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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1913
Page
6
San Antonio Light and The San Antonio Gazette comprise the Evening Daily and Sunday Morning editions. Exclusive Associated Press day report service. Entered at San Antonio post office as second class matter. s 50 6.00
A Times editorial denounces U S efforts to shield citizens in Mexico as weak and reactive. It cites failed State Department diplomacy, warns Mexicans view the United States as unable to enforce protections, and notes talk of sending a warship to Vera Cruz amid worsening border conditions.
The Chamber of Commerce declares it will not interfere with local charity work yet urges a one week drive to fund the Charities Fund Association. Critics say the move usurps no prior power and may fail without sustained committee support for collection and oversight.
The excerpt questions the current Department of State's guidance for Americans in Mexico, suggesting it urges evacuation over protection. It notes the country's calm state and asserts a warship will only disturb water as it travels to Vera Cruz and back, implying limited impact on Americans during the tenure of the present administration.
Erin go bragh frames editorial note as Gladstone O Connell and Parnell are cited. After more than fifty years of effort the Irish home rule bill passes its third reading in the House of Commons by 367 to 257 and moves to the House of Lords. The piece notes that passage in the Commons is not ultimate joy nor doom depending on Lords, and outlines the parliamentary path to potential enactment. The article emphasizes a favorable combination of circumstances under a Parliament act that could secure law after two successive Commons passes following Lords rejection, with royal assent pending.
The essay argues the tin can defines 1913 era from canned food to canned culture. It urges that canned literature music drama and even government shape daily life, replacing older ideals with efficiency and mass production as it notes farmers and society adapt to canned goods, art, matrimony, and governance.
The House of Commons supports Irish self government by a majority of 110. Irish Nationalists gain control as Gladstone’s long forecast nears fulfillment, with a potential two more years before law. Erin go bragh.
A midnight tale follows police sergeant Quiault who plans a single handcuffed capture of Beau Blond with his wife Maria. The sting backfires as the pair double cross him and a gang overpowers him. By dawn Quiault lies fatally wounded in the moat.
Harper's Weekly explains that the earth's crust buckles under celestial pull and tidal forces. High tide draws shores like the Irish and English coasts closer as water mass sinks the bed slightly. Valleys also widen with heat and contract at night through natural expansion and contraction.
The Kansas City Star notes Governor Osborn of Michigan remains elusive during the campaign with unclear whereabouts and ongoing confusion about his location and timetable.
Governor Colquitt urges the Legislature to reform the tax system citing 245 assessors and uneven land valuations. He proposes closing saloons at 9:30 PM and ending the county and state officer fee system. The message, around forty thousand words, urges harmonious effort to enact San Antonio platform pledges.
A survey of 19th and early 20th century textile experiments notes robes of spun glass in white green lilac pink and yellow from an Australian inventor. It also covers fiber from Siberian stone wool lime stone wool iron cloth from steel wool and fabrics woven from old ropes paper clothes worn by Japanese troops and widely produced in Europe.
Chicago Post reports that William Rockefeller is not well, with physicians advising to take guidance from medical experts amid ongoing political scrutiny.
A street disturbance in Houston and Losoya streets ends with a crowd reacting to a crippled man in a crutch being taunted. A bystander yells for the “gink” who hurt him, and the crutch fail leads to a mockery of the injured individual amid the bustle.
The Sun offers vast power on a single square acre if captured as a perfect heat engine. Estimates vary, but experts agree the energy could rival thousands of horses, driving engines for millions of years and powering wind, tides, and fuels.
An odd dispatch notes gratitude toward the French war office for digging up Paty de Clam and keeping people from dying of ennui amid a world amused by entertainments.
Fragmentary text criticizes warnings to a presiding figure and cites Boston Herald style with uncertain quotation marks and phrasing none of which forms a coherent event or named entities. The readable bits hint at political commentary rather than a concrete incident or date.
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