Friday Snapshot Contest Opens Entry Window at The Light
The San Antonio Light invites entries for its Friday Snapshot contest with prizes including a Fox foldlog camera and cash awards. Weekly submissions must reach the Snapshot Editor by Friday noon with negatives and prints enclosed. Rules limit subjects, require names for unpersoned photos, and specify size and handling details for national competition entry.
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Nursday
San Antonio
Fox Company
Snepshot
Smatturs
the Light
Wautography
Ae East
Iim
Licht
Texan Drowns After Canal Swim Near Barataria Bay
Dave Sanders 30 of Gilmore Taxes drowned while attempting to swim to Harvey canal near Barataria bay. He was a member of a prospecting crew and disappeared yesterday during the attempt.
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New Orleans
Dave Sanders
Gilmore, Taxes
Sn Ol
Harvey Canal
Barataria Hay
Bexar Facts Caught Picnickers and Notables in Loose Report
A garbled item lists people seen in Seguin and elsewhere including Lieut Scudder Miller and Mary Lou Weyrean, Lieut Morton McGoffin and Mary Johnson, Lieut William Hipps and Virginia Fitzgerald, and others. mentions Bob Blankenship dying after a long East tour, Buddy Erisch’s vacation plans, a printer’s baby, and assorted locals such as Ray Carver and Al Mellinger. The note ends with a quip about health and a Los Angeles night setting month, with the writer feeling unwell.
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Seguin
Scudder Miller
Mary Lou [Weyrean
Morton McGoffin l
Mary Johnson
William Hipps
Virginia Fitzgerald
Gals Ellis
Mary Emme Finger
Raul A Lockhart
U. 8
Bob Blankenship
Buddy Erisch
Printer Hardy
Florida Street
Mexico
Remper Diehl
Milwaukee
Ray Carver
Tech
al Mellinger
Bradford Miller
Howard Boswell
Ann Uhr
Los Angeles
Mohair Prices Rise as Texas Growers Hold Out
Texas mohair stocks shrink to about 400000 pounds as market prices push upward to 49 cents a pound for grown hair and 60 cents for kid. Major consignments from Uvalde Sonora and Moody clip sales report 195000 to 120000 pound lots with bids and buyers named. Analysts expect spring shear of the large Tall clip totaling 8 to 8.5 million pounds.
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Ban Angelo
Texas
Uvalde Woolf Motair Co
Sonora Wool 4c Mo
W. L. Moody
Mickey Stephens
Munro, Kincaid, Edgehill, Inc
Denny Maginot
Blake & Kendell
Jake Schwert
Uvalie
Baye
Central
West Tesas Angola
Texas Lady Praises Van-Tage Cure
Ruth Higgins of Houston reports relief from headaches and dizziness after using Van-Tage, claiming it cleared gas from her stomach and improved appetite. The eight liquid medicine with laxative and diuretic properties is now advertised at multiple local drugstores and pharmacies.
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Ruth Higgins
Capitol Ave
Houston
Texas
van- Tage
Van-Tage
Tabereen Drug
Croydon
Sommers Drug
Eole-Serve
al Walgreen Pharmacies
Joske Bros. Dent
Moderna Drug Store
Alll Sanxe
Bank clearings climb? New York July 14 report
Dun and Bradstreet reported US bank clearings for 22 leading cities for the week ended July 13 at 4,996,659,000 dollars, down 14.1 percent from the same week a year earlier. The prior week showed a 16.1 percent drop from 1937.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
United States
Well dynamite blast wounds local Legion figure
Gray a prominent American Legion member was critically injured when dynamite exploded in a water well being dug at Walter Lively’s home. Lively placed the charge and warned bystanders before departing. Gray approached the well and peered inside as the blast occurred.
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Powastins, Ywyau Ao
Gray
American Legion
Walter Lively
Lively
U S Extends Pact to Buy Silver of China
The United States and China extended their monetary agreement to purchase Chinese silver. Treasury officials did not specify duration or quantities, but Commerce Department reports suggest about 50 million dollars of Chinese metal may be bought over the next six months. Also noted is Lusk, Wyoming, claiming unique county seat mail service from all county post offices during the air mail week.
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Washington
United States
China
Treasury
Morgenthsu
Department of Commerce
Airmail Record
Lube
Wye
Lusk
Wallace to Speed Cotton Subsidy Payments
Secretary Wallace announced expedited cotton subsidies for this year's program. About $130 million will be paid on last year’s crop to farmers complying with program rules, with initial payments likely by August and full volume by September or October.
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Wallace
Washington
Southern Tarmers
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