San Antonio Light 1881 publication data and subscription details
Historic notice from The San Antonio Light referencing publication dates and affiliations with The San Antonio Gazette. Includes subscription rates, mailing options, and a circulation statement for October 1911 with daily averages, exchanges, and returns data.
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Britain and Germany Face Changing Press Sentiments
The Westminster Gazette and Manchester Guardian signal a shift in British views toward Germany, praising mutual trade and restraint yet warning that entangling diplomacy and past crises keep Anglo German relations volatile. Experts caution that the present goodwill may fade as rivalries persist.
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Westminster Gazette
Manchester Guardian
Germany
Great Britain
Life on the Planets debated by Aitken in Royal Astronomical Society
Professor Robert Grant Aitken of Lick Observatory surveys planetary habitability in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He finds life likely only on Earthlike bodies and dismisses intelligent life on Mars and gas giants, while noting limits to what science can assert and inviting broader philosophical views.
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Robert Grant Aitken
Lick Observatory
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Earth
George Romanes
Martyrs of the Maine declare the blast came from outside
The Navy confirms the Maine exploded from an exterior charge igniting its six inch reserve magazine. The statement says the vessel was destroyed by outside forces, and that the tragedy spurred the war with Spain. It honors the sailors who died, calling them martyrs for human liberty.
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Navy Department
Maine
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Spain
McKinley
United States
Cuba
England and Germany Friend Over Trade and Tone
The article weighs Anglo German relations noting their commerce expansion and cultural contrasts. It argues Germany seeks cautious sales methods while Britain clings to a two power naval standard and questions cooperation amid empire concerns.
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Britain
Germany
French
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France
England
Westminster Gazette
Great’ Britain
Contemplating Conscious Life in Etherialized Forms
The passage argues that mind may exist in non earthly modes and contemplates conscious individuals in etherialized forms perhaps in incandescent Jupiter as plausible as imperfect manifestations of life on worlds resembling Earth. It contrasts earthly bodies with the possibility of non material consciousness across distant worlds.
Universal peace treaty signed after bold show of armaments
A fictional dialogue depicts an autocrat asking if battleships are ordered, army doubled, recruitment ads placed, Panama Canal fortifications completed, and troops mobilized. The secretary confirms, but the sovereign chooses to sign a universal peace treaty, highlighting a satirical view of militarization and political assurance.
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Steel Trust
Congress
Panama Canal
Owned Valuable Stamps Worth 20 Thousand Pounds Found
A Sydney woman discovers a hoarded stamp collection left by her father is valued at about 20000 pounds after attending a stamp exhibition and seeking expert appraisal. The stamps were stored in an old trunk and the owner was ignorant of philatelic worth before this revelation.
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London Standard
Sydney
Clear Down Into Its Grave Big business is for revision
The Baltimore Sun comments on revisionism for Sherman law as big business moves to weaken antitrust protections, arguing that the law should be weakened rather than strengthened.
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Baltimore Sun
Wireless control of ships sparks moral debate on warfare
A 19th century overview explains wireless propulsion guiding boats from shore and the far reaching uses from lifesaving to signaling. It then warns of torpedoes and aerial bombs enabling silent strikes from land, arguing reason may curb war as deadly tech evolves.
Thrift Overrides Illness as Man Returns Home
A man feared to have typhoid was hospitalized but improved and asked to go home after four days. His wife, frugal as ever, refused to keep him longer noting the prepaid week would not be refunded and urged him to finish his stay.
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New York Herald
New Golfers Gibe at Bala Golfer’s Slow Round
Mrs H H Barlow, a Philadelphia golfer, quips about a novice player at Bala. She recalls he took eighteen strokes on one easy hole. Near the end he asks if tally is 195 or 196. The caddy replies he needs an addin machine not a caddy.
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H. H. Barlow
Philadelphia
Bala
Kittie Francis Stars In A Royal Reception At Plaza
In San Antonio the three act musical comedy A Royal Reception features Kittie Francis as Mrs O Malley to great effect alongside Rube Welch Leela Lucey and Katherine Dyer. The Plaza bill includes the Yaito Duo the Howard Brothers and Ralph Connors with strong dance and ventriloquism acts.
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Kittie Francis
Plaza
O'Malley
Rube Welch
San Antonio
Yaito
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Howard Brothers
Ralph Connors
Now is the time for praise in Christmastide verse
Clinton Scollard in December Ains e's offers a devotional Christmas poem celebrating the birth of Christ. The text praises light, bells, and holly as symbols of holy reverence and universal admiration for the Master's praise.
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Royal promises fine week with juggling acts and variety
The Royal offers a strong bill this week featuring the Three Juggling Millers Reisner and Gores Grace Ferrard and Grace Ferrard charms with monologue and suffragetism Carroll Chatham Keating Peto and Wilson provide dialogue harmony singing juggling acrobatics and humor. The showing is described as the best in some time.
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The Helping Hand
Settlement worker and a New York kid share a scene as a boy learns English from a teacher in a humorous exchange. The strip captures language barriers and cross culture moments in a playful strip from Puck.
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Puck
New York
German Pilot Sets New Endurance Flight Record
On December 8 in Germany Herr Suvelack flew an aeroplane with a passenger for four hours and twenty three minutes setting a new endurance record. The previous record was two hours and ten minutes by Herr Von Illner.
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Germany
Herr Suvelack
Herr von Illner
Northerly wind chills San Antonio tourists on Houston Street
On a balmy San Antonio day several tourists waited for an Army car when a sudden norther struck. A pair of travelers discussed the weather and called the cold snap a northerner, remarking on its origin from the north and the discomfort it caused.
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Houston Street
San Antonio
Perpetual Mule Motion at Missouri Pacific Pumping Station
A mule at a Missouri Pacific pumping station near Elk City operates nonstop for fourteen years. Water alarms the mule to stop when full, and trains passing cause it to restart. Owner Henry DuMonde earns payment for services while avoiding work elsewhere.
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Elk City
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The Chancellor's Job From the London Daily Mail
A military doctor in a Prussian cavalry regiment asked 174 recruits to name the role of the imperial chancellor. Answers varied from payroll duties to preaching empire and ruling the world, with comments about Berlin and loyalty to the Kaiser.
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London Daily Mail
Empire
Berlin
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