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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1912
Page
4
A public meeting of the Publicity league endorses a municipal bond issue to fund permanent improvements in San Antonio. Speakers warn streets are a citywide scandal and cannot be repaired within current revenue, urging a nonpolitical, businesslike approach to boost the city’s prosperity.
The Supreme Court bathtub trust ruling supports Congress in patent law revision. The piece argues current patent laws foster monopolies and waste, urging stricter application of rules, economic scrutiny of claims, and sunset limits on minor patents to prevent long monopoly benefits. It stresses the need for a law testing economic value and clarifying protections for basic principles versus improvements.
Report warns that cholera devastates Turkish lines at Tchataldja with alarming claims of up to five thousand deaths daily. Observers say Ottoman medical gaps and weak sanitary control fuel the spread, highlighting centuries of Balkan rule and the war’s severe human cost.
The text argues retribution follows past sins in the Balkans and predicts a new nation um bilaterally formed from the Turkish empire's demise. It asserts religious bigotry fuels conflict and that political death of the Turk could birth a new power, with persecution under civil government bringing disaster.
A letter under the Cosmopolite signature argues 90 percent of Mexicans welcomed Diaz style rule over Madero and predicts future unrest. The piece notes Americans see idle Mexican capital amid political uncertainty and questions Madero's fit for governing.
In a Washington Star report a popular novelist recalls typo mishaps while correcting proofs at the Century club. He cites a famous line altered to there were roses strewn in my path like mud and jokes about the purity of the ballet in Roosevelt era discourse.
In a neighbors' ten cent poker session one player drew a single card after a pot bust. The hostess held a strong diamond hand, adding the six of diamonds. The husband protested the stake, but the wife replied she did not want to break a quarter.
A polecat stalks eels and rabbits under moonlight, battles a cat, and raids a farm yard fowl house until a farmer’s lantern misfires. The crafty predator feigns death and vanishes, leaving the farmer startled and the henhouse unharmed.
Edward Neville Vose cites the November World's Work noting a net freight car shortage of 8 620 on all roads after a 27 380 idle car surplus on September 12. With a booming crop movement and rising iron coal and manufactured goods, shortages may grow despite efforts to use the 2 250 000 cars.
The Baltimore Sun reflects on the enduring career of Uncle Joe Cannon noting he lasted long and wore well. The piece frames Cannon’s resilience as a consolation amid political turbulence and shifting factions.
A San Antonio letter urges President Wilson to appoint Fred Lancaster United States marshal for the Western District of Texas. The writer cites his seventeen years in government service and three years obtaining evidence against neutrality law violators along the Rio Grande, calling for a petition of twenty thousand signatures.
Freeman of Rosehill predicts a decade long shift to mausoleum burials as cities demand living space. Public mausoleums will hold thousands in space of graves, reducing disease risk and funeral processions while cemeteries become parks within fifty years.
A St. Louis Republic editorial quotes Senator Bailey as refusing to be responsible for drafting or defending the constitution any longer, signaling a political rebuke and concern over constitutional stewardship.
Archibald Henderson surveys Arthur Schnitzler, celebrating his fiftieth birthday and his status as a leading modern Austrian dramatist. He notes Schnitzler’s delicate craft, themes of twilight mood and sexuality, and the way Viennese theater shapes contemporary art and criticism.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a shortage in the sucker crop and laments the lack of coppering on Wilson as voters avoid democratic collecting for early Christmas shopping using proceeds and good judgment.
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