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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1918
Page
15
Classified ad column listing sale items and wanted goods. Includes bicycles, furniture, watches, cameras, typewriters, stoves, office fixtures, clothing, and miscellaneous secondhand items. Also notes real estate rental, business opportunities, and public notices in Fort Sam Houston area.
Multiple ads offer loans on diamonds and other collateral with low rates, including Metropolien Loan Co at 227 Houston St and Casy payments at 311 Swearingen Bldg or 620 Houston. They buy acceptable notes up to $2000. Other ads request addling and sale of typewriters and office machines, including Oliver No. 3 for $20 and new brand models for cash bargains.
An advertising offer lists five Texas papers Dallas Times Herald Fort Worth Star Telegram El Paso Herald Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Light with guaranteed circulation over 175 000 daily and 195 000 Sunday. Rates are per word per insertion with a 20 word ad in all five papers costing 1 for one weekday or 3 20 for three insertions including one Sunday. Minimum charge based on 20 words. Sunday insertions due by noon preceding date. Send orders with cash to the San Antonio classifieds department. ads will be processed.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger writer recounts Leonardo da Vinci’s search for a model for St John and Judas. Pietro Bandinelli, a devout chorister, first posed for St John and later drew Da Vinci’s eye as Judas after falling into vice. The piece laments degeneration of beauty into deformity.
Letters on German prisoners reveal months of prewar planning for the March 21 assault. The document describes training for cavalry and artillery, hill and trench setups, and a staged plan with over 100 divisions amassing behind St. Quentin to break the British line, with orders about succession and specific tasks for officers and noncoms.
The text describes planned repeated assaults to wear down British positions. It envisions exhausting reserves replacing decimated units battalion by battalion. It portrays masses of men trampling over each other to "purchase peace" for themselves and families at the cost of blood.
A fragmentary note discusses social tactics for a young woman to engage others and spark interest. The text oddly blends advice with a reference to a Boston transcript and a mention of a pedal driven propulsion device. It also notes Geneva’s consideration of canal links to the Rhone and Marseille outlet plans.
Scientist Garrett P. Serviss denounces war fiction that distorts historic truth. He warns that novels and romance reshape meanings of critical battles like the Marne, urging writers to avoid blending fact and fancy and to preserve truth over art.
L A Fritz of Kansas State Agricultural College notes community projects like flour mills and farmers elevators can succeed with trained managers and adequate capital. He highlights that over 200 farmers elevators exist in Kansas and cites the Olathe cooperative store as a 30 year success, while warning stores struggle against price cutting and biased buying.
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