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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
2
In a wartime shift, the Ways and Means Committee aims to tax automobiles as a nonessential luxury. The definition of pleasure cars versus trucks ignores essential uses like taxis and daily business, risking unfair hardship on many Americans reliant on cars for living and mobility.
In a major city court a woman lawyer among the eminent counsel defending the prisoners reacts with visible emotion as the guilty verdict is announced. The defendants depart with deputy sheriffs, shaking hands and a sobering display follows a tense trial.
A humorous court scene shows six defendants kissing the female attorney after a trial ends. The judge’s reaction is unrecorded as the session ends with the woman lawyer crying and vowing a possible new trial. The piece satirizes gender bias and the burdens on women in law.
Virginia born Thomas J Rowland a Civil War captain popularized the peanut by pushing it on carts He is hailed as the progenitor of the peanut industry for ninety three years of effort that expanded the food's value and market presence.
A nostalgic column recounts Thomas B. Rowland's early work to popularize peanuts. His street voice and sales tactics helped peanuts become a staple at fairs, circuses, and street corners, influencing urban commerce and perceptions of value in New York.
An Associated Press report describes 36,000 American troops landing at an English port and marching four miles to a vast reception camp outside a French town. Troops, drenched by rain, pitch shelters in mud while supplies and paper work for tens of thousands of men are rapidly organized.
Amid vast logistics, men and organizations are being cared for and tracked as they advance to the front. The immense task of docking landing transporting and handling vast operations unfolds with careful coordination over ten months.
A quartet of singing soldiers tops the Royal bill with the Six Musical Noises and a brass band routine. Australian singer Richard Burton and others perform in vaudeville sketches. At the Princess, Victoria Quartet and Abbot and Milky Brown deliver musical comedy with Xylophone, while Henry B. Walthall headlines a steel-themed film program.
Dorothy Dalton headlines The Jewel with a strong screen presence proving adaptable in dramatic or lighter roles. Chaplin appears in a separate feature delivering his signature humor with a new dining room gag and playful misunderstandings. The Grand showcases a two film program headlined by Dalton and Chaplin amid vaudeville style entertainment.
A garbled montage of quips and adages reflects a late era newspaper page. Topics range from tainted gossip and economic jests to political ruminations, social observations, and light commentary on dentistry, fashion taxes, labor strikes, and daily life. Names and places blur amid scattered phrases.
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