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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1939
Page
14
Observers note the habit of New York women to claim not being hungry after late lunches yet order multiple courses. A columnist catalogs prolonged dining rituals, bread bans, and dramatic appetite surges between cocktail hours and entrees, with witty social observations on etiquette and digestion.
Fragments from the U S Department of Agriculture price bulletin show onions tomatoes and many other vegetables with varied totals. California and Missouri listings appear with U S numbers for potatoes and other produce amid a Friday market snapshot.
Readable fragment lists multiple July dances in Braunfels, Helotes, Adin, and surrounding areas. Mentions Herr Lale and German bands, accordion music, admission 25 to 260 cents, venues include Bond Park and Fest Hall, with notes on dates, locations, and prices.
Mrs Eva Bugenta Alexander 49 years, formerly of Gisco, died recently. Funeral services at 2 p m Sunday in Waxalmachile with Rev Albert Shir key Wattve officiating. Survived by husband J B Alexander of Dallas two sons Miss Clyde Alexander of San Antonio Miss Jean Alexander of San Angelo Miss Kathleen Alexander of Osco and Mrs J B Winston of Corpus Christi several sisters and other relatives. Also listed are J W David of Lafay ette La Howry B Skiner 6 227 Cedar street and other survivors. Services were held at 4 p m Saturday from Hagy McCollum Murray chapel.
Cotton futures opened steady in New Orleans, slipping 2 to 4 points amid mixed early bids and hedging activity. Traders watched weekly price cues from spot markets and international demand signals as volatility persisted through the session.
Market report shows wool prices mixed amid holiday interruption. Fine factory wools sell at firm bids with slight gains. graded bright combing wools steady to firm. half mohair and third head wools quoted around 25 to 30 cents, three-sixteenths at 32 cents. London and Boston activity muted with market unchanged in some lines.
A garbled listing shows apricots, melons, oranges, onions, potatoes, and dairy plus poultry notes. Prices range from 40 cents for four dozen oranges to several dollars per crate for pears and melons, with dairy and poultry items listed in fluctuating quarters and pounds.
Texas trails steady at Union Stock Yards with moderate trade. Slaughter cattle receipts edged forward while calves and yearlings remained scarce. Medium slaughter calves traded around 5.10 to 7.50 dollars, light yearlings about four to six dollars, with some aged cattle near 7.78.
Southwest Texas Oil Company stakes No. 7 A. Mo Brunt location at Brunt field Webb County for a Wilcox zone test. Projected depth around 9000 feet, first Webb County test to reach this horizon, with potential commercial production if successful. Other notes mention cattle market reports and scattered oil discoveries across Aransas to Hidalgo counties.
Fragmented auction ad text lists livestock items and names in a docket style. Readable fragments mention Victoria and Braunfels regions, with ad lines about livestock sales and classifications.
Detroit July 8 A Russian worker Tuzunski 46 says he is the happiest man in the world after a wireless message from Moscow confirming his wife Tamara will join him in Detroit. Four years of trying to obtain permission from the Russian government to reunite after their 1831 marriage ends with the news of her imminent arrival.
Fragmented OCR text mixing fire alarm addresses, city receipts, expenditures, and personal asides. It mentions Washington and various monetary figures, then shifts to unrelated remarks about plans, ads, and names, without cohesive event or outcome.
Washington dispatch lists Army officers in a roundup of retirements and reassigned posts. Names include John W. Racer, Fort Sam Houston, and Roland C. Hrawn, Deniven Texas, with various captains and lieutenants slated for home or new postings amid a broad roster.
Grain market notes from San Antonio show mixed corn prices with White corn at varied levels and Yellow corn trading differently. Wheat prices are listed around 70 cents per bushel with scattered figures, reflecting a volatile market for 1973 era grains.
A fragmentary OCR style list references money and metals with scattered place names such as Boston New York and Berlin. It mentions Great Britain Germany Austria Switzerland and other locations with numbers that resemble exchange rates or prices, but the text is garbled and non-cohesive.
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