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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1916
Page
27
The Edison Laboratories present the New Edison a true recreation of all forms of music not mere mechanical reproduction. It highlights over 1000 selections already on sale with more issued weekly as part of this new art.
Albert Spalding’s violin artistry is replicated by Edison’s new art, proving exact technique, phrasing, and tone. Spalding joins other artists in tests that yield identical results. Hear Edison’s recreation of Spalding then Spalding himself.
A claimant describes a smallholding with four cattle a horse about a half dozen sheep and a goat plus fowls seeking exemption. A tribunal member counters the farm view calling it a Noah's Ark in a witty London Opinion remark.
Scribson notes strong demand for his new novel while remarking that university literature teachers may be using it as a cautionary example in leading universities, highlighting surprising reception from scholars and readers alike.
In a French town two groups of German officers captured on different parts of the front met by chance. They shed tears and embraced former foes, then faced interrogation. One German officer said they expected a major attack but their reserves never deployed. The scene ended with a German delivering a business letter to the French general.
Baroness Clarisse de Rothschild widow of Baron Alfonse de Rothschild has given the 100000 kroners prize to the war sufferers fund after her 8 year old horse won the Austrian derby. She retains the winner's cup.
President and Mrs Wilson with Secretary of War Baker and Mrs Baker and General E M Weaver visit New Port News and Fort Monroe. The Mayflower yacht carries the party from Washington to Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe where Baker and Weaver are hosted. The president declines a war game invitation and tours Hampton Roads aboard the Mayflower. The presidential yacht stays at Hampton Roads overnight and sails back to Washington tomorrow.
Colonel T. H. Ball of Houston urged that submission in the Ferguson era gubernatorial contest should be settled by the Legislature, not at the Houston convention. He noted a majority favoring submission and warned that denying it would aid the cause.
Evanston residents urged by Mrs. Richard Aishton to donate funds for comfort bags for soldiers on the Mexican border. The American military relief unit in Evanston has already sent fifty bags to Texas and plans about two hundred more once money is raised.
The piece recounts Franklin's early daylight saving idea raised in Paris during 1776 to 1785. It contrasts Franklin's humorous plan to wake the sluggards with Willett's later tax and bell-cannon scheme. The tale notes Franklin's arithmetic on candle use and his lightning conductor invention later blocked by George III for political reasons.
Sir Henry Lucy recalls a late night scene on the Mall where khaki guards march by with a lantern carrying a dim tallow candle. He notes the centuries old tradition reaching back to Henry VII and Anne Boleyn and contrasts it with modern electric lighting at St James Palace.
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