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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1936
Page
7
A satirical vignette portrays a powerfully vain pasha obsessed with civic showmanship and progress. He plans a Century of Progress bazaar to outshine rivals, but his preoccupation ignores his own home and fair performers like the fan dancer become a catalyst for his grand but hollow city visions.
A misprinted romance leads Jokes Binks to correspond with a girl after finding her name on a folded paper. The tale unfolds as a series of eccentric exchanges, a failed museum style exhibit called Century of Progress, and a dramatic, satirical exchange with a pasha and vizier ending with a lenient fate for the culprit.
Aunt Martha leaves the cat to a nephew who posed as eighty while being fond of her pet. The oddly titled note from Woenensebau and Exsen hints at a playful inheritance twist and a family mystery surrounding the cat’s guardianship.
Explanation of a March Crusader cartoon notes Izeet Bey surrendering Jerusalem to British forces under Allenby on December 9 1917. The mayor delivers a white flag and meets Private Murch who claims the city keys while a life of historic captures is recalled.
Sterling Curlew a traveling salesman becomes embroiled in a domestic clash over his wife Aileen. He assaults Ardmore Kling, injuring him, leading to a civil suit for damages. The wife flees with a dentist, the suit collapses, and Kling later wins a separate damages judgment.
An article describes the 200 inch telescope project and a solar telescope at Pasadena. It explains how light years separate unknown worlds and how the sun will be studied with parallel beams and a spectrograph to reveal planetary conditions and stellar phenomena.
In a tense domestic scene Warren disrupts a planned evening with Mr Rand as a dog chase leads to a confrontation. Helen frets over the guests and a hidden truth about Gardner's bankruptcy fuels the quarrel while Koko and Pussy Purr Mew cap the suspense.
A vintage home remedy claims mixing Pines cough syrup with granulated sugar syrup and water creates a cheap quick throat soothing remedy. The ad touts no cooking needed and says the concoction calms throat membranes, reduces phlegm, and eases hoarseness faster than store bought medicines.
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