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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1932
Page
10
The East Fifties see a first uptick in dressmaking activity with salons operating in converted mansions. mannequins display gowns while staff charm shoppers with flirtatious banter and sales patter. A counterman serves coffee and treats as patrons inspect the latest fashions amid a nostalgic revival of galantry and epistolary flair.
Ida Tarbell’s essay The American Plan Is It Still Valid surveys the national system, compares it to Russia, and argues for continued faith and work in America’s plan. It traces 1789 origins, growth to 121 million population, and the need to balance freedom, labor, and social reforms without embracing communism or single-tax fixes.
Elsie Robinson argues that society faces a drastic shift into the machine age demanding widespread personal transformation. She contends most people resist change, while a few adapt, and urges readers to overhaul habits, beliefs, and social norms to earn a place in the new world.
Lead poisoning once common in workers and children but now preventable due to humane laws and better practices. It enters via digestion skin or inhalation, damages lungs kidneys liver and intestines, and causes colic palsy anemia and wrist drop. Prevention includes protective gear, proper lead-free paints, regulated cosmetics, hygiene, and safe water.
The proposal calls for a five billion dollar loan to relieve unemployment and boost circulation, a 5 percent sales tax, cuts in income taxes to finance industry, and an immediate modification of the Volstead act to permit wine and beer. The plan aims to revive industry, generate government income, curb racketeering, and restore personal liberty.
A reader asks how to accept compliments with grace. Advice favors warm phrases like Thank you, It is most kind of you, or How very charming of you to say so, with prompts to personalize to the compliment and wearer, emphasizing genuine appreciation and tasteful response.
A humorous column on marriage and female tactics to influence men. It jokes about vacillating loyalties, belting around cheeks, and the perils of marital life. The piece notes modern changes in courting and the quirks of love, finance, and appetite.
John Humphrey recalls 43 years ago when St Louis College, now St Marys University, first opened. He and Ed Colutla and Alex Hickman registered as the first academy students under Father Hance. He revisits the campus on its original edge of town where elm trees once shaded the road and rattlesnakes infested the basement and nearby areas.
Ten and twenty years ago notes reveal that on November 23 1922 San Antonio police and deputies closed a sensational murder mystery by crediting Chief Deputy Alphonse Newton Jr and Deputy Sheriff Angel Barloo for solving it. A butcher killed a calf at the owner Ninowle scene. The San Antonio School Board also agreed on junior high construction plans.
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