Publication Office Address on Travis Street
Nos 609 61 Travis Street between Avenues C and D identified as the publication office location.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1916
Page
4
San Antonio Light Publishes Six Month Circulation Audit
The six months ending September 20 1916 show the daily edition averaging 22 062 copies and the Sunday edition 26 756. Net paid averages are 20 477 daily and 24 424 on Sundays. The Audit Bureau of Circulations certifies the totals. The paper claims it can guarantee advertisers 50 percent more paid circulation direct to homes in San Antonio than any other newspaper.
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The
San Antonio Light
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Ite
United States
Canadas
America
Europe
San Antonio
Food Consumption in New York Hotels Sparks Food Supply Debate
A historical critique claims New York residents eat vast quantities of meat poultry fish eggs and milk, citing one hotel's ten month totals to argue for an embargo on food to New York. The piece suggests redirecting supplies to war distressed nations to conserve food.
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New York
United States
Europe
Unifying National Ideals Amid War Morality Claims
Lieutenant Zinovi Pechkoff of the French Foreign Legion argues war can strengthen moral codes and noble impulses. He cites French soldiers tending wounded comrades and views combat as a test that transforms character rather than brutalizes it.
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Zinovi Pechkoff
French Foreign Legion
Europe
Pechkoff
Foreign Legion
Comradeship and Valor in War Refuge of Honor
A Legionnaires colonel lamentes choosing few for crosses of honor amid 4000 heroes in his regiment. Dispatches recount thousands of similar acts showing moral force forging unity among soldiers and prompting stronger National Guard resolve in anticipation of war.
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Legionaires
National Guard
Joan of Arc Inspires French Valor at Verdun, Says Joffre
American observers note French army spirit amid Verdun fighting. General Joffre credits the Maid of Orleans as the inspiration behind French troops and their ability to reverse the battlefield tide.
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Verdun
Joan of Arc
Joffre
Orleans
Maid of
Napoleon
Egypt
France
Old Guard
Cost of Unpreparedness and the Asquith Change
The decline of the Asquith ministry follows Britain’s wartime lessons. The premier and cabinet fell not by party politics but by the war burdens pressing on the average Briton and the need for greater national preparedness to win the great conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asquith
England
United States
Great Britain
Marne
Learning from Britain's War Experience in a Dangerous Hour
The text argues the British have learned Germany presents a highly organized force, not vanishing after early setbacks. It blames the Asquith ministry for grave errors from Antwerp to Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, while noting Britain’s sea control and massive mobilization. It warns the U S must heed Britain’s costly lessons to avoid unpreparedness and wider war costs.
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Germany
Marne
Asquith
Antwerp
Gallipoli
Mesopotamia
Serbia
Roumania
Great Britain
Lord Roberts
United States
Europe
War Department
Japan
Manila
Alaska
Honolulu
California
Britain
Only Vice President Re‑elected in U.S. history
The Belton Journal notes that Vice President Marshall remains the only person elected to the office twice in U.S. history. It mentions that if Hughes and Fairbanks had won, Fairbanks would have shared that distinction. Marshall served from 1905 to 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
United States
Hughes
Fairbanks
Belton Journal
Embargo Debate Aims to Protect Home Food Supply
Secretary Lansing argues a domestic embargo on food would shield the United States while likely provoking protests from England France and Italy due to the essential American food supply to the allies. The stance presumes no foreign objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
England
France
Italy
Galveston Tribune
Dallas UDC backs phrase for Civil War reference
The Dallas general convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy adopted a resolution urging use of the phrase war between the States to describe the 1860s conflict. The Houston Post notes the view that the war was a larger national tragedy, not merely a parcel of little states.
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Dallas
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Houston Post
South’s Big Boom Foreseen Postwar Prosperity
A financier predicts a major postwar boom for southern business as European war ends boost demand for cotton and other southern products. He says the South will share in national prosperity and Texas will participate in the expansion.
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Grand Old Texas
Fort Worth
Agricultural Prices Report From Dublin Market
The telephones report turkeys at 22 cents per pound on the Dublin market last week peanuts reached 1.27 per bushel hay 15 per ton cotton 20 cents seed 50 corn and other grain fetching good prices with more expected. The piece stresses agriculture as fundamental to civilization and warns against overindustrialization driving prices up.
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Waco Times-Herald
Corn Exhibits Prize Money At Texas Field Crops Meet
Two thousand dollars in premiums will be offered for corn small grain and cotton exhibits at the annual Texas Field Crops Association meeting in Temple early in January. The gathering will also set plans for next season’s crops aiming to steer Texas farmers toward safe farming amid rising cotton acreage.
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Texas Field Crops Association
Temple
Texas
Fort Worth
Fair and Warmer at Grand Opera House Final Five Shows
Selwyn and company present Avery Hopwood’s celebrated farce Fair and Warmer at the Grand Opera House for five final performances tonight Tuesday Wednesday matinee and night and Thursday night. The comedy has drawn huge crowds and wide praise in New York and beyond and is billed as Hopwood’s finest work with an excellent cast of farceurs.
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Avery Hopwood
New York
Selwyn and Company
Grand Opera House
Bilinge Theater
Avery Hoywood
Charley Grapewin Headlines Majestic Vaudeville
Charley Grapewin with Anna Chance head a seven act Majestic bill featuring Yvette Fannie Heaton and George Bancroft with Octavia Broske. Chung Wha Four and Kerr and Weston bring song and novelty numbers while Consul the Great and the Paldrons complete a diverse program in San Antonio.
