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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
4
The San Antonio Light and Gazette provide exclusive day wire coverage from Associated Press. The combined papers deliver national and regional news, weather, and market updates for San Antonio readers.
Entry indicates postal handling as second class matter. Office located at 609 511 Travis Street between Avenues C and D details subscription rates.
The six month period ending March 31 1917 shows a daily average circulation of 20709 for the daily edition and 24300 for the Sunday edition. Net paid averages were 10770 and 22378 respectively. The Audit Bureau of Circulation certified the figures as authoritative for advertisers. The paper claims to offer 50 percent more paid circulation direct to homes in San Antonio than any other newspaper.
The piece argues that wartime powers granted to the President mirror autocratic rule and questions fears of democratic collapse. It muses on how public opinion flips between rights protection and home interference and contemplates music as a reflection of wartime emotion across nations and composers.
The piece argues that widespread conflict will alter national music as surely as fashions change during war. It compares outer wartime dress to inner musical expression, suggesting that society upheaval drives measurable shifts in style and sentiment across nations involved.
Italian Navy uses armed trains along the Adriatic coast to defend 500 miles of coastline. Eight-car trains equipped with 12 inch guns patrol near Ravenna to Cattaro, engaging Austrian cruisers submarines and aircraft in rapid battles.
The article describes Italian coast defense trains with armored flats, two guns per car, and crew quarters. Guns fire only when stopped, with sailors bracing cars to prevent derailment, an aerial observer, wireless gear, and lines tapping gear. Navy terms replace land clocks and bells guide operations.
The Kronstadt garrison has capitulated to the Petrograd government, defeating any possibility of Petrograd yielding to Kronstadt and consolidating state control in the region.
The article notes the censorship clause in the espionage bill has been removed. It suggests a possible replacement clause to penalize officials who allow movement news of naval vessels to reach Germany four days early. It mentions sergeants addressing ennui among soldiers and civilians preventing vice.
Governor Ferguson travels to Colorado in June allowing State Senator Hudspeth to assume the lieutenant governorship as interim president pro tempore of the Senate, with Mr. Hobby disqualified. Hudspeth, noted as an anti, faces mixed reactions from proponents.
R F Isbell of Houston touts cotton as yielding 900 pounds of food and feed per bale, arguing this fleecy crop provides greater value per acre than any other Texas crop. The Fort Worth Record notes the claim long echoed by the Record itself, highlighting cotton as Texas's chief staple and money crop.
The federal census bureau estimates 420200 Texans available for selective service. Of these, 80000 are destined for the first army of two million men and 20000 for the first unit of 100000 in training. About 20000 are the so called Sons of Rest, to be taken from Houston and other Texas streets.
The Presbyterian Assembly of the U S A in Dallas voted to amalgamate two major branches. The move is praised as sensible and Christian easing interdenominational tensions. It aims at creed simplification to boost unity and strengthen church reach for God’s cause.
The New York Post protests that Germany sacrificed humanity for expediency in safeguarding Syrian Jews and Palestinian Jews under German auspices. It notes only feeble protection efforts despite prior guarantees linked to Germany's alliance with German Zionists during World War I.
The London Telegraph predicts German rulers will face the people’s scorn as U S measures build wartime strength. It argues submarine policy has failed in strategy and criminality, noting Germany’s pattern of blunders since the war began and the hope that mastery of the submarine would add another.
Marty Rowland leads his Princeton fraternity on a coastal vacation to Bowers where he falls for Frances Cumberland a fisherman's daughter. Frances pretends to be ordinary but reveals she is Mam’selle La Bonne an actress. Marty's engagement shocks his family yet Frances explains she tested his love and they marry.
The three San Antonio Pythian lodges Unity Lotus and Hilk hold a joint memorial at St Mark's Parish House at 3 30 Sunday afternoon with memorial orations by Will A Morris and Thomas I Mangum and a Unity lodge led musical program under Prof L D Daggett. The program includes a quartet Cottingham Joyce Martin Davies a Russell Davies solo Home of the Soul Nearer My God to Thee and a Cant Cant chair performance. The hall will be draped for the occasion by Friendship and Charl ton Temples Pythian Sisters in charge. Soldiers who are Knights of Pythias are invited. Arrangements consist of Hobart Hudson chair and others from Unity Lotus and Elk lodges.
San Antonio forms a new artillery battalion as men seek enlistment rather than draft. Sergeants woo crowds at movie theaters Friday, stressing that the nation is entering World War as an active participant. Captain Claude V. Burkhead touts artillery as attractive with varied duties. Applicants may enlist any hour at the armory 325 East Crockett Street.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, while in New Orleans, sent a telegram to W. F. Ramsay of the Federal Reserve District at Dallas. He expressed regret at being unable to visit Dallas due to time constraints and urged Texans to subscribe their share of liberty bonds. He praised Texas' history of liberty and urged continued support against Germany.
Charters filed include Alice Broom Corn Drying Co of Alice with $10,000 capital and incorporators P. A. Presnall William Adams G R Adams and Felix Hobbs. Dallas Business Men's College with no capital and incorporators II Stuart Davis James Battersby J E Johnson. Groom Elevator Co of Amarillo with $20,000 capital and incorporators E B Blastel John W Knoop C R Slay Carson county and John Fraser Boydston Gray county. Kingsbury Haynes Brokerage Co of Dallas with $20,000 capital and incorporators W E Kingsbury Alf T E Haynes Louis Rosen. Richmond Damon Mound Oil Co of Richmond with $50,500 capital and incorporators A P George D R Pearerson R F Ransom J M Slavin Thompson and others. Dissolutions filed for Hotel Hamilton Company Laredo Grandview Oil and Development Co Grandview.
The Morosco Company films in a Nevada California desert town setting for The Highway of Hope with Kathryn Williams and Hoagh Peters, shown at the Empire today for the last time. A Keystone comedy Teddy at the Throttle completes the program with a glimpse into a vanished West.
Majestic Theatre ends its 1916 17 season with four remaining shows this week in San Antonio matinees today and Sunday plus night performances. Final bill features James C Morton Mamie Diamond in a travesty, Texas duo John Swor West Avey in a black face act, Melody Six singing group, Newhoff and Phelps Benny Woods duo, Charles Lemon on improvised instruments, and the Whirling Azimas with a new aerial thriller.
Anita Stewart portrays the title role in The Girl Philippa at the Grand today and Sunday. Set in France on the eve of war, the Vitagraph drama follows her adventures opposite an American artist with vivid scenes and dramatic moments. The film is billed as among the best shown at the Grand this season.
Washington June 9 The national emergency may block waterways improvement legislation this session as opposition grows to the 27 million dollar annual river and harbor appropriation. Critics call it pork barrel and say improvements can wait until peace returns, predicting the bill may die in the Senate.
A noon farewell luncheon at the Gunter Hotel honored B. F. Blomeyer traffic manager as he resigns to become vice president of the Toledo and Ann Arbor Railroad. R. H. Schultz will succeed him, coming from Cape Girardeau & Northern Railroad. he is expected to arrive late this month. Blomeyer will move to New York and start his new duties in about a month.
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