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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1915
Page
4
A boy named Reno Ruis, eight, was attacked near his home at 1040 South Larede. Police report the assailant fled toward the city market house as the boy was taken to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
Kansas railroads enforce a six percent increase in livestock rates, impacting cattle hogs and pork shipments. Joe Mercer notes shippers must accept higher prices under new contracts, replacing previously fixed prices. The change follows a shift in pricing practices amid farm and market pressures.
Germany reshaped its economy for total war after Britain’s blockade. Factories pivoted to munitions and essential supplies, unemployment fell as wartime orders surged, and new substitutes filled gaps in fertilizer, fuel, and steel. Firms like Wertheim and others converted to armament production while chemical and brewing byproducts fed nitrates and food substitutes to sustain the war effort.
Washington August 7 The vast fruit juice idea, once a mythic grape staple, may spark a major U S food industry as chemists in the Department of Agriculture report methods to concentrate fruit juices into thick syrups without sugar or additives. Research shows potential for other fruits like blackberries and peaches, with processes akin to wine making and grape juice treatment.
The Alaskan Engineering Commission, Waloh Ja, received permit from the forest service to cut 48,000,000 face of timber in the Coughach national Forest for a government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks. The district forester at Portland approved the plan, with supervision by the Alaskan Carests, under the March 4 act. The secretary of revenue will permit the Alaskan Marine Highway Commission and the Navy to work with the national forests to source timber free of charge within designated areas.
A fragment notes a store manager in West Houston with a downtown address at 4302 North Hackberry Street. It mentions Maehaser, Am, Deleatore, and Travis with a 10 percent figure, but the meaning is unclear due to missing context and garbled terms.
The Forest Service laboratory in Seattle tests Alaska timber including Alaska umberla and hemlock for structural use. A proposed 85 million feet cut across the Chugach forest could be the largest single harvest, worth about 145000 on the stump, and would double the yearly take if expanded.
The Ninth International Purity Congress in Ban Franicisco issued age guidelines for marriage. Men should not marry younger than sixteen, women not younger than eight years their junior, with an ideal pairing at 21 for men and 18 for women. Mrs. Sarah Christopher, advocating mature marriages, argues against early unions as based on physical attraction and vows for legal enforcement. Dr. Albert Mowry supports legislation, while Christopher cites Shakespeare’s Anne Hathaway example and warns early marriage leads to unhappiness and divorce, urging men to be five to twenty years older.
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