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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1939
Page
2
Don Politico reports rising tension between Mayor Maury Maverick and local press as censorship efforts backfire. Police relations with reporters degrade amid back pay disputes and budget anxieties fueling public anger and newsroom friction.
A faded, garbled OCR fragment describes pills and calomel based remedies with dubious claims. It mentions Calatabs and Calomel, urging users to take multiple doses to “refresh” and restore energy. The piece reads like an old patent medicine spiel with scattered references to brands and side effects.
An advertisement touts Black and White Ointment as a soothing antiseptic dressing to relieve itching burning and soreness from simple ringworm. It claims the product destroys the fungi on contact when used with a standard companion product.
Hollywood reports recount Mary Martin’s Bollywood publicity stunt then a Broadway turn. AParamount bear wrestling scene ended with Martin tossed into a gutter, prompting studio concerns and requests for special insurance before filming Untamed.
New York July 6 The Joint Committee for the Defense of American Ideals representing 21 of 23 groups in the American Youth Congress dispute accuses Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt of disloyalty to American youth. A compromise denouncing all forms of statism failed to unite the factions as bolting members condemned it as empty without action against communists.
Funeral services for Lieut. Charles J. Anderson, U S Army Retired, will be held at 10 40 a m Thursday from the Fort Sam Houston post chapel. World War veteran, retired for disability on May 31, 1936, he was a native of Sweden and resided at 3118 Mason Street. Surviving are his mother Mrs Mathilda Skogsberg brothers Frei Edwin Clarence Skogsberg and sisters Mrs Esther Lawrence and Mrs Edna Lawrence, all of Idaho.
Washington July 5 Mayor Moretts H. LaGuardia of New York opposed a plan to levy a 2 percent federal income tax on interest from state and municipal securities as being 360 years too late. He testified before the House Ways and Means Committee that taxing munici pal bonds would destroy fiscal arrangements between federal and state governments and warned that if real estate is taxed the federal government would own in New York City.
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