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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1929
Page
20
An intensive educational campaign to eliminate reckless driving was announced by the National Association of Safe Driving Motorists. The drive calls for public involvement and urges reporting dangerous operators to support license revocation and strengthen road safety.
An odd Employment Bureau tale features six men stranded on a raft with no safety, beginning with a fist fight between two Irishmen and escalating into conflicts among others. The narrator, Shawn Glenville and Trish actor, recounts rivalries arising from misrecognitions and failed introductions aboard a deserted stand.
A comic verse contrasts thrift and idleness with Willie saving money while Johnny shifts from schoolboy to a drifted loafer. It then lampoons party etiquette with a hostess guiding a taper game as guests attempt to blow out the candle while courting the hostess. A quip about U. S. Ambassador Morrow recalls a general’s feisty year.
A fragment notes Tillie the Toiler musical comedy producing The Miracle in St Paul with cast remarks. It mentions Mords Gest delivering a tale, refusing a $150,000 offer from the Saturday Evening Post, and Otto Kahn and partners indifferent to profit. H. G. Wells endorsed a mattress campaign, with Wells cited on sleep promotion.
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