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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1913
Page
4
J F Carter Jr of the San Antonio Chamber urges city run public markets to unite producers and consumers, cut middlemen, and import produce as needed. He envisions market masters coordinating seasonal supplies across cities to reduce waste and lower prices.
A critique of market practices shows traders exploiting waste and driving up prices. The author argues that the market serves profit takers, with no valid justification for such a system.
An opinion piece warns red hair may be gone forever if not preserved. A Chicago court case against a hair tonic maker ends with a ruinous verdict after failed attempts to restore Kate Houlihan's red hair. Separately, Massachusetts lawmakers hear aviators urge limits on flights over populated areas to safeguard life and property.
The Massachusetts legislature considers a bill to regulate aviation with licensing, aircraft registration, and preflight inspection requirements. The move aims to protect pedestrians and property as air travel becomes common beyond early exhibitions and parks. The measure reflects aviation's growing ubiquity and the need for state police power to govern flight.
An editorial contrasts Yale University allocating six thousand dollars yearly to its head football coach with William Howard Taft stepping into a university post after presidency. It notes salaries, duties, and the differing demands of coaching and academe while wishing both men success and duty fulfilled.
The Utica Observer notes Chicago master barbers urge Illinois lawmakers to ban tipping in barber shops. Extending the ban to all tips could gain broader support, arguing that gratuities prompt better service or cost inflation.
Governor Wilson declares honest business and honest men have nothing to fear from seven anti trust bills. He says honesty and honest interests nationwide confirm the measures as protections, preferring them on statute books to off them.
The St Louis Times reflects on Taft as an outgoing president, calling him the most whipped leader of the Republican party yet noting his achievements. It argues there is virtue in fickleness not visible to the naked eye as the country bids farewell to a capable and estimable president.
A Toledo Blade reader note on melodrama outlines that virtue triumphs and the innocent suffer silently while audiences hate villains as in classic melodrama. The critique contrasts crowd sentiment with the fates of crooked characters in such plays or films.
In Pillbury's Corn Exchange a peg shortage sparks a quarrel among touring players from The Lures of London. Young Wilson loses his peg to Charteris before Stanley steps in, diffusing tension. Years later Wilson reappears as Frank Fotheringham, now wealthy, securing Wilson a lead heavy role at Eldorado.
In a letter to The Light, a reader opposing Emil Locke's plan for a towering monument at Alamo plaza argues the Alamo is Texas history’s centerpiece and warns a huge tower would ruin the plaza’s sightlines. The writer suggests relocating the monument to higher ground outside Dallas and urges more plazas for a hot climate city.
The New York World argues that progress depends on慎慎 taking the initial action in intervention and revolutions, praising President Taft for not rushing the first move.
A compact note reflects on past Mexican conflicts, mentioning Montezuma Santa Ana and Diaz as figures from a historical era of fighting. It frames warfare as a national trait and raises a reflective question about what motivated those struggles.
A tense exchange unfolds as Fotheringham signals the wall to disclose a plan with “Pegs.” Stanley reacts with surprise and curiosity, asking why this is being done and noting the odd allowance of fifty dollars a week and matinee pay. The fragment ends with a whispered line.
The piece argues for valuing enduring civic virtues over relics at the Alamo, aligning Texans with Greek valor and Pericles. It emphasizes that the true Alamo endures in living resolves, self reliance, courage, and love of country, not in stone or bronze.
The Christian Herald reports a record U S cotton crop of 15,692,701 bales excluding linters, with government estimates near 12,820,000 and potential totals over 14 million. At 500 pounds per bale, output nears seven billion pounds, valuing the crop between 850 and 875 million dollars, plus 135 million from cotton seed.
The article explains lightning’s power to burn buildings and harm people, notes its tendency to follow hot air, and warns against wooden or unsafe connections. It urges proper lightning rods with deep grounding and multiple prongs, and advises not to use telephones or electrical lines during storms. It ends with a local quip about John Barrett.
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