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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1913
Page
10
The piece traces President Wilson's broadside against a widespread lobbying culture and notes how lobbies of all sizes have multiplied in the capital. It argues lobbying has become a fashionable, pervasive practice influencing nearly everyone from officials to service workers.
An advertisement urges readers to invest in Harbor City and Harbor City Terminal Corporation before anticipated Mexico trade turmoil. It claims a large wave of Mexican activity will boost Gulf Coast harbors, especially Port of Aransas, and offers two lots plus a share of profits as a promotion incentive. A. D. Powers, 107 Avenue D.
Topeka reports that Kansas girls are taught that a good breakfast served daintily prevents bad temper, with humorous examples of fathers misbehaving when meals are not pleasing. The piece links breakfast quality to behavior and moral order in Kansas households.
Under Britain’s agriculture director, ladybugs are sent from California to the West Indies to combat the black scale, part of reciprocity with the Antilles. The Chalcid fly arrived earlier for trial, but many have died as acclimation proves hard. An electric fan now helps regulate temperature at the state insectary.
A Philadelphia Telegraph cartoonish tale recounts Uncle Josh and Cousin Hez in a corner grocery chat. Hez complains of various ailments after reading a new almanac sent by a druggist, while Josh questions his health and mocks his reading habit.
In most parts of India protection against malaria mosquitoes, which bite mainly at night, is urged as essential. The use of wire screens to keep insects out of houses remains almost unknown.
Boston hosts the American Catholic Missionary Congress at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross with over eighty bishops and archbishops from the United States Canada Mexico and the Philippines attending opening ceremonies. Cardinal OConnell will lead the procession and Monsignor Bozano will celebrate mass. The sessions run Monday to Wednesday with major addresses by James E. Quigley Joseph Schrembs and others and include foreign and home mission discussions in Boston and surrounding towns.
In Everett Washington stray mail addressed to the Turkish ambassador in Washington sometimes arrives in Sultan a mountain town in Snohomish county. The letters are directed to FE Youssouf Ambassador of the Sultan Washington America. Postal workers can read Sultan Washington but the French postscript puzzles them.
A long column notes numerous arrivals and stoppers at San Antonio hotels including Herschel Case of Pleasanton at the Savoy L B Bennett Natalia at the Gunter J R Woods Fort Smith Ark at the St Anthony and many others from Dallas Austin Houston Palestine and more. Also touts Harlendale Hot Sulphur Baths as San Antonio's greatest asset with free booklet and direct car service.
James J. Hill of St Paul through Judge Thomas Burke today established a permanent Washington State Museum and preserved the forestry building on the State University campus by gifting $6000. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition timbered building features fir columns in natural bark and walls clad in bark with a veranda of cut slabs.
Genz Miles directs troops and Buffalo Bill Cody in a documentary style reenactment of 1850s battles for a Washington archive. Brass. Baldwins. Maus. Major Johnson appear as veterans. Automobilists test camphor as fuel additive to boost mileage. Curtiss used similar in motorcycles and aircraft engines.
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