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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1916
Page
23
Berlin reports a marked drop in divorces with only 143 per 10 000 marriages dissolved last year down from 157 in 1914 and 161 in 1913. Large cities account for most cases while almost 2000 divorces were removed from courts due to husbands killed in the war.
A collage of verses from Oliver Herford Henry W Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The poems recount tiny woodland figures a song of birds and a king and ape tale with a dreamlike castle imagery. Some lines reflect on nature art and power with gentle humor and moral reflections.
A nostalgic verse by Eugene Field portrays the wind as a night voice moaning Yoooooo. The speaker recalls childhood fear and a mother’s warning that bad deeds send one to bed, with the wind scolding who has been bad.
A playful verse by CW A Clingham imagines wishing to be a primrose, elm tree, or robin. The speaker envokes spring blooms, tall branches, and birdsong, framing a light hearted progression of transformation wishes. The cadence and imagery resemble a children's or colonial era moral verse.
Robert of Sicily storms the palace demanding his throne from an impostor. An Angel appears in the banquet room, radiantly defending the true king with calm authority as guests draw steel. The divine visit reshapes the confrontation with awe and threat.
A narrator and Margaret leave the sea to visit a gray church on a windy hill for Easter prayers. They glimpse a solemn service through windows as the sea and children fade into the storm. Margaret remains entranced by the holy book, and the priest prays as the door shuts.
The Sierra, an Oceanic Steamship Company liner, rode a hurricane three days from Sydney as pumice from a submarine disturbance overwhelmed its decks. Captain reports stones from marble to a silk hat battered the ship for hours before reaching port.
In a rainy morning tale Mr Fowler laments a missing umbrella. His wife Ellen recalls lending it to the parson after a prior umbrella borrowing, prompting a humorous dispute over blame and responsibility. The piece mirrors domestic squabbles and small mischief in daily life.
The federal bureau of naturalization leads a nationwide effort with public school partners to train immigrants for U.S. citizenship. It targets English, history and government instruction, reaching about 350,000 applications last year and distributing 120,000 names to schools in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Massachusetts.
A University of Washington graduate student reports discovering peridermium balsameum, a fir rust, threatening local trees in Seattle. The find signals potential impact on urban forestry and conifer stands near the university campus.
University botanists seek to stop the pine blister rust first appearance in the Northwest. The disease robs needles from seedlings, weakens trees, and kills them. It spread from Europe to Eastern nurseries and has caused damage in New England Pennsylvania New York and Ontario.
An unkempt man at an East Side saloon resists free lunch and asks the bartender to trust him for a beer until tomorrow. The barkeep refuses, noting it would be cruel to take the free lunch only to not buy anything.
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