San Antonio Light subscription rates and offices
The San Antonio Light lists daily and Sunday subscription prices for carrier and mail delivery, notes changes for address updates, and provides office locations including the new street address and distant bureaus in New York Chicago Boston Detroit. It urges notifying the office for irregular delivery and provides contact Crockett 1742 and 176.
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San Antonio
Travis Street
Avenues C
Mexico
Crockett
United States
New York
Paul Block, Inc
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Masters
Boston
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust
Detroit
Kresge
San Antonio Light Reports Six Month Circulation Audit
The San Antonio Light six month ending September 20 1916 shows daily average 22062 copies and Sunday 26356. Net paid daily 20477 and Sunday 24424. Audit Bureau of Circulation certified. The paper guarantees 50 percent more paid circulation direct to San Antonio advertisers than any other newspaper.
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The
San Antonio Light
Audit Bureau of Circulation
United States
Canada
America
Europe
San Antonio
Senator Works Attacks Policy in Crisis Debate
The article notes Senator Works of California assailing the administration during a German crisis, arguing for a unified American stand. He warns that divided national feeling could invite war, urging calm resolve with olive branch and sword to deter German aggression. He emphasizes unity and a firm U S posture to avoid entanglement in the European conflict.
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Senator Works
California
Senate
United States
Stone
Works
United States of America
Germany
America
Senator Works and His United States Senate Role
The passage honors Senator Works, noting he is a U.S. senator and serves California. It states he has been retired by the people of California, and that this retirement was not premature.
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Senator Works
United States Senate
People of
California
Jitney Question Reopens Debate in San Antonio
The city commission debates a new jitney ordinance amid a long standing clash with street car service. The piece argues public service should guide policy, condemns protection of one group, and favors a clear, competition based approach regardless of which transport method benefits.
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City Commission of
San Antonio
Texas Legislature Passes Little in Week Four
The Texas Legislature, now in its fourth week, is praised for doing almost nothing of value. Only minor bills passed, while submission and suffrage debates yielded no real action. Oratory filled the hearings with no substantive results as hundreds of bills sit on calendars awaiting fate.
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Texas
Senate
House
Legislature's Busy Session Yields Little Law In Many Bills
A Texas legislative session moves many bills through committees with reforms on warehouse and marketing, rural tick eradication, and highway issues while funds and time run short. Critics say half baked laws pass as taxpayers foot the bill. Roosevelt Jr. earns reserve commission as major amid national defense prep. Florida orange crop frozen, citrus trees perish.
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Texas
State Highway Commission
Victor Murdock Returns from Orient Amid Immigration Timetable
Kansas editor and former congressman Victor Murdock arrives back after traveling in the Orient. The Asiatic exclusion act and literacy test will not take effect until May 1, delaying enforcement by several weeks.
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Victor Murdock
Kansas
Orient
First Aero Squadron Reaches Preparedness Status
The First Aero Squadron of the United States Army is placed in preparedness after receiving a full complement of motor trucks and all equipment except the thirty six aeroplanes it is to fly.
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United States Army
More Hogs and Less Dogs Slogan Sparks Texas Debate
President H N Pope of the Texas Farmers Union claims 3 000 000 cogs in Texas with most not worth killing. He says it costs nearly as much to keep a dog as a hog and urges “Kill your dogs and buy dogs.” He threatens trouble for dog killers and defends dogs as family pets with friends who will fight for them.
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H. N. Pope
Texas Farmers’ Union
Texas
Pope
Warning by Senator Works on American Despotism Risk
California Senator Works warned in his farewell to the Senate that the United States may lapse into despotism with a dictator at the helm. He cited Rome as a rival republic and warned that growing centralization of power in Washington accelerates toward that danger.
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Works
California
Senate
United States
America
Rome
Washington
Galveston
Tripune
Message to Negroes from Tuskegee Conference
The Houston Post reports a Tuskegee conference message urging Southern Black men to stay and build opportunity at home. It stresses growing regional development, demand for labor, and the path to prosperity and neighborly respect for those who remain. It cautions that northern wages promise is illusory and coal costs will be a worry.
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Tuskegee Negro Conference
South
Houston Post
Texas irrigation conference aims to influence state water policy
A newly organized Texas irrigation conference seeks to promote knowledge on irrigation and water use including flood storage and power development. It aims to bring local needs before the Legislature and the state board of water engineers as Texas develops attention to the water problem.
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Texas
Austin
Texas Irrigation Conference
State Board of Water Engineers
Lort Worth
Governmental Inefficiency Cited by The Railway Age
A Georgetown Commercial note recounts a man sending 10 cents for two patent copies to the Washington patent office. After stamps were rejected, a dime was sent and the copies were labeled exhausted. The treasury then promised a three week audit for a refund, while six cents in postage plus two government actions exceed the original 10 cents. The piece warns that time-wasting inefficiency threatens national reform.
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Railway Age
Patent Office
Washington
Treasury Department
Georgetown Commercial
New York Clubmen Pledge Half Million for Belgian Relief
A group of Rocky Mountain Club members in New York pledged half the needed million for a club house, choosing to redirect funds to Belgium relief. The gathering followed Ernest Hoover's remarks, urging support to feed, heal, and sustain Belgians amid war’s devastation.
