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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
6
The city faces a bitter choice over a charter provision that could enable a political machine. Mayor A H Jones denies plans for one and proposes a recall provision and a board voting mechanism to share appointments between mayor and commissioners.
The present winter has been unusually mild and agreeable from the South to the North. Nature appears to apologize for last year's harsh season, when San Antonio endured its worst winter in two decades and the North marked it as the most severe sea- son on record.
The piece muses on an uncertain late winter with scattered hints of warmth. It notes reports from Connecticut of early greenery and geese seen north, plus New England fishermen and local tales, yet warns such signs may be unreliable and winter could persist. It also critiques stage morality and public fascination with celebrity life.
The New York Review argues chorus girls now include many from good families and are well educated, with talent often leading to advancement. It notes the vast change in Broadway choruses and questions what happens to the many who never become stars, estimating sixty failures for every success.
A newspaper column argues rogues galleries invade private lives and question their usefulness. It notes criminals prefer anonymity and highlights missing mug shots of Becker Hyde Cummings Reichman while an aldermanic committee probes police practices.
A Parisian inventor proposes small rotating houses in the countryside for invalids to provide variety in light air and scenery. He notes a prior Normandy revolving house where sliding boards failed, opening like a fan and trapping a resident, who then had the house torn down.
The Memphis News-Scimitar discusses a shift from imprisoning offenders to employing them in productive labor. The aim is to reduce economic waste by having convicts earn support for their families while serving their sentences.
Professor James Hyslop reports another message from the late William James describing a poltergeist that throws razors and scissors and hides matches where they could ignite. The warning centers on the fiendish acts of the spirit, with a remark that the poltergeist may be protesting the whole enterprise as an honest ghost.
A lone trapper stalks through the frozen woods as a glutton, a fearsome sable killer, stalks and destroys traps. Wolves rally, a lynx watches, and dawn brings sleigh bells as the trapper returns to dispose of the predator. The glutton dies at last under the trapper s attentive aim.
A visiting tourist sulks in a hotel lobby praising gloomy skies then awakens to sunshine. He steps outside, feels brisk air and ozone, and declares the town the greatest place on earth as he contemplates spending winters there.
A London ghost story told by a skeptical narrator recounting a midnight singing event in an old haunted house. The narrator, a writer and friend of a famous author, hears foreign sounding singing that seems to fill rooms and lingers as they search for the singer in nearby chambers.
In a Washington Post feature, Helen Gould rehearses her wedding while sister Anna declines the same duty, highlighting family roles and preparations for a high society ceremony.
British author Mrs. Deborah G. Millar visits New York with husband Fred Millar to observe American life from the bottom up. She notes Americans value independence in education and work, and says American women make the best husbands while discussing divorce and restaurant life.
Dyaks of Borneo prize truthfulness and condemn deceit with a ritual that memorializes a great liar. A tugong bula pile of branches is built by the deceived at conspicuous spots and by passersby to warn future generations. The ritual is a sacred duty, believed to invite supernatural punishment for omissions.
The Chicago Herald notes doctors lay aside instruments after a successful operation on Europe's ailing figure, symbolizing relief despite a patient’s death.
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