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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1920
Page
2
Dr W B Russ, a leading local physician, calls quack doctors the lowest of crooks and sneaks. He says any newspaper that prints their ads is equally low. The San Antonio Light claims it does not print such advertisements and thus avoids the insult.
A long analysis links a royal death in Greece to political upheaval and international repercussion. It notes King Alexander’s death, Venizelos’s ouster, and Constantine’s return, with implications for Entente interests and Wilsonian ideals shaping postwar Europe and the United States.
The piece notes President Wilson’s league idea failing in a solemn referendum and argues Greece’s change alters the world situation. It reflects on the unforeseen consequences and calls the shift a new factor, remarking that destiny can be monkeyed in surprising ways.
The widow of Dublin mayor MacSwiney seeks a US passport to testify before the unofficial Commission of 100 in Washington on the Irish question. The piece argues such hearings risk shaping US opinion, warns against propaganda, and says US rights are not involved in the Irish issue.
Ex-President Poincare of France argues in a Paris article that the League covenant must be amended to secure U.S. participation. He is portrayed as favoring practical aims to bolster enforcement of the treaty against Germany, reflecting allied hopes voiced after the Paris peace conference.
The piece argues that France under Poincaré Sacrifices ideals for German indemnities and urges caution about joining a league that would protect capitalist aims. It warns a future U.S. administration could face entanglement if following Poincaré’s view. It contrasts altruistic wartime efforts with postwar imperial aims and criticizes practical leverage over principles.
A reflective poem fragment about Levi’s inner turmoil and alienation amid war’s toll. It traces memory, family criticism, and the pull between heritage and personal despair as the speaker questions belonging, faith, and identity during conflict.
In a blustery afternoon, Fanny learns her cousin Cora Niles has left $1000 to each relative, including Fanny. Miles urges saving the money at interest and warns of its squandered use, while Fanny imagines purchases. Tensions rise as harmony cracks before a corrected will threatens her newfound windfall.
In Paris a housing shortage causes odd scenes as divorced individuals seek separate apartments. A painter and his ex-wife, both hunting for quarters after mutual divorce, repeatedly cross paths, exchanging polite greetings as their search continues.
Fragmented report describes Paris scenes with flat requests and dispossessions. Henry Landen, held for twenty months at La Sante over disappearances of eleven women, loses his Boulevard Rochechouart dwelling. A jailed swindler fears winter cold after prison term near 30 days. both expose dire city life and legal woes amid political notes on Millerand.
Delegates at a National Hotel Association convention visit Ellis Island to see how meals are prepared for 17 cents. Immigration commissioner Frederick A. Wallis explains cost control via purchase practices and mass production yielding about 1.05 percent monthly profit, with a sample menu showing simple dishes.
A playful children’s column sketches tiny mishearings and innocent misstatements. Leto aged five asks about tennis after seeing a tug and Michn reports a blacksmith shop where horses are shoeing, confusing the “man with the feet” for a horse shoeing scene.
The program features Moonlight Nine-Play with nuns and comic acts. Also listed are Empire Pictures and The Penalty two shorts, plus Goureiarky Morris story, a com edy Roustabout, and a double bill at Pantages. Royal Pieters and Dorothy Daltonia star in A Romantic Adventurens. Loew's vaudeville presents The Loave Tangier and four other acts.
A humorous snippet recounts a profiteer planning a country house with eel ponds, a neighbor’s objections, a preacher’s family woes over Fido, a child’s prayer to fix bad and good people, Mrs Tiptoe’s fashion gossip, and a painter Dobbs facing fading art value. The piece blends small town voices, pets, and culture in a lively vignette.
The text discusses money as power in relationships and notes a mute person’s lack of voice. It hints at laughter, marriage dynamics, and the idea that small knowledge can be better than useless vast knowledge. It also references aging, hats, and baldness in a somewhat satirical tone.
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