San Antonio Light subscription rates and address notice
The San Antonio Light provides daily and Sunday carrier and mail rates for various terms, including Mexico, plus delivery change procedures. It lists contact addresses in San Antonio and offices in New York, Chicago, Boston, and Detroit with subscription details.
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Mexico
Eanday
Crockett
San Antonio
United States
New York
Paul Block, Inc
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Peaul Block, Inc
Masters
Boston
Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Bids
Detroit
Kresge Bldg
San Antonio Light Circulation Figures For Six Months Ended March 31 1917
The San Antonio Light reports a six month daily average circulation of 20 709 copies and a Sunday edition average of 24 300. Net paid daily average 19 779 and Sunday 22 378 after deductions. Audit Bureau certification underpins advertiser confidence and claims 50 percent higher paid home circulation in San Antonio than any rival.
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The
San Antonio Light
Audit Bureau of Circulation
United States
Canada
America
Europe
San Antonio
Two Anarchists Berthed in Prison Face Two Year Sentences
The piece notes Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman consecutive two year sentences in Atlanta and Jefferson City for conspiring to obstruct the draft. It contrasts their past martyrimage with their present lack of dramatic drama as the nation focuses on broader events.
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Atlanta
Jefferson City
Missouri
Alexander Berkman
Emma Goldman
Appeal for personal family news exchange across war zones
Circulating forms in the United States urge Congress to authorize a humanitarian exchange of censored personal news between Americans and relatives in Belgium Poland Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey. The appeal claims nonpolitical motives and cites years of separation, arguing such contact could ease suffering without aiding the war effort.
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Congress
Belgium
Poland
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
United States
Risks of Free Personal Letters in Wartime Policy
The passage argues against allowing direct personal correspondence between the United States and enemy territory. It warns that even innocent family news could conceal military information and aid the German spy network. It stresses lax early controls and the danger of leakage despite censorship or humanitarian aims.
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United States
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Highest Paid in the World Sailors Backed by Navy Benefits
American sailors on torpedo boats in England display lavish spending during shore leave, while the Navy notes base pay of 32 dollars a month plus free board clothing medical care and quarters. Recruits rise quickly through ratings as they learn trades such as machinist guns electrician engineer stenographer cook and carpenter.
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England
Jackie
London
Navy
Navy pays and advances upbeat for enlisted men
The article highlights rapid Navy advancement since the war began and rising pay for sailors. It notes chief petty officers earning about 1400 a year, government support, and growing money orders and Liberty bonds as signs of prosperity. It marks the Navy as a prestigious, well compensated service and the pride of the nation.
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Uncle Sam
Navy
Texas farmers threaten to adulterate alfalfa hay
Texas farmers warn that if alfalfa hay prices rise further they will mix it with ordinary tobacco smoke to reduce costs and affect supply.
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Texas
Austria Cabinet Again Signs Resignations Amid Labor Shortage
The Austrian cabinet has again signed resignations as Europe faces a wide labor shortage across sectors. Analysts note widespread scarcity of workers across manufacturing, services, and construction, impacting policy and growth plans.
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Europe
Texas governor eyed to pick regents from ranger force
A Texas newspaper argues the governor should appoint next university regents from the state ranger force, framing a move as aligning higher education leadership with state law enforcement.
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Texas
Ranger
City Renames Avenida Ajhangabahu to Presidente Wilson
Rio Janeiro officials rename Avenida Ajhangabahu to Avenida Presidente Wilson as a mark of esteem for the United States. The writer notes unfamiliarity with the former name and votes for the change based on its merits.
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United States
Rio Janeiro
Avenida
Ajhangabahu
Avenida Presidente
Highway Commission Aims for Safer Texas Roads
The state highway commission pledges to advocate safer and better roads. It argues dangerous curves and crossings can be eliminated through careful route selection and improved construction, promising genuine help to Texas material welfare and questioning how the state managed without a highway commission.
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State Highway Commission
Texas
Highway Commission
Fort -Worth
Humane Society backs freight limits for horse drawn wagons
The humane society of the city urges a limit on freight for wagons pulled by horses and stricter enforcement with lower limits in summer. A Waco woman recalled a heavy load on two horses Tuesday that dragged them along Twenty second street beyond their strength.
