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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1916
Page
4
The San Antonio Light announces its publication details including founding date January 20 1981 and address Nos. 509 511 Travis Street between Avenues C and D plus its association with the San Antonio Gazette and AP wire service for exclusive day reports.
An old classified ad outlines daily and Sunday newspaper delivery options. It lists carrier subscriptions for 1 month and 1 year and mail deliveries, with prices like 6.00 and 5.00 for yearly prepaid plans. The ad also mentions special Bingle copy daily or Sunday and includes garbled text segments.
The article describes Alfred Noyes’s portrayal of Britain's war production including 4000 government munitions plants and vast shipyards on the River Clyde. It notes a vast, continuous labor output, a goal of naval supremacy, and plans to dominate postwar world trade with a large merchant fleet while the United States lags in merchant marine expansion. The piece argues Britain will hold the strongest fleet and trade position after the war as nations contest for global commerce.
San Antonio prepares rules for the city’s municipal golf links with a citizens advisory board formed to guide adoption. The effort aims to engage all residents, including those not yet golfers, highlighting the course as a community asset and business booster.
The advisory board urges San Antonio to keep the municipal golf course free for players and tourists alike, arguing that fees would clash with its purpose as a free public recreation space and with the city’s tax-supported upkeep. It cites other cities’ rules but favors no charges except under unusual conditions.
H N Pope president of the Farmers Union challenges Congress over wage regulation for private rail labor. He questions fixing wages by law and warns that government control could spread to all workers. The union argues profits and political aims drive the stance while considering broader wage regulation implications.
The passage argues that while figures like Mr Pope may doubt class legislation, many employees are ready to accept their portion of allocations, revealing broad discontent. It contends Congress has breached paths to rising unrest among workers, capital, and the general public.
A critical aside on why wars persist, arguing that law cannot replace force without a shift in human nature and economics. The piece cites Belgium’s scrap of paper and calls for ending acquisitive desire through cooperation to achieve lasting progress postwar.
The state fish and oyster department reports the coming oyster crop will exceed the average. The Houston Post notes past coast conditions caused oyster deaths and warns predictions by authorities rely on nature, which is unpredictable.
In a Maine speech Speaker Champ Clark praised Hughes for hitting the mark but missing the bulls eye. The veteran Missouri Democrat blamed Hughes for making unsubstantiated charges against the administration, which records showed to be false, dampening enthusiasm for Hughes.
The Austin Galves ton route may be chosen for the final leg of the Puget Sound to the Gulf highway, over the San Antonio Corpus Christi path. Road conditions between Corpus Christi and San Antonio drive the debate. Northwestern and Central Texas counties plan a September 6 meeting in Austin to discuss the proposal. The project would use bonds along the route to build a continuous macadam road from Puget Sound to the gulf, per the Galveston Tribune.
The Milwaukee Journal extols returning to nature through Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. It praises how scouts in uniform discover summer pleasures and learn useful skills while guiding city youth back to outdoor heritage.
The Syracuse Herald notes the campaign trails Wilson focused elsewhere while the opponent speaks westward, with little enthusiasm reaching the Atlantic states. Public interest is dim, betting interest low, and estimates uncertain as October approaches.
Kendall county fair directors thank The Light for extensive praise that helped the event, noting limited funds prevented larger ads. They credit friendly ties between San Antonio business interests and Kendall county and anticipate more local business as a result. Gus Wollschlaeger president. L W King secretary. Mexico City. An American Girl congratulates the writer for the pacifist editorial and urges real men to pursue war efforts against pacifists.
The army medical department sent a hospital train from Fort Sam Houston to Hot Springs Arkansas carrying 150 convalescent patients for recovery. Captain H H Bailey led the mobile unit aboard ten cars with nurses and hospital corps. The move frees space at the base hospital for new arrivals while units march and regroup nearby.
Colonel Sanborn of the First Illinois infantry telegraphs from Springfield Illinois praising the San Antonio camp. He notes the unit has been in excellent health and well cared for, with soldiers hoping to remain at their home station and regrets the move as they prepared to muster out after earlier work at Landa Park.
A 17 year old from a large family seeks a winter home where he can earn his board by working afternoons. He is studious, willing to attend high school, and can milk a cow drive an automobile and do odd jobs. Interested parties should contact the San Antonio Humane Society at City Hall Travis 71.
Illinois delegates to the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Atlantic City petition State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne to appoint Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch as special prosecutor in the murder case of Mrs. Iva M. Barnes who is charged with killing her husband James R. Bagnes.
Delegates at the Woman Suffrage convention welcomed President Wilson with an ovation and praised his pledge to fight with them. The president urged patience while predicting victory, noting the movement has grown from a lawyerly to a social public issue and will prevail in time.
Jacques Lebaudy the self styled Emperor of the Sahara refused to accept 135189 for his remaining empire assets. The funds are with the state superintendent of banks after the Carnegie Trust Company collapsed. Lebaudy once controlled a desert kingdom with 500 followers and inherited millions but later fled Paris and then America.
A long list of guests and registrants at San Antonio hotels includes Thomas Folts Frank Huick and Mrs O L Brungell at the Gunter and Menger. Major G G Heiner and others from U S Army. F Perry of Birmingham. W J Boyle of Houston. Col Z Gordon and Miss Anna Dairdoff. F C Terrazas of Mexico. H E Gold and P H Hayes. Other entries name Laredo W J Sames Jr Brenham B Weaver and Lone Houstonians among hotel guests.
Vice President Marshall in Winchester cites Republican criticism of the Wilson administration and argues the party mainly seeks power. He claims Hughes’ stump speeches echo Senate orations and identifies progressive versus stand out factions, noting echoes of Gallinger Smoot Fall Penrose and others.
J Frank Hanley the prohibition candidate told a crowd in Fairbanks Illinois that Charles Warren Fairbanks supported prohibition abroad but opposed it at home. He quoted Fairbanks at Toronto as saying liquor traffic harms society and home life while a state convention kept silent on the issue and the national convention refused to condemn it.
Charters issued for Central Copse Creek Oil Company Houston with 40000 capital and six incorporators. George West Sewer Company George West Live Oak county 15000 capital. Luling Trading Company Luling 3500 capital. Park Hotel Company Seguin 10000 capital. Primrose Petroleum Company Dallas 30000. Texarkana Auto Supply Company Texarkana 10000. West Hotel Company George West 30000. Falstaff Manufacturing Company St Louis granted permit to do business in Texas with 20000 capital. Farmers Union Mercantile Snyder amends charter increasing capital from 1190 to 10000. Dissolutions filed for multiple Farmers gin companies and Independent Fruit Dallas.
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