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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1912
Page
4
The piece argues General Ainsworth avoided a court martial due to his long hold over Pentagon and pension office secrets. It contends his influence shields him from scrutiny while noting the broader harm to the army and government. It ends by denying any exoneration.
The biography by G B S professor Henderson is a 500 page portly volume lavishly illustrated and annotated with facsimiles and a family tree. Critics have their own opinions and have begun airing them, while the author promises an appendix in a separate volume.
A harsh critique paints Mr Shaw as socially isolated and morally lax. The piece mocks his temperament, upbringing, patriotism, religious feeling, and vegetarianism while suggesting a professional evaluation by a pathologist. It likens him to a prototypical pessimistic character study and mocks packers for their indulgent lifestyle.
A historical article describes Armours beef trust inquiry with telegrams from Lee and Meyer. Recalled messages show attempts to raise meat prices by fifteen cents, highlighting corporate tactics and public impact amid ongoing investigations.
Washington watchers weigh Taft stance on arbitration as Colombia seeks The Hague as Panama Canal dispute looms. The column questions whether paying 100 million in damages aids or hurts U S leadership and global arbitration credibility.
The New York Herald discusses Baron Saito's warning that Japan will expand its navy to eight battleships and eight cruisers before 1920. It notes democratic opposition in the U S House to new battleship funding and warns that Japan could outpace the United States by the opening of the Panama Canal. The piece urges prudent, seasonable receptivity to the warning from Tokio.
Medill McCormick declares insurgents aim “Anything to beat Taft” in a Pittsburgh Gazette Times report.
An Anaconda Standard note humorously questions why Archie is needed as a substitute for President Taft, suggesting the occasion ally must hire a stand-in. The fleeting quip reflects light political chatter of the era.
The survey by W T Stead lists 150 contenders for the greatest men in history selected from thirty contributors. Shakespeare tops with 23 votes, followed by Columbus, Gutenberg, Newton, Julius Caesar, Darwin, Dante, Stephenson, Michael Angelo, Franklin, Watt and Abraham Lincoln among others with varied counts. The analysis notes an English speaking predominance and notes national contributions across Italy Greece Germany France Jews and others.
The question asks if endless space was created by a mind, but the answer notes the human brain cannot conceive space or the full meaning of create. It argues that only mind can create by envisioning something new, since no object appears without a preceding thought.
The passage argues that atoms are invisible even to the most powerful energy microscopes and explains how high speed electrons, when released and directed at a platinum or platino cyanide surface, produce bright flashes upon impact, allowing indirect study. It cites Rutherford, Thomson and Millikan.
A poem fragment reflects on spring imagery and longing with lines about a migrant bird, violet petals, and love that lingers beyond hopes and fears. The verse evokes seasonal renewal and cherished memory within a literary vignette tied to Ainslee's magazine featuring Alice Corey in March.
A historic claim asserts that by dampening isolation and precise electrical units from world congresses and fairs, along with force laws and advanced mathematics, the mass and dimensions of a single electron were determined. It states electrons are shaped by electricity and, in effect, are entirely electricity rather than mass.
The scale in daily use for weighing planets moons and suns is a specific speed of 32.2 feet per second acquired by a body falling during one second of time.
Arkansas produces coal and silver and galena slate and oil stones and clay of every description.
Observant Citizen Lloyd Spencer recalls a moment in Dallas where health officials led by Secretary Casey visited a shack under quarantine for meningitis. A local mammy questioned removing the green sign, and Casey ultimately left without taking it down.
The London Times recalls how a grasshopper statue tops the Royal Exchange built by Sir Thomas Gresham during Elizabeth I’s reign. It notes the Gresham family’s fondness for grasshoppers as a crest and tells a rough origin tale of the founder born in Gresham village, to a mother who abandoned him, saved by a grasshopper and an old woman.
The Big Ben clock in London’s Westminster Tower, installed in 1858 at a cost of 110000 dollars, features a great bell hung by 1600 feet of chain. The bell weighs over thirteen tons and the hour hammer weighs 450 pounds. two men wind it in five hours. The clock faces are 23 feet across and the minute hand moves half a foot with each tick.
The article notes a 1700 B.C. papyrus with a long title about knowing the dark things and shows Egyptian arithmetic knowledge. It cites problems on division and proportion, seven cats and seven rats, circle area, circle quadrature, and pyramid volume, illustrating early mathematical concepts.
England’s 800 light houses guard ships around the British isles as silent sentinels of the sea. One hundred years ago there were only twenty five with weak illumination. Now some vessels shine with up to 30 million candle power and are visible for a hundred miles under proper conditions.
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes Senator LaFollette may be resting to prepare for the 1916 campaign.
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