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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1934
Page
6
A biographical poetic sketch tracing a figure modeled on a famed reformer. It portrays how poverty, drudgery, and ignorance pursued him, yet his resolve and learning shaped a voice for freedom. The poem likens his growth to the Mississippi’s course and credits him with bending the law to let mercy out.
Eastman argues for federal role in railroads, urging increased traffic, better earnings, and consolidation. He calls for sloughing off non productive lines, motor bus feeders, and amending laws to curb labor saving devices. Government loans exceed 411 million compel action toward efficiency.
Mrs. Sarah Lavinburg Straus, a Chicago Field Museum supporter, journeys to Africa to hunt birds and beasts for scientific study. The piece asserts youth is not a calendar measure, praising her courage and vigor despite a 74 year age by the calendar.
Elsie reflects on enduring wartime hardship and the quiet bravery of ordinary Americans. She notes the courage of weary women, discouraged men, and hopeful youths who endured four years of struggle with humor and resolve, arguing that everyday resilience saved the nation more than leaders or wealth.
A critique questions romantic love as mere escape from reality, arguing artists, writers, musicians, and myths like Santa Claus offer temporary refuge from daily life. It praises imagination and classic tales while challenging the push to abandon enduring myths for harsh modern realism.
A fragment from a Sunkey slogan targets Frances Parkins as labor secretary teaching women to sew. It invokes an ancient proverb about reciprocal fate, suggesting social instruction and domestic themes in a historical labor context.
Ten and twenty years ago notes recall Hereford calf feeding plans endorsed by the Southwest Hereford Breeders association. The item also mentions a 1999 weather record, San Antonio’s mayoral race, bank consolidations in 1924, and a police stance on minors in pool halls with no clear single event.
A vivid late diary item from New York blending literary notices and nightlife. It threads fraught scenes of street crime, art and performance world chatter, and personal ties with figures such as Peggy Hoyt Aubrey Fads and Harry Pulcer, plus cultural jottings on Gaby Destys and Talhitat. The author moves from a ward of crime to studios, dinners, and reflections on theater and vaudeville legends.
An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association discusses water’s vital role in body function, nutrition, and disease. It notes most foods supply substantial water, with some fruits and vegetables containing high percentages. Hydration maintains temperature, blood chemistry, and cell health, and dehydration can follow surgery or prolonged illness, requiring intravenous or other delivery of fluids.
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