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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1937
Page
4
A compilation of quotations on lying from Montesquieu Montaigne Disraeli Jefferson and Cicero warns that lies backfire, become habits, and erode trust. It notes politicians use misleading figures and that the public soon distrusts even true statements. The piece emphasizes the moral toll and the danger of hoisting falsehoods.
The Army Air Corps faced a pants shortage for 17,000 personnel. General Malin Craig ordered that personnel wear trousers and shoes where breeches and boeings were prescribed, as tailors rush to produce enough pants. The incident suggests red tape can be trimmed to speed up plane production to close the aviation gap.
The writer reflects on Alexander Woollcott and interview techniques, contrasts old New York social scene with shifting real estate on Park Avenue, and recalls gritty urban districts from Chinatown to Havre’s Leage de la Rue. He blends personal recollections with observations of fame, media, and city life.
A quirky late night scene with police presence and ambulance spots left observers puzzling over an apparent act by visiting firemen. Harold Lovelace, copyist, appears on a pulde card from MrNaught Bynd., Inc., adding to the oddity of the night in the badlands.
The piece critiques self centered individuals described as chronic grievers, regretters, sensitive souls, and egotists who broadcast their sufferings. It lampoons their endless self narration, urging readers to redirect attention outward and seek cures for their ailments. Copyt, TEN, by Riau Pens. Byad, Ine.
A brief quip notes that a woman who keeps a neat home is mocked by her friends as a “hopeless bee” in a somber social observation, reflecting dated judgments about domestic virtue.
Native buffalo numbers once ran into millions on the plains with estimates of 50 million in the 1870s. By the 1880s slaughter, market forces, and expansion decimated the herds, leaving only a few thousand in the United States and Canada. The piece notes the shift from buffalo to cattle and sheep, diminishing Indigenous prominence, and the rise of the “Wild West” as a relic.
A letter describes foot and mouth disease in cloven footed animals and its rare human occurrence. Symptoms include fever, headache, mouth and throat pain, red blisters then scaly eruptions, foul breath, and a coated tongue. Isolate infected animals, boil milk for human use, and maintain oral hygiene with antiseptic washes. Treatment varies with symptom severity and the disease lasts about three weeks.
Ten and twenty years ago from the San Antonio Agne 12, 1027 note Brig. Gen. James A Fechet former head of Kelly Field and a Texas native, has been named to succeed Major General Mason MM Pat.
The page presents a Shakespeare related quiz with scattered lines and misreadable quotes ranging from dramatic to comic, inviting readers to turn to the comic page for answers. It also reports a June 12 1917 San Antonio news item about the Alamo Heights sewer and fire protection bond vote and a San Antonio war department clean up discussion.
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