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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1930
Page
8
Railroads push for national Old Home Week in a fragmentary mock dialogue about aging and progress. The piece includes a jumbled ad for fire starter newspapers and a terse sales note, all from the Review Journal.
A jumble of quotes and political notes reports J Verminer Doakes discussing a plan with Cons Rives Frisby to urge traveling salesmen to read Gideon Bibles. Frisby proposes slipping theater fliers inside pages and a husband’s motive is questioned amid Balzac and Eleard Ademnoe references. A Petersburgh item notes James H. Kirby’s April primary bid and a sensational pamphlet declaring heels and certain shoe types threaten civilization. The piece names many figures including Capone, Lorenz Ziegfeld, George M. Conan, and David Belasco in a collage of notices and satire.
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