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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1913
Page
4
The San Antonio Light, established 1881, combined with the Gazette and distributed as an evening daily and Sunday morning edition. It carried AP wire reports and was mailed as second class matter from San Antonio.
Daily and Sunday subscriptions for 1 month 50 cents and 1 year 6 dollars appear alongside mall delivery 50 cents per month and annual advance 5 dollars. Sunday 1 year 200 dollars and 1 year mail 1660. Office locations include New York 230 Fifth Avenue Chicago Masters Bidg Boston Tremont Bidg.
Urban planners advocate long term, consistent policies to replace piecemeal improvements. San Antonio adopts a forward strategy, acknowledging antiquated practices and aiming to reform for future growth. A Newburgh New York social survey sparked shock by exposing widespread mismanagement.
The United States faces a serious diplomatic moment over Mexico as Huerta rejects U S demands and Carranza’s Constitutionalists gain leverage. Washington’s talks with Carranza collapsed when Hale could not show authority, leaving the U S without standing with any faction and prompting cautious, high-stakes diplomacy ahead.
The report shows two city groups reacting differently with one urging immediate reform while the other accuses efforts of blackening the city’s name. Recent events indicate blind critics grow smaller as the city advances once it commits to progress.
A Paris resident and Wilde’s nephew claims the Irish writer may still be alive and that the interred casket held two Wilde pieces a tragedy and a comedy. He notes no funeral casket opened, fueling belief in the poet's supposed grave. The claim echoes similar long standing legends about famous figures.
The Wholesale Co-Operative Society of England celebrates its 50th year with a record of rapid growth and broad production. Founded in 1863 with $10,000 capital, it now reports $40,000,000 capital and $150,000,000 in annual sales. It manufactures shoes, furniture, soap, flour, and more, and operates farms, dairies, creameries, and tea plantations. J. T. W. Mitchell led the society 1874 to 1895, devoting all energy despite modest personal wealth. Cooperation in England sustains notable, sacrifice‑driven leadership.
The Mexico City authorities fined a Mexican army officer forty pesos and twenty days in jail, with the sentence remitted, for shooting American immigration official Charles B. Dixon in Juarez. The incident provoked strong U S protest and was described as a polite slap that acknowledged contempt for the United States.
A St Louis Post Dispatch note comments on Paderewski suing to stop a rival pianist from advertising as nearly as good. The author curses the rival’s self praise and prefers silence to further petty backbiting in this publisher’s clash of reputations.
The Inter state Commerce Commission faces a lengthy project to value all U S railroad properties. The effort aims to establish a scientific rate basis, reduce future litigation, and guide future railroad legislation. The cost is justified by the long term clarity and fairness it promises.
A Paris writer recalls Mme. Medianne who sought a divorce from a distant husband, became secretly engaged to an army officer believed dead in Timbuctoo, and pressed for a bag of soil from his grave. Felix Dubois retrieved the dirt. years later she reappears, married, and the narrator keeps the bag, never revealing its fate.
A late afternoon tea costume for a young woman features dark green cloth with a pointed coat-tail and a Roman striped silk sash tied at the back. The outfit includes wide and narrow braid trimming echoing the sash, buttoned boots peeping from a short skirt, and bright ribbon sashes to complete the look.
William Faversham's Julius Caesar at the Grand Opera House is praised as the most finished Shakespearean interpretation since Mansfield. Cassius is played by R. D. MacLean, Brutus by Ernest Rowan, with Calpurnia and Portia impressively cast. Faversham's Antony diverges in a natural, nonheroic oratory style, moving Shakespeare toward popular modern drama.
A narrator keeps a dusty, forgotten token that reappears as a tomb stone over a blooming romance. The object symbolizes the inconstancy of woman and clutters life with dirt and ashes, haunting them whenever memory slips.
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