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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1948
Page
14
Fragmentary listing shows a February 1948 Tuesday evening schedule with multiple programs including Newscasts Music appreciation and cultural segments. Entries reference timings and show titles such as Fame and Cuba and various regional broadcasts, with scattered legible items and many garbled words.
AVOCADOS 83.50 dozen with beans green priced at 50 cents to 9 1 2 dollars per crate. Cabbage 10 cents each. Lettuce California 5 60 per crate. Potatoes 2 76 per sack. Onions 75 cents per sack. Peppers bells 3 74 per pound. Radishes 60 cents per dozen. Turnips 1090 per dozen. Spinach 22 80. Grapes California 20 per crate. Lemons Texas 3 09 each. Oranges Texas 2 75 per box. Pears 3 per box. Poultry: eggs 12 50 per crate, ducks 17 cents per pound, hens 22 0 per pound, turkey up to 32 pounds. Grain and hay prices per bushel or ton for farmers listed.
A long list of names appears under Divorces and Marriage Licenses in the vital statistics section. Included are individuals such as Glenn Svaceh and Dorothy Kynsen along with many other couples and persons, some with unclear spellings.
The Tourist Club at 617 No Street Marys hosts a Tuesday night Leap Year Dance with music by Niemeyer’s Orchestra.
Washington reports plans for a 1968 commemorative postage stamp honoring four army chaplains who perished when the Dorchester sank in the North Atlantic. The four, from Protestant Catholic and Jewish faiths, linked arms as they went down. Names include George Fox Cambridge Wilkie Goode Clark Poling and John Wash.
An advertisement claims INNER-AID with 12 herbs cleanses bowels and organs, ending headaches, skin eruptions, and rheumatic pains after three days. It urges readers to stop suffering and buy the product from drug stores.
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