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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1916
Page
4
The San Antonio Light announces inclusive leased wire day AP service details and subscription rates for the publication, including mailing address at 609 511 Travis Street and service terms for readers.
The San Antonio Light reports August 1916 daily average circulation of 24 178 copies and Sunday edition 28 422. Net paid averages are 22 618 daily and 25 853 Sunday. Audit Bureau of Circulation certified the figures and endorses the paper to advertisers with higher paid home circulation.
City council announces forthcoming action to curb open cut-out noise as police pledge enforcement. The nuisance, heard near hospitals hotels and streets, has long lacked police response though officials previously warned and later backtracked.
The article argues Verdun and Somme were not the same type of battle. Both were offensives that gained ground and produced prisoners, but Verdun carried a political burden for Germany. Germany aimed a decisive blow before Allied superiority, hoping to break France.
The piece argues Verdun was not a true fortress and contrasts German aims at Verdun with Allied pushes on the Somme. It analyzes how ground gained or lost affects line length and manpower, explains the V-shaped salient, and connects Mexican stability to American troop withdrawals.
U S and Mexican commissioners at New London report a stalemate on whether General Pershing and troops should remain in Mexico. U S seeks to improve fundamentals to reduce the need for troops, while Mexico argues conditions would improve if American forces withdraw. The piece stresses U S border safety as central and notes Mexico’s vast challenges in restoring order.
The letter urges sharp inquiry into reports that British agents opened and inspected U S navy mail in Shanghai. It compares Britain’s actions to past aggressions, insists no government may open official mail, and warns Wilson policy must deter such abuses to avoid further challenges to neutral rights.
The Public Health notice reports 25 people arrested in Houston for failing to cut weeds on premises. The city health department imposed five days to comply with clean-up orders. arrests follow if conditions are not remedied, reflecting strict sanitation enforcement by the modern city.
A Beaumont Enterprise editorial argues Washington should avoid meddling in China and notes trouble already brews nearby. It cites unrest in Haiti and the Panamanian republic and warns the United States risk overreach by expanding abroad.
After Russia's Resources. A great corporation organized by the most powerful financiers in the country have sent a army of engineers to Russia to make further investigation into developing Russian resources with American capital. Russia has a marvelous treasure-house of riches which need capital and American push to develop them. The war will probably cause Russia to leap forward about a century in progress. The development of Russia should prove a good thing for the capitalists and for both countries.
The Louisville Courier Journal criticizes speculation in food during distress and the public indifference to losses from bets. The Beaumont Enterprise reports Fort Worth authorities breaking up speeding with five days of arrests and fines, arguing that first offenders risk fatal harm and urging no leniency.
Asta Kristinsen paints a sunlit Mediterranean and a Danish spring as a northern girl and an Italian musician fall in love by chance. Their romance begins with a shared glance but fate, social divides, and instinct pull them apart, leaving the couple separated as time dulls their bright hopes.
The Majestic Theater opens a new vaudeville bill this matinee at 2 30 with Amelia Stone and Armand Kalisz headlining Edgar Allan Woolf's Ma amselle Caprice a capricious hotel dining room couple Also on the program are Al Shayne in The Singing Beauty Elsie Williams in Who's to Blame the Breen Family in novelty juggling Hathaway and McShayne Four Roses dancing act and Silver and Duval Simplicity with a two show day through Sunday.
Miss Munson stars as the central figure in many famous paintings in Purity at the Princess this week. The film weaves a poet and a wildwood beauty romance with scenes of girls dancing under trees and by streams. Nigell de Bruil ler portrays Thornton the poor poet wandering in Arcady amid capable direction and high order photography.
Berlin dispatch reports Admiral von Tirpitz accused by Professor Valentin of giving incorrect information to the Reichstag on submarine numbers and campaign plans. Valentin, in the foreign office, prints letters with Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg. Tirpitz seeks Valentin disciplined.
King Haakon of Norway told Swedish and Danish ministers at a Christiania dinner that Scandinavia remains united in neutrality. The remarks came during a series of conferences in the Norwegian capital with the Scandinavian ministers of state.
Brooklyn bakers adopt a resolution urging President Wilson to call a special session of Congress to declare an export embargo on wheat. They seek federal and state investigations into flour price increases, warning flour could top 14 dollars per barrel and bread 20 cents per loaf next spring without action.
The band leader halts the music to scold a new trombone player who claims he can beat the band. The trombonist retorts that he can indeed play to beat the band, prompting a humorous exchange about timing and skill.
A reader writes about President Wilson abusing foreign policy in Mexico and Haiti, accusing him of interference, abandonment of Americans, and inconsistent rhetoric. The letter claims Carranza crimes, confiscation threats, and amnesty abuses, ending with a harsh personal verdict calling Wilson a peanut shuck.
In a courtroom exchange a barrister explains the murder acquittal was based on insanity. He reveals his client’s father spent two years in an asylum, a fact not disclosed at trial because there was no time. The father was a doctor there.
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