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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1913
Page
4
San Antonio highlights the Travis Club as a major city asset. The imposing clubhouse, inclusive policies for wives and guests, and its status as the Southwest’s largest club have enhanced the city’s prestige. A recent financing plan promises a solid, permanent, paying basis, easing fears of a possible disbandment.
The article discusses Mexico Japan relations amid disturbances in Mexico. It notes claims of a treaty granting Japan rights on Mexico's west coast and Magdalena Bay, denials by both nations, and U S Senate actions reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine. It mentions Gustavo Madero seeking exile and President Diaz placing Madero's family with the Japanese embassy amid the upheaval.
A Mexican report claims 5000 Japanese crossed into Mexico, prompting questions about motives and official reactions. Consuls Lozano and Esteva relay the matter as the U.S. is viewed unfavorably in Mexico, with potential shifting allegiances and unspecified future geopolitical moves.
World reaction to Dr Friedmann and his serum fuels debate among experts and patients. H Prescott Simpson reports from Berlin that Friedmann is not new, and warns tuberculous sufferers not to rush to Saranac Lake for relief. Debate continues with no clear verdict.
The piece praises mail voting as a means to advance equal suffrage and notes the parcel post success as a model. It cites Attorney General Wickersham’s cautious optimism and presents socialization of the postal system as a potential solution, with a reference to an extensive prior article.
The piece critiques a proposal for mail ballots controlled by postmasters with penalties for nonreturn. It argues the system would empower post offices as election authorities, reduce ceremony, and invite misuses. It questions effects on wives voting jointly, ballot spoilage, and real political impact for women.
The piece notes lingering superstition in modern life despite outward skepticism. It observes how many people privately cling to small rituals or beliefs deemed lucky or unlucky, a stubborn heritage even for the supposedly rational, with examples of common taboos and practices.
Mr. Kessler argues that beautifying Fort Worth will cost money yet yield benefits. He says progress is commendable but more work remains, noting beauty improves self respect, cleanliness, health, and social conditions, and that better living boosts citizenship.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution enables direct taxes on citizen incomes from idle capital or business profits. Delaware Wyoming and New Mexico joined thirty-eight states approving the amendment, surpassing the three-fourths threshold for final adoption per the Louisville Courier Journal.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce reports that over a billion dollars in merchandise entered ports duty-free last year. The share of non-dutiable goods increased to 64.6 percent from 49.2 percent in 1910, signaling a shift toward a broader free list alongside a nation not traditionally free trade.
Letter by Frances C. Maxey defends Mount Vernon preservation policy. It recalls 1858 founding by Ann Pamela Cunningham and the 1859 purchase, stresses entrance fees, volunteer regents, and efforts to repair buildings gardens docks and relics while seeking public sympathy and support from Congress and states.
A collection of editorials from New York and other papers weigh Governor Wilson’s opposition to the inaugural ball. They argue the ceremony is costly and unnecessary while some view a ballroom as essential to the inauguration experience and public enjoyment. A Denver obituary notes Mrs. H. B. Phillips, age 77, who raised seventeen orphans.
A ropewalker named Antonio Torelli reportedly drowns in Lake of the Four Cantons in Switzerland, but he staged his own death to avoid alimony and legal troubles. He later reappears in Germany where his wife Edith, now widow, has found him alive and wealthy in a different country estate.
Ada Patterson quotes Miss Laura Sedgwick Collins urging women to organize for opportunity. She advocates living wages, vocational training, and club activity to empower women, stressing modesty, measured speech, and parliamentary law as tools for collective progress.
Dr. John Wainwright in The American Practitioner cites improvements in modern man noting longer average life expectancy by six to seven years and praising advances in health, housing, and welfare. He argues today’s stress still accompanies outward calm and better cared for families.
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