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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1916
Page
4
The San Antonio Light paper history notes its founding date and merger with the Gazette. It lists filing details, distribution at the San Antonio post office, and the publication office address on Travis Street.
Rates listed include daily and Sunday carrier one month and one year options, daily and Sunday mail one month and one year in advance, and a Sunday carrier one year. Single copies available daily or Sunday via 850 weekly. The San Antonio Light advertises nationwide sale locations and multiple offices for Paul Block, Inc. in New York Chicago Boston Detroit.
The San Antonio Light announced September 1916 daily average circulation of 22,624 and Sunday edition 27,342, with net paid averages of 21,231 and 24,886 respectively. Certification by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, representing major North American publications, is cited as authoritative. The paper claims it can guarantee advertisers 50 percent more paid home circulation in San Antonio than any other newspaper.
The Chicago News cites returning Illinois National Guard troops from San Antonio as physically stronger, more ambitious, and more self-reliant after three months of service. It argues universal military training would extend these benefits to more men, boosting fitness, discipline, and responsible citizenship at a relatively low cost.
From a non partisan view Senator Ollie James says Wilson is a certainty reflecting middle west conditions. Democrats see two gains the accuracy of James’s impressions and the swing effect on doubtful regions. Republicans may dispute the landslide claim though the Kentuckian’s summary remains a notable political signal.
The piece argues Senator Ollie James overstates Hughes claims and notes Republicans falter while Democrats leverage prearranged, well staged receptions. It credits the Democratic machine with a highly prepared Midwest tour shaping public sentiment, contrasting with disjointed Republican efforts and perceived enthusiasm gaps for Hughes and Wilson.
A column argues that politics dominates foreign affairs during the U S presidential campaign. It criticizes Britain for delaying and then denying the American protest over the seizure of official mail, suggesting timing and strategy influenced by the election.
The piece argues belligerents pursue their own gains subject to international prudence. It notes neutrals pressure, observers restraint, and suggests Britain seeks to seize American mail for a concrete objective, not mere provocation, with U S government allowing it for now.
The Seguin Enterprise argues big interests and munition factories back Hughes, predicting prosperity under Republican administrations, while the average man and laborers have benefited from Wilson's laws and will back the man who aided them.
A Galveston Tribune idea argues war poverty and crime fade as people devote more time to others. Imperfect humanity may not reach perfection but reducing these evils through widespread sympathetic study of human failings would not be in vain.
The German chancellor vows Germany will stand firm against all attacks in a climactic war speech. He says the struggle on all fronts will be a battle to the death with no peace this year and the central powers must win or be lost against the world.
The Galveston News notes Roosevelt accuses Hughes of pussyfooting while urging voters to back Hughes, contrasting Roosevelt’s sharp condemnation of the Lusitania crime with Hughes’ cautious stance. The Worcester Post wonders if Hughes will address platform issues raised by party and nation.
Dean Spence of the school of engineering announces it is utterly impossible for the college to meet the demand for civil engineers across road, levee, railroad valuation work and related fields. All sixty eight June graduates hold good salary positions and future graduates will find abundant jobs. The profession offers pecuniary reward and a sense of national service.
The New York Post notes California Republicans reorganized the state central committee with all offices going to Governor Hiram Johnson supporters. It contrasts California with the rest of the country where Progressives’ return is debated, calling attention to Johnson’s decisive primaries and the Old Guard’s cool reception elsewhere.
A San Francisco Bulletin editorial laments returning militiamen who failed to kill at the border and condemns Americans who stayed home. It argues patriots keep regular work, seek profits, and boast about enlistment while criticizing wartime sacrifice and public rhetoric.
The Triangle program at the Majestic features William Hart in The Return of Draw Eagan with Louise Glaum as the vampire and Sir Beerbhom Tree in The Old Folks at Home. The drama traces a fireside tale of parental love, sacrifice, and a son drawn into adventure. Dull care is banished by She Loved a Sailor, Keystone’s latest laugh producer with Hugh Faye and Claire Anderson leading.
