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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1937
Page
4
A reflection on useful memory that stores experience as knowledge. It warns against cluttering the mind with trivial facts, names, and old jokes, citing Fuller and Nietzsche to claim that excessive memory impedes learning new ideas and true wisdom. The piece urges using memory wisely like a dictionary, valuable only when properly applied.
Maj. Gen. James G. nne urges isolation only if paired with readiness to defend rights and liberties. He warns against national weakness and says only a prepared nation can ensure a peaceful future. General Harbord calls for adequate defense amid two contrasting worlds for the current generation to choose sides.
Hundreds of Vienna birds perished in a cold spell trapping thousands others under snow. The Vienna Animal Protection League organized relief, gathering ten thousand birds for shipment by air across the Alps to the sunny south, a notable rescue effort in harsh conditions.
A garbled prose piece lists many names and odds and ends from popular culture, including Gertrude Lawrence Nevil Coward and Hal Phyfe, with stray lines about clothing, groceries, and social life set against a noisy, quirky city mood.
A reflective piece notes how readers recall names and faces from daily press. It mentions Dionne Quintuplets, Alice Hughes, Alfred Sloan, Major Bowes, and a Scotch grandfather, weaving anecdotes about recognition, imitations, and urban manners.
A stream of personal musings recalls Queen Mary Gil Patten Vincent Le Pea piano pieces and Wilson Mizner humor. The author references Broadway Grand Central New York figures Sinclair Lewis Rebecca West and Grover Whalen while noting vivid scenes, writers, and old friends.
A reflective vignette recalls a decorative bird house gifted by Rea and John Brogan. The garden becomes a shrine of birds and gentle acts, where simple seeds, a bath, and Saint Francis inspire warmth. Kindness, seen in small acts, outshines science and wealth as a universal haven.
The piece surveys mercy killing debates, noting Nebraska lawmakers consider a will permitting death for incurable pain. It traces English opposition, famous cases, clergy and doctors backing and opposing, and cites a London typist trial. It questions defining incorrigible illness and warns against lethal medical powers.
A King Features comic page offers a set of Shakespeare and literary lines for matching. For each line the source asks which play or author it comes from, with hints including extraordinary phrasing and era. The page credits Byron Holmes in 1932 and directs turning to the comic page for answers.
The note references a 1937 artwork titled The Greased Pig Cony sight attributed to American author Amer. No further details on medium, exhibition, or provenance are provided in the fragment.
From the files at the San Antonio Light February 20 1937 the winning painting in the Edigar By Davis Wildflower Painting Contest is announced Dawson Wilson the winning artist receives 3000 dollars from a federal reserve bank for San Antonio nears certainty after news dispatches report J B Frogo of Frost National Bank San Antonio and B A McKinney of Dallas having a satisfactory hearing before the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D C February 20 1917 the body of Maj Gen Frederick Funston hero of the American army dies while talking with Mayor Roy Miller of San Antonio in the lobby of the St Anthony Hotel will be interred in San Francisco Interment will be in the Alamo tomorrow the city council will grant no more licenses for jitneys in the business district at least until courts rule on the ordinance validity.
A garbled clipping mocks a travel tale and practical wisdom about a trip to Europe. The fragment hints at a satirical column or opinion piece lampooning femininity and reform ideas, with emphasis on a travel plan and compromises in a European tour.
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