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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1940
Page
16
A presidential proclamation sets April 6 as Army Day to honor current and past forces. It frames the army as a peace guarantee alongside air and naval power, notes recent defense funding aimed at modernizing artillery and equipment, and urges resolve to deter raiding powers while building robust army and air defenses.
An advertisement from the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association highlights oil as Texas’ economic cornerstone. It notes 141 refineries nationwide production, oil refining at 41 percent of Texas manufactured value, and 224,000 Texans employed in oil, with 25,000 skilled and 5,000 office workers. It argues expanding other raw product manufacture could add millions to annual payrolls.
The piece recalls pre Elizabethan amateur singing in the town, praising barber shop quartet harmony and the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing led by O. C. Cash. It contrasts English rounds with American styles, notes famous names like Al Smith and Heine Mueller, and describes late night sessions and a judge amid curious spectators.
In 1840, Edwin C. Hill recalls a barber shop sing along led by Heine Mueller and a Dutch named professor. The scene shows diverse tradespeople and nationalities—French, Welsh, German, Down East Yankee—joining in a warm, fraternal moment that underscores barber shop harmony and cross cultural unity. The memory ends with plaudits for Mr. Cash and his barber shop harmony society.
A reader criticizes Thursday's Light for proposed swimming pool charges totaling 8500 per season per pool. The writer argues that poor families cannot afford 15 cents per swim and questions funding from taxpayers, suggesting a boycott and home watering to save money. Signed by T. TAXPAYER.
Fragmented text hints at marital strain and social pressure in relationships. Mentions topics of love, bankruptcy, bachelor life, and control within marriage. Describes the tension of watching spouses and the stress in daily life. Contains garbled phrases and inconclusive reasoning.
A humorous note describes a man who may be hazy about office commuting yet shows exact time sense for quitting work to keep a golf date. The quip, attributed to Helen Rowland, suggests men excel at timing when it concerns leisure rather than work tasks.
The prompt lists pairs of phrases that sound similar but differ in meaning due to homographs and context. It asks to explain differences such as set of tennis versus set of china, brow of a hill versus brow of a person, score in opera versus score in football, mass in church versus Mass attack, box a book versus box scam, feet in barber versus fleet doer, bed of roses versus four poster bed, call for mess versus mess of garbage, bed of a tree versus bark of a dog, shoulder of a mountain versus shoulder of a man, feet of slaves versus tale of a baby, shade on window versus shade of cedar, seeing beneath mattress versus snoring in wroda, temper of father versus tamper of stort, beat of a policeman versus beat of tametans, with page prompt to see answers.
Washington essay notes Senator Robert Taft of Ohio presenting a detailed February speech at Worthmore College outlining his plan to reform the New Deal. He would retain social programs with revisions, pursue a mutual approach to tariffs, and stress fiscal restraint, while maintaining a pro Allied non involvement stance.
A man, forever hopeful, waits for a life changing break. He dreams of luck, a great job, or chance to sing or write, across decades from his teens to thirty six. He takes small jobs at Max's Emporium while others rise without formal schooling.
In a Kin Feas piece for Synd, Elsie Robinson argues that there are no big moments without countless small efforts. She urges readers to value every small effort as the building block of future success, noting汗 sweat and discipline shape fate and luck follows hard work.
The article discusses indigestion in under forties and older adults, noting most young sufferers lack serious disease while chronic cases may precede cancer. It offers eight dietary rules to manage indigestion, emphasizes gradual meals, soft meats, quiet eating, limited salt and spices, minimal liquids with meals, and cautions on fatigue. For elderly or weakened patients, it adds longer gaps between meals and dry intervals, plus overall slow eating and thorough chewing.
Dr Herman N Bundesen cautions that swallowing hot or cold foods hastily can irritate the stomach lining and cause inflammation. He advises chewing well and mixing with saliva to allow cooling to body temperature for easier digestion.
A tentative plan formed at an unemployment council meeting sets a march of about 2000 people from Market plaza through the downtown district to city hall on April 7. Committees will seek a parade permit by meeting Chief of Police Own W. Kiday, with J. Shaffer and M. Rodrigues leading the permit effort.
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