to make duh days all the balance
of the week.
Bryan built us a city hall, and the
Light believes Bryan will build us a
fine market house.
Sewer builders are giving the West
End car line a chance to repair about
four blocks of track.
|
In two years from now the city's
cash will be counted by new eX-
pert Watch the prediction.
The cleaning of the plaza hack and
public wagon stands will be taken
care of at Mondays council.
| successful advertising does not
not depend wholly ON the space used,
but in the right talk and good dis
play
Clean streets and clean sidewalks
and Il nice, clean market house, will
make even the old mOssback feel
| proud.
"A little advertising, like "A little
| physie, may make man very I'M
easy without accomplishing any good
| results
| Several sanitarium schemes are
working but the newspapers have
been requested to not publish anything
about it.
"Other things being equal, a paper
which has the confidence of its read
ers will prove the best advertising
medium"
San Antonio offers Il fine opening TO
a live grocer who will tell the people
what he has for sale through the
newspapers.
\ man should never fail unless he
fails blythe bigger the failure the
more credit he gets for being a Shrewd
| q business man.
If you want to keep up with the
freshest and latest news subscribe for
the Daily Light. You also get the
Sunday Light free.
OF the business failures in San An
tonic, only a small per cent. of them
have been liberal advertisers. in the
home newspapers.
Mr.. f. II. Terrell will not go as
minister to Rome this year. President
Mckinley has selected a lily white
from Massachusetts.
according to the estimates of certain
! statesmen the freedom of the press
consists mainly of liberty to work for
nothing and support itself"
The local politicians claim that if
the Express had stuck to Col. Levy
for mayor, BryanS majority would
have been about 1000 greater.
Store keepers should not be allowed
to block up our already too narrow
sidewalks with their displays. The
sidewalks belong to the people.
The patrons of the straw hat indus
try are becoming so numerous that Il
factory might prove Il winner in this
section. West Texas has the grass.
If an international drill for 81, OOO
looks too big, we might tackle a state
drill; we only need about $4,000, and
it will bring just as many strangers
Our brewery managers don't seem
, to wait for anybody else to pitch in
and look after our City'S interests
. when any public measure presents it.
self
The building of large SanitOrum
and bath house at the Hot Sulphur
wells will be worth a half dozen lit
: tie sO-called tourists hotels with ne
patrons.
5 "A newspaper is simply a mirror. Be
: fore finding fault with it's reflection
man should seriously cOnside
whether or not his own features arr
y faultleSS."
+
Farmer Kampmann has found tina
= his big storage tank on the Salad'
: farm has sprung a big leak. This il
only one of the leaks in his irrigation
] system. however.
:
; If the Legislature will ease up tn
y libel law, the newspapers could as
Sist materially in preventing or mod
fyinT some of tbp numerous bushes