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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1937
Page
4
Edwin C Hill surveys the Chamberlain lineage from Joseph to Austen to Neville. The piece contrasts their Birmingham roots with their rise to power and their roles in housing reform and imperial leadership. It notes Neville Chamberlain's ascent, his health ministry record, and his cautious, reserved character shaping a cautious peace era.
A reflective essay argues that most people wear a social front to mask lack or loss of wealth and status. It cites Gilbert, Roux, Holmes, Hazlitt, and La Rochefoucauld to show hypocrites deceive others and themselves, seeking false happiness through pretense and surface allure.
The civil service commission report warns of a growing bureaucratic oligarchy. On April 1, 29,195 persons were on public payrolls excluding legislative, judicial, and military branches, with the 1933 to 1937 non civil service staff rising 180 percent. Many are political appointees serving masters before the public.
Historical note outlines lead poisoning risks among industrial workers. Discusses prevention measures including hygiene, protective gear, milk and lime in diet, dust control, and regular medical exams. Describes symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea, fever, and wrist or ankle drop, plus gum line discoloration as warning signs.
More than 3500 beduie poppies were sold on San Antonio streets by Sam Houston post No. 76, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to fund the national home for orphans in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Adams of 23220 Wes Commerce tours European waters aboard a U S torpedo boat. Dr. D B HM returned to his pulpit after weeks away during which he attended to duties at church committees. Zeller, formerly YMCA secretary at Nozares, was appointed district secretary of the Rio Grande valley for the Southern department, with headquarters in San Antonio, to work with the YMCA along the border.
A fragmented wartime column notes civilians adapting to fatigue from labor, with a chef joking about marriage as morale shifts. It mentions workers facing rising pay potential of about $200 weekly as bricks are thrown, hinting at industrial strain and hopeful personal changes amid hardship.
The 1937 McNaght Synd copy traces a playful stream of consciousness by O O McIntyre in New York. It riffs on eurythmy, moustaches, glove costs, and a dream meeting with a genealogist while noting editors, actors, poems, and a desire for a bath after finishing the sheet.
The piece defends modern American women against British critic Priestley and other nostalgists. It argues women face nonstop activity and public scrutiny, but that pace improves life, society, and the home. The author cites past leisure as dull and praises urgency, competition, and ads as catalysts for better living.
A scrambled OCR fragment presents a collage of famous lines misattributed and garbled phrases from Shakespeare Franklin and others. It resembles a page of a comic-quiz or reader puzzle with broken punctuation and erroneous attributions.
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