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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1917
Page
4
The San Antonio Light announces its founding detail and publication offices, noting it combines The San Antonio Light and the San Antonio Gazette with AP wire service, and lists its post office entry and street address.
The notice lists daily and Sunday subscription prices for carrier and mail delivery including regional rates for Mexico. It also urges readers to provide old and new addresses for changes and gives contact numbers. The piece then presents six month circulation figures for September 30 1916 and notes validation by the Audit Bureau of Circulation with a claim of higher paid circulation in San Antonio.
The piece denounces Count Reventlow for accusing Ambassador Gerard of betraying British interests over Casement. It questions the plausibility of German claims, defends Gerard's neutrality, and challenges the source's proof while urging transparency from German papers.
The article recalls Joseph Weldon Bailey advising Texas and Standard Oil to revise a charter, then performing the revision as attorney. It labels the Bailey Stanford Oil affair a discreditable page in Texas politics and finance, blaming both Bailey and state officials, and notes rising suspicion of corporations after the incident.
The article argues there is a food corner in wartime markets with profiteering by speculators and disrupted freight. It notes rising prices, questions about production, exports, storage, and demands immediate legislative relief to prevent further harm to American consumers. It warns of possible national fasting if food has been sent abroad.
The article argues that after the Civil War hunger is not limited to slums but felt nationwide. It asserts the present food problem demands swift government action to satisfy a hungry public and to prevent political losses for the Democratic party. It warns that agitation will rise if relief is delayed.
A bill is introduced to amend the anti pass law allowing railroads to provide passes to legislators. If amended to grant current lawmakers passes for home use only, with no return trip and a maximum ten days, public support is urged.
American relief commission officials state Belgium has a six weeks food supply ready for distribution, easing immediate starvation fears though six weeks without relief would still cause concern outside active war zones.
A New York traction magazine laments jitney buses as a failure yet notes they sharpen street car workers’ sight to boarding passengers. It also claims seating capacity appears to have increased mysteriously.
San Antonio police hunt a single bandit who robbed the Katy station agent at San Marcos. The thief reportedly spoke with refined manners and carried a silk sack for money. He may be an existing San Antonio resident and was said to wear a purple striped shirt.
A New York man advertises a book claiming to show how to end the war for a nickel. Buyers are told they must supply $1000 in cash and a small farm for each soldier, a bargain he asserts brings all the wisdom needed.
Beaumont Enterprise reports a call for a strict blue law in Texas to curb profane music secular lectures and motion pictures on Sundays. The proposal seeks strong enforcement to keep the Sabbath holy.
The Austin American notes there is little fear of German submarines slipping into Atlantic harbors. Tourists and fishermen along the coast can detect a submarine from twenty miles out, even if none is present.
A Beaumont Enterprise editorial asserts Texas could feed itself even if the rest of the world vanished, stressing self-sufficiency and prudent governance by Texans. It argues the state would not starve and would prosper regardless of global events.
The Utica Observer notes that recruiting surges when war seems likely, with young men flocking to naval stations seeking action and employment, while otherwise recruitment languishes. The piece reflects a national trend of rising military staffing tied to perceived conflict.
The New York World reports Cuban rebels faced a setback when Secretary Lan sing said the United States would not recognize them even if they triumphed by violence. The comment hints at eventual legitimacy for the rebel movement.
The Marshall Messenger notes New York has discovered many school teachers are aliens not yet naturalized. They are to Americanize foreign children yet have not taken citizenship. It asks if this occurs in other cities and suggests the chances are high.
A New York Centrerischaft column argues that taxing excess profits in wartime Europe endangers industrial growth. It contends profit retention fuels working capital, expansion, and employment, warning Congress aims to drain 226 million dollars annually and risks stifling economic progress.
Julian Eltinge stars in the new musical comedy Cousin Lucy at the Grandyee House tonight and Tuesday. The show, by Charles Klein, features mirth music fashion and dancing with Eltinge in a dual role surrounded by a top cast and a beauty chorus.
Ralph Dunbar's Maryland Singers co headlining with Clarence Oliver and Georgie Olp open at the Majestic Wednesday matinee. The bill features four soloist women and a young male instrumentalist. Acts include On Broadway skit by McKay Ardine, Antiseptic Love by Duffy Lorenzo, plus Japanese duo the Three Kitaro Brothers and Rosita Mantilla with Cahill.
The seat sale for Thomas H. Ince's Civiliza tion, billed as his greatest production, opens this morning at the Grand Opera House. Performances start Wednesday with a 2:30 matinee daily and run for six days, amid speculation that the great Ince work may prove a landmark in film history.
The article notes Thomas H. Ince spent $1,000,000 on Civilization to protest war. It shows peace then war then peace, with battles and destroyed ships and cities to reveal war's horrors. The Nazarene introduction earns clergy praise, and an augmented orchestra provides special music.
Illness of Emma Bunting cancels The Three of Us at the Majestic Theater. The three act drama was fully rehearsed but will not be performed today and tomorrow, leaving the theater dark for two days.
Elinor Glyn's One Day arrives at the Queen Theater for Wednesday and Thursday. Jeanne Iver plays Opal queen of Veseria with Victor Sutherland as Paul. The drama features a rainstorm and an aboard sinking liner fight plus a mob overthrow of a king. This marks its city premiere.
Sessue Hayakawa, famed Japanese actor, appears today and tomorrow at the Empire in Bach to His Kind portraying an East Indian prince. He explains the challenge of shedding national traits to convincingly play an Indian character, aided by costume and makeup.
The speaker notes how wearing a certain costume elicits specific characteristics and mannerisms, and observes that seeing themselves as East Indian allows them to set aside much of their Japanese training. This contrast highlights cultural identity tensions and personal perception in cross-cultural contexts.
The American freighter Orleans entered the Gironde mouth and will dock tomorrow morning. It and the Rochester were the first U.S. ships to depart for Europe after Germany severed relations, sailing February 11 from New York with non-contraband cargo including canned fruits meats machinery and motor trucks. The Orleans is 2080 gross tons with a crew of thirty five, 32 Americans including Captain Allen Tucker aboard.
A lighted cigarette through sidewalk grates near 217 East Houston sparked rubbish fires in a basement. Firemen contained the blaze. Another trash fire near Soledad Street skating rink was put out by Emil Day, police emergency chauffeur. Later fires at 226 San Pedro Avenue and 113 Wyoming Street caused about 60 and 150 dollars in damage respectively.
In a humorous anecdote Mr Wood encounters two large moving vans parked before the home of Mr Morse. Morse, grimy and ill tempered, declares he is not moving but merely taking his furniture out for a ride, prompting Wood to ask if they are moving.
Four year old Edward showed quick courage then ran home when confronted by a strange dog in a vacant lot near his residence. He later quipped about how fast he could run, reflecting a child’s mix of fear and bravery. Source: Harper's Magazine.
Adolf Von Bato Li, head of Germanys food regulation board, told the Reichstag committee that potato prices for the year would be five marks per hundredweight nationwide, six marks in the west and south. He warned scarce stocks require careful management and banned bread corn used for fodder. He stressed milk for children and maintaining milk cow stocks, while meat supplies could not be increased.
The Minneapolis Journal reports Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston may become the University of Minnesota's next president, with regents' committee already canvassing options. Houston, ex chancellor of Washington University and former president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, would be the first southern-born leader in the role if chosen. Jed B. Snyder, regents president, said no definite action has been taken yet.
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