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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1931
Page
12
The piece argues that wage cuts are blamed on workers during deflation while corporations inflate stock and push watered shares. It cites W. R. Hearst across papers to urge workers to see how inflation and market manipulation raise profits, then press wage reductions in downturns.
Fragmented diary notes describe Merrily up and about in New York tempo with Saul Flaum, a noon breakfast at Tow Schware's Mansion, a Connecticut drive to visit the Gee Tanners, and a late evening at George White's Scandals. It mentions celebs seen on stage including Pass Whiteman, Constance Tilmadge, Marion Drivies, and Rudy Vallee, with praise for the revue and its performers.
In Karnes County Texas farmer Wendell Mayes and FA Jeni Rosch discuss a new cotton acreage law affecting blackland and creek bottom farms. The measure would compel high 90 percent planting in many areas, provoking resistance from smallholders and sparking talk of countywide impact on farming practices and local politics.
The prose sketches a surreal, memory soaked scene of a peacock display, garden imagery, and a drifting reflection on theater and cultural life in New York. It swings from nostalgic nature vignettes to notes on ONeill fans, Broadway melodramas, and a departure of Elinor from New York to California.
An OCR fragment presents a satirical piece by Helen Rowland on courtship and marriage, intertwining tobacco advertising with social commentary. The prose riffs on gender roles, matrimonial insurance, and the lure of traditional courting, branding tobacco as a symbol in dating rituals. The text mixes product pitches with witty observations and social mores from the period.
From the 1921 San Antonio Light files comes notes on unemployment institute conferences in San Antonio and Berar county politics. It mentions Maj Gen Joseph H. Dickman retiring and San Antonio officials eyeing reorganized Citizens party meetings for a new permanent structure.
The Register-Republic of Rockford Illinois denounces the League Court decision in the Austro-German case as influenced by national political and racial prejudice. The editorial warns the United States Senate against entangling alliances and surrendering independence to participate in continental judicial affairs.
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