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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1936
Page
5
An exhortation on saving as the path to independence and future security. It argues that steady thrift yields personal liberty, avoids debt, and secures a better life for a married couple and child, praising joint effort, plans, and prudence across generations.
A reader voice questions why modern young people, and even married couples, call themselves kids and resist adult duties. The column recalls previous generations’ rush to grow up, notes parents now see 20s and 30s as ongoing youth, and asks if society sped up too fast or if fear keeps people childish. It invites readers to share their guess.
A sentiment urging labor to remain within the American Federation of Labor. It champions the patriotic partnership between labor and all Americans, warns against John J. Lewis and his industrial organization drive, and condemns class domination as ruinous to workers and national unity. The piece defends President William Green and the AFL’s role in securing citizenship benefits and economic structure.
Professor Walter B. Cook of New York University, returning from war-torn Spain, says the cost for any nation allowing communism is ruin for a generation. Monuments destroyed, business wrecked, and society set back to savagery as the clock of time is turned back.
A sprawling, gleeful survey recalls Ziegfeld, Chaplin, Sinclair Lewis, and Wa r ming socialites at high society events. Vivid vignettes span Broadway parties, Ritz visits, and celebrity encounters with Irvin Cath, Donis Kenyon, and Will Rogers among the many names.
An eccentric note recounts O. O. McIntyre Mysprach hosting a playful wedding breakfast for Rab and Tat Brinkerhall, with Ray Long staging dinners and a fake murder involving Jim Quirk. A dawn finale by the open fire follows a token wake while Irene Case leans in. W.R. Hearst listens as Roosevelt speaks by radio at Cobbie. A Florida gag about a 10 foot alligator from H. T. Webster is copied from 2926 McNaught Syndicated.
The New York Sun reports on unfinished relief work from the FERA era later funded by WPA. Demolition and construction of a new club exhibit building were planned but records are vague. Despite authorization of 24 399 dollars, WPA never completed the project and it remains listed as inactive.
A historical health piece stresses early recognition of breast changes to save lives. It notes that prompt medical attention can prevent advancement, and outlines possible surgical removal of growths when cancer is present, sometimes followed by radiation therapy.
From the files of the L A Light August 15 1916 Mrs Lillian Gordon Mrs Weilen bein LeStourgeon and W W Hering left today for Des Moines to attend the national convention of the United Spanish War Veterans and the auxiliary Work started today on a $220000 six story mill building for the Guentherling company at Comal and Morales streets A feature will be the unusually high number of windows
The English magazines discuss ladies polo as an established sport, citing Ranelagh matches and an eighteenth century Persian royal game. It notes pioneer polo ladies as Indian royalty and argues modern women should not outplay men in sports while tying skill to masculine supremacy.
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