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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1949
Page
7
Raymond-doha Dickey, 35, of Gonzales, survived a severe car crash while returning from San Antonio when his station wagon struck a creek bridge 14 miles out. He emerged from the wreck with injuries described as slight. Local reports brief about the incident on Thursday.
Tokyo dispatch reports the transport Klara Perkin will sail from Kobe on Sunday bound for the Soviet held Sakhalin island with Japanese locomotives and freight cars consigned to the Russians. The note hints at rapid resolution of logistical issues and urges use of Want Ads for ad writing assistance.
KEITH ELUOTT recounts the Irish Flats, San Antonio’s Paddy’s Quarter, a green memory of Irish and German influences blending with Spanish and local growth. The district’s social bonds, construction parties, and quarrels shaped a distinct enclave that faded after World War I II as businesses grew and residents blended. The piece ends with Hollywood Golden Globes notes for 1943.
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