San Antonio Light September circulation figures shown
The San Antonio Light reports September 1911 circulation totals with daily averages and notes on exchanges free copies spoiled returns and unsold copies. The data lists multiple dates and figures around sixteen thousand per day, totaling 493 304 for the period and an average daily circulation of 17 010.
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San Antonio Light
Pui
Sisivas
Harvey L. Steele
The
San Antonio
John J. Wahl
Notary Public
Bexar Co
Tex
New York Fans Ready for 60000 at Baseball Championship
The New York National League club plans for 60,000 fans per game in the championship series with tickets selling fast in Chicago Cleveland and St Louis. Gate receipts may total about 150000 for players this year up from 79000 in 1910. Transport to the games will strain New Yorks elevated lines and subway with most fans likely to ride the elevated railway and face crowds and delays.
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Chicago
Cleveland
St. Louis
Suilroad
Humane Society
Ape
Ren
San Antonio Far From Games Played
The remark notes regret that San Antonio will be distant from the venue of the games while they are ongoing.
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San Antonio
Problem of Flying and the Future of Aerial Travel
The essay notes a $50 000 aviation contest and argues public interest wanes unless air travel gains practical value. It recalls Albany to New York and St Louis to the Atlantic flight proving feasibility, then urges aviators to master air transport to inspire lasting public support.
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North American
California
Albany
New York
Philadelphia
Atwood
St. Louis
Atlantic
Olympics
Teaching Thrift and the American Attitude toward Saving
The piece contrasts German thrift with American spending habits, noting the proverb In young days waste not in German culture and arguing Americans are criminally improvident. It suggests examining underlying causes before condemning thrift shortfalls rooted in historical attitudes.
Economy as Virtue and Its Broad Benefits Across Society
The article argues that economies and frugality once feared as narrow savings are actually broad social goods. It cites immigrant influx and corporate policy shifts toward saving, and notes a railroad circular equating freight haul costs to pennies and tools with saved funds. It concludes saving builds capital for development, aids future security, reduces taxpayer burden, and promotes a peaceful later life.
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Manhattan Island
Maryland
New Jersey
Eastern
Two Obadiahs Expected in Senate
The Boston Post reports the New York Sun notes that when the Senate convenes two Obadiahs may serve Maine's Obadiah Gardner and New Jersey's Frank Obadiah Briggs. The piece jokes the elder and younger Obadiah cannot share a dry exchange, as one hails from Maine.
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New York Sun
United States Senate
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Maine
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New Jersey
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Senate
The Men Why Not We Banner at Suffrage Parade
A suffragist parade in New York City saw several Teachers College faculty members among the participants. One professor led the male contingent and carried a banner reading The men, why not we, prompting amused comment from a friend.
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New York City
Teachers’ College
Success Magazine
The Arab at Lyceum Sets New Stage Contours
Edgar Selwyn’s play The Arab unfolds in a Syrian village and a mission yard, with Jamil Abdullah Azam as a conflicted dragoman torn between love and duty. Edna Baker, Walter Wilson, and Edward Mawson lead a cast that delivers a distinctive, period piece noted for its daring departure from convention and its portrayal of missionary peril and cross cultural tensions.
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Edgar Selwyn
Lyceum
Danscus
Edward Selwyn
Jamil Abdullah Azam
Orient
Edna Baker
Mary Hilbert
Walter Wilson
Robert Cruickshanks
Mechanicsburg
Ohio
Edward Mawson
Sayings of Woodrow Wilson From Success Magazine
The remarks emphasize change as history’s constant and warn against revolution. Wilson defends American self-possession and critiques corporate enthusiasm, urging vigilance against reform from within. He cautions against complacency and stresses perseverance to achieve genuine national purpose.
Johnny pleads for cake amid kitchen temptations
A boy named Johnny asks his mother for a single outing and a treat. Lured by smells from the kitchen he blurts out that there is plenty of pie and cake at home, then recalls his promise to his mother as he speaks.
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Johnny
Success Magazine
Grim-foreboded Tripoli saga across desert and empire
Chester Firkins narrates Tripoli with bleak imagery of Libyan wastes and a history of conquerors from Carthage to Rome to the Crusaders. He laments perpetual doom and foreign plunder, noting repeated shocks from buccaneers to modern battles and hunger in a land famed for misery and resilience.
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Chester Firkins
Saharan
Libyan
Harth
Poem and Suffrage Notices From the French Hymn and Kentucky Figures
An article recalls Rouget de Lisle composing what became La Marseillaise during the French Revolution and notes its renaming in Paris as the national song. It also mentions Mrs Desha Breckenridge speaking at the national suffrage convention in Nashville in October, and identifies Miss Laura Clay as president of Kentucky suffrage association.
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Rouget de Lisle
France
Strasburg
l’Armee du Rhin
Marseilles
Paris
Louis Philippe
Desha Breckenridge
Nashville
Henry Clay
South
Kentucky
Laura Clay
Kentucky Suffrage Association
Woman with a Frugal Fame Fights Hotel Bill Dramage
A penny pinching visitor, famed for memory and thrift, stayed a week in a local hotel. She balked at a fifty cent trunk drayage charge, insisting on the principle of not being swindled, until the manager confirmed the clerk’s charges after a memory test of last year’s visit.
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Hetty Green
Pica
Mammon
Dravage
Texas Congressman Ripples At Lunch Over Heiress Marrying Noble
Representative Henry of Texas lampoons the trend of American heiresses marrying foreign nobles for titles. He recalls a Texas girl with twenty millions who wed an earl, later dubbed Lord Laclands, who was famed for speeding. The law changed to fit his case and he quips he will put every car he owns in his wife's name.
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Henry
Texas
Washington
Lord Laclands
Laclands
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