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Humane Society of
City
Waco
Twenty-second Street
Waco News
No Anarchy in America, Say Beaumont Editors
The Beaumont Enterprise condemns organized anarchy and revolutionary agitation in the United States. It argues that anarchy is unacceptable, led by expatriated foreigners who were criminals abroad and remain so at home, asserting Americans will not tolerate such movements.
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America
Europe
United States
Beaumont Enterprise
Revenue From Beer Great Shifts in Government Revenue
The Beaumont Enterprise notes beer and other alcoholic beverages contribute about half a billion dollars in government revenue. It argues funds will be recouped from taxes on essentials, predicts breweries will convert to near beer and malt extracts, increasing demand for raw food and feedstuffs, and notes continued grain shipments to Europe where no prohibition on alcohol exists.
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Europe
Beaumont Enterprise
New US Coins Introduced Bankers Object
The United States mints released new 10 cent 25 cent and 60 cent silver coins within months. The 10 cent and 50 cent coins may also exist but the minting of the new quarters has been suspended due to bankers’ dislike of stacking issues, requiring a special act of Congress to modify the die.
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United States
Congressional Record
Congress
Hartford Courant
Effect of American Troops
The German press mocked US aid to the Allies claiming ships would be sunk by submarines. American troops have now passed safely, challenging German faith in the submarine and striking a psychological blow even if transports are later sunk.
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America
Europe
Germany
Fort Worth
Uncle Sam Faces Heavy Task Balancing Treasury Books
Washington July 11 The treasury faces a difficult task balancing its books after the Liberty Loan installment paid June 28. Receipts totaling about 375 million dollars poured into Federal Reserve Banks while they handled loan payments and multiple balance forms from over four million subscribers. War loans to the allies via reserve banks add to the burden.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Sam
Liberty Loan
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Banks
Long list of named enlistees and officers in US Army reports
The document lists numerous individuals with ranks from private to sergeant across infantry engineers and artillery, plus second lieutenants to be assigned to cavalry regiments and field units. It names sailors and officers by full names, states, and units, with assignments and forthcoming service schools noted.
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Regular
Philippine Scouts and
National Guard
Guy Hudson Dosher
Illinois
Cecil Rutherford Neal
Orgin
Meyer Samuel Silven
William Harris Symington
New York
Philip B. Fryer
Donald Coe Hawley
Vernon Lhreau Padgett
South Carolina
Jay Ward Mackelvie
Army Reserve
Francis Truman Bonsteel
Eleventh Cavalry
William Edwin Barott
Fourth Cavalry
Wallace Francis Hamilton
Frank Nelson
Eighth Cavalry
William B. M’minn
Edmund Michaux Crump
Virginia
Herman Frederick Rathjen
Seventh Cavalry
Daniel Joseph Keane
Connecticut
Milo Joseph Warner
Ohio
Leroy Davis
Anthony John Tittinger
Max Donald Holmes
Massachusetts
Charles Allen Ellis
Demas Lindley Sears
Bankston E. Mattox JR
Fifteenth Cavalry
Frank Henry Barnhart
Fourteenth Cavalry
John August Moschner
George Edward Harrison
Wesley J. Whith
Seventeenth Cavalry
Alton Wright Howard
Nolan Ferguson
Ehth
William F. Maher
Philippine Scouts
Walter Franklin Wright
Kentucky
Sidney Feagin Dunn
Georgia
Louis Whorley Hasslock
Tennessee
Breckinridge
Water Day
Paul Church Harper
Joseph Kennedy
First Field Artillery
George D. Shea
John van Derlip Hume
Woodrow Wilson Woodbridge
Colorado
Gervas Storrs Taylor
John Griffen Pennypacker
Richard Henry Schubert
Quartermaster Corps
Edward John Fox Arx
John Waring Weeks
