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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
2
A jumble of items appears including address correction notes for newspaper delivery, a note about Christmas shopping time, scattered misstatements on radium pricing, Spanish royalty, San Antonio sidewalks, Berlin barmaids, Houston city commission folly, and a garbled marriage name chain.
A Garrit of St James envoy Whitelaw Reid urged removing duty on art from 20 to 15 percent. He argued free art enhances national taste, fuels education, and improves American manufacturers by creating an art atmosphere that makes products more competitive against European goods.
A New York Sun excerpted volume on ethics in action extols General Diaz as a model for youth and workers. It lauds his temperance humility and relentless labor, noting his early life poverty, energy, and dedication to public welfare as paths to national strength and moral example.
By Charles Ashton Hobbs the author recalls the Cape and Natal mounted police corps a decade or so ago. Educated adventurers earned only 1.25 dollars a day and supplied their own gear, often living hard but enjoyable field lives on patrols from Pietermaritzburg to Zululand. The piece notes a cast of officers and aristocrats who mingled with common troopers, many later serving in the Transvaal, and ends with reminiscence of a drizzle filled day in Pietermaritzburg.
Editor W J Russ denies claims that the state medical association plans to oppose Attorney General Davidson over public health measures. He says the association is non-political and that Davidson did not oppose the measures. He thanks supporters including Senator Looney and Lieutenant Governor Davidson for backing the measures.
The text notes that E Pluribus Unum is Latin for One from Many and identifies it as the motto found on the obverse side of a coin or medal.
Time is short for a literary contest offering 27 free theater seats to Antony and Cleopatra at the Grand Opera House. Essays under 101 words must be to The Light by 10 am Saturday, with winners announced Sunday. prizes include a box, orchestra seats, and various two to six seat awards.
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