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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1917
Page
2
A West Indian hurricane roams the Gulf of Mexico with unsettled prospects. Experts note origin near the equator, a NW track toward 25 degrees north, and a possible shift to northeast toward the Atlantic coast. Movement risks and timing remain unclear for a day or two.
Dispatches from Buenos Aires during the Luxburg exposure describe Germans barricading businesses and keeping homes dark while police guard German residents. The piece contrasts Argentina’s neutrality and U S wartime actions, noting Germans face terror in Buenos Aires but claim Germans in the United States face no harm despite American wartime mobilization.
The author argues German residents in the United States enjoy comforts due to noncombatant protections while praising government actions to arrest agitating German editors. The piece contrasts U.S. treatment with wartime internment policies abroad and urges quiet self-restraint from Germany in America.
A fundraising drive seeks a million dollars to outfit libraries at training camps hospitals and overseas posts for American forces. British experience shows literature boosts morale and discipline with libraries like Lady Battersea’s central London repository supplying 50 000 books weekly to soldiers at the front hospitals and ships. Monthly orders of 100 000 books and magazines plus thousands more are sent to France Egypt South Africa Malta Rascal Rascal and Saloniki as units require.
The text notes altered wartime life for soldiers and a new emphasis on amusement and wholesome relaxation. It mentions a British trend toward boot ranks first as part of adapting to modern warfare.
The piece discusses rumors of Kaiser Wilhelm visiting Bulgaria to press for troop movement with Germany and Austria. It suggests Ferdinand may resist sending troops, weighing his own country's interests against the dual monarchy. It notes Turkish soldiers as potential Italian targets and contemplates Bulgaria's shifting stance as the war progresses.
The weekly bill at Morality Read presents a musical comedy spoof described as a cheeky show with “Hong Kongists” and an American in a comical Chinese travelogue. Performances include a dramatic sketch by Willm Seilting and company, a comedy interlude by May Rogers, and juggling by Willie Hate and brothers. The program closes with the novelty act and the crowd-pleasing Rasputin, the Black Monk, as a guiding feature toward the Russian Revolution.
The Majestic features Ix Little Wives a two act musical comedy by Irving Newholt and Dode Phelps with a 25 member cast including Harrison and Philliber and new acts Nip and Tuck and Frank and Toble. The Grand presents She Wishing Ring a fairy tale by Gunting with Miss Bunting as Selis. Friday is military night, next week In the Bishop's Carriage showcases Miss Buntley in a leading dramatic turn.
The Texas and Oklahoma troopers at Camp Bowie Fort Worth launch a weekly soldier paper titled The Tecon naissance with five columns of Fort Worth merchant ads. Private Tom Petty Battery D Second Field Artillery serves as circulation manager after a stint with the Waco News. The strictly soldiers’ paper will feature witty sayings and notes from regimental officers, under official censorship by Maj. Houn Empson.
Petrograd dispatch reports Associated Press observer touring the fortress of Peter and Paul. Prisoners include former ministers and generals like Protopopoff and Makareff. Guards question visitors and describe cell conditions, diet, letters, and limited liberties while a tense crowd awaits Russia's verdict.
Berlin reports that the German emperor spoke to veterans in Roumania praising the Hohenzollerns and King Ferdinand of Romania while condemning past allies. He defended Germany’s war actions as not of its own choosing and asserted strength and future resolve despite hardship.
Paris Sept 26 An arrest was made in the Bonnet Rouge affair as Jacques Landay Te-Gorter was taken into custody. Landay testified before the magistrate about a suspected contract he obtained to visit Switzerland for M Duval director of the Bonnet Rouge.
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