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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1920
Page
8
Helen reads a note from Lansing and traps a glow as he plans an evening visit. Adele bursts in, adding flirtatious energy. Lansing courts Helen with steady gaze and guarded charm while she weighs companionship against past disillusionments.
An incomplete item references Adele and Lansing in a teasing interchange and hints at a future encounter. It also mentions a grand opera season opening November 27 at Beethoven hall with operas Ada Carmen Tosca and Rigoletto and subscription books at Goggans.
In a 1920 John Barton tale a hungry Weasel named Killer hides in a crack near Dr Muskrat’s pond to escape ghost owl fears. Hidden hop toads Tommy Peele and Louie Thomson pry the crack open and reveal Killer ready to strike, ending in a perilous standoff.
A fashion note emphasizes simple, well tailored outfits as the dominant trend with selective elaboration. It highlights navy serge or tricotine dresses trimmed in vivid red and black, a belt at the waist, collarless design for fur neckpieces, and comfortable five to six inch side openings.
Etymology traces Fay to old English and Archaic Scotch meaning faith. The piece discusses Fay as a given name and its abstract noun usage, plus connections to fairy lore and contemporaries Baye and Tay. It notes Wednesday as a lucky day and the violet flower as symbolic.
The piece argues excuses reveal selfishness and misplaced generosity. It contrasts public masks with private secrets and questions why intelligent friends accept pretexts while we fear openness.
Fragmentary dialogue notes people apart in night and day. A character laments absence and fashion, while another muses on excuses and self deception. The piece reflects imperfect humans offering varied apologies and striving for better quality and quantity of themselves.
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture touts breeding skunks as a market stabilizer for a sagging fur trade. The circular claims skunks deter mice grasshoppers crickets and white grubs while yielding 50 to 100 dollars per farm yearly. It adds farmers should fence poultry skunkproof yards and cull an old horse every fall.
An ad for a complete line of new and reclaimed army goods appears beside a report from Pekin dated November 13 describing the kidnapping of Kang Shih to, the former Anfu club treasurer. He was bound and hoisted over the legation wall by Chinese servants and handed to gendarmes seeking him and other refugees hiding in foreign legations.
Rome reports Prof. Giuseppe Perugi has developed a photographic treatment to reveal underlying script from palimpsests. He has reproduced Dante's Paradise sixth Canto from a fifteenth century religious text, aiding scholars and potentially exposing forgeries in documents and paper money. The note mentions Roselawn Cemetery in Crockett.
London reports the engagement of Charles Saunders Dundas sixth Viscount Melville of Melville Castle Midlothian to Margaret Todd 40 an Edinburgh hairdresser's assistant described as of distinguished appearance. He served as British consul at Santos Brayil in 1869. His first wife Grace Scully of Rio de Janeiro died in 1890. The ancestor first viscount was the first Dun day known as the uncrowned king of Scotland.
An elderly Kentucky man, Marion Holcomb of this place, reports relief from headaches, stomach and liver trouble after using Thedford’s Black-Draught. He praises the vegetable remedy as the best liver medicine and says it cured his symptoms when other pills failed. The advertisement urges readers to insist on the genuine product.
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