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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
3
A collage of backstage gags, gossip, and humorous anecdotes from Walter Winchell style notes. Sketches include Murphy the garbage contractor who drowns after a fall, a Philadelphia wedding jitters tale, joking sign misreads at a marquee, and quips about Sam Harris, Jean Crawford, and Deanna Durbin. Narrative shifts through silly asides on Hollywood vanity, jokes about Supreme Court picks, and a Marine battalion dining miscue in the Argonne.
Josh A. Hornbesk, 84, longtime Texas Presbyterian minister and former superintendent of the Tome Mission, died Tuesday. He served as moderator of the Texas synod and was a pioneer Texas minister.
San Antonio's Champion Brewing Company, led by president Donald W. Reynolds, will invest over 500000 to build a new facility. The firm introduces Champ beer a light dry lager using an old European formula chosen after a Southwest taste survey. Brewmaster William Horn, renowned in the field, heads the brewing team.
Flumt Mich based brewmaster with training in Vienna leads to posts in Athens and Colon. Charles H Hathaway named sales manager overseeing San Antonio team as progress report on local merchandising. Champion Brewing to use San Antonio products heavily at 600 Simpson Street.
Frank Brady reports on a jumble of names and snippets from the Bexar area. Highlights include community figures like Gertrude Stinson with a big bandage, Max Neuendorfy checking his Rastané, Abe Fisch’s milestone, Nemo Herrera coaching Sidney Tanner High, and Peggy Edwards selling a club sandwich. The item blends school matters, social notes, and local color with brief mentions of theatre, dances, and daily routines.
NEW YORK March 20 In a weekly review the steel trade press predicts improved business in the second quarter. Birmingham and Detroit show declines while Wheeling Wheeling and Youngstown report expansion. Iron Age scrap price rises to 15.29 per ton, highest since Oct 1937. Ingots production at about 55 percent capacity, a slight drop from the prior week.
Prosser Washington March details rural electrification customers will read meters, compute bills, and pay by money order to their postman. Superintendent J B Whitehead says the plan will save about 1200 dollars annually previously paid to meter readers. Draft Dodger Denied Citizenship in ROCHESTER New York March 22 Hert Van Apeldoorn 44 refused to hear arms during World War I denied United States citizenship Supreme Court Justice William F Lave denied the application after the Holland-? heyn carpenter claimed draft exemption as an alien in the last war. Apeldoorn said he had no objection to defending the United States in any future war.
New York reports a total of 2,108,691,000 kilowatt hours of electricity produced in the week ended March 25, down 34 percent from the prior week’s 2,225,486,000. The figure remains 13 percent above the 1,876,229,009 kilowatt hours in the comparable 1938 period, with Edison Electric Institute noting the decline as unexpectedly sharp. The report follows industry commentary by Johnnie Davis of Warner Brothers.
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