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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1918
Page
2
President states Mexico Cuba relations affect the Allied side in World War I. He asserts Cuba is an ally aiding to defeat Germany and warns Mexico against actions that oppose the United States and its allies. He emphasizes the life or death stakes and vows to use necessary strength to win.
Government agents seized a New Mexico bakery device mistaken for a still. The baker used oven fumes to improve bread quality while alcohol production occurred incidentally. Officials recognized the contraption as a potential wartime asset despite no arrest.
A historical note argues the baker’s method could adapt to army bake shops and city bakeries to manufacture alcohol for war needs. It claims dual benefits of low cost and food conservation, suggesting prohibition might not curb such production as a conservation measure.
The author denounces German bombing of hospitals and the murder of wounded soldiers and nurses as barbaric and evil beyond civil standards. It argues this will not aid their war aims, predicts punishment, and condemns Germany’s actions while noting allied support and a broader call for justice. The piece also mentions Texas fishery policy changes under the Food Administration and shifting supplies.
A federal license for fishermen voids longtime Texas coast fishing laws that protected sport anglers and limited seineing. Louisiana officials urged relaxed rules during the war, and Texas authorities offered no protest. Some Corpus Christi fishermen were fined and barred from waters they used for years under the agreed food program.
A survey of fiscal caution urges limited taxation to avoid inflation and business ruin. It warns against overreach, noting tax policy must enable trade and capital preservation, while referencing current diplomatic shifts and poetic reflections on patriotism and human understanding.
The Majestic Theater opens a strong vaudeville bill headlined by The Cherry Tree featuring George Washington Cohen in a witty study of life and irony. Also on the program are Get Off My Carpet burlesque, Reynolds and Donegan skating with color effects, Lester the ventriloquist, Grace Carlisle and Jules Romer, and a Woodenshoe dancer Charles Wilkens with a mind reader Norman Frescott.
A brief notice highlights a film attraction based on the memoir My Four Years In Germany. It references a German setting and a cinema event, noting schedule details and venue for local audiences.
Empire screens My Four Years In Germany starting June 3 with strong praise for its accuracy and dramatic detail. Grand presents Over the Top today with crowds eager after weekend sellouts and favorable notes from The New York Times praising its balance of incident and humanity.
Miss Catherine C Dow, 11, from Wells River trims a cord of wood and auctions it in the public square earning $51.26 for the Red Cross in three days. Her wood cutting suit and bold auction drew villagers’ admiration as a winter charity effort.
William H. Smith requests publication of a concert program featuring national anthems for 23 allied countries. He asks readers native to these nations to sing or speak at Koehler Park next Sunday and notes the editor references President Wilson's wartime address. The list of twenty-one current war participants against Germany is provided.
Washington dispatch notes army kitchens never unprepared while draftees assembled. A sample menu shows breakfast oatmeal and milk lunch roast beef and gravy dinner beef and vegetables. Senator Wadworth commends forethought in feeding soldiers. Bloomington reports Miss Twelve Duncan born, the twelfth Duncan child, weighing twelve pounds.
In a jumble of notes and quips, references touch on prohibition, a city marshal named Dry f, New York policewomen, a Missouri mule brayless project, Wright brothers flight memory, snuff box politics, a bankrupt Pullman porter, and a weather miscue about a flag at a federal building.
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