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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1935
Page
6
A critic argues federal policy multiplies taxes on bread, calling the New Deal a costly burden on consumers. It details a processing tax of 526 million dollars for the year and lists fifty-two taxes on loaves, affecting farmers, mills, railroads, bakers, and housewives, predicting higher living costs.
A nonpartisan clergy panel denounces the New Deal as dishonest and confiscatory and warns the administration against regimentation. Clergy from Jewish, Protestant and Catholic groups urge loyalty to the Constitution and independence from politics.
City and county law officers met to plan a crime detection laboratory in San Antonio and Bexar County. The group noted a lack of equipment including microscopes and agreed funds should be set aside for chemical analyses and ballistic tests. A committee will draft rules for officers handling murder investigations to secure clues and report promptly to prosecutors.
An article recalls Joe Louis and Max Baer in New York drawing 25 000 fans to a display of self defense. It describes Admiral Isamu Takeshita teaching jiu jitsu to a White House guest and explains the art’s appeal and origins, noting secret higher forms in Japan.
A mixed column notes changing views on marriage, love, and independence with wry observations about men and women. It shifts to a history lesson on jiu jitsu from feudal Japan to modern demonstrations, citing Terada Guman’s feats against guards and the concept of yielding to counter attacks.
A reflective column in which Elsie Robinson vows to discard modern pretense and revolutions to rediscover her true self. She seeks drifting back to childlike simplicity, honest thoughts, and steady living, asking divine help to recover lost inner self and compassion.
From the San Antonio Light files dated October 2 1925 Rev Jay Jeffers of Beacon Hill Baptist preaches that unless curbed the Charleston dance will lead American youth to a catastrophe greater than that which befell Rome and Greece. Also note Solving street improvement in San Antonio with only 20 of 700 miles still unimproved and a 1918 item about a ten match exhibition at the Gunter hotel rear lawn involving Percy Tyrrell his daughter Ethel William H Furlought and Ethel Wilson with potential promotion of a motion picture.
A fragmentary column recalls dainty cocktail hostesses called barefi es and their modest pay from 5 to 7:30 pm, noting they dress smartly and mingle with patrons. It shifts to oblique tributes to Tex Guinan Valentino and Charles K Harris, then details retirements and wanderlust of figures like Floyd Gibbons, Frazier Hunt, and Ben Ruey, ending with a portrait of Ted Healy and backstage quirks of Broadway.
Announcement that erysipelas in infants responds better to new treatments than in prior years. Doctors report reduced infant mortality using citrate blood transfusions every other day and convalescent serum injections, with X-ray and ultraviolet therapies as supportive measures. The article explains disease spread, symptoms, and potential complications like gangrene or septicemia. Possibility of outbreaks in maternity wards raised.
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