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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1911
Page
6
The fragment mentions August and San Antonio with references to average daily circulation exchanges free copies spoiled returns and unsold copies. It is a partial OCR item lacking clear events or names to form a full card.
The piece argues that murdering Premier Stolypin cannot improve Russia’s governance. It asserts violent change yields repression, harms liberty, and that Russia’s people and government are bound by the people’s will. It notes the Tsar remains venerated and that liberty requires study of governance.
The Texas cattle raisers plan to form a selling agency to secure fair market prices, challenging packers who have long paid insufficiently. Ed C. Lasater’s communications with Swift & Co. are cited as evidence of unfair treatment, urging cattlemen to match packers’ salesmanship with stronger buying and marketing power.
The text argues Russia’s political stasis stems from military despotism. It claims the tsar’s reliance on the army preserves autocracy, noting army ignorance and discipline block reform. It predicts the army may become a force for progress, eventually leading to better government once enlightenment prevails.
The New York Evening Post notes baseball’s rapid rise in American life. It commends managers for curbing rowdyism and improving player quality while expanding grandstands and spectator accommodations as the sport gains widespread enthusiasm.
A thoughtful discourse on baseball tracing its rise as a democratic pastime uniting diverse social classes. It praises the game's openness, moral influence, and wholesome character while noting Puritan excesses and the ongoing search for a perfect form of play.
The ministers who gained some notoriety by denouncing John J Astor and his bride must retire back into obscurity until the fair Gaby begins to disport herself.
Chicago housewives testify that husbands should learn to carve the turkey though their understanding of cooking it remains unclear. The remarks reflect domestic role discussions shaping kitchen duties within the home.
A Cambridge professor claims a powder three times as powerful as dynamite. Providence appears to aid the scientist as ordinary explosives have failed to move Lori mer, suggesting an extraordinary breakthrough or intervention.
Residents wonder about the usefulness of an incinerator when most waste remains stored in backyards and alleys. Officials discuss planned steps to improve waste management and curbside pickup.
Henry Clay Beattie assigns fault to Euelah Binford for a recent lapse, but the rationale offers no fresh or convincing justification.
A young couple married in a Sherman undertaking parlor chose an unconventional way to show their commitment. They decided to live as matrimonial dead ones, signaling a lifelong bond in a stark, symbolic gesture.
The Advance essay wonders how ancient Genesis aligns with later science asking why the earth appears with a beginning and pause before life and why grasses precede animals. It notes harmonies such as land emergence, water life first, and man last, suggesting inspiration behind these coincidences.
The Carnegie Foundation scientists achieved the first measurement of boiling lava temperature at Kilauea. After two failed attempts the third pyrometer experiment recorded 1010 degrees centigrade, marking a world first in lava heat measurement.
The article explains intermittent fevers as symptoms of illnesses and uses malaria as a primary example. It describes how germs multiply, destroy white blood cells, and cause regular chills every 24 hours, with fever during intervals. Treatment targets the underlying germ, not the chills and fever, and emphasizes professional medical diagnosis.
Leslie's Weekly cautions against years of bitter attacks on wealth and corporations by sensational writers. It cites demagogues and a Canonsburg false fire alarm tragedy where 26 people died amid a deadly stampede, most of them children, as proof of public harm from sensationalism.
In a Albany linked reflection the New Orleans States notes Senator Joseph W Bailey of Texas will not seek re election. It says he is out of touch with the progressive wing and that his retirement is wise though unlikely to draw Democratic regret. It predicts continued conflict with the party after leaving the Senate.
An observer reports a neighborly ruse centered on a portrait and a mysterious Liza figure. The tale details jealousy, class pretensions, and a household plotted around a supposed kidnap motive as Mrs Jones imitates the Liza from a picture.
At a luncheon in San Antonio the Medina river irrigation promoter Dr. S F Pearson urged Texas to adopt decisive steps to turn immigration away from New York toward Texas. He noted Texas gains a large share each year while many desirable immigrants head to the Pacific northwest where conditions are not better.
Poem tribute to John Greenleaf Whittier as winter sun and age mark a poet in a historic mansion. Voices from the nation rise in song, recall his life, and bless his memory with a celestial summons and hope.
The London Chronicle discusses chewing as a habit for one meal a day adherents. Diet experts define a chewer as anyone who keeps biting until taste ends. Gladstone reportedly took thirty two bites per mouthful, while Eustace Miles notes bananas and bread costs hundreds to thousands of bites per item.
Holden, a New York bird dealer, keeps a taciturn parrot. A Cuban lady speaks Spanish to it, the bird responds loudly in Spanish, and she asks if the parrot understands Spanish. Holden truthfully says no, and she departs.
A dated poem mocks a husband’s domineering behavior and a wife who endures scorn. The speaker contrasts a weary life of chores with the husband’s prattling and public recall of a fake referendum. The verse condemns mistreatment and praises practical resilience.
A New York City woman received a five pound candy box a dozen American Beauty roses and a telegram announcing a visitor for Sunday. The message International code Isle of View puzzled her until the telegraph office failed to help and she finally decoded the phrase as I love you revealing a romantic confession.
The John N. Macomb arrived in Vicksburg from St Louis and during its Memphis to Vicksburg voyage destroyed 187 snags. Snags are trees and driftwood that threaten navigation by deflecting currents and invalidating charts. Sixty snags were removed near Bolivar on the ship’s last cruise.
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