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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1932
Page
12
General Pershing urges citizen vigilance against crime and bootlegging in a current American Magazine article. He favors legal enforcement committees to support honest officials and cites prohibition as fueling the postwar underworld. He recalls frontier vigilance as a model, speaking as a nationally authoritative voice for law and order.
Georgia congressman Charles B Crisp denounces organized minorities hindering tax reform unemployment relief and federal reorganization. He urges unorganized voters to rise, elect supporters, and back lawmakers with national duty and decisive leadership to strengthen defense and stabilize the dollar amid economic distress.
Lord Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, writes a full page editorial praising the United States and predicting a recovery. He argues Britain's past rise from hardship mirrors America’s potential rebound and dismisses a return to the gold standard. He notes outsiders often see facts more clearly than insiders amid unsettled times.
A nostalgic essay recalls Diana the huntress statue once atop Madison Square Garden. The piece laments New York’s loss of past symbols, from Diana to Long-vanished edifices, and reflects on cultural memories tied to city landmarks, public figures, and era-defining moments.
A reflective essay argues pride is natural and essential, driving growth and achievement. It links pride to both good deeds and crime, urging understanding of criminal motives to prevent wrongdoing and to better grasp human behavior. The prose spans moral psychology, social observation, and cultural commentary.
The piece surveys "half-sinners" in marriage, detailing types of spouses who turn partnership into a daily grind. It lampoons the nagging, judgment, and control that sap romance, contrasting virtuous halves with reformers, critics, and gadflies who erode harmony.
A Corpus Christi police officer recalls a severe tornado event that toppled a building antenna, registered 110 miles per hour on a city wind gauge, and blew salt spray inland destroying crops. The tale includes garbled phrases about wind damage and fish washed inland.
A San Antonio Light file entry notes Commissioner Ray Lambert requesting 501 251 dollars for the next fiscal year covering city services from street cleaning to rivers and ditches. It also mentions a gasoline price aim of 23 cents per gallon and a Texas mainland Galveston causeway opening marked by 2 miles of concrete and steel.
This piece explains paralysis as a symptom, not a disease, and details brain hemorrhage stroke causes, side-related body paralysis, and terms like hemi plegia paraplegia and mono plegia. It stresses heart and vessel checks, infection sources, X-ray exams, diet, and physician supervised therapy for recovery.
The mother advises sending informal wedding invitations two weeks to ten days before the date. Handwritten notes are acceptable for an informal wedding, though engraved invitations are too formal. Verbal invitations are unreliable for recall of date and time.
Guidance on replying to invitations and thanking hosts. Advice covers whether to acknowledge invitations, leaving or sending cards, and how to express positive sentiments at parties. Also includes a dining etiquette question about seating and a brief note on acceptable manners for thanking a hostess after an event.
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