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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1918
Page
2
Fragmentary obituary note mentions the founder of the San Antonio Light and references his demise. The readable text is incomplete, but indicates a historical figure connected to the paper’s origins and suggests a commemorative notice without full details.
An Austin dispatch alleges Prohibitionists, led by San Antonio activists, push statewide ban while cloaking motives in patriotism. It criticizes sidelining state needs, accuses campaigns of defamation, and urges practical war‑era policy over endless prohibition tactics. The piece also questions army pay rulings and the need for properly selected army chaplains.
An army officer at a desk in Washington earns more than a same rank officer with troops. The piece argues this pay gap arises from living allowance rules and duty location, noting officers with troops do not receive housing benefits. It highlights the harsher costs faced by field officers versus desk-bound peers.
An opinion argues that opposition to government ownership or control rests on faulty assumptions about personnel changes. It contends many railroad workers would stay in place under civil service, with only policy directions altered, and asserts competent government planners could match private managers in effectiveness.
Churches urge Congress to require at least one chaplain per 1200 service members across the army navy and marine corps. Secretary Baker supports extending the plan to the navy and marine corps noting chaplains are overworked and unable to meet religious needs. Congress made changes to regulations that previously linked chaplains to regiments.
A San Antonio observer mocks the national food commission for hints of universal ration cards. He questions punishing the 95 percent who conserve food for the 5 percent who do not, urging targeted action rather than broad mandates to aid the war effort. The piece suggests officials issue only necessary measures.
Fragmentary text shows wartime chatter about logistics and morale. References to San Antonio collecting items, faxes, and jokes about soldiers being served drinks at private homes. Mentions Germans dropping a tent into American trenches and hints at teaching new tactics.
Canada's Hefent Hermrt Co Hoover faced a Senate committee over claims that shipments of sugar to Canada aided by pro German influence helped endanger wartime U.S. supply. The testimony urged Canadians to unite in war economy and oppose actions aligned with the former Belgian Belief Commission.
A trustworthy Scandinavian source questions The Stace about conditions in Germany. It notes worsening economic competition, coal and coke shortages, and delayed relief from imports. The piece warns against assuming German resilience and cautions that Allied superiority could still prevail.
A review notes Richard Walton Pully’s The Bird of Paradise shows Hawaiians customs and a romance in a colonial setting. The cast features Jolva Wodler and Celese Rewddor with Tes agthos as beach-comber and Luann as Luann, and the mix includes opera numbers, sketches, and a comedy.
A week of vaudeville and feature pictures at the Royal Theater includes Claudia Cofeman, Vera Clark, and The Younger set, with The Younger are artletic posers and Bal cheers. The program features The Ages of Mystery, The Dream of the Orient, and Just a Little Off the Top, plus a musical-spectacle with Madan Makarenko and Oriental Girls. The Whitte Sisters perform as aerial artists, and Alice Teddy stars in Ince photoplay Thast Who Pay, with other acts from Goldwerk, Wayhs, and Nicholson Donley Merril.
Douglas Pairbanks stars in Reaching for the Moon at Empire Theater as a tense action spectacle with a band of Italian conspirators aiming to assassinate Malr banks amid palace wreckage. Bull Montana leads the gang, while rival features The Bad Son and They're Us play at Peary Theater with melodrama and sensational tricks.
A jumbled correspondent piece from Warrengbur Journal discusses a potato patty idea and rural idle labor. Editor Bape questions the notion while referencing athletic parks, natutes, and local fence corners. The text is garbled with stray names and unclear references.
The piece honors Mrs. Melvis A. Walker of Osborne and Peabody, highlighting her life as a devoted mother amid hardship. It recalls her widowhood, the growth of her three children, and the enduring memories of Christmases and home life. The tribute, published by Gerton Walker’s department, portrays a life of sacrifice, faith, and affection that shaped a family in the Kansas community.
A garbled, highly misspelled OCR passage mixes antiwar sentiment with references to Hoover, German peril, red scare talk, and global figures. It jumbles fears of blockade, censorship, and public discontent with disjointed notes about pacifism, defense, and political figures. The piece reads as a collage of quotes, misrendered names, and stray phrases from a turbulent wartime period.
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