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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1921
Page
4
A Tokio Yokohama American Legion report cites monthly living costs for single men at 275 to 301 dollars and for married men 541 to 666 dollars, stating these salaries leave no room for savings. It notes servants are needed and inefficient, and few foresee major price changes this year.
The early brief reports on England's coal miners strike shifted as details emerged. The government aims to subsidize miners with a 10 million pound grant, sparing owners but keeping wages restrained, a move seen as a miners’ gain in protection yet a broader concession to public burden and industrial peace.
Mark Sullivan, a noted political writer, suggested that the public’s enthusiasm for a president tends to decline after taking office. The assertion, while possibly lacking great significance, reflects a common dynamic in campaigns and presidencies as time passes and initial support wanes.
Distrust spreads among former wartime allies as Britain eyes an Anglo Japanese pact and the United States weighs disarmament. Nations hesitate, fearing naval and military edge shifts, while Japan hints at disarmament if Washington leads. The piece argues unity and mutual restraint or collapse into arms race.
The article contrasts Detroit lowering streetcar fares to five cents with transfers for one cent, predicting about $1,000,000 yearly savings for riders and a net monthly profit of around $200,000 for the company. It notes reduced fuel costs and overhead since a prior promise of lower fares, and questions San Antonio’s eight-cent fare while predicting political consequences and broader news items including Babe Ruth and German indemnities.
A fragmentary anthology verse piece recalls Theocritus and Wilde musing on Sicily and memory. It blends lines about Persephone and Polypheme with imagery of sea, youth, and distant shores, interspersed with musings from Alice Brown on exile and longing.
In a tense scene Bartley questions the narrator after he is knocked out by a heavy inkstand in the library. They retrace events, noting two men likely searched the room for a hidden purse or money while the intruders fled. A lighted hall, a door latch, and a college youth’s room up the hall raise fresh questions.
A Mexico City report notes many Indians and Yaqui soldiers show flat feet yet cover long distances quickly. It describes barefoot marching, rapid travel with heavy packs, and the ability to trek twelve to fifteen miles in hours without fatigue. The piece contrasts army doctors' flat feet myths with native mobility observed near Toluca.
Lima Peru government house burns destroying northwest wing and records in a fire this afternoon. Norma Talmadge Ginny Blood Pola Negri The Passion Flower Tom Mix So Much Speed Wallace Reid in So Much Speed Grand Pictures era noted.
A fragmented comic scene opens with a dance pair, a tense pause, and a humorous exchange ending with a brutal policeman pulling away a man from a lamppost. A trio on a late Irish train teases Cork, then Miss Alice Paul speaks on feminism while witty exchanges about finances and extravagance follow.
Seguin Texas July 4 stockholders of the Seguin Bonded Warehouse Company elected W. J. Blanks John Werbald F H J Koepsel William Batter and Max Werner as directors for the ensuing year. The directors will hold another meeting soon to elect officers for the company.
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