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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
4
June 13 New York markets show diamond prices climbing again as pawnbrokers supply dwindles. Fabrikant of the Bowery exchange says middle class redeemers drive the increase while fewer stones are available, pushing prices toward 1929 levels despite 1930s trends.
In Dunbar Nebraska on June 1 a reader reports a man with a kind heart bought gas masks. The quirky item mentions his dog killing a skunk whose four orphans were cared for by a crippled cat teaching them to lap milk and perform foster duties.
In Chicago six medical students served as human radio receivers in short wave tests described by the American Medical Association’s council on physical therapy. They were heated through brass cuffs and an electromagnetic field, with 400 to 800 watts applied to study tissue heating and fever-like effects.
Miami resident Farr says he woke to a low blood pill and believes his mustache moved in sleep and stabbed his nose. He claims a mustache end pierced a blood vessel amid an odd wakeful incident.
The War Department announced that Lieut. Felix N. Parsons retired of Atlanta Georgia has been dismissed from the army for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. A Fort McPherson court martial found him guilty on 21 specifications including failure and neglect to pay debts and writing checks without funds.
Mrs. W N Arnold entertained Wednesday afternoon honoring daughter Lillian Francis Arnold on her ninth birthday. Guests enjoyed games ice cream and cake with prizes awarded in the donkey fall contest. Debutante Bettie Stevens Townsend heads for Austin and New York for a Europe tour set to begin late June. Several social events and travels by local families are noted along with a Dallas Texas Centennial excursion and upcoming weddings and dinners.
German composer Richard Strauss spends his seventy second birthday working on a new opera in Garmisch Partenkirchen. He guards the subject matter and confirms that Joseph Gregan Viennese poet wrote the libretto.
In Tarboro North Carolina Roland Kenny North Kenny and Claude Bellamy two young Black men found a bee hive tree and set it afire to drive away bees for honey. They obtained the honey but burned over eighty acres of forest. Warden M W Haynes brought them to court where they were fined two dollars and fifty cents each.
In New Brunswick New Jersey on June 11 former Rutgers class members from 1886 confess they stole food from 1887 dining room as a prank. They invite the 1887 guests to a reciprocity dinner at this year’s reunions.
Federal Judge Charles A. Boynton ruled the national labor relations act unconstitutional as compulsory arbitration for employers. El Paso Electric Co sought a permanent injunction against the NLRB and won, blocking a hearing on unfair labor charges by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Austin June 11 governor Allred announced two traditional pardons four general paroles and one 90 day furlough. Four conditions pardons were revoked.
New York June 11. The new official manual of the Congregational and Christian churches of the United States finds the word obey in nuptial vows irritating and needless. The manual will be presented at the bicentennial council meeting opening Tuesday in South Hadley Massachusetts.
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