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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1914
Page
6
A brief note credits Diehl Harrison L as editors and publishers, listing Peach as part of the publishing staff.
The piece argues the Bull Moose party is fading while the colonel shifts stance to foreign policy. It cites New Jersey and Pennsylvania results, showing shrinking Bull Moose support and rising Republican enrollment, and notes pressure on railroads over Port Aransas harbor and Southwest Texas shipping. It also mentions Americans in Mexico seeking U.S. protection.
The Port Aransas case against Sunset Lines and fifteen railroads is postponed from this month to October with a hearing set in Houston. The injunction seeks to block applying Galveston base rates to Port Aransas, forcing ships to use Galveston port.
The St Louis Republic and New York Herald debate U.S. protection of citizens in Mexico. They argue Americans abroad remain citizens with rights, and the United States should defend them where they reside rather than demand flight from danger. The piece condemns urging evacuation as betrayal of citizens.
A letter from former ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Senator William Alden Smith is cited as proof of duplicity in his memorandum on recognizing Huerta. The piece accuses Wilson of insincerity and craft, arguing he deceived Wilson's policies and obstructed frank diplomacy during the Mexico crisis.
A Houston Telegraph item notes Warsaw authorities require every car to carry a sealed card box with the car number owner name and address. If a car exceeds the limit a card drops on the road guiding police to the driver. Fines from twenty five to one hundred fifty dollars await those who don’t report to police with their car for boxing.
The piece notes a likely surge in mail order firms due to parcel post and cheap express rates. Originating in Chicago, the business leverages its central location, but as costs fall more distribution centers will be needed, spreading to many cities and towns in coming years.
The text questions what the Constitutionalist cause gains from mediation at a Niagara Falls conference. It asserts rebels control three-fourths of Mexico, threaten Mexico City, and argues parley would undermine hard won victories. It portrays the rebels as barbaric and implies their struggle will continue to its logical end.
Constance Medford recalls late night events as Edith faces a torn heart between Tom Morton and Ralph Morton. John Hale defends Tom’s innocence while Edith and Constance weigh trust, love, and family duty amid a Baltimore scandal and a quiet, tense reconciliation.
The New York World recalls Gen Louis Wagner’s quip about advice givers and a sharp retort from a pupil. A teacher condemns smoking while a student counters with a Washington snapshot of early life. The dialogue underscores the humor and contrast in standards across eras.
A Louisville Courier-Journal note discusses offers to send a box of cigars on trial with no 10 and return the rest, and compares it to applying a similar “read 10 chapters” trial to a book before deciding to keep or return it.
In Boston Mississippi area schools principal Kenelmaslow recruits students with thrift buttons from the American Society for Thrift and forms a Stearns District chapter. Eligible pupils save two dollars, prove thrift, and gain a Franklin portrait button. Similar efforts show savings rising. Chicago Bryant School tests a city farm project with plots and crops, inspiring future thrift projects.
A man recalls riding a nearly empty street car and complying with a new city anti smoking ordinance by discarding a cigar. He notes conductors and motormen smoked together during a wait for an opposite direction car, and says he sympathizes with the street car men.
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