Oklahoma
William Homes JR
John Jacob Bethuerm
Kentuck
John Lawrence Cootey
Vermont
Albert Charles Anderson
Washington
William H. Joiner
Hugh Pitcairn Schively
John Demetre Joanidy
Gilmer Meriwether Bell
Manley Lawton
Rivate
Coast Artillery
Roy Dan
Bryce Farren Martin
Harold Clinton Hoopes
Henley Schuc
Seventeenth Infantry
Glenn Dewitt Hufford
Thirty-second Infantry
Paul Rever Hudson
William Richard Dwyer
Hanon Fields Combs
William E. Pentress
Eighth Infantry
Ralph Hall
Ordnance Department
Mahlon Gerhard Frost
Jerome Pickett
Lebbus Morrison Cornish
Leon F. Stevens
William Samuel Rumbough
Maryland
George Alexander Murray
Joseph BE. Young
Henry Theophil John Weishaar
Charles 8. Lawrence
Signal Corps
Cyrus Alaric Hay
Indiana
Benjamin Joseph Holt JR
List of officers and cadet assignments by rank and name
The document lists numerous individuals with ranks and names such as THOMAS GERALD OMAL LEY, NEWELL RODNEY FISKE, PHILIP BRAHAM HAR RIGAN, and many others, followed by a line referencing United States training camp limits and reporting to army service schools on July 15. It reads like a roster of officers and cadets with associated positions and a final note on assignments to cavalry field artillery and infantry.
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Thomas Gerald Omalley
Newell
Rodney Fiske
Philip Braham Harrigan
John Downing Will
Frank Wiltshire Gano
John Leonard Pierce
Donald Kent Mason
Lowell Warde Books
Claude Jacques Hayden
Samuel Davies Bedinger
Alpheus Evans Wilson Harrison
Malcolm Vaughn Fortier
Outram Willett Stilrman
IVAN _NEAL WALDRON
John Joseph Atkinson
Edward Christopher Allworth
Roland Winfred Wittman
Julian Rockwood Orton
Reginald Nichols Hamilton
John Walter Nicholson
Thomas Allan Young
Charles Haines Lee
Ray Bradford Conner
James Stanley Moore JR
Franklin Hayes Woody
Herbert Louis Landolt
Samuel Walter Sowerbutts
Will van Lycle Parks
Charles Bernard Kelly
Malcolm M’gregor Maner
John Lloyd M'Kee
Glenn Lyman Allen
Charles Rouse Jones
Willard Stewart ® Paul
Moritz Augustus Rustoth
Robert Henry Chance
Claude Wallace Shelton
Harry Grant Hodgkins, JR
Samuel Rufus Ward
Vincent Paul Rousseau
March Hugo Houser
Lamont Dayv
James Brown Golden
Edwin Blair Banister
Willfred Rowell Higgins
Eldon Paul King
Cyrus Higginson
Smarcy
Sergt
Theodore Kelly
Quartermaster Corps
Leon Edward Norris
David M’allister Hunter
J. Harold Fleischhauer
Tagao Wadsworth Swartz
Edward William M’caskey JR
United States
Citizens’ Training
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Infantry
Army Service Schools
Bicycle Clubs Formed For San Antonio Youths
Over two hundred boys gathered at Fisk Company to hear officials propose semi military bicycle clubs. Each club will have six to eight members with uniforms and signals, riding hats, pennants, and a year’s Fish Club News subscription. Twenty five clubs are expected city wide. The aim is to foster good fellowship and outdoor sport, especially bicycle riding.
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Fisk Company
Calcasieu Building
Avenue C
Travis Street
Fish Club News
San Antonio
McAdoo Asked to Rescind Eight Hour Day Order
A mass meeting of 900 employees at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing urged Secretary McAdoo to rescind his eight hour day and six day week policy. Speakers said only a small percentage favored the shorter workday.
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McAdoo
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Bureau
Government exempts sugar imports up to sixty thousand tons
Buenos Aires reports Buenos Aires government decrees duty exemption on importations of sugar up to 60 000 tons. The measure aims to ease sugar supply and stabilize prices amid market concerns.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Joke Exchange About Midnight Homecomings
A witty exchange sees Says a Bookful claim his wife stays quiet at midnight while the reply notes she speaks about everything else in the dictionary. The brief quip plays on expectations of silence and wordplay.
