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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1933
Page
5
Roosevelt has advanced public credit and revenues from legalized beer and wine. The next reform should broaden the sales tax to other consumption items, opposing voices blamed on workers. A general sales tax or targeted levy could fund public works and spur economic recovery.
A Viennese doctor used malarial fever to cure paresis in a patient, prompting jokes about the mosquito’s odd medical potential. The piece muses on harvesting mosquitoes to create a therapeutic serum, jokes about breeding winged Frankensteins, and ends with a quip about Darwin’s mosquito. It wryly notes the era’s science optimism and enduring pest problem.
A Columbia Teachers College group reports women more superstitious than men and that beliefs pass mainly from mothers to children. They urge women's clubs and local groups to join the effort to debunk common myths such as broken mirrors, black cats, ladders, and unlucky numbers.
In a 1993 column Hatlo argues writing must reflect common human experience and endure testing, dismissing past flourishes as outdated. He urges writers to forgo parlor tricks and embrace practical craft amid a tough era.
A fragment of Elsie Robinson's writing urging personal usefulness over status across eras. It argues that no matter the role chosen writer wife congressman or buyer you must meet others needs by being useful. The piece references historical figures and attacks vanity in favor of practical value.
A clipped fragment shows a byline or title line reading Etou by Kathryn D and a welcoming note. The readable text hints at a brief section header or column start in a newspaper page segment. The exact content and context remain unclear from the OCR fragment.
In a survey of New York culture writers Lois Long and Dorothy Parker, famed for sharp wit, are depicted as emblematic of a shifting humor era. The piece notes Parker’s Jersey upbringing, Long’s NY reporting on nightclubs, and the era's move from medieval to modern satire amid Astor Place and Riverside Drive society.
A reflective column explores modern dating and courtship norms. It jokes about men's hesitations and women's expectations, contrasting romantic ideals with practical worries, and calls attention to the social dynamics of love and commitment.
A 1927 column muses on the value of lived experience over hollow pseudoscience and performance, urging writers to speak from real life and warning that empty grand gestures deceive only briefly before truth prevails. The piece includes literary asides and a call to genuine voice.
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