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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
4
The San Antonio tourist season closed with mixed results as Mexico travel remains suspended. City officials urge immediate self reliant preparations for next winter, aiming to show progress through bonds, improved pavements, and early golf course work to attract visitors.
The piece highlights the rise of advertising honesty as key to efficiency and notes the Associated Advertising Clubs' Baltimore convention. It discusses local trolley expansion in Southwest Texas, including lines from San Antonio to Austin, Lockhart, Seguin, and a Sutherland Springs motor car, with praise for Southern Pacific’s role in local service.
The text calls for preparing for next winter's tourist season by prioritizing amusement and entertainment in San Antonio. It argues climate will take care of itself and stresses a large, ongoing effort to engage visitors between now and the upcoming season.
The San Antonio to Sutherland Springs motor car service marks an important era in Southwest Texas. It signals the feeble opening of interurban traffic and suggests other innovations will follow. Local trolley lines and service trains greatly aid new country development despite through-traffic constraints.
The Boston Transcript notes that 206 years after the 1707 union ending Edinburgh's old parliament, Scotland is to be given a parliament once more. It recalls tensions between union supporters and national tradition and views federalizing the United Kingdom as a liberal platform planks.
Hon William Lorimer announces candidacy for United States senator from Illinois. He will run in the Republican primaries next April amid support from friends who call his senate verdicts vindications. The veteran figure rose from newsboy to congressman, senator, boss, and banker, facing bitter opposition from Chicago Tribune and local bankers before his 1912 ousting and fall from power. The April primaries will determine whether a comeback is possible.
The article traces a lineage of Zionist ideas from 1654 Cromwell schemes in Surinam to Dutch colonial plans for Curacao and Major Noah's 1825 Grand Island effort. It notes Marshal Saxe backing a Jewish kingdom in South America and identifies about twenty colonies in Palestine formed by Jews returning from exile.
The New York World argues that domestic political strife in Japan and U S anti-Japanese campaigns are used by parliamentary leaders to influence public opinion and undermine the cabinet, with deficits in genuine constitutional defense and foreign relations.
The Miraflores dike demolition admits water to a large canal stretch signaling near completion of the Mira Flores masonry works. The Pedro Miguel dam and locks may soon be finished, sealing the canal from the Pacific to Culebra.
The Utica Observer reports Canada will require non-residents of municipalities and districts to publish a three weeks notice of intention to marry, ending prior practice of marrying runaway youths from the United States.
In a chateau scene a young count lies near death after a horse accident and failed prior hopes of a Paris surgeon. Professor Chaubert performs a daring home operation amid chaos caused by a barking pack of dogs. despite his madness he saves Count Armand.
The Indianapolis News reports government findings that many shoes use weighted leather mixed with epsom salts glucose and other substances. Sixty three percent of samples showed weighting and the practice lowers shoe quality. A pure leather bill failed in Indiana amid dealer opposition. advocates urge a national standard.
The St Louis Republic reports Senator Bristow used the term reorganization rot to describe Hadley and Co plans, likening the scheme to a funeral where a party has died. The remark highlights political critique of corporate restructuring rhetoric.
The Memphis News Scimitar questions Mr. Bryan's peace proposals missing English suffragettes. It asks how enthusiasm for his plans can grow if suffrage voices are excluded, signaling debate over inclusion in international peace efforts.
A newspaper man recalls a sham charity in a large eastern city that sold address tickets for begging. When a hungry mechanic sought work, the man offered no help, and the next day the mechanic froze to death. The tale questions charitable warnings and argues it is better to give to the unworthy than withhold from anyone in need.
The Nashville Tennessean reports Kansas acts empower local commissioners to appoint a judge for a debtors court with no lawyers. Proceedings are simple and aimed at uncovering the truth, with claims capped at $20. If successful, the concept could spread to other states and tackle larger cases similarly.
An unnamed youth overheard in a public phone talks with Mame about where to meet, rejecting many parks as unsuitable. They complain parks are crowded, not comfortable, and all face potential hazards while joking about local places including Brackenridge Travis Crockett and a front porch as alternative gathering spot.
The Utica Observer notes that regents and finals will yield many diplomas, while calls grow for education to prepare youth for life. Vocational instruction advances in the advanced school building and manual training expands in city schools, with a planned technical high school to elevate and dignify technical work.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal suggests with no hiking left General Rosalie Jones will address audiences from a lecture platform. The note hints at her continuing public speaking in place of hiking activities.
In a Philadelphia Press opinion, writers mock proposed currency reform as a distraction from free-list politics and question Democratic backing for the plan.
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