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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1933
Page
3
A long, reflective letter recounts a girl’s sixteenth birthday party described with charm and vulnerability. She recalls tea with friends, games, and a lawn gathering, then shifts to personal thoughts about happiness, her blindness, family memories, and a beloved white spitz named Brixey. The piece blends childhood memories, media notes, and musings on empathy and resilience.
The article outlines a sharp policy split between Secretary of State Hull who favors international tariff reduction via global agreement and Assistant Secretary Moley who urges domestic recovery first. It notes Hull’s faith in a London conference and Moley’s stance that most remedies are national, predicting political and economic consequences for U.S. strategy and industry.
A critical editorial argues the House Ways and Means Committee bungled tax reform aimed at economic recovery. It claims proposed rates would burden low income taxpayers, discourage spending, and deter stockholders, while extended excises and new levies distort distribution and hinder prosperity. The piece urges Congress to adopt clearer, fair tax principles over opportunism.
Royal S Copeland MD explains hay fever types and symptoms from pollen dust to perennial hay fever. He outlines distinction from asthma, notes vaccination treatment via ragweed pollen injections, need for preseason starting before hay fever begins, and consult physician for preventive measures.
The speaker asserts real knowledge comes from life, not academia, claiming a self made education from the college of personal experience. She urges readers to confront their own impulses and hypocrisies, noting everyone carries humanity's record within.
A memory by Assistant City Attorney William Davis recounts a flood night in 1821. The crowd fled a dance on Market Street as waters rose, forcing people to strip to underwear and wade to the north side, near the mayor’s building, amid alarm and confusion.
Readers seek advice on how to announce engagements and invitations to school dances. The letters discuss best practice, timing for engagement news, and sample wording for prom invitations, with guidance favoring simple, early announcements and girls as co-hostesses in planning and ticketing.
A fragmentary column by Helen Rowland satirizes male vanity and flirtation, noting how love and attraction shift with presence of new women. It contrasts southern and northern courtship styles and hints at escalating romantic temptation before prohibition, describing love as a fickle, often boastful emotion.
Summary of San Antonio Light items from May 29 1923 and May 22 1923. Mentions aviator May 29 flight from Gulf of the Great Lakes covering 1400 miles for about 42 hours. Notes Douglas W Hing of San Antonio elected president of the Texas Grain Dealers association at Fort Worth convention. Lists West Texas Military Academy graduates and local voices.
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