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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1916
Page
6
An essay urges city golfers to learn proper conduct at the new links. It cites a St. Louis club incident over ball prices and a boy's probation as a cautionary tale. The piece insists on buying balls from reputable dealers and upholds the sport’s proper spirit.
Report from New London on the prolonged talks between American and Mexican representatives. It notes Villa’s raid on Chihuahua, the retreat with loot and defecting Carranza troops, and the unclear, conflicting accounts of military movements.
The article argues Trevino failed to decisively strike Villa during a northern Mexico assault. It contends a Trevino win would have altered Pershing’s Mexican stance and peace prospects. Villa’s escape is seen as strengthening Mexico’s internal disorder critique at the New London conference.
The El Paso International Irrigation Congress plans a Wilson border trip to dedicate Elephant Butte dam and to expose delegates and Americans to life in Mexico. The piece argues such a visit could improve understanding of Mexico and border conditions, influencing future U S Mexican policy.
A dispatch reports Cincinnati will host a gigantic pretzel combine with capital stock of 2.5 million dollars. The plan envisions millions of pounds of pretzels produced annually and positions Cincinnati as the center of this new industry.
A humorous essay argues pretzels mock prohibition by their universal appeal. It notes bread varies in size, pretzels sold by the pound, and demand rising with prohibitionist activity. The piece underscores that where pretzels thrive, prohibition fades. Long live the pretzel.
The German ambassador says Germany will treat any U S loan to Belgium during occupation as null and void. The piece argues the move affects Germany little and frames loans to Belgium as a separate matter from U S obligations. It notes Belgium would repay the loan, not Germany, and questions the usefulness of the German notice.
A Temple Telegram quotation reports life insurance men at a convention warning that speed maniacs and joy riders pose greater death risk than infantile paralysis or war. The peers suggest if auto speeders continue they may be deemed prohibitive hazards uninsurable by conservative companies.
A Michigan inmate earned a prison law degree via correspondence, left parole to commit forgery, and was returned to prison. The piece casts doubt on whether education mitigates crime and notes the dangers of an educated thief, especially a lawyer, ending with a blunt verdict on penitentiary containment.
A Beaumont Enterprise note praises sending expert rice cooks to the border to prepare cereal for soldiers on guard. It calls the effort a good investment, says rice becomes appetizing and healthy when cooked by regional methods, and urges more advertising of this kind to create greater demand.
The Public commends the Senate for rejecting a proposed reduction of the income tax exemption. It argues that indirect taxes already hit small incomes hard, constituting a 5 to 10 percent burden for the average wage earner. Any further cut should accompany abolition of indirect taxes.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger defends Ambassador Gerard against German attacks linking him to British prisoners and submarine remarks. It credits his service in difficult posts and his role in averting a diplomatic break between Germany and the United States.
A Beaumont Enterprise letter urges waiters to keep hands from food and drinks. The writer cites milk caps pressed with thumbs, butter spread by hands, and dishwashers with dripping fingers as causing appetites to fail. He notes patrons want cleanliness and health assurances from servers.
Baron de Saint Condonnat hopes Tayolle will guard his estate after wartime enlistment. Tayolle returns decorated but resumes poaching, accepting a state-like reward before confessing his inability to quit old habits. The baron falls ill, fearing his fate.
In Topeka State Journal style, a classroom exchange has a student misremembering myths. The joke centers on Ceres, misunderstood as goddess of dressmaking, leading to a humorous moment about gods of ripping and sewing.
The Chicago Herald decries papers pushing sectional bitterness in the campaign. It notes Southern control of many congressional chairmanships and argues parties must be judged by their seed and national outlook, not by selective chairmanships.
The Christian Science Monitor reports Secretary Daniels’ prohibition of liquor on ships raised morale and fitness of sailors. Foreign navies adopted temperance measures, aiding discipline and performance. Daniels stood firm under fire, proving sobriety improves action and reducing ridicule of grape juice in the American navy.
Two men order breakfast in a dining car. A mishearing leads to a racial slur and a waiter blurts out the insult. The men correct him with a joke about eliminating the eggs as a depot accident joke.
A short tale follows Johnny visiting a country farm for two weeks He builds a wood sword and paper cap and acts as a soldier He ventures toward a chicken yard imagining a fort and battles the farm owner supplies dinner after Johnny earns the white meat by defeating the chickens ending with Johnny planning to become a soldier one day
Two old Tokyo miners share contrasting ways to save resources. One saves a fan by opening it section by section over years. The other uses the fan for generations by keeping it still and not wasting it, jokingly waving it under the nose.
A Washington Star excerpt features Cunirox and a responder through a quip about Wagner. The student of music claim is rejected and the value lies in conversational strategy.
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