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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
4
The article urges citizens to donate to the Wilson and Marshall campaign while noting the campaign rejected large Wall Street funds. It also surveys aviation’s waning public interest, private testing rise, and Harriett Quimby’s death impact, plus critiques Mayor Gaynor and Tammany Hall amid New York corruption concerns.
The article notes a shift from the aviation boom of the prior two years as crowds dwindled and prizes faded. It discusses aviators and promoters questioning what happened to air travel fever, the rise of aviation schools, and early wealth from meets.
Opinion piece questions Mayor Gaynor's silence after gambler Rosenthal's murder. It notes widespread newspaper criticism of his stance in the police scandal and his alleged indifference and misplaced confidence. The piece argues the mayor cannot remain silent amid the emergency revealed by the case.
The New York Globe questions if five Italians executed for a murder had equal access to justice. It notes rapid conviction and execution may reflect wealthier defendants receiving better defense, while arguing justice varies with money and influence in American courts.
Edmund Lamy, the skating champion, recalled at Saranac Lake a perilous rescue on thin ice. He cited two sisters of an elderly millionaire widow discussing Pa Lamy’s act of saving the chorus girl Tottie Tights, who broke through the ice, prompting praise and a joking worry about rescuing the rescuer.
John Burberry, an engine driver and union organizer, leads a hungry port town in strike resistance while his wife lies ill. Doctors warn ice is needed to save her, but none can reach Faychester due to the blockade and stalled transport from the port. Burberry contemplates mercy and courage as time runs short.
The New York Times notes the Austin dam collapse and widespread explanations cite cost-cutting as a factor. It compares to a $1 million government dam near Gallipolis and questions concrete as a dam material amid possible future failures and rising criticisms.
In a strained hospital room, Burberry battles fear as doctors declare the only option to save a life is a dangerous, perhaps fatal, transport. He strives to be steadfast, rejecting cowardice, while the dying woman calmly accepts her fate and finds contentment.
A jokey debate at a social gathering features an old bachelor arguing that a young man has done enough for his date after taking her to the grand opera, a supper, and a taxicab ride, so she should not expect a good night kiss.
The Camden battle of August 16 1780 marked a low point in the American struggle for independence as Gen Horatio Gates mismanaged militia and retreated to Hillsboro after a costly defeat. Baron de Kalb fell bravely at Camden while Washington and Greene later redeemed the southern cause with victories at Kings Mountain Cowpens and Eutaw Springs.
After a San Antonio versus Houston game, umpire Frank Newhouse angered fans with disputed calls and a thrown baseball at a boy. On the ride home he argued with a spectator and boasted of earning 12.50 a day, prompting talk of lucrative positions in the Texas league and envy among rival umpires.
The New York Evening Post recalls a repartee between Erie president F. D. Underwood and Lackawanna head W. T. Truesdale. An elderly southern maid greets Truesdale as an old friend, and in reply she is identified as Phoebe Snow after a trip on the Erie.
At a Chicago Lawyers Association banquet former Judge James B. Purnell recalled a convict’s street laborer joke. A convict asks the time through a prison wall and the laborer answers with a sharp remark about not going anywhere.
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