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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1932
Page
27
An earnest catalog of performers and tunes from late vaudeville and musical comedy, listing Nora Bayes Jack Norworth Jim Thornton Julia Sanderson and others with playful notes on their hits and careers plus anecdotes about show business figures, dances and the era’s star personas.
The article describes the Olympic Village near Hollywood, a 100 acre complex housing numerous nationalities with two room huts. It notes Finland's Nurmi and controversy over amateur status, while praising the committees handling logistics for thousands of visitors and mentioning languages spoken.
A long standing belief points to Mrs. Frank C. Lowden as the namer of Pullman cars, but records show no such job. The naming began with car A Pioneer and evolved into a system using letters and unique names to reflect car type and route, with numerous examples from Great Northern to Santa Fe and honors to notable figures and events.
A garbled colorful monologue claims Wotta Mann lost to Swinging Gates in a past bout and mocks referees and champions. It describes Gates dominating Mann with bad blood and odd punch descriptions, noting the bout happened at night and Man’s chin giving way.
An echoing 1932 tale features Quackenbush and Swinging Gates in a wild round of bets and boasts. The narrative notes a page boy shouting Quackenbush amid card room play at unions and clubs, with comic asides about taxes, proxies, and a tumultuous night.
The 80 year old Billy Campbell of Stockton recalls his Pony Express days and carries a dream to write a memoir. He rode across the nation with mail aboard a line that predated airplanes, recalls delivering Lincoln’s first message, and notes a eight day seventeen hour cross country record. Campbell, born in Ireland, joined in Kansas City and endured long nights, harsh summers, and tight discipline as one of the era’s enduring riders.
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