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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1924
Page
3
An essay argues for teaching meteorology in public schools, noting weather impacts on health and economy. It praises forecasters and educators who explain causes of weather, urging inclusion of meteorology alongside agriculture and geography to deepen cultural understanding of everyday phenomena.
A Texas stock column notes interdependence between wheat and cotton growers. Wheat gains amid prosperity while cotton suffers from low prices and boll weevil pressures. A Texas agriculture report cites cotton consumption drop, predicts price near 30 cents as wheat rises, and stresses shared national economic ties.
The piece envisions pioneers of the twentieth century guiding mammoth aerial freight ships as a three ton capacity freight airplane is tested in New York. If successful, manufacturers plan an aerial freight line, linking isolated regions to outside contact and aiding future resource development.
Tight shoes and dentists' office hours are full of pain. Nine to five are sinister numbers on clock dials. Those figures indicate hours in which doctors will be glad to see you and invite calls. Dentists and doctors, though nice, are feared when not golfing.
A fragment discusses candidates running for office and their motives. It cites MR. MADON and MR. Davis in Europe and mentions Mr Brynn, with commentary on public trust, sacrifice, and mixed opinions about who should lead the country. The piece ends with a note about a vegetable man who has two votes but little idea of the issues.
The piece recalls Orestes son of Agamemnon king of Mycenae and commander at Troy. After Agamemnon’s murder by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes with Electra slain the traitors in Argos. His crime brought divine wrath and madness, pursued by the Furies, with variants of trial or healing through Diana’s statue arrival.
A brief note describes the tiny round sea gooseberry, its transparent bailoon-like form, brilliant colors, and life cycle from egg to mature creature with two long tentacles. As they swarm near shore, smaller marine animals are trapped at the water edge by waving grasping tentacles.
A profile tracing William Stephenson Jr. from Maryland birth and Minnesota education to Alaska law, Washington bar, Pacific Coast sawmills, Alaska cold storage and U.S. commissioner work, and finally Chicago as manager at Simplex Manufacturing Company, a major sheet metal plant.
In early days a would be consul student served in Constantinople and Basra learning Turkish Arabic Persian and Greek. In Basra he helped inaugurate a largely unfinished municipal hospital where borrowed beds instruments and patients were showcased to avoid questions and a single patient proudly claimed to be a lunatic.
A brief quotation contrasts honesty in politics with common rhetoric. The speaker asserts that honest politics remains a singular notion, while the term is often treated as plural or elusive in discourse.
Royal S Copeland M D United States Senator from New York presents eczema care. He explains causes including constitutional disorders and dietary issues. He recommends baths sleep fresh air moderate exercise and a healthful diet with limited irritants plus suitable topical and oral remedies.
The excerpt traces geological periods from Cambrian to Quaternary, linking primates and mammals to periods like Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Jurassic. It notes glacial Pleistocene in the Quaternary with Paleolithic and Neolithic ages and lists European stone-age peoples such as Chellian, Acheulian, Morstrian, Aurignacian, Solutrian, Madelaean, Azilian, Tardenoisian, Campignian, Robaussian races.
A 1924 ONCE-OVERS column by J J Mundy discusses reframing misfortune. It argues talking about failures deepens them and that setbacks can wake better effort, duty to others, and resilience, urging self improvement to shape the future.
A man’s real character does not reveal itself until he gains authority. It warns against bold truth telling without room to retreat. Hard work attracts luck, as effort exceeds expectations. Her Week laments that dancing supplies greater effort with fewer results.
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