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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1912
Page
4
The issue notes the San Antonio Light and San Antonio Gazette merging under editors Charles Dieh Harrison and L Bell, with the paper entering postal records as a second class matter. The joint operation serves as the Evening Daily and Sunday Exclusive Leased Wire Day Res Associated Press.
The San Antonio Light reported June 1912 totals of 570 818 copies with average daily 18656 for the evening edition and 20884 for the Sunday edition. Net paid daily circulation was 17223 evening and 627 Sunday. N W Ayer & Son certified nine months to Jan 31 1912. audit deemed authoritative by advertisers.
An essay argues that contemporary life is deeply sentimental, praising Rousseau as the champion of the weak. It contends modernity propped the weak and normalized nonconformity, while liberal attitudes since the French Revolution shield the poor, raising concerns about societal impact on strength and health.
The piece notes universities and colleges now actively advertising and using press agents, shifting from dignified notices to real promotional campaigns. It argues external ideas deserve testing, praises the adoption of business methods, and predicts rapid progress in collegiate advertising.
A critic argues that fervent settlement labor corrupts with sentimentalism and discredits poverty relief. The piece insists on moving toward giving able bodied people a fair chance to work, rejecting the idea of a guaranteed living and condemning sentimentality as driving social ills.
Taft faces weak re election prospects as party leaders push a plan to have him withdraw as presidential nominee in favor of Roosevelt. They hope to leave the party in control with the colonel in power while Taft’s fate is sealed by the strategy. The move is viewed as a last resort to salvage the party’s fortunes.
The piece warns Taft against withdrawing to appease Roosevelt and party bosses. It argues Roosevelt would not honor any oath not to run, undermining Taft and harming the GOP. It predicts Taft will refuse to quit, leaving the regular nominee in doubt at the August 5 Chicago convention.
The 94 year old schooner Hiram built in Biddeford Maine in 1818 will leave Calais Maine for a Pacific voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco. Captain J A Orne has bought and fitted her for the trip restoring the original square fore sail. The voyage celebrates American shipping’s enduring craft and ties to Panama exposition.
The speaker laments changing romances, noting the old love carried one million while the new one brings two, highlighting a sharp contrast in fortune between past and present liaisons.
Moira Gerraghty attracts a coterie of academy students at Bond Street tea room. Painter Jack Mayne becomes obsessed with her, while Mrs Gerraghty seeks a hidden fortune, swapping a ruby ring for money to support Moira without her knowledge.
A wife recalls adopting a baby girl after a hopeful search in Minneapolis area shelters. A letter from a struggling mother led to a fateful meeting in June, but the infant died four weeks later. The tale closes with shock over a claim of a precious blood ruby.
A humorous poem narrates a suffragette named Lucette whose charm sways politicians and boosts support for women’s rights while she remains unable to vote. The piece notes her brief public life and ends with a wry twist that she once voted for the speaker, joking that the term is for life.
The Manufacturers' Record traces how cotton seed once waste now yields crude products worth about 7.69 million dollars by 1880 and, with oil cake meat hulls and other outputs, reaches an annual value near 145 million. It notes connections to soil enrichment, fertilisers, stock feed, lamp wicks, tires, dyes, soap and more, fueling southern packing houses and cattle raising through diversified agricultural waste utilization.
A judge quips about a new tire called the Mexican noting it rolls through innumerable revolutions without wear. The inventor explains the name reflects durability, not material origin.
A brief quotation from National Monthly pokes fun at public figures by joking about a political figure Jones and a family skeleton. The quip contrasts appearance with a hidden truth, reflecting satirical tones of the period.
In a peculiar office tale a modern Miles Standish complains his employee Miss Smart misrecords a caller’s name. After repeated spellings and stumbles the line yields a garbled string Shu Sushue seusue scum n seidens t rice bdcher, revealing a humorous miscommunication over the phone.
Samuel P. Orth, in World's Work, claims England’s socialism thrives on poverty with 30 percent below bread level. He cites a Kensington Garden anecdote and notes one in forty four in the kingdom is a pauper, and one in eleven in Ireland relies on the State for bread as towns swell with indigent city populations.
A humorous exchange unfolds when the mistress confronts her cook about a policeman at supper. The cook retorts she may have been peeking through the keyhole, prompting light banter and kitchen intrigue.
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