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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1933
Page
5
A historical view argues US moral support and economic pressure helped Cuba oust Machado. It urges a reciprocity treaty aligned with American responsibilities, limiting cheap labor imports and boosting diverse Cuban crops while maintaining Platt Amendment protections.
The article notes President Roosevelt's call to swiftly use the $3.2 billion emergency public works appropriation. It stresses delays due to internal federal admin differences, urges immediate action, and argues that rapid contracting and construction are essential to national recovery as winter nears. It highlights the urgency of spending the funds to provide employment and relieve the unemployed nationwide.
Dear Unka Gmery section parrots a chaotic mix of jokes and missives about bosses adopting cones, a doghouse week, doubled lunch money for husbands, and wives refusing to sign without 6 percent of poker winnings. Mentions a kennel club and architectural questions for building a doghouse with sharp corners causing pain on forced landings.
Readers vent about social anxieties and party dramas in a playful menagerie of letters. A motherly voice urges restraint while a rebellious tone mocks outrageous requests and moral stances.
A fragmented column titled Listen World by Elsie Robinson discusses feelings of failure and the belief in a pilgrim soul within everyone. It reflects on personal struggle, longing to do good, and the hope that others may understand despite past blunders.
A reader laments the overexposure of kissing in society and on stage, arguing affection is private not public spectacle. The piece weighs repetition's boredom versus kissing as an art form, noting parallels with other public obsessions and media trends.
A fragmented essay blends a tale of were-tigers feared by villagers in India with global demographic notes. It cites British and Indian sources on witchcraft beliefs and a brass peddler’s encounter, then shifts to 1940s population trends, aging nations, birth and death rates in Japan England Wales France and the United States, and white population theories.
The text sketches a collage of diary excerpts and social observations. It references Harold Bell Wright, Major Bowes, Reginald Wright, and personalities like Earhart, Lorimer, and Miss Moody, with scenes from Atlantic City, Central Park, and New York life. It preserves era tone while noting cultural figures and local gossip amid fragmented narration.
A collage of personalities and trivia from 1933 includes notes on a Rialto fall production led by Mr Proback and Mr Bennett, jokes about James Cagney, Hoot Gibeon, Jan Smuts, John Anderson, Mike Methan, and others. It spans theatre plans, celebrity tidbits, and whimsical anecdotes set in various locales.
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