Editors and Publishers Office Locations and Agencies
The notice lists editorial and publishing entities including CHARLES 8S, DIEHL, HARRISONS, BEACH and mentions New York and Chicago offices. It cites The 8S. C. Beck with Special Agency in New York at Tribune Building and The 8. C. Beckwith Special Agency in Chicago at Tribune Building.
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Charles 8S
Diehl, Harrisons, Beach
Editors and Publishers
New York
Beckwith
Tribune
Chicago
Tribune Building
July 1912 circulation figures for The San Antonio Light
The San Antonio Light's July 1912 circulation reached 581 176 copies total. The evening edition averaged 18 471 daily and the Sunday edition 20 613. Net paid circulation after adjustments was 17 077 for the evening and 19 278 for Sunday.
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San Antonio
The New Mayor A. H. Jones Wins San Antonio Victory
A. H. Jones becomes mayor in a decisive San Antonio election that ends the old machine era. Voters seek modern city management and fiscal reform while anticipating opposition from rival parties. The new leader faces high expectations and calls for patient, steady reform.
Beveridge and "Bunk" Ex-Senator Belo rges at Chicago
The piece critiques Beveridge's Chicago Bull Moose convention speech as empty rhetoric and wind, contrasting his lofty phrases with little substance. It mocks his attacks on Rooseveltian ideals and notes the Rooseveltsian stance the party omits a key point.
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Beveridge
Indiana
America
Chicago
San Antonio Gains Clean Government After Political Shift
Mr Jones faces a nine month term and pledges decisive action. He foresees beginnings in multiple directions, with a death blow to the former political machine. The city will pursue straight, transparent governance and an improving horizon as San Antonio moves beyond past reprisals toward reform.
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Jones
San Antonio
Senate Debates Limiting Two New Dreadnought Battleships
The senate warns foreign powers to keep their distance as it debates whether to restrict the construction of two additional battleships. Democratic caucuses weigh the issue amid tension with Japan and global naval challenges.
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Senate
United States
Western Hemisphere
Japan
Congress
Nations on naval strength and party duty in a warning
A piece argues Uncle Sam must show force against Japan with a strong fleet. It warns that Japan could target the Philippines Hawaii Alaska or the Panama Canal and urges both parties to support a two dreadnought per year program to safeguard the nation. It cites Taft charging Democrats with cowardice and references Filman Joy and John Hay for rhetorical color.
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Inlsteeace
Uncle Sam
Japan
Philippines
Hawaii
Alaska
Panama Canal
Magdalena Bay
Democratic Party
Andrew Jackson
Republican Party
Taft
United States
Congress
John Hay
Mississippi
Millions Spent in College Athletics Highlighted
A Leslie’s Weekly feature examines the vast funds poured into college sports, detailing national spending on athletic development. The issue also covers the Indianapolis 500, Olympic preparations, flood relief in New Orleans, and other illustrated pieces on travel, conventions, revenue services, and stock market guidance.
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Leslie
Edward Bushnell
Homer McKee
Indianapolis
Stockholm
Sweden
New Orleans
Louise de St. Hubert Guyot
C. R. Miller
Revenue Cutter Service
Harriet Quimby
Jeanie Gould Lincoln
Creola W. Haskell
A. T. Merrick
Illustrated News of the World
Baltimore
Paris
Jasper
The Professor and the Rose Thief Mystery
A puzzled professor guards a rose garden and discovers a daily thief is actually Laura Carew a shy office typist staying nearby. She explains she came for a holiday healing and to collect roses, and their quiet routine blossoms into an emotional farewell as she departs.
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Ainslie
Professor Ainslie
T—Ti
London
Brookside
Battle Scarred Humor From Battlefields Told By Miles
Gen Nelson A Miles notes humor amid war chaos at a dinner recounting a retreat turned rout. An aide answers a rear guard question with a quip about their horses, illustrating battlefield wit. The Houston Post cites the anecdote in a broader piece.
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Nelson A. Miles
Popular
Death as the price of differentiation in higher life
Professor H Jennings in Popular Science Monthly argues that aging and death arise from increased differentiation in larger organisms. He asserts death cannot be avoided without hindering advancement to higher complexity, noting embryonic germ cell immortality contrasts with overall organism mortality.
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Minot
H. §. Jennings
The
Popular Science Monthly
Dream and Pursuit in a Country Scene
A professor contemplates a dream of farewell with Miss Carew then wonders if she will stay. He asks her to remain with roses and him as she reveals a dropped purse and a playful exchange follows about lingering in the countryside.
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Laura
Proctor Knott and a Kentucky temperance town tale recalled
The speaker recalls the first lawsuit he saw in Kentucky involving Proctor Knott. A local tale features Perkins selling Log Cabin Bitters amid a barbed fight with Tom Peters, a bowie knife duel, and a pistol shot. A doctor testifies about Peters’s fate as the man dies in the Rockies years later. The Boston Post is cited.
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Kentucky
Clark Clark
Proctor Knott
Perkins
Shiloh
Tom Peters
Peters
California
Rockies
Boston Post
King George Awards Albert Medal to Aboriginal Prisoner
The Albert life saving Medal is given to Neighbor, an aboriginal Australian prisoner, for risking his life to save a trooper from drowning after the trooper was thrown into a swollen stream by a horse. The act honors self sacrifice over personal escape.
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George of
England
Neighbor
The
Christian Herald
Rhine Bridge at Cologne Replaced by Steel Structure
Europeans show indifference to American aesthetic interests as Cologne trustees plan to substitute the quaint bridge of boute across the Rhine with a modern steel span undermining the romantic relic's charm favored by American tourists.
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Rhine
Cologne
Liar’s Club Tales At The Gunter Hotel
An Observant Citizen piece recalls a San Antonio man boasting of carrier pigeons and a prank that clipped its wings during a bet. A boy and a chameleon joke follow before the gathering adjourns to the glassware department.
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Liars’ Club
Gunter
San Antonio
Austin
Antonio
Glassware
Quaker Wit At A Wedding Greeting
W A Butler recalls a guest, a Quaker ar y goods merchant, who saluted the bride with a witty line. He praised the bride for discernment saying her good qualities are evident at a glance while noting the groom’s need for insight.
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W. A. Butler
William
Taking His Medicine Exposes a Captain of Industry
English humorist Harry Furniss told a New York reporter that a captain of industry is someone who gets others to do the hard work. He cited a boy who tricks his nurse by offering to share the medicine money, revealing streetwise cunning.
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Harry Furniss
New York
America
Mr. Furniss
Tommy
New York Times
Brick Thrown at Policeman Cited by Judge
Court records reveal Mulcahey admitted striking Policeman Rafferty after the brick was hurled, with the judge noting the admission of hitting the officer amid courtroom reaction.
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio Gazette
Associated Press
Association of American Advertisers
Association
Whitehall
N. W. Ayer & Son
Philadelphia
Europe
A. H. Jones
Mr. Jones
Mereby
People’s Party
Citizens’ Party
Bunk
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
the Light's Daily Story
Edith Dixon
Carew
Laura Carew
Rose Garden
Houston Post
Bildad
Slithers
Harper's Weekly
Clark
Sherlocko
Monk
Watso
HEADY
Jon Weintrart
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