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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
6
The piece recounts William F. Palmer of St. Louis divorcing after insisting on Biblical precepts for family life including rice and salt water cooking. It contrasts Palmer with a Times note on Colonel Lewis’s gun offer to the U.S. army and critiques the U S ordnance department for overconfidence and insularity.
The piece recounts how the Lewis machine gun attracted foreign adoption and criticism of U S acceptance. It notes inventor Colonel Lewis offered the weapon to the United States without compensation and that General Crozier denied United States government rejection, with supporting Times correspondence detailing offers in 1896 1900 and 1907.
The Ex-Students' Association of the University of Texas seeks to raise a $100,000 endowment loan fund to help students meet living expenses. The plan would require a life insurance policy as security, with premiums paid from the loan, creating a permanent fund to widen college access beyond the financially able.
Fragmentary text suggests that with proper handling concrete material could become equally worthy in the concrete. The passage implies a comparison to another material standard and notes potential improvements through technique.
The 1916 apple crop is expected to be about 9 million barrels smaller than 1915, with 67,679,000 barrels total. New York leads in Baldwin and McIntosh varieties, while Ben Davis shows strong statewide totals. overall supply hints at a weak market but prices likely stay firm.
A Dallas Journal quip notes Judge Landis fixed the bonds of a defunct bank receiver at 4c and 2c, mocking the era’s high paper costs and recalling his failed $29,000,000 Standard Oil Indiana fine.
Western railroads report a record summer of American travel with many tourists visiting national wonders in the West. The Dallas Journal notes Europe may regain appeal after the war, but the trips have instilled pride and redirected millions of dollars into American channels and uses.
The Beaumont Enterprise notes General Pershing’s force in Mexico halts Columbus and Big Bend raids. Carranza authorities struggle to constrain bands as Pershing and Funston coordinate to trap raiders, leaving raiders with little chance of success.
A Fresno Republican meditation contrasts Shackleton’s stranded marooned party on Elephant Island with a hypothetical world war. It notes how people assume rationality and civilization, while the unimaginable events of a protracted global conflict unfold beyond belief.
King Oscar Otto of Roumelia survives a near miss when an armed fanatic fails to kill him at Zagora. The would-be killer is overpowered and pardoned, while the ruler's popularity soars before renewed misrule returns. Papafrondis later kills the king, then flees with a pension drawn abroad.
UT students voted themselves a blanket tax of 6 50 per person to cover admission fees for athletic and debating events and subscriptions to student publications. Although optional, 2500 students have paid, bringing in 16 250 00 in receipts to fund large audiences for university meetings. A separate joke exchange about wealth and marriage accompanies the item.
Emma Bunting brings Within the Law to the Grand Opera House with Aggie Lynch as the lead in a lavish production. The noted Broadway sensation, famed for its crook drama, opens Sunday with a matinee and runs amid late world series broadcasts on stage.
Kenny headlines a seven act bill at the Majestic Theatre with solid new material and strong crowd response. The program includes The New Producer, Visions in Fairy land, Adler and Arlene, Hale Norcross and Company, Bert and Betty Wheeler, The Larneds on wheels, and a novel cabaret afterpiece through Sunday night.
The Princess show opens Thursday for a three day run featuring Harry Milton’s trained dogs and The Three Hickey Girls who charm the audience with a singing act. Grindell and Esther dance well, Burke Brothers and Kendall juggle to applause, and Virginia Pearson stars in A Tortured Heart with scenes on Southern estates and live oaks.
The Federal Farm Loan Board will resume information gathering hearings to divide the nation into twelve districts and locate the banks created by the Rural Credits Act. Hearings will run from November into early 1920, with seats in Atlantic Gulf states and as far as Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Aiming to have banks ready February 1, the board reports about 6000 applications for positions. A Hawaii petition seeks extending the act to territories Alaska and Hawaii to aid island farmers facing high rates and short-term loans.
About one thousand students, roughly 40 percent of the total, are women at the University of Texas. Nine young women study journalism, twelve study law, and women now attend architecture, medicine, pharmacy, and business training, breaking a long tradition of male dominance.
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