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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 26, 1938

Page

9

Night chase over Hongkong airbase murder mystery

In a tense pursuit across Kowloon and the water, North races to stop Melhamne as a clock-ticking rescue unfolds aboard the Hongkong Clipper. The officer battles time, weather, and a dangerous escape as the ship readies to depart for the Philippines.

Bing Melhorne Steen Hugh Worth Kowloon Caina Sea Philippines Acrees North Lillie Ughi Interial Ferg Victoria Palire Werth Conde Tashima Hsing Trina Connie Martins Melhorme Mimself Stag Als Honghom

Beauty Hints and Fashion Accessories Rise in Style

A vivid glance at early fashion trends shows women flaunting updos with hair ornaments, combs, bands, and clips as winds test styles. Featuring new barrettes and pearl accents, the piece notes inventive 1890s designs kept pompadours neat, while suggesting accessory treasures across shops.

Tub Sur Callie Griddine Abe

Table Talk on Christmas Hire and New Year Dinner

A fragmented note offers tips for daily meals and festive prep. It mentions prepared foods and vegetables, with scattered references to bath lines and a preferred foundation for making meal preparation easier. The text is unclear but suggests planning meals for holidays.

Fonda

Canned Food Variety Promises High Value and Ready Meals

Fragmentary text notes time for family meals and canned foods offering endless varieties. Mentions the need to prepare foods and claims high food value from increased varieties of canned products. No clear event or names to anchor beyond general food discussion.

Flavorful Turnips Feature In Home Cooked Meals

A cooking piece extols valuing substitute foods with vitamins preserved, highlighting turnips as a simple, adaptable vegetable. It offers two recipes Turnips in Cream and Turnip Shells, using milk, flour, butter, and seasonings, with tips to create creamy sauce and stuffed turnip cups for various sides.

Wales

Pattern description for textile craft transfer and colors

Fragmented OCR text describes a six by eleven inch bulb pup pattern in cotton or wool, with color chart and key, and mentions transfer and address on pattern 1293. It references a San Antonio Lag Np, Neetlecraft Department and inconsistent product terms.

Youl Delaquired Atliches San Antonio Catton Neetlecraft Department

Advice to Lovelorn from Beatrice Fairfax

Letters present two cases of romantic doubt. A man fears losing a girlfriend to another, and a woman vents hurt over a distant admirer. Fairfax urges pacing jealousy, suggests showing restraint, and advises acting mature to test affections and perhaps bring back interest.

Social Calendar for L A Evening Gatherings in City

Monday events include Bliss Marth Hildebrand and others hosting open houses on West Magnolia Avenue and Agenler Avenue, with parties for Hill Cocke of Harlingen and Mrs Odelia Bowman. Tuesday features breakfast and luncheon gatherings at Carriage House Kitchen and Country Club in honor of Miss Plaza Day Sagas and brides-to-be, plus showers and teas for debutantes and guests.

Bliss Marth Hildebrand Hove Jesse N. Fletcher Intres V. Graves West Magnolia Avenue Dick Mitchell Thair Hill Cocke Harlingen G. H. Ettinger Missios Gragg Agenler Avenuoe Bra A. J. McKenzie Oakmont Avenue Bishop and Firs Arthur Moaye Weat Gramercy Rises Mie Rog Akers Odelia Bowman Jack Fay Bowman Alpine Margaret Walker Hes Home Jing Plara Bride Towhe Mary Frances Walker Carriage House Mises Adeleide Ja Louise Holmgreen Cebu Antes Traephine Houston Sincheon Country Club Plaza Day Sagas Groswell Hall Acarey Anne Hall Adelaide Hill Emily Ann Bryant McMahon Eiizbeth Malin Lawton Ofla Catherine Mary Pool Josephine Chipman Geneseo Darts Bagg

Club dances listed by SA clubs and sororities

A San Antonio club calendar lists events at Rainbow Terrace in the St Anthony Hotel for Dette Phi Sigma fraternity at 9 p m, Sigma Rice sorority at the Plage Hotel at 3 p m, a Girly dance at the Rainbow for the San Antonio assembly, and a Scottich Rite ballroom event at 9 p m. Also noted is a 2 p m gathering in the east room of the Muntefpaaydtterium for The Tri Della alliance at the home of Mrs Patricia Burns.

Dette Phi Sigma Fraternity Rainbow Terrace St. Anthony Sigma Rice Sorority Plage San Antonio Assembly Scottich Rite cHeeday Navy

Bruce seeks magazines for decor at Pacific Palisades home

Virginia Bruce of Iowa asks friends to donate magazine issues especially holiday covers to decorate her new Pacific Palisades residence.

Bruce Virginia Bruce Ia Pacific

Pendleton Seeks Fresh Ideen For Bim Eat Up O Connor Role

Nat Pendleton studied set design to rework his stage persona for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Bim Eat Up O Connor. He toured decorative studios to gather ideas on refurbishing his character and on-screen presence.

Metro-Goldwyne Mayers O'Conner Nat Pendleton Slidia

Marian Martin pattern line promotes larger size frocks

The San Antonio Light Pattern Department urges orders for Marian Martin patterns including S87 for sizes up to 50 with four yards of 46 inch fabric. It highlights slim waistlines and tailored panels, offers version options with puffed or bare sleeves, and advertises spring 1939 book and patterns for women, lingerie, maternity wear, and layette.

Ami Marian Martin Kerself Marian Martin San Antonio Light Pattern Department

Roswell and Local Arts News Highlights

A fragmented feature notes Roswell residents and a local artist sharing projects and hobbies. It mentions Nannie Randall crafting lamp shades, repainting furniture, and reviving paintings, plus Gia copying an antique bed for Mrs. Edgar Robin and Elizabeth Fowler Draper’s poetry collections.

Nannie Randall Gia Edgar Robin

Good Manners Good Manners By Mrs Cornelius Beeckman

Advice on visiting guests bringing towels and washcloths. Do not. Hostess supplies guest linens and taking your own offends. Write thank you notes to women and also to kind men for their hospitality. Then stray text about a street cleaning department and Christies tags appears.

Cornelius Beeckman Beeckman Marion RolGen King Fras Brel

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