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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1912
Page
23
A satirical guide on English manners contrasts English smugness with American directness. It highlights dress, etiquette, and social rituals, touting old-fashioned Americans as decent yet out of place across the ocean.
A Paris newspaper notes the comeback of the beauty spot as a fashion accent. Writers cite its historical role with pannier skirts high heels and hair puffs shaping trends and wax heads in hairdresser windows popularizing the feature.
Washington officials criticize the State Department for not pushing the $300 million loan to China, arguing U S bankers and European powers pushed terms that offended Chinese dignity. Captain Robert Dollar seeks new talks in Europe while China rejects the bid, warning of lost friendship with the United States.
William Bayard Hale argues U S policy toward Latin America breeds misrule and invites European meddling. The piece links neglect and enforcement failure to turmoil in Caribbean nations. A French farmer reports wine-soaked bread may boost egg production, citing two experiments with hens increasing egg counts.
William Lorimer narrowly escapes death in an automobile crash near Claysville as the week’s foreign and domestic developments unfold. Americans flee Mexico amid renewed atrocities while Mexican rebels rob Dolores mining camp and authorities report record bill passage in a single day.
Emilio Vasquez Gomez is released on bond after arrest for violating neutrality laws. Citizens' league urges Acting Mayor Richter to state whether special policemen will be appointed to polling places for primaries. The Texas Cotton Seed Crushers meet in Houston. Governor Wilson retreats to draft his acceptance speech. Senator Fall criticizes U S policy in Mexico. The emperor Matsuhito’s condition improves while he was thought near death.
Proclamation orders precinct conventions to pick delegates for a city convention that will elect a mayor. Chamber of Commerce appoints twelve Colonels to raise 1500 dollars for harvest jubilee. Bar association backs Judge J L Camp for associate at the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals. Progressive Republicans meet in New Jersey. Mrs Woodrow Wilson is honored president of the Woman's Democratic League. Grand jury indicts union labor men over a riot at Grabow. Seven girls die in a London fire.
Torchlight parade shown in Governor Colquitt events. Bexar county tax rate fixed at 35 cents per hundred dollars. News mentions a mine tunnel flood near Uniontown with thirteen drowned. Darrow case witness feigned illness potentially causing mistrial amid U.S. Senate coverage.
Citizens' league holds a rally on Alamo plaza as H F Macgregor of Houston and Taft supporters meet. Acting Mayor Richter says 100 special policemen will be at polling places for the primary election.
On Friday July 26 1912 Prohibition party secures a mandamus naming associate presiding officers Ernesto Madero and Madero’s financial agent visit San Diego campus delivers fine primaries speech Fe Fake Flores released on 6000 dollar bond for killing Deputy Sheriff Ora Baird Sixteen arsons injure in a wreck on June 7 Great Northern near Harry K. Bontie of Stanford White ruled insane for a third time Democratic excise tax features in notes
Louis Cre awaiter testifies linking him to the murder of Herman Rosenthal. Kid McCoy, the American boxer, is jailed in London on a charge of stealing jewels worth $80,000 belonging to a Russian princess.
Amado Suarez testifies to cruelty by federal officers in Monclova. Primary elections report heavy turnout. State troops quell coal miner rioting in Creek district West Virginia. Senate reaches a sugar tariff agreement fixing 1.60 per hundred pounds. London docks strike ends with 50,000 workers set to return.
A brief notice urges customers to phone in orders to Creamery Dairy Co. LP. The message emphasizes placing orders by phone to ensure prompt service and delivery.
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