Hepburn plans Palomino hunt in San Antonio shopping trip
Fragmented report notes Katharine Hepburn touring San Antonio for the Philadelphia Story set, seeking Palomino breeding farms near the city. The piece also weaves in carhop industry anecdotes and holiday phone-call mishaps, reflecting local gossip and cultural notes of the era.
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Katharine Hepburn
San Antovito
Soy Hepburn
Texas
Jaca
San Antonio
Hepburn
Hollywood
Chambers of Commerce
United States
Trucker Rally Seeks Covered Market Over Washington Square
A group of produce truckers petitioned Mayor Maverick for a six foot metal covered market over Washington Square at the downtown plaza. City Market Master Magruder showed a sketch dividing the area into four stalls while noting no cost estimate and no promise of construction. The mayor urged consulting budget experts and cited WPA funding challenges for all metal structures, with further questions over a $50 market fee and a daily $100 fee.
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Mantey
Maury’ Maverick
Washington Agire
City Market
Maater Hamilton Magruder
Magruder
Waosheington Square
Thriveways
Maverick
M. McGinnis
Gale
McCormis
Henry A. Wallace
San Antonio
Noble
Henry F. Hein
Paul &Jeffler
Hein
I Washington Square
Business Women Meeting Set at Gunter Hotel
Regular meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the Gunter Hotel. B. Fronte, director of the Public Affairs Forum, will speak.
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Womei’s
Gunter Hotel
GO. B.fronte
New Dean at St Marys U Named Change in Leadership
The Rev. Bro. John J. Black is named dean of St Marys University with duties to begin Monday. President Very Rev. Walter P. Golatka announces changes replacing Rev. Hyo. Michael G. Harbert, who also serves as treasurer. The Rev. Bro. William J. Braun Ih becomes superintendent of buildings and grounds, and the Rev. Bro. Francis J. Flannagan is appointed director of the commissary department.
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John J. Black
Mary's University
Walter P. Golatka
Black
Hyo
Michael G. Harbert
Wiliam J. Braun Ih
Francis J. Flannagan
Cammssarydepartment
IS A HAIRDRESSER RECALLS OPERA TOUR DATE
Alfred Sommers a San Antonio hair dresser recalls 1923 Vienna Opera Company tour that stranded 10 countries in three years. He became a citizen married Selma Herbst and settled in San Antonio. Once dressed 65 company members with 120 wigs and ran promotions. Now at 39 he left business due to eye trouble but plans another chance as styles cycle back.
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Molly
San Antonio
Sommers
Hls
Jong
Germany
Die Comic Opera Company
Berlin
Sehose
Uie
Duenos Aires
Lie
Old Beethoven Hall
California
Europe
Argentina
Chile
Peru
Mexico
Cuba
San Antonso
Frost Brothers
Biel
Brooks Given Higher Status At Brooks Field
The War Department redesignates Brooks Field on September 11, 1939, elevating it to independent status as an Air Corps training sub-post under Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center officers. It will share equal status with Kelly Field and house one of the advanced flying training sections, with Stanton T. Smith remaining as training officer.
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Brooks Field
Kelly Field
Air Corts
Kelly Seld
Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
Tve
Brooks
Stanton T. Smith
Avn
Demonstration Set for Camera Club in San Antonio
A camera club meeting in San Antonio will host a demonstration by Ernst Haba on unfinishing and negatives. The event is scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m. at Frost Nelson Bank headquarters, offering instruction at the San Antonio Pictorial Camera Club.
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Ernst Haba
San Antonio Pictorial Camera Ouit
Sk Tts Frost Nelsonn Bank
Col Haritu Addresses Society on Medical Car Development
Col William Lee Tart outlines the plan for a medical car initiative at Soldiers for the expanding defense program during a Tuesday night session of the Scientific Society of Sir Antonis in the Stevens Building.
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W. L. Haritu
William Lee ‘Tart
Eighth Corps
Scientific Society
Sir Antonis
Stevens Bulldiay
Brooks to Train New Squadrons in Eighth Corps Area
Brooks Field announces formation of several new school squadrons totaling about 1000 enlisted men from across the Eighth Corps area to be organized at the field in January Capt N T Perkins says personnel will begin arriving shortly and 1200 personnel will transfer to Ellington Field Houston while others undergo tests for technician and specialist roles before posting to Brooks or other fields nationwide
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Brooks [Ield
N. T. Perkina
Persins
Uits
Wisted
Eilington Wid
Houston
Chatuitetel
Sir Corps Technical School
Etter
Brooksfield
United States
Waller Heads U S Scout Conference Visit
Waller W Head, serving his nineteenth term as president of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America, will be a tester in San Antonio Tuesday. He will attend a meeting at the Anthony hotel with associates, and is a former president of the General American Life Insurance Co. of St. Louis.
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Waller W. Head
Na- Conal Council
Boy Scouts of America
Ben Antonio
Hen
General American Lafe Insurance Company
St. Louis
Ate Anthony Hotel
Justireey
Tie
National Bankers’ Association
Haring to Talk On Gun at San Antonio High
Tavis M Haring will discuss Light Artillery the 105 mm Howitzer at a meeting of the Meld Army Troop school Tuesday at 7200 p m in the San Antonio Teach High school Capt Frank W Thome IAI director announces Monday
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Haring
Tavis M
Meld Ariory
San Antonio
Frank W. Thome Iai
Tiny organ carried to church for Sunday services
A tradition of transporting a small foldable organ to Bon Antonio churches is described. Arthur Rodrigues of South Alamo Street drives the instrument to and from services each Sunday, reflecting the old custom as many churches replace older portable organs with newer models.
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Estem
Etwures
Churen
Bon Antonio
Witte
Postasio
Arthur Rodrigues
Bouth Alamo Street
Sariy Antonio
Gistravia
Randolph Seeks Welders for Camp Jobs at Randolph Heid
The United States civil service commission will hold competitive exams for gas and electric welders to work in the quartermaster camps at Randolph Heid. Applications with salaries of 1880 yearly are to be sent to the Secretary, board of civil service examiners, Fort Sam Houston, by January 20.
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United States _civil service commission
Randolph Heid
Board of Civil Service Examiners
Fort Sam Houston
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