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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1933
Page
3
The PHS Echo features messages from student editors and staff bidding goodbye to the 1933 seniors. It lists graduating names, notes notable teachers and donors, and quotes hopes for futures in college and careers while saluting athletic and scholastic achievements.
Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing acted as technical advisor for the first National picture Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing scheduled for a three day run at the Palace Theatre next week. Lawes supervised the script and scenes shot at the prison, directing from afar while the studio kept him in daily contact. The melodramatic film stars Bette Davis and an acclaimed cast with screenplay by Mizner and Holmes and direction by Michael Curtiz.
The reopening of Sunny of Sunnyside presents a dramatic kidnapping scene set for Monday night at the High School Auditorium on May 2. Local audiences are invited to witness the heroine's peril amid the theater performance and suspenseful scenes.
The narrative follows Theodore Stahl and Rothmann as they haul freights from Fredericksburg to Fort Concho, facing broken axles, scarce food, and long delays. They survive on cornmeal bread made by a stranger, endure rain for days, and navigate a prairie road worn by soldiers. Stahl later bonds with his brother Louis to fence land and work threshing, earning 25 to 50 cents daily.
A public notice promotes a contest giving a 1-ounce bottle of Golden Star Polish and a free jig saw puzzle for 50 cents at the City Furniture Store. It urges customers to buy Golden Star products for furniture care and mentions repair and refinishing services, window display, and a range of polish and related items.
Mrs Jno Heep spent a few days in San Antonio last week. Mrs Hugo Manglberger and Miss Geraldyne Schoenewelt are in Dallas and San Antonio respectively. Mrs Frank Nimitz visited San Antonio. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Max Staudt. Mr Geo Simon and Mr Edwin Weber visited Roosevelt last week. Mrs Hilmar Klaerner and Mrs Ray Conner from San Antonio visited the Campers in Austin. A. B. Cushing of El Paso, a Spanish American War comrade of Emil Riley, spent Friday with Riley at Fredericksburg. Accompanying Cushing were Col A King, Filler and Wm Waters of El Paso en route to a Spanish War veterans session at Stephen F. Austin Hotel in Austin.
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