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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1912
Page
4
Charles 8 Diehl and Harrison L Beach are named as editors and publishers in the publication's masthead.
A defense of courteous theater etiquette urges audience members to avoid boasting about New York show experiences, spoiling plots, talking loudly during performances, chewing gum noisily, and arriving late. It argues these habits disrupt others and harm theBox Office, urging restraint and consideration for fellow patrons.
A guidance on good theater etiquette urges patrons to wait for curtain, avoid noise, and not obstruct others view. It reminds revenue and effort behind the show, and that rights end where others begin. It emphasizes consideration for fellow attendees who sacrifice for a seat.
The piece contrasts San Antonio’s Saturday night open shops with debates on closing times and customer rights, then shifts to St Moritz where touring locals clash with social authorities over bob sled coasting stance. It notes Lord Carbery’s flat-sled experiment, resistance from officials, and wary tourists.
A social quarrel erupts at St Moritz Switzerland as a new character stirs among visitors over a sport deprived by climate. The San Antonio angle is minimal yet the social tableaux mirror the broader Tripoli conflict in tone and intrigue.
The British “nut” replaces the behoy as a fashionable type in London a cockney figure seen as the ultimate blase man. He seeks externals and hides insecurity behind vanity. when alone he is lonely even with a companion. The term gains notice from London Opinion and will cross the Atlantic soon.
The United States flag is among the youngest nations yet boasts the oldest flag form adopted in 1777 with stars added as states joined the union. Britain calls their ensign a centuries old emblem, while the Union’s current version dates to 1801.
The New Orleans Item notes the nation needs Roosevelt, though hard times push up prices and force sacrifices on many necessities.
Edgar Larkin explains self regulation of arc lamps by a magnetic apparatus that adjusts carbon distance without a clock. He discusses light pressure as a measurable fact and explores light without heat in nebulae, electrons in gas, and near absolute zero with liquid helium enabling superconductivity. He clarifies magnets lifting cold ingots, not hot ones, in foundries.
Westminster Gazette notes in the Revue that French Protestants are shrinking to about 700,000. Lutherans fall to 80,000 from 1870s figures. Calvinists remain the largest group at over 500,000 but decline. Political influence remains strong due to wealth and education, prompting predictions of Protestantism fading.
The British Law Journal asserts the word obey cannot be omitted in marriage rites when church ceremonies demand sanctity. It notes that wives objecting to obey are reminded of a privilege, as acts in the husband’s presence are presumed under compulsion, making the wife his innocent instrument.
A Paris paper muses on royal attitudes to photography. Belgium's late King Leopold prefixed his camera avoidance with glare and hat shielding while Queen Alexandra and King Edward welcomed it if not hindered. The Spanish queen, initially wary, allowed a persistent photographer after hearing his plain reply that he needs photos for daily bread.
Pittsburg has completed a fine new hospital covering four acres and able to house 500 patients. It includes every modern convenience and outside rooms for each patient, representing an investment surpassing $1,000,000. The note adds that mill safety appliances have recently reduced hospital demand.
The article traces February from antiquated calendars to the Julian reform, noting its 28 days in common years and 30 every four years, and explains why August gained a leap day while February kept the rest. It highlights February customs Candlemas and St. Valentine’s Day, and links groundhog day to European soil.
The paper states that all letters intended for publication must be signed by the writer and that anonymous communications will be ignored. It notes that publication does not imply the publishers endorse the views expressed.
A San Antonio subscriber urges readers to support a public vote on rebuilding the Alamo convent building. The letter argues a flowered park with a monument would honor the site more than the 1912 edifice and calls for collective action with the Daughters to influence the decision.
The article remarks on St Valentine day superstitions, mentions the great horned owl in observances, and reports solar movements for February. It notes days lengthening by 51 minutes by month start and 1 hour 58 minutes by the 29th, with February warmer than January in New York and the sun rising higher about nineteen times the sun’s diameter, while being about a quarter hour slow to reach the moon mark after twelve.
Secretary Stimson estimates concentrating forces at select army posts would cost about 35 million dollars and abolishing the rest could be funded by selling unneeded real estate. The move would improve efficiency without new expenditure and save about 5 million annually, per World’s Work March.
Two European explorers perished amid Tibetan terrain while tracing the Brahmaputra. A punitive British expedition planned to accompany scientists who aim to resolve the river’s source mystery and settle the long standing geographic question.
After Marathon, King Xerxes invades Greece with vast forces. At Thermopylae Leonidas and 300 Spartans hold the pass with 700 Thespians. A Greek traitor reveals a path to the rear. Leonidas and his men die fighting. only one of the thousand who stayed survives.
The Denver Republican notes that Alaska cost only 7,000,000 yet muckrakers have written many times that amount about the territory in the recent years.
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