The Princess Theater promises affordable entertainment with a strong local bill this week. Miller Trope novelty act, Annita Primrose in character singing, Flying Baldwins trapeze, Mrs Frederick Allen's She Had to Tell Him, with Walter C. Wilson as Jim Maxwell, plus a Fox feature Hypocrisy starring June Caprice compose the program.
In New York on October 17 Frank P. Walsh criticized Theodore Roosevelt for opposing the Adamson eight hour law saying Roosevelt would create a super body to determine trade conditions. Walsh claimed Wilson has freed more slaves than Lincoln and unshackled business from a few men. Mary Ware Dennett urged open debate between women’s groups on the merits of the two candidates.
Lieutenant Stephanie Lauzanne, former editor of the Paris Mafin, arrives in New York on a mission for L Effort de la France et des Alles to foster Franco American friendship. He praises the United States, plans a six month tour to the Pacific, notes American aviators and ambulances in France, and says a Sorbonne reception with Boutroux and Millerand is set for November 13.
Berlin reports Nedjo Kerovic, conspirator in the 1914 Archduke assassination, has died in a military prison. Earlier, three conspirators were executed in 1915. Kerovic and Jakov Zilovic received life terms later commuted to twenty years. Gavrio Prinzio got twenty years.
Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson prepared to take the witness stand as State's Attorney Mackay Hoyne seeks to substantiate charges against Police Chief Healy. The session was set to begin in municipal court with ten police captains expected to follow.
President Wilson told a New Jersey indep endent delegation that the Democratic party is the only instrumentality for progressive legislation. Amos Pinchot and Rabbi Stephen Wise led the group to Shadow Lawn to pledge support from Battery to Buffalo. Wilson argued progressives must unite, accusing opposition leaders of aiming to control banks and back their financial ventures globally. He contrasted three aims of the three and a half million: depose the comptroller, control the banking system, and back army navy for private interests. The president noted many progressives had already influenced the Democratic party and warned of a stark choice between mass public interests and privately coordinated ones.
The Irish rebellion incident reviewed by Sir John Simon’s commission concludes no good grounds justified Lieutenant Morris detaining Skeffington or Captain Bowen-Colthurst shooting Skeffington and two others. Proclamations of martial law do not grant life-taking rights. Bowen-Colthurst judged insane after court martial.
New York dated October 17 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a ten day campaign tour for Hughes. He will travel by private train to Louisville then Denver then Phoenix Albuquerque and Chicago before returning to New York on October 28.
Detroit October 17 The National Safety Council began its fifth annual safety congress with universal safety as its slogan. Sessions run through Friday and include officials from industrial firms railroads and state labor commissioners. The danger signs committee is expected to report with a proposed universal warning sign.
Mexico warns Cuba over Havana newspaper attacks harming relations. Foreign Minister Aguilar notes protests to the Cuban State Department and says Mexico will suspend reciprocity obligations if the attacks continue, after assurances sought from Senor Santa Maria, Cuban chargé d affaires.
United States Marshal E. T. Erwin brought Nellie Dou glas a federal prisoner from Alaska to Colorado. She was sentenced to three years for robbery and was found in a remote Alaska area after a seven day dog sled journey to reach a railway station.
Charles E Hughes told a Omaha audience he would prevent an invisible government if elected president. He attacked the Adamson law, underwood laws and anti trust debates, urged upholding U S rights and peace without surrender to force, then headed to South Dakota.
In Reno Nevada F H Norcross chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court presided as women campaign train members visiting the United States in support of Hughes addressed a crowded theater. They challenged Democratic claims that President Wilson kept the country out of war. Mrs Katharine Davis president of New York Citys board of state pointed out that Norway Sweden Denmark Holland and Switzerland were not at war and asked who kept them at peace.
Mrs May De Luce of Chicago was killed by an electric shock believed to come from a heater while she prepared for a bath in her South Side residence. Physicians at the scene determined she contacted an electric fixture and the heater simultaneously.
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