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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1918
Page
3
The editorial lauds Police Commissioner Phil Wright for turning patrolmen into public guides. It argues officers should know city streets, key buildings, hospitals, depots, train and streetcar routes, and basic etiquette. A city booklet for citizens and visitors is urged with officer cooperation.
A century old view argues Britain should align its army mobilization with industrial needs to meet essential military requirements. The piece critiques any plan as impractical if it ignores these constraints and warns against broad future actions driven by impulsive motives.
The piece argues Britain and the United States face different postwar demobilization challenges. It notes Britain uses employment exchanges and land elsewhere, while the US can absorb discharged soldiers at home with idle land. It warns against assuming British methods fit the US, and discusses unemployment relief, pay, overtime reductions, and fuel substitutes as critical issues for rapid peace.
The War Department will turn over seven former army trucks to the post office for local mail routes in Utah at about half previous costs. Discharged soldiers will drive at four dollars daily, with plans to add 400 more trucks. The movement aims to broaden motor truck and air delivery, lower first class postage, and spur a nationwide highway system. The era of the motor truck is beginning.
Refugees from Petrograd describe famine famine and red terror as the Bolsheviks tighten grip on the capital. They urge American public opinion to push for action, while the Allies face limited means to restore order and secure peacetime stability. Nine automobiles were reported stolen in San Antonio as streetcar service remains unreliable.
The piece notes a purported absence of washer women due to the revolution in Russia. It claims Bolsheviks shun white collars and infers no steam laundries operate, casting social changes as economic shifts amid upheaval.
A fragmentary verse describes a Breton Patrol squadron patrolling the coast from Greach to Saint Nazaire. It praises the unit’s steady efforts to maintain sea command, day or night, aboard a convoy bound for its goal.
The United States Shipping Board releases its second annual report to Congress detailing the peacetime adjustments to the merchant marine program. It cites a fleet of 1,886 vessels totaling about 21,875,000 deadweight tons under government ownership, charter, or management, and outlines steel and wood ship plans, concrete ship experiments, and renewed emphasis on accelerating construction and standardization for future operations.
Special correspondence from Paris recounts American soldiers’ virtues from the Mexican War through the Spanish American War and the Civil War. It praises generals Grant Lee McClellan and Sheridan, honors Union and Confederate deeds, and notes future generations upholding a high military standard.
The report notes foreign built vessels placed under American registry and issued permits for constructing 205 vessels for private U.S. interests and 167 for foreign interests. It lists 251 wooden, 145 steel, and 86 concrete ships and reviews port facilities, training of officers and crews, shipyard development, and housing for workers.
The 1910 honorary LL D conferred on German ambassador Count Bernstorff has been annulled by Brown University. The university cites that at the time there was tension between nations and the ambassador did not act as a gentleman and diplomat.
A fragmentary account links Mother Hubbard to St Mirabeth of Hung, describing her as a thirteenth century Hungarian princess who became wife to Louis landgrave of Thuringia. It credits her with transforming a royal palace into a hospital complex and nursing the sick, though later life and death are told in brief, reflective strokes.
A garbled collection of quotes and snippets from the Philadelphia Evening Ledger includes social commentary on public health fears, a cold street scene with a child, references to a peace conference, a comic Lost and Found ad about a Maltese dog, and market jests about advertising value and agricultural topics.
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