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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1933
Page
10
A regional sales pitch from early February urges readers to buy beautiful, high grade furniture at reduced prices as a break between holidays and spring. It highlights budget friendly sets for drawing rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms and stresses the home’s role in family life, urging readers to consult local merchants’ offers and select essential pieces for the year ahead.
San Antonio seeks to lead Texas centennial celebrations and avert Dallas as the central hub. The Alamo is argued as the symbolic backdrop for the state’s 1936 event, with civic groups preparing an organized campaign to secure recognition and showcase municipal resolve.
The New York army recruitment office on Whitehall Street now attracts about 3000 applicants daily with roughly 50 enlistments. Recruits are from high places, include artists and students, and can buy back after one year to pursue other work. Pay is 218 dollars a month with food, clothing, and shelter provided. The piece notes social shifts in enlistment, vaudeville anecdotes, and a reflective travelogue through New York in 1938, ending with a copyright notice.
The author recalls shyness and loneliness in youth and shares a transformative journey toward understanding others. She describes fear, isolation, and later insight that people are parts of one’s own experience, and that seeing others as equals resolves inner ache.
A column on how wives seek to revive a dull husband with tonics and elixirs. It warns such measures can backfire, turning a once faithful mate into a flirt and riskier behavioral shifts. The piece blends humor with caution about springtime schemes.
Dr Royal S Copeland stresses neglect of mouth hygiene leads to gum inflammation gingivitis and related illnesses. Poor health and anaemia worsen gums and teeth with symptoms of bleeding breath odor headaches and digestive disturbance. Regular dental care and thorough mouth cleaning are urged to protect overall health.
A retired officer recalls the city’s mounted patrols shrinking from six stations with many stock pens to two stations, each with a single mounted man. He notes fewer pound pens filled to capacity in recent decades, with occasional donkeys and cows now impounded alongside cattle from the past.
Dear Miss de Peyster advises that a woman not smoking around friends is not embarrassing or wrong. The writer says guests would not comment, and pressure to smoke is unfounded. The piece argues personal preference, like olives or coffee, should guide choices and not trigger fuss.
From the San Antonio Light files dated February 8 1923 Sheriff John W Tobin is poised as the likely rival to Mayor O B Black in the upcoming municipal race Emil Hillie says he will not run if Tobin enters the race Also noted is a 1913 account on bond votes for widening Commerce Street with straw polls showing broad support for the measure and official votes reflecting sentiment at the time A Pioneer Flour Mills executive Alexander Notzen is described as working the last day of a long career earning a gift of a watch chain and diamond charm from Erhard Gnenth president of the mill
A New Year radio address read to Bradley Kelly of American Radio News urged cooperation and charity. The late president suggested using national resources to help each other, promote business activity, and relieve the destitute, with a focus on improving the economy.
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