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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1936
Page
1
An OCR fragment advertises a broadway press advertising service offering job leads through a light classified section. It mentions dialing a number and half-rate pricing, with street address clues Fifth street and Broadway. The text is fragmentary but indicates an ad writer service and promotional offer.
Clark a stational commander denounced the Van Nuys bill on the Mutual Broadcasting system calling it the latest attack on free press and speech. He argued it would bar editors and reporters from writings that could influence employees and stifle coverage and editorial criticism of political parties.
Overnight downpours swell Tigery and nearby rivers in New York, Pennsylvania, and New England, with the Weather Bureau warning of reaching flood levels by midweek. Predictions place the Hudson at 12 feet in Albany and 18 feet at Troy, while the Monongahela and Susquehanna rise, threatening roads and towns including Binghamton. In Vermont, Montpelier reports the North Branch river backing up behind jams. Separately, Treasury data shows March receipts of 34.7 million and expenditures of 16.3 million, with a large year-to-date deficit and a $30.5 billion gross debt report.
Robert Edmond Jones produced nearly 2000 drawings and sketches of costumes and sets for Pioneers Pictures new Technicolor production Dancing Pirate.
Tulsa March 17 Col Oscar W Hoop, elected police commissioner two years ago while testing political science students on a hopelessly “tectionless” candidate, submitted four more orthodox cases to voters today seeking re election. His rule that an onset man must be elected to public safety was challenged by University of Tulsa students who campaigned to disprove the instructor’s theory and won.
Police responded to a burglar alarm at the First National Bank in Neosho where clerics and ministers met in the directors' room. An accidental button press triggered the incident as officers surrounded the room and secured most of the church leaders present.
PRABODY Massachusetts March 1419 Men who fail to use welfare checks to support their families here are set to work housekeeping in their own homes and their wives are given jobs on welfare projects James Day head of the municipal welfare department said more than 100 men have been transferred to the apron brigade
Weather notes show variable conditions across cities including Albuquerque Amarillo Dallas Fort Worth Des Moines and Denver with highs around 70s and mid 40s to 60s. Moon rise at 4 17 am and set at 2 06 pm. Tides at Arangas Pass indicate mixed high and low values.
Italian bombing planes attacked the northern Ethiopian town of Quaram with mustard gas, incapacitating hundreds. An Ethiopian communique says large quantities of poisonous gas fell on residents, who lay on the ground due to lack of beds and medical equipment. some survived because of dry air and low humidity.
Secretary Morgenthau recovering from illness leaves Washington with Mrs Morgenthau and son Robert for a three week Sea Island Georgia vacation. Amelia Earhart urges a one hour solo flight as a cure for quarrels and forgetfulness after a wives quarrel club meeting advises over four hundred ninety attendees.
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