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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1911
Page
6
The July 1911 circulation report for The San Antonio Light shows unsold copies totaling 519,514 with additional figures 17,317 and 1,179 referenced in the record.
A crude montage describes two clashes involving Colonel Jake Wolters and opponents Thomas B. Love and Senator James Clayton McNealus. The prose frames the incidents as political theater amid statewide prohibition tensions and public teasing over temper and ego.
The article extols a pictorial news service that supplements afternoon papers by quickly delivering photo coverage of major events. It highlights images from the Beattie murder trial in Richmond, aviator Flight scenes, Morgan aboard the Olympic, the Carlton fire in London, and the Badger and Croix Johnstone crashes, asserting their authenticity and broad public benefit.
The report notes a masculine face aged around sixty involved in a clash with Senator McNealus. The trousers of Colonel Wolters were torn, an act described as outside the code and attributed to accident or inadvertence, with calls for party spokesmen to explain.
Two months ago Kansas was to appoint a board or commission to convene and determine why the Kaisers of cattle received so little. The text mentions an appointed body and its purpose but lacks details on outcomes or names.
The piece argues Kansas failed to reveal meat price details prompting Texas cattlemen to act. Texans plan to meet in Fort Worth next month to study the cattle business and demand promised information from Kansas, aiming to expose gouging and force action.
The piece questions why Houston steadily dominates railroad literature with inflated population figures while San Antonio and others appear to lag. It traces shifts in 1900s census tallies, notes clerical edits, and recalls past padding by cities like Tacoma. It urges reliance on official census data despite promotional rail pamphlets.
In Lamar Missouri a lawyer argues a case where a client charged with stealing 15.60 from a saloon cash drawer is acquitted. The client taunts the lawyer with the remaining 16.50, prompting a sharp rebuke.
In a humorous exchange between a bill clerk and a cashier, the two riff on a coworker Sam and a server, joking about outfits, accessories, and flirtations. The scene blends gossip with sly innuendo as they tease about attire and romantic interest during lunch.
On his deathbed Casey directs his will with an attorney present while relatives confirm each bequest. He leaves a thousand dollars to his wife Mary Ann and to his daughter Maggie, and a thousand more to his son Jimmy. A two thousand dollar gift goes to a poor Irish friend Aloysius spearon.
A narrator travels through vast industrial and maritime wealth in Morgan's sprawling systems. He admires mills, fleets, and a powerful nation, then confronts a symbolic private park at the gate and ends at a grim, hellish final scene as a Cleveland Press jeer echoes.
A reflective verse about a neglected dining room after a family leaves. Dust and grime fill the space as cobwebs and missing bustle hint at changes in everyday life, turning the room into a quiet morgue of past routines and neglected furniture. memories of children at play surface amid the stillness.
A merchant plans a miniature menagerie with mice in his window to draw customers but an activist woman stops him calling for arrest and a humane-society report. The incident ends with officials saying no permit is needed unless fear of the woman exists.
A humorous Boston Transcript item depicts a master of the house asking an applicant to open a beer bottle neatly. The butler replies he cannot, citing that he only lives in champagne families.
A verse laments a jail sentence for a thief who steals a loaf of jam. The poem contrasts a comfortable prison life with a starving family left to pay the bills, questioning divine justice and the effect on the convict’s wife and children.
Insights from Harper's Magazine describe how degraded energy can be revived and matter diffused beyond gravity. The piece explains opposing tendencies in the cosmos, where differential processes regulate tidal action to sustain a rhythmic cycle of existence.
A Washington Star cartoon lampoons a politician who has faded from public view. Miss Cayenne quips the figure has turned to literature, joking that his aim is obliterature rather than writing.
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