New Industry for Southwest Texas Growth and Gear
Prospective and immediate industrial growth for San Antonio and Southwest Texas dominates recent news. San Antonio is viewed as the oil industry’s coming distributing center, attracting new manufacturing. A New Braunfels plant will manufacture a motorcycle and aircraft operable electric machinegun, with 50 products planned and about 500 workers by year end, signaling stronger payrolls and town growth.
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San Antonio
Texas
T. N. Picnot
San Antonio Public Services Company
East Texas
Picnot
Bexar
New Braunfels
Braunfels
Ov A. Stockholm
Stockholm
Bargains in Cars and the Auto Industry Shift
The automobile industry faces a slump but aims to aid recovery by freeing up the used car surplus. A booming used car market could lower the price barrier for modern cars, letting wage earners buy and revive production as bargains spread across LAT and model cars.
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Spo
America
Exercise In Winter Health Benefits And Cautions
The text urges regular exercise year round, noting winter weather reduces outdoor activity but still recommending daily activity. It warns against excess, acknowledges cold prevents some ailments, and encourages gradual indoor or safe outdoor routines to improve health.
Health and safe exercise approach guidance
Advice on cautious exercise routines and avoiding excessive strain. Emphasizes gradual conditioning, listening to the body, and preventing weakened or injury prone states while engaging in physical activity.
By Royal Copeland M D benefit from performances
Fragmentary OCR text references Royal Copeland M D and a discussion of benefits from performances. It mentions safety for various individuals, youthful and aged, with unclear context and nonsensical phrases. No clear event or date.
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King Peas
Parking curbs set on downtown streets in 1928 plan
In 1928, officials proposed banning all-day parking on Travis Houston Commerce Market and related cross streets before 0 30 a m on weekdays. Pedestrian lights at operating corners will be installed. Chamber and civic leaders discussed the move as part of city traffic reforms.
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Travis
Houston
Commerce
Market
Phil Wright
San Antonio
Vhce
John W. Tobin
Washington, D. C
From janitor to modern superintendent in New York
An article contrasts the old type of janitor with the modern apartment superintendent. The janitor lived frugally in basement rooms, earning meager wages and facing gossip headlines. The modern superintendent is well paid up to $8000 yearly, provided living quarters, and must blend mechanical knowledge with diplomacy to manage tenants and upkeep.
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New York
Ordrance
Paris Dining Scene Buzzes With Names And Noisy Canaries
A lively tour through late 19th century New York eateries and bars. The piece lists numerous restaurant and club names such as Lindy’s, Dinty Moore’s, La Rue, Voisin, Foyel’s, Mascotte, and Ciro’s, along with playful asides about a canary’s song and a famed hash dish. It notes a bustling, colorful restaurant culture and famous patrons like David Belasco and Booth Tarkington.
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New York
Waties
Apts
Vale
Rector's
Lindy’s
Dinty Moore
Paris
la Rue
Voisin
Foyel’s
Mascotte
Ciro's
Oyster Rockefeller and city talk at McIntyre’s
McIntyre’s cafe on Sixth Avenue advertised oysters Rockefeller served on the half shell with a biting sauce of tabasco raw red pepper and garlic. The writer recalls Castle Cave, Murray’s pick me up drink, Jim McCabe at St Francis, Gary Cooper’s father authoring philosophy, Dorothy Parker Town Hall lectures, and a humorous note on Fifth Avenue pedestrians.
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Tower Sixth
T Shink
Castle Cave
Rockefeller
Old Murray's
John Mason
Jim McCabe
St. Francis
San Francisco
New York
Petutsylvannia
Gary Cooper
Dorothy Parker
Town Hall
Martin Johnson
Bell-Ringers Revolt Over Canned Bell Music in England
English bell-ringers oppose canned music from America as an international issue flares in Weymouth and St. John’s parish. Seth Thomas Clock Co engineers in Currice and Ives days adapt a loudspeaker tied to a clock to imitate a 32,000 pound bell heard across aisles.
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England
America
St. Clemens’ Belfry
Old St. John's Parish
Weymouth
Big Ben
Great Tom
Empire
Connecticut Yankee
Seth Thomas Clock Company
Currice and Ives
Anstruments Corporation
New ‘York
Tee
Ringing bells and England’s old church clatter history tale
An excerpted reminiscence on bells across England notes the Saxon origin of bell making, London’s Big Ben, and Great Tom of St Paul’s as older peals. It mentions Bow Bells at St Mary’s, shifting bells with modern noise concerns, and historic church bells at Stoke Poges and other venerable sites.
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England
House of Commons
Great Tom
St. Paul's
Big Ben
Westminster Hell
Parliament
Bee
St.Mary's
St. Mary's
St. Martha's-in-the- Wield
Westminster Abbay
St. Margaret’s
Shoreditch
Bells, gongs and loudspeakers across history
Edwin C Hill notes 5014 changes in four hours in 1881 and discusses ancient ringing traditions. He cites Rouen’s electric aid, England’s fear of unemployment for bell ringers, and enduring reverence for bells in Paris Notre Dame and Bermuda. He recalls Moscow’s 1813 202 ton Gzar’s Bell cracked long ago, and mentions American churches adopting loudspeakers amid changing soundscapes.
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Rouen
France
England
Cone
Nolrr Dome
Felping
Ghinese
Bermuda
Moscow
America
Dy Klug Peas Syd, Ince
Questioning Faith Amid Ruin in a Jagged World
A narrator reflects on the fading power of churches as youth seek purpose elsewise. He recalls a brutal ride through a storm, hearing about thousands displaced by job losses and the misery surrounding a distant mining camp near an aging church, sensing hunger and fear.
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Joneses
Imyself
Healing in a shabby room of dawn and dream
A fragmented poem by Elsie Robinson evokes a ruined shelter beside a fenced yard filled with wilted flora and decaying memorials. The speaker endures a thundered night, finds a turn toward peace, and contemplates writing as healing, ending with a call for a place of comfort and renewal.
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King Fens
General knowledge quiz mixed with historical and scientific questions
The reader is presented with a jumbled quiz covering topics from mythology and history to science, geography, and literature. It lists items to cross out incorrect options, mentions names like Orpheus and Desdemona, and includes various multiple choice prompts with dates, places, and facts, concluding with a note to turn to a feature for the answers.
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Orpheus Trea
Jean Burydlee
Helen
Desdemona
Hades
Earth
Monticellos Associatas
Washington
Jeffersas
Lincoln
Valley Forge
Robert Emmitt
England
Wiles
Ireland
Columbus
Jenbela
Victoria
New York City
San Francisco
Long Island
Hinde Island
Bedleg Island
Dintta
Tar
Christ
Solar System
Christian Mactyr
St. Peter
St. Johny
St. Stephen
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Mog
A. Bins
Ansepl Halliday
Howard Burleson
Frank Wyatt
Lexington Avenue
Carpenter
David Relasco
Leon Wilson
Booth Tarkington
Iso
Mcintyre
Fifth Avenue
Lowell Thomas
McNaught Bynd,, Inc
St. Clemens
Stoke Poges
Mous
Gray
Society of College
St. Paul
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Mazarita
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