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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1916
Page
4
The San Antonio Light is a historic daily newspaper founded in 1881 in Texas, later merging with the San Antonio Gazette to form a consolidated publication serving the city with local news, editorials, and community notices.
U S exports set a September record with 512.8 million dollars in shipments. Twelve month totals rose to about 5 billion, while imports ran 2.31 billion for the year ending September, giving a favorable trade balance of roughly 2.66 billion. Gold inflows surged to 85.7 million in September and 456.0 million for the year.
Viscount Grey addresses a Foreign Press Association luncheon in London calling for a sensible postwar peace basis. He urges nations to bind themselves to a common object of peace only to the extent they can uphold by force, stressing preparedness at crisis times.
Land Commissioner J. T. Robison urges a graduated tax to break up Texas vast land holdings. The piece weighs three viewpoints from large landowners, aspiring landlords, and cautious economic reformers, arguing redistribution could boost wealth and employment without unfair targeting.
The piece argues for uniform land taxation across urban and rural areas to avoid value disparities. It notes taxing land, not owners, would require equal treatment of large and small holdings. It warns exemptions by acreage could skew incentives and equity between parcels of equal productivity.
Halifax authorities extinguished nearly all street lights and drawn blinds to deter Zeppelin attack and save energy. The measure echoes London safety practices and mirrors fear of Atlantic raids amid the European conflict.
The Boston Globe notes that prosperity is self sustaining and not tied to war or peace talks. It cites multiple investigations that confirm strong business conditions stand on their own, unaffected by the conflict’s end.
A Beaumont Enterprise column ridicules a German U-boat the U-53 for vanishing without allowing peace advocates a chance to confront its captain. The piece muses the submarine might return so critics can voice impotent rage at a foreign nation.
Acting Chairman Will C. Hogg of the university board of regents says there will be no faculty dismissals from the investigation of complaints and charges. He notes executive session proceedings will be transcribed and published and asks press and public to suspend judgment until the full record is available.
J K Barclay bets he will not be torpedoed aboard the Carolina as it sails toward Ireland. A drifting mine sinks the liner in the North Atlantic forcing lifeboats to launch. Barclay escapes by swimming to a Swedish ship and settles the stake with Madeleine Fargette for the Red Cross.
Thirty two military aeroplanes of every type including battle, pursuit, bombarding and training craft will arrive in San Diego before year end. Pursuit planes will be single seaters with rapid fire guns and speeds over ninety miles an hour, reportedly the first War Department order for training military aviators.
The engagement opens with Victory Morley headlining at the Majestic in A Regular Army Man a musical comedy march of mirth with a sixteen member company and one woman. Lillian Herlein Eddie Carr Willing Bentley Willing Those Scrappy Coons and The Office Boy are part of the billed attractions along with The Three Stewart Sisters and other vaudeville acts.
Miss Emma Bunting and company will not appear at the Bee hoven Hall Saturday matinee of A Woman's Way. Two extra matinee performances are added at the Grand Opera House on Thursday and Friday. Bunting will rest Saturday and return next week in Salome Jane, a new stock play never before shown in San Antonio.
A chorus appears in beautiful snappy gowns as the production loosens strings for public access. The show is billed as the most wonderful modern Arabian Nights entertainment to date and seats went on sale this morning.
San Antonio public schools superintendent Charles Meek backs a Made in San Antonio exhibit to promote local brands. At a Manufacturers' Club meeting in the Gunter Hotel, Meek and county schools head P Stewart outlined city and county pupil interest and parental support for the exposition featuring firms such as Pioneer Flour Mills, Union Meat, Steves Sash and Door, and more.
United States mail will be carried by airplane from Chicago to New York within a few days. Victor Carson is named the aerial mail carrier and arrived in Chicago as Postmaster Campbell works to arrange the service for the trip.
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