Build Bexar Tubercular Hospital Now Say Readers
In a public plea, readers demand immediate construction of a Bexar County tuberculosis hospital funded by a $285,000 bond. The piece criticizes county officials for delaying maintenance funds and urges using available road and bridge funds to start the facility, warning of ongoing deaths and infections.
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Light
Sacred Road and Bridge Fund
Seguin
Floresville
Bexar
Jess
Sal
Silent Yearning and Loss Reflected in a Poem
A speaker pleads with God to live within the present and admits longing to escape. They recall a home and family, especially a mother and father, and mourn childhoods lost to hardship. The piece contrasts comforting memories with the harsh reality of city life and danger.
By Elsie. Robinson On the duties of today’s mothers
The piece contemplates mothers facing hardship and hunger while children cry for bread. It urges the speaker to remain steadfast in the present battle, asking for divine aid to avoid retreat into yesterday’s comforts.
Men resist women stylists shaping male fashion trends
A chorus from across the country rails against women stylists dictating men’s attire arguing it risks turning men into fashion slaves. The piece laments ongoing shifts from traditional menswear toward glamorous garb and warns of fickle trends and endless changes in taste.
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Darling
Philiple
Malevoleus
Hille Wille
Women and Fashion in a Satirical Snippet
A vivid, quippy piece by Helen Rowland satirizes how women alter appearance and endure discomfort for style. It questions male complicity in fashion pressures and hints at social judgments reflected in a playful, provocative voice.
10 and 20 Years Ago From 8 A Light Files
An 1831 Terruany Mills project is noted as San Antonio staff work on a tentative zoning plan. A debate on compensation payments is set at the Alamo post hall with E M Otvin and Charles Mickeon debating, Maury Maverick presiding. Also, a 1921 visit by Congressman-elect Harry My Wurzbach and plans for a Fourteenth District tour are reported, along with streetcar track rebuild plans on Tobin Street and Brooklyn Avenue.
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Terruany
Mills
St. Louis
San Antonio
Minkus Automobie
Alamo Post
American Legion
Hallroam
Gent. Anthony
E. M. Oatvin
Brownwood
Charles Mickeon
Jinn Anetonio
Maury Maverick
Harry
My Wurzbach
T. W. Reeves
Republican Club
Boerne
Julian “Eal
W. M. Hanson
Clarence Martin
J. 5. Albright
Washington Stirs Over Seid-Jeasa Vote in Foreign Affairs
In a tense session on the Seid-Jeasa bill, White House strategy aims for overwhelming support and a united front. Senate leaders McNary and Tait back concessions, while House leaders push amendments, amid global war anxieties and growing defense and relief outlays.
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Washington
Seid-Jeasa
White House
Idw
Senate
McNary
Tait
Herbert Hoover
House
Joe Martin
Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Defense
March of Events and the Radio’s Domestic Wake
A columnist argues American independence guards against totalitarianism and contrasts the real American with regimented regimes. He laments routine becoming romanticized by radio culture and shops, noting radio voices reshape daily life and entertainments while skeptics question postwar certainty.
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Asis
Europe
Gabriel and the Archangel in a Comical War Talk
The piece presents a playful, era voice referencing Gabriel and the Archangel as impatient with human affairs. It muses on prophecy, war, and fate with satirical dialogue about political figures and divine patience. The tone mixes whimsy with in-text religious imagery.
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Archangel Gabriel
Awaon Board Room
Imperial Airways
Gabriel
Roate Bradford
Mrte Gonnelly
Green Pastures
Gibriel
Patintee Beldra
Kingdom Come
Varicose Veins Cause and Experimental Treatments
A Montreal doctor Dr Joseph C Luke studied varicose veins by injecting a substance visible by X ray to observe blood flow. He proposes tying off large leg veins and injecting a blocker to redirect blood and heal ulcers, noting rapid relief in many cases where ulcers healed quickly.
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Montreal
Joseph C. Luke
Luke
Herm
Velna
Ay Dr Ho No Bundesen Healing Following Treatment Report
An unusual medical note describes a Six week healing period after treatment. No ulcer remained after the period and symptoms disappeared. Minor discomfort during work is noted but a cure is claimed by the end of the time. Distributed by Kink Fess Spnd Inc.
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Kink Fess, Spnd., Inc
The Lights Quizzer Ban Your Thinking Cap
The fragment references San Antonio street signs and advertising history, asking about Texas congressional representation and local street marker era. It mentions an arverniement for Joaka breathers and a numeric cue twenty one in a brief, disjointed prompt.
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Strees
San Antonio
Texas
United
Congress
Knowledge Test Trivia Fragments From Classic Puzzles
A fragmented page presents quiz prompts on English names of foreign terms, geography clues, opera references, and famous sayings. The text includes misread phrases and partial questions about explorers, songs, and landmarks, with several hints toward completing a humorously garbled knowledge test.
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Yoerlan Peninsula
Hotna
Lincoln Bilsworth
Alekis Carrol
Harold Jacoby
Kiley Features Byndicata, Inc
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Bexar County
Elsie. Robinson
Pai
Jeb
King Peas
Synod, Inc
George Washington
Matt
Bern
By Helen Rowland
Kins Mere Synd., Inc
8. A. Light Files
Brooklyn Avenue
Meo- Gullough
Cypress
E. Jt. Kifef
San Antonia Public Service Company
Paul
Mallon
Bisl
Eneland
Belilets
Sverpthia
Bard
Hitler
Hiflet
Leon Hen Ferson
Florida
Timola
Fst
Ta & Strauss
Kate Smith
Phil Spitakiy
Hog
Wells
By Benjamin DeCasseres
Mr. Wella
Mussolini
Etalin
Yves
Taxen
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