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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
6
The San Antonio Light publishes its August 1911 circulation figures. Net paid daily circulation totals 16 166, verified and sworn by circulation manager Harvey L Steele before Notary John J Wahl.
The paper notes 1013 new subscribers added in August, bringing Tre Licur to about 80 percent of occupied San Antonio homes. It emphasizes the evolving role of a daily newspaper and the need for accurate reporting, engaging cartoons, and honest opinion.
The piece notes King Alfonso’s friendly reception of a republican Bilboa club president and suggests monarchies may tolerate modern republican ideas. It reflects on constitutional limits, public modernizing attitudes, and the possibility that monarchs could drift toward republican self awareness.
The Lieut newspaper touts its capability to print world news with accuracy akin to New York, Washington, or Chicago papers. It highlights that it is now printing news on the day it happens and credits rising reader numbers, including 1013 new subscribers in San Antonio.
A newspaper accuses Illinois residents and Chicago gunmen of poor shooting tied to criticism of Texas rifle team at Camp Perry Ohio. It recalls prior editorials offering to help Chicago police and public with “fine shooting” cautions and mocks a shooter with a low hit percentage.
The Texas rifle squad, picked as the best in the state, finished twenty second at the national tournament at Camp Perry, four places behind Illinois in eighteenth. The paper laments the poor showing, noting it betrays Texas’s confidence in its athletes. It also warns city restrictions threaten street laborers’ pay, risking loan shark exploitation.
The Oklahoma City team is described with noted quirks and the Texas league may favor local teams, suggesting reluctance to admit out-of-state aggregations in future coverage.
The St Louis Times praises Roger Quarles Mills as a leading Texas figure who helped his party gain power after decades. It notes his role with Cleveland and Carlisle as a democratic triumvirate and his lasting influence through the Mills bill as a reference for the party and a notable part of his legacy.
The Utica Observer notes that Mills arrived in the senate in 1892 and quickly claimed a rightful position. It portrays him as a dominant personality whose forceful presence marked the era, unmatched by southern senators since the old era of southern dominance.
The Springfield Republican notes Mr. Mills as a picturesque southerner with old school dash who shaped public life. He lived to see his radicalism fade and his views become conservative, illustrating rapid political change over the past quarter century.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch notes Roger Q Mills of Texas aided the promotion of a rational tariff system. Recounting his early role as the Underwood 20 years ago, the piece credits him with battling for the ultimate consumer before La Follette Norris Clark Litteton and others became known. It states he survived to see tariff burdens affect both major parties and honors his long service.
A Texan speaker compares Texas to vast feats of size. He imagines one grand single grain of wheat in the Grand Canyon, a single corn ear requiring steam to shell, a cow that could span from the tropics to the north pole, and other exaggerated single creatures clouding the planet with their scale.
The Utica Observer notes Texas rainmakers used dynamite to trigger rain, starting Friday, August 25, with a loud explosion followed by widespread rainfall across Port City and much of Texas and beyond. The piece thanks a bold Texan for the purchase and blasting that benefited neighbors.
A historical overview recounts Galileo'sannouncement of the weight of the air on September 1, 1564 and Torricelli's 1645 barometer proving air pressure. It notes vast atmospheric extent, high sea level pressure, and the barometer’s life-saving practical uses in navigation, architecture, and mining.
The Galveston News notes the International Fair in San Antonio will designate a good roads day with talks by highway experts. The plan, urged by the Bexar County Highway League, promotes a San Antonio to gulf highway linking Orange to Brownsville and a 1000 mile Texas system improving coastal traffic and farm transport.
A man bursts into a drug store claiming his head is growing from a mysterious treatment. The proprietor learns a new clerk mistakenly sold Bust Developer instead of Hair Restorer, causing a comical mix-up and explanation.
Colonel Bryan accuses the steel trust of intimidating Theodore Roosevelt, asserting the trust pressured political actions beyond Bryan’s past efforts. The remark frames a clash between industrial power and reformist leadership.
Mona Lisa gone. What American millionaire is suspected. The New York American reports a mystery surrounding a missing art treasure and a high profile financier as the case unfolds with questions about an alibi.
A poet recalls heeding a doctor’s advice to rest by the water and enjoy leisure. He details a seaside respite with sunbathing, long tennis, golf, deep-sea fishing, feasting, dancing, and socializing, ending with the doctor praising quiet and nature’s healing effect.
The Galveston News reports a worsening clash between Governor Colquitt and Attorney General Lightfoot. Lightfoot claims he proposed a modus vivendi to set aside personal animosities for state service, which Colquitt allegedly rejected. The quarrel risks harming state interests and dignity, fueling recall debates.
Not a Latinist Takashi Komatsu praised Latin during a Harvard commencement dinner in Cambridge. He recalled attending a Boston dance where a debutante asked about the casus belli, sparking her mother to correct the misquote with a joke about saying stomach.
A friend recounts a tale from Arkansas about a cotton mouth moccasin in swampy cypress areas. After a confrontation, the snake supposedly died with fangs embedded in a dead tree, and the storyteller offers to show the culprit tree to visitors.
Professor Harry Thurston Peck recalls an English accent quirk at a New York literary dinner. A Chicago millionaire in London asks an elderly duchess to dance and she declines saying she is danced out. He retorts that she is not darned stout, only pleasantly tired.
A geological survey bulletin states the term Yankee derives from the Massachusetts Indian pronunciation of English as Yengeese. Virginians allegedly called New England inhabitants cowards for not aiding in a war with the Cherokees, a label accepted after Bunker Hill for their bravery.
Copyright 1910 Geo. Matthew Adams. A speaker warns a man about marrying Arabella, praising her beauty while noting alleged laziness and sassiness. The verse argues a girl who sassess her mother will mislead and disappoint as a wife, urging him to seek another partner.
Governor Colquitt visited San Antonio last Saturday to oversee Alamo properties and announced restoration to near original appearance. He urged approval by Texas citizens, noting the Alamo as a state asset and San Antonio’s historical cornerstone.
The Chicago Journal recalls Roosevelt’s earlier criticism by Wall Street and notes a shift as he defends his Tennessee Coal and Iron Company actions. The piece contrasts past hostility with current acceptance, highlighting changing attitudes toward his policy choices and leadership.
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