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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1940
Page
11
The piece criticizes the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill as an overreach toward wartime compulsion, arguing for a Swiss style two week to month training period instead. It cites Senator Wheeler opposing peacetime conscription and calls for practical, voluntary style national training within a broad Democratic framework.
A Chippewa from Minnesota rises to command of the destroyer Ellet with the Victory Medal and Yangtze Service Medal. Commander Francis Mee, born August 11 1899 and Annapolis graduate in 1922, leads six officers and 150 men aboard the Ellet, a newly completed ship armed with four double five inch guns and 16 torpedo tubes.
An old stage classic returns to West Swanzey New Hampshire to raise funds for Grace church organ repairs. The rural drama retells Joshua Whitcomb from Broadway to the farm, featuring Denman Thompson as the benevolent patriarch. After decades on stage Thompson faced rheumatism and gambling temptations, dying in 1911 at 77.
By Edwin C Hill. The Belgian dramatist Maurice Matterlinck now 77 years old confronting upheaval in wartime Europe. Once famed for The Blue Bird he reflects on loss, exile, and the paradox of beauty and despair. He recalls Georgette Leblanc and hints at later fame and tragedy within his life.
A retrospective look at Lillian Russell, famed for beauty and a vivid personality. The piece recalls early interviews, her lasting influence on fashion and cigars, and her memoirs tied to Marcus Aurelius. It contrasts other beauties with Russell’s enduring fame and intellect.
A portrait by Helen Rowland notes Lillian Russell as calm and kind, never a haughty diva. Alice Page portrays this natural amiability, contrasting the era's fierce glamor with a beloved, approachable stage presence.
A fragmented, nonsensical OCR item lists scattered words and questions about tools, devices, and measurements. It mentions spiro meters, periscopes, log splitting, and air quality terms, with garbled names and stray phrases, ending in a garbled page header.
Washington analysts relay cautions from abroad that Germany aims to invade Britain, using air power to neutralize the Royal Air Force before October and striking with mustard gas on landing fields. Assessment stresses uncertainty, with experts split on timing and feasibility amid Britain’s morale, air superiority, and weather constraints.
A narrator wanders ridgeback terrain noting hundreds of plant varieties and smells. The plants seem alive, crying for life and nourishment, inspiring a view that all living beings, including humans, share a constant reaching out for enrichment and power.
A compact meditation on the universal drive for life. The speaker argues that every person yearns toward something beyond themselves, even if the object is flawed. The urge to live is portrayed as Life itself, mysterious, terrible, holy, and essential across all people and stages.
August 5 1930 reports hot weather spurring cotton picking demand as J H Fallin announces open employment bureau. farmers seek pickers with field transport. Public library expansion boosts daily circulations per Mrs Frances Humphrey main library opened days ago. San Pedro ranch opens with future branches planned at Woodlawn Lake Prospect Hill and Roosevelt Park.
Medical guidance warns that aging can bring circulatory changes and leg artery problems. It describes intermittent claudication from obliterans, symptoms like leg pain after exercise, numbness, cold feet, and brittle nails, with treatments including drugs, dental and sinus infection clearance, tobacco avoidance, salt injections, and progressive exercise.
The text discusses exercise, circulation aids, and early treatment for heart related conditions. It notes that increasing and decreasing leg pressure can stimulate circulation and that heat and wax devices may help. It defines a bland diet as avoiding roughage and highly seasoned foods to prevent irritation.
Letter urges balanced coverage in The Light of Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie, arguing readers deserve full truth from both sides to form informed political views. praises diffusion of knowledge and criticizes one sided reporting.
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