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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1935
Page
2
Paris fashion notes showcase 1935 lines from Letong Khas with outfits for every mood. Business to flirtation sets include beige brown blue tweed capes, slim wool coats, plaid organza gowns, and cocktail hour ensembles with black and white paulettes. Evening wear features flowered taffeta and myriad train silhouettes.
In a large demonstration, about 10,000 people urged Congress to act on the Townsend Pension plan. The crowd, many elderly and weary, telegraphed California congressmen and appealed to President Roosevelt for consideration as a means of financial recovery.
Tuesday events include Miss Fannie Graham's bridge tea at her Patter son avenue home honoring Mrs. David Kennedy and Mrs. Klem Boyd at 2 30. Mrs. Herbert Henne in New York sat on the Dutch for Stateman and Mrs. Hume just returned from a North Cape cruise. The Canadian Fur company plans a style show at the Bright Shawl at 12 39 Wednesday with Junior League models Miss Mary Davis and Mesdames Charles Ogden Francis Drought Julia Maury Grady Barrett and Henry Dewar. The Waring family arrives in San Antonio for six weeks, with Miss Mildred Waring a UT student. Various teas, bridgenes, and musicales fill a busy social week with multiple hostesses and venues across the city.
A feud over a supposedly bartered bride sparked tension in San Francisco’s Chinatown on Chinese New Year eve. Police guarded streets as debts and settlements surrounding the 1290 payment and the girl’s fate unfolded, involving Toy Fon Lew and Lew Gew, with Gin Lew acting as her claimed father.
In Dallas on Wednesday Texas oil and business leaders plan a joint push for the Connally bill to restore federal oversight of interstate oil shipments. They fear a rush of hot oil entering the market due to a district court ruling in Austin that temporarily blocks railroads from handling shipments lacking state permits.
Philadelphia February 4. American Liberty League president Douett Shouse denounced the $4.48 billion work relief bill as a money revolution and testimony to executive domination. He warned that if enacted and unchecked it signals the disintegration of democracy and the rise of bureaucracy. The measure lies before a Senate committee after House passage.
Mrs. Frian Bermett formerly of San Antonio died in Washington Ark on Saturday. Relatives from San Antonio attended the funeral on Sunday afternoon. She is survived by her husband James R. Bennett a son James Jr and daughter Selma Ploy two sisters Mrs George H Tucker and Mrs A Liggett of San Antonio and a brother William A Borgman of San Antonio.
An advertisement touts Cesiex as a modern treatment for kidney disorders and a range of symptoms including loss of pep rheumatic pains and neuralgia. It claims dramatic results within 48 hours and a full money back guarantee if no improvement, offered by a Dr. C. The copy uses urgent language and promises significant age reversal after one week.
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