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Belgium
New York Club
Rocky Mountain Club
Ernest Hoover
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Vast Majestic bill showcases Kajiyama mind feats and film wonders
The Majestic Theatre features Tameo Kajiyama performing complex feats described as quadruple mind concentration, including writing headlines backward with both hands and solving puzzles while answering questions. The bill also stars Al and Fanny Steiman, a comic duo, and includes theater jokes and vaudeville sketches. The program highlights the Grand Opera House showing Intolerance and new Triangle-Ray Bee play Truthful Tulliver starring Hart and Alma Reubens, with Bushman in The Great Secret at Queen Theater.
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Majestic Theater
Tameo Kajiyama
Kajiyama
Minneapolis
Zimmermann
Fanny Steiman
William L. Gibson
Texas Guinan
Norvells
Burns, DeWitt and
Torrence
The
Empire Today
Tulliver
Arizona
Hart
Alma Reubens
Douglas Fairbanks
Boston National Grand Opera to Visit San Antonio This Season
The San Antonio grand opera committee brings the Boston National Grand Opera Company to the Majestic Theater this season for two performances Sunday. Puccini's Madame Butterfly is scheduled Friday afternoon with Tosca to follow that night. The engagement aims to establish San Antonio as a regular annual visiting point for about fifty major musical centers, turning the company into a national institution. Hart in Truthful Tulliver marks W. S. Hart's final appearance.
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San Antonio
Majestic Theater
Boston National Forces
Theda Bara in Her Double Life at The Pearl
The Pearl presents Theda Bara in Her Double Life the tale of a poor girl who gains wealth by fraud and impersonates a dead woman. Mary Doone, a London slum child, becomes a nurse at the front and later assumes Edith Wardiey after discovering a body with a note linking to Lady Clifford. The film follows the ensuing dramatic identity exchange.
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Theda Bara
Pearl Theater
Mary Doone
London
Lloyd Stanley
Lady Clifford
England
Edith Wardiey
Letter praising Texas football team and cavalry comparison
A reader argues that the Second Texas football team deserves more recognition and compares it to the Eleventh Cavalry, noting San Antonio pride and urging support for regular service as well as militia. Signed Charles T. Davies.
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Texas
San Antonio
Eleventh Cavalry
Charles T. Davies
Comedy of Errors at Police Station Ends with Laughs
A staged bungled vault robbery at the police station Tuesday backfired as officers closed on a frightened man. Officers Captain Welch, Sergeant Bacon, Station Officer Munster and Detective Guerra tackled the suspected intruder, who claimed he was merely trying to leave after signing papers.
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Welch
Bacon
Munster
Guerra
Inter
Ali
Harvesting Great Crop In Southwest Texas
Agricultural commissioner H M Mayo reports in San Antonio that heavy rains have greened the region and farmers expect record winter vegetables and crops in 1917. He notes high cotton prices spur larger acreage and thousands of acres of virgin soil will be planted in Southwest Texas this year.
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Texas
San Antonio
H. M. Mayo
Southern Pacific Railroad
Houston
Mayo
Southern Pacific
American shop closed in Vienna by ambassador's wife
Mrs Frederic C Penfield wife of the American ambassador closed the workshop in Vienna where for 30 months she produced millions of bandages and wound dressings at her own expense. The project received recognition from the late Emperor Francis Joseph who conferred a high order on Mrs Penfield.
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Vienna
London
Frederic C. Penfield
Francis Joseph
Proclamation Urges Socialists to Protest War
Chicago action plans mass meeting and distributes over 200000 copies urging workers to oppose war with Germany. Proclamation calls for socialist involvement and mass demonstration as a peace protest.
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Chicago
Germany
Texas Highway Bills Advance In Legislature
Texas Senate to action next week on the State Highway Commission bill and a companion measure to tap federal highway aid. House passage already secured with strong majorities. Supporters expect swift Senate approval and anticipate increased revenue from motor vehicle registrations to fund the program.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
State Highway Commission
Texas
Claude Hudspeth
el Paso
Highway Commission
House
Sarre
Valentine
Waters-Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Bee
Hudspeth
McCollum
Johnston
Harris
Texas Conservation Association
Laney
Dallas
General Revenue Fund
Bexar
Tarrant
Protests Over Jitney Limitation in San Antonio
General H A Greene files formal protest with city council opposing jitney service limits between San Antonio and Camp Wilson. He notes 140 Camp Wilson jitneys aid soldiers and would force long walks to streetcar lines. Another Jitney Owners League meeting set for Thursday night at Woodmen of the World hall to review petition signatures and plan opposition.
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San Antonio
H. A. Greene
Twelfth Provisional Division
Greene
Camp Wilson
Fine Days in Prospect
The forecast by Major Allen Buell predicts improving near spring weather for several days. He notes February 15 marks the practical end of winter, though occasional cold snaps and rare March snow show exceptions to this rule.
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Allen Buell
Texas
San Antonio
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Belshazzar
Cyrus the Great
Bushman
Francis X. Bushman
Beve2ily Bayne
Queen Theater
Mr. Bushman
East Side
William
Light
Highway Bill Paod
TV State
Olnate
Cope
Jess Baker
Allerdice
University of Exas
Agricultural & Mechanical College
State Normal Colleges
Batley
Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Caldwell
Republic of Texas
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Scurry
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General Greene
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