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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1918
Page
2
The document argues the German army, though quiet recently, will mount a heavier attack soon to force a decisive outcome. It claims German belief in victory drives continued war aims, criticizes peace terms, and notes Allied gains, including about 200,000 additional American troops in France.
A retrospective look recalls an early article on San Antonio's new garbage collection and disposal system. It portrays the city’s frontier spirit shaping modern urban sanitation, highlighting the innovative, national example set by its approach amid the Alamo City’s historic identity.
The author argues slow but broad justice may come for the Bisbee deportations. Crimes were committed against individuals and society as a whole in the mining town, with raids on homes and violent abuse of wives. The piece notes the mining interests failed to use courts, implying fear of losing control, and praises federal action indicting twenty-one mining officials after a year-long inquiry.
The city’s advanced municipal sanitation system draws national comment as Dallas and others study its parks, street widening, and climate. The piece urges outsiders to adopt San Antonio’s cleanliness standards and spread sanitation gospel at home.
The discussion ties the Bisbee deportations to economic determinism and corporate influence. It argues that monopolistic wealth drives autocracy and harms civic life, urging vigilance to avoid renewed outrages. The column also notes wage stagnation for a Providence schoolteacher and hints at broader price pressures from freight rate hikes.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes high demand at the Mercantile Library with Empeys Over the Top circulating forty times among fifteen copies and Christines war letters by Alice Cholmondeley circulating forty five copies, signaling strong reader interest in contemporary battle narratives and war correspondence.
A Kansas City Star excerpt argues that Americanism rises from ideals, not birth, highlighting a Russian Jewish immigrant’s fight in Camp Shelby and a call to defend liberty and democracy. The Old Mill poem laments monotony but urges renewal as Henry Edward Warner notes in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Muscatic and Royal Theaters present a bustling vaudeville bill with Montgomery and Perry leading a lively lineup including Frisco Jazz Band and Fanchon and Marco. Acts span comedy farces, musical interludes, acrobatics, dainty singing comediennes, and a toyland concert. The Bride Shop receives strong notices, Flo and Ollie Walters perform dainty ditties, Cortez Trio, Lorenz duo, and Tom Kelly star. Princess Theater offers Oh Girlie by Arthur Higson and Dorothy Meltonio Musical Comedy Company plus Fred and Mae Waddell Odds and Ends of Vaudeville. Louise Glaum headlines The Alien Enemy.
San Antonio merchants offer prizes to schoolboys and girls who sell the most War Savings Stamps through September 21. Forty contestants from Fannin Bowie Briscoe Brackenridge Main Avenue Burnet Beacon Hill and Stephen F Austin High Schools are already listed with more schools expected to join soon. The drive, organized by the War Savings committee for Bexar County, aims to boost lagging totals and requires all contestants to register at the Chamber of Commerce War Savings office.
Several hundred unassigned officers stationed at Leon Springs have been ordered to Camp Gordon Atlanta and Petersburg Virginia for assignment. Orders were received Friday by Col J E Labartman commander of Leon Springs. Colonel Hartman remains on duty awaiting his own orders. The text also includes an unrelated Life magazine quote about marrying for love and money.
Taxpayer letters accuse the representative Citizens committee of backing Phil Wright for commissioner. The writer questions Wright’s suitability, noting past campaigns and alleged connections to the fire department. The missive argues voters should choose a nonpolitician and questions whether firefighters would support Wright.
A letter questions the practice of 81 of 150 representative citizens choosing a candidate to fill the fire and police commissioner vacancy after Commissioner Lowther's death. The writer denounces the move as un-democratic and calls for open, merit-based ballot selection by qualified citizens.
San Antonio retailers form the San Antonio Retail Credit Men's Association aligned with the National association. Mueller of Joske Brothers elected president, Sal Frank of Trani Brothers as VP, Adolf Grasso as secretary treasurer, with H. B. Lockhart and Charles G. Winklen as directors. The 25 member group plans incorporation and monthly meetings. Grasso to attend Chicago NRMA meeting.
A Texas Council of Carpenters closing session adopted a single tax proposal. The resolution calls for taxing unimproved land while exempting personal property and improvements, noting war-related readjustments. Corpus Christi, San Angelo, and Dallas competed for the next convention site, with Dallas chosen. TM. C. Jennings, state labor commissioner, spoke on department work and his endorsement was approved.
A May 18 Austin report lists numerous Texas corporations filing charters or amendments, detailing company names, cities, capital stocks, and incorporators. It includes ventures in San Antonio, Woodville, Dallas, Amarillo, Sulphur Springs, Fort Worth, Houston, and more, plus amendments for Corsicana Brick Co. and Simmons-Newsombe Co. Also notes business permits granted to American Cattle Co. and others with new Texas addresses.
A collage of wartime quips and editorials from Texas papers notes mixed views on patriotism and duty. It cites Jesse Willard defending titles and country, calls slacker labeling heated, and mocks local officials amid droughts and public safety debates. It mentions a new DeWitt jail seen as costly yet useful.
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