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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1918
Page
7
The San Antonio Light, founded 1881, and its companion Gazette share exclusive leased wire coverage from the Associated Press. The historic pair serve as premier local newspapers delivering national and regional news under a unified wire service feed.
Texas A&M College through its bureau of animal industry and extension department reports practical steps to ease drought pressures by listing winter grazing lands in Oklahoma Louisiana Mississippi Georgia and Florida. Landowners set rents per head per month or season with tick infestation rules protecting Texas cattle.
A nostalgic piece explains Texas as the home of the turkey and urges a celebratory Thanksgiving roast. It lauds Texas turkeys as ideal, while noting scarcity and high prices. The text explores varied methods as it previews how to roast a turkey, emphasizing regional pride and tradition.
The piece argues federal ownership of railways telegraphs telephones and cables as a war measure justifying government control during peace negotiations and amid world turmoil. It notes Republican opposition and Democratic ambivalence while warning such policy could shape a national election and provoke great good or evil.
A lyrical tribute to mothers guiding the home ritual of Thanksgiving and Christmas cooking. The piece evokes the hot oven, secret techniques, and the grand moment when a brown turkey is lifted from the pan and served on a family heirloom platter, prompting a warm, shared sentiment.
The passage argues that public sentiment on the issue will be hard to measure by ballot due to its entanglement with other major topics. It suggests the problem will ultimately require statesmanship, and that the next Congress has a role to play in resolving it.
The article asserts ongoing, intensified shipbuilding in peace, led by Charles M. Schwab, who vows all planned tonnage will be built and launched. It notes shifts to prioritize cargo and some passenger capacity, and credits wartime policy changes and renewed US merchant marine strength for future prosperity.
A dated ledger-like mix resumes with a verse on influenza urging bed rest, doctor advice, and morale, followed by quotations about Lloyd George and a playful children’s poem about squeezing into small spaces, attributed to Olive Beaupres Miller and others.
Daniel Blumenthal former Reichstag member and Colmar mayor predicts upheaval as German troops return, saying Ebert is a mere figurehead and the Kaiser’s regime collapses. He warns of future violence, bloodshed and disorder, comparing Germany’s reckoning to Russia’s Bolshevik era and urging caution about radical forces.
A jumble of quirky items, jokes, and quotes from the Marihuana Gazette. Snippets touch on love, politics, war, editors, punishment, and odd observations about society, with names and places loosely scattered and a satirical, irreverent tone.
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