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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1916
Page
4
The piece traces the fall of French military dress and facial hair as modern warfare demands efficiency. It discusses the shift from red trousers and kepi to steel helmets, the persistence of beards, and surgeon warnings about grooming as a health factor amid intensifying conflict.
Dr John Grier Hibben spoke at a San Antonio luncheon praising national preparedness. His epigrammatic address warned I fear not militarism but the spirit of commercialism. He urged publics to balance defense with ethical aims amid wartime anxieties.
The author muses on human finiteness amid nature's vast power, citing Lovat Fraser on World War I as a measure of barbarism and the limits of kings. He links global events to ancient migrations, imagining glacial shifts and barriers that shaped early human dispersal toward the east and west.
The Beaumont Journal reports a plan by the Department of Agriculture and state colleges to train southern girls through a four year program. Starting with one crop and a tenth acre of tomatoes the course adds new crops each year and expands to winter gardens glass frames and finally perennial small fruit orchards. By high school or college age a girl will have a workable perennial fruit garden cared for by family members.
The Louisville Times argues Mr Wilson rejects a large standing army, proposing under 150,000 regulars and 400,000 citizen volunteers while backing a navy as first line defense. It warns US aims to dominate world trade and uphold the Monroe Doctrine, urging persuasion across regions to meet this duty.
The Texas Industrial Congress announces another 10000 prize program for the best crops in Texas. Led by R W Kirkpatrick and Jane W Barrickman, the effort, started by Henry Exall, seeks broad support from all Texans as a major economic venture for the state.
The volunteer naval advisory board seeks a new laboratory costing 1.4 million dollars. Edison prepared the plans and offers to finalize construction details at his own expense if Congress funds the project. No government cost is incurred yet. Reports from the Orange Leader.
The Detroit News reports a federal probe into the Eastland tragedy shifts to examining those who defended the ship. Expert testimony calls Eastland an excellent boat yet cranky in certain conditions, capable of capsizing at a wharf if water depth allows, raising questions about resuming excursion trips.
Errington contemplates leaving his wife Violet to join the front, believing duty dictates service. Violet writes a blunt, final letter confessing her unhappiness and confessing another romance, urging him not to remarry after divorce.
The article advises simple dress for children, warning against overdressing. Recommends white batiste linen or voile, minimal trimming, and tasteful lace. Describes a dainty white frock with long waisted effect, short skirt, silk hose, and patent leather slippers with a satin pink sash.
A bas ement scare at the San Antonio Drug Company caused workers to panic when a young woman saw what she thought was a hanging body. The janitor, adjusting an electric light from a ladder, was mistaken for suicide but the scene proved a misunderstanding.
In a moonlit tale, Tiny Tim the Gnome finds a skating pond meant for Rollo the dog. A troop of gnomes skates on the smooth ice, Tiny Tim performs a figure eight, and Rollo guards them until dawn. The next morning the dog snoozes through breakfast, with scratches on his frozen water dish hinting at the night’s mischief.
A Milwaukee Journal piece argues that higher living costs come largely from rising demand for comforts and luxuries. It notes plumbing, lighting, phonographs, streetcars, magazines, and department-store goods now figure in family budgets, while modern living also delivers greater services and value.
The piece argues pellagra origin is debated but public health ideas are sound. It predicts doctors shifting to diet based treatment, orange juice or lettuce replacing drugs, and education on fats proteins and carbs. It laments sugar and pie crust as major harms and envisions a food driven medical future.
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