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Charley Grapewin
Majestic
Poughkeepsie
Anna Chance
Grapewin
Miss Chance
Cuero
San Antonio
St. Mary’s
Kerr
Weston
Consul
Paldrons
Miss George Washington thrills Empire with Marguerite Clark
Marguerite Clark drew capacity crowds at the Empire Theater in Miss George Washington where she plays Berenice Somers. A Truth Society medal praises her veracity though her schoolmate Alice Altwold attests to her fibbing. The farce centers on a hotel mix up with diplomat Cleverly Trafton and the Altwolds as passengers of a comic truth outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Clark
Empire
George Washington
Empire Theater
Miss Clark
Berenice Somers
Miss
Paul Carroll
Altwold
Alice
Carroll
Berenice
Miss Perkins
Marblehead
Trafton
Mrs. Altwold
Mr. Altwold
Gardner
Chicago Grand Opera Sings Strike Over Living Costs
Forty three male chorus singers from the Chicago Grand Opera Company struck last night during Gotterdammerung due to low pay. They claim salaries of 24 a week instead of 35, and protest being paid less than stage hands and much less than the orchestra. The company will recruit from New York and Boston while performances continue without the male chorus.
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Chicago
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Cleofonte Campinini
New York
Boston
Gifts for Guardsmen in Austin Urged for Christmas
Austin mayor A P Wooldridge asks relatives and residents to send gifts to two Austin National Guardsmen stationed at Corpus Christi on the Border. Those wishing to give should inform the mayor so gifts are properly prepared and forwarded to the soldiers for the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
National Guardsmen
A. P. Wooldridge
Corpus Christi
Plan to enroll many for training camps
Civilians who attended last summer's military training camp at Fort Sam Houston will meet Monday night at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss ways to obtain a record enrollment at the proposed camps to be held here in 1917. The meeting will cover plans of the National Training Camps Association and possible juvenile camps for younger boys after schools dismiss for summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Sam Houston
Chamber of Commerce
New York
National Training Camps Association
General Funston
Corpus Christi
Captain Morrow Dies in Austin at Age
Captain J H Morrow recruiting officer for the Texas National Guard and grandson of Gen Sam Houston died in Austin early Sunday morning He served in the Philippine Islands and in Hawaii Survived by his wife and daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
J. H. Morrow
Texas National Guard
Sam Houston
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Hindu student enters Sigma Xi from University of Chicago
M A Semplathkumaram known as Sempath, a 30 year old Hindu Brahman priest’s son from India studying at the University of Chicago on Indian government support, has been elected to the Sigma Xi research fraternity for botany. He is the first Hindu elected to Sigma Xi in the United States.
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Chicago
India
M. A. Semplathkumaram
University of Chicago
Sigma Xi
Sempath
University of Madras
United States
Prohibition Moves Toward England Liquor Control
London reports that the new government plans a global liquor trade control ahead of food measures. Absolute prohibition of spirits except medicinal and beer trade restrictions are expected, with state control of spirit resources in the new year and distillation of whiskey and gin to be banned.
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London
Prince Oyama Dies in Tokio After Long Military Career
Field Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama dies at 74 in Tokio. He led the Manchurian army in the Russo-Japanese war and shared the highest imperial honors with Prince Yamagata. Oyama, from Satsuma, was a senior Genro member and longtime military counselor. The report also notes a London experiment showing electricity speeds growth in young chickens.
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Tokio
Prince Iwao Oyama
Japan
Prince Oyama
Yamagata
Genro
Owame
Satsuma
War casts shade on holiday money orders at post offices
In Washington December 11 a long line of Americans at post office windows shows war's reach. Women in mourning and older men wait to send money home to relatives abroad, hoping for delivery despite disrupted routes to Europe and Russia.
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Washington, D. C
United States
America
Postal
England
France
Austria
Russia
Warsaw
Dockery
Italy
Greece
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Belgium
Egypt
Mexico
Portugal
Large Attendance Opens Southern Commercial Congress in Norfolk
Norfolk hosts the eighth annual Southern Commercial Congress with a record crowd from sixteen southern states and beyond. Senator Fletcher outlines reconstruction steps as speakers urge U S roles in Europe recovery, trade reorganization, and neutral-partner diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Southern Commercial Congress
Commonwealths
Congress
Fletcher
Florida
United States
Europe
Stuart
Virginia
Wyndham RK
Mayo
Albert
P. Busch
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
John Skelton Williams
O'Neal
Alabama
Ransdell
Louisiana
Overman
North Carolina
W. P. C. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Small
United State Sailors and Marines
Virgini Military Institute Cadet Corps
Co Bine
Counry
China
Williams
Stowe Plans Park Inspections Across Texas
Colonel Charles L. Stowe state superintendent of public buildings and grounds leaves for his first inspection tour of Texas state parks five in all starting at Brenham site of the former Capitol at Washington on the Brazos. He will also visit San Jacinto Battlefield park and parks at Goliad Gonzales and Refugio to assess small remaining funds and urge prudent use of appropriations with local park commissions cooperating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Charles L. Stowe
Brenham
Texas
Washington-on-the Brazos
San Jacinto Battlefield Park
Houston
Goliad
Gonzales
Refugio
Stowe
Governor weighs pistol carrying law for Texas
Governor Ferguson considers adding a bill in the upcoming Legislature that would make carrying a pistol or other deadly weapon on the person a felony. He cites reduced shootings in other states and urges Texas to lead in public safety. Previous sessions have failed to pass similar measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Ferguson
Texas
Modern Farm Estate Adds Intercom Telephones and Fire Alarm
Intercommunicating telephones and an electric fire alarm system are installed in the estate farm buildings of a wealthy Long Island owner. The system includes a call bell setup and comprehensive safety features across the property.
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Joe Opera Singers Strike
Nantucke
G. A. Stowers Stowers FurnIture Co
Army Post
Captain Morrow
Texas Guard
General Houston
HINDU
War
Offic
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