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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1916
Page
7
Paris reports 109300 French women employed in munition making with 26293 in state factories. Women lead in food industries textiles metal trades rubber and sack making as wives of mobilized merchants manage businesses, showing solidarity and resilience amid war.
An excerpt from the Washington Times quotes ex secretary of war Garrison in Camden remarks about a delicate question and self harm. The piece includes dialogue about love and luck at cards and mentions a new pencil clip for parate technicians. The text also notes shipboard wave action affecting a boat and its operator.
Berlin reports the minister of agriculture plans to rear many goats this summer to avert a milk shortage next winter. Agriculture chambers and Prussian organizations are urged to coordinate with goat breeding associations to influence individuals. Premiums for raising goats are likely, and city goat markets to butchers may be curtailed.
The article notes plans to create special pastures for animals and urges the public to reduce demand for goat milk to maximize the summer kid crop.
The Bank of Japan reduces its interest and discount rate by two rin to spur industrial growth. The decision is seen as an effort to widen facilities for enterprise. A teacher anecdote appears amid the text in this era note, reflecting school and youth life.
In Cologne and across Germany garden planting of sunflowers for oil gains popularity after last year’s success. Now urged to involve school children planting sunflowers along every mile of road. Report notes Argentine horses are trained to avoid a poisonous weed by inhaling smoke from burning piles.
In Mexico City the de facto government orders a loan program backed by 25 million pesos to aid Laguna district corn and cotton raisers. Meanwhile, government controls remain, with merchants required to take paper money and set prices by decree. Gen. Hill also bans layoffs for three months to quell a strike.
In Waco Texas on May 26 two African Americans found a white man’s body on a Brazo River sandbar three miles below Waco. He had a gunshot wound to the head and stood five feet eight inches. A coat from Waxahachie was identified, money was found, but no letters or papers were recovered. A separate item notes John Masefield speaking on conscripts at a New York dinner.
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