Fire at Southern Macaroni plant triggers arson probe
A Tuesday night blaze at the Southern Macaroni Company plant on Guadalupe Street caused over $1,000 in damage, with stock losses similar in amount. City detectives are investigating possible incendiary origins after discovering a broken front door lock. Insurance partially covers the loss.
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Southern Macaroni Company
Guadalupe Street
C. W. Ling
el Paso Street
Wilkins and
Mounstock Avenues
Songs O' the Canteen by Stuart H Carroll
A nostalgic verse portrait of Casey who runs the canteen for soldiers. It highlights his Kerry roots, rugged charm, and popular, generous nature, praising his camaraderie and the morale he boosts with treats and small comforts.
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Casey
Kerry
Will
Casey's
Earthquakes Reported in Fiji and Friendly Islands
A dispatch from Suva Fiji reports damage in the Samoan Islands after a severe earthquake and a tidal wave. The Friendly Islands also experienced an earthquake.
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Fiji Islands
Melbourne
Suva
Samoan Islands
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Avenues C and
Pes
Taece
Ton Dousman Ha’ Way
Wisconsin
Byron W. Fuller
Sane
John Erwin Stulleen
Herman Henry Meyer
Carleton Moore
Edward P. Sheppard
Henry Jeffery Matchett
Minnesota
Worty
John Henry Strickland
Seventeenth
Seventeenth Infantry, Twenty-sixth
Vincent Staub Burton
Third Engineers
Fifteenth
Griffith, Wight
Curtis P. Miller
William Ernst
John William Bulger
Thirty-sixth Infantry
Twentyfourth
Roy Wright Voeghe
School of Fire
Thirtieth
Taylor Milton Uhler
Thirty
Roy George Gordon
Eleventh Infantry
Fiftieth
Vernon Lee Burge
Simon Fostiak
Fortieth
Edwin Louis Dittmar
Crosby N. Elliott
Ernest Ray Marvel
Frank Moore Child
New Jersey
Raymond Lester Price
Frederick Montgomery Lee
Peete Massachusetts
Hurley Edward Fuller
Larry M’hale
Arthur Maxwell Oconnor
John Paul Horan
Engineers
James Harden Sloan Wells
North Carolina
Citizens’ Training Camp
Leutenants
Lenox Riley Lohr
Truman Minor Curry JR
Frank Melvin
Harry Allen Skerry
John Francis M'Sweeney
Givanni Battista Lagardia
Fred Craig Albert
Don Russell Cather
Sylvester Emery Nortner
John Riley Donaldson
Julian George Guiteras
James Booth Lockwood
Lionel Leopold Meyer
Louisiana
Frederick Harold Leroy Ryder
Wallace William Crawford
Theodora Besson Apgar
Jefferson Barlow Osborn
Mortimer Heth Christian
Marcus Roger Monsaratt
Fabius Busber Saipp
James Jay Cecil
James Madison Shelton
Albert Russell Kuschke
George Albert Moore
George William Gay
SA Ee
Ralph Leslie Joy R
Roscor Stewart Parker
Heywood Shallus Dodd
Kent Craig Lambert
George Bedward Huthsteiner
Second
Richard Bennett Lloyd
Maurice Morgan
Gilbert Edwin Blxby
Eugene Burnet
Charles Frederick Houghton
Maine
Henry Joseph Macpeake
Frank Warren Lykes
Richard Terrell Guthrie
Nebraska
Ittai Albert Luke
Roger
Homer Smith Youngs
Edwin Wolsey Grimmer
William Harold Clark
Frank Eugene Haskell
Lloyd Davidson Brown
Roy Carter Hilton
Raymond Edward Onbill
Justin Stanley Hemanway
Marine Corps
William Almond Shely
Corwin Crittenden Smith
John Eliot M'Kenney
John Urban Ayotte
Charles Heyward Barnwell JR
Henry Alford Schwarz
Edward George Herlimy
Arnold John Funk
George Marvin Ferris
Edwin Lockwood Maclean
Norman Minus
Ernest Newman Stanton
Southern Macaroni Co
Stuart H. Carroll
Laddie
International News Service
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