Durant Meets Gazotti at Night Club
Jackson Durant of New York, an infamous underworld lawyer, moves in high society circles as he navigates a murder inquiry involving Mimi Montagne. He sketches suspects from newspaper accounts, confronts threats, and navigates the Pinnacle club scene where gangster Tony Gazotti looms amid gossip, surveillance, and shifting loyalties.
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Jackson Durant
New York
Sue Lennard
Sorros
Laston
Durant
Mimi Mintagné
Thomas Siddill
Idner
Siddall
Sue
Garoili
Chere
Garaili
Pinnacle Club
Tiley Whist
Toby Gazely
Leonard
Levu
Jackson Oceans
Afanhattan
Hatdeck
Tony Gazotti
Tony
Lotte
Lottie
Gertie
Gertie Waxted
Leonard Goll
O Siddall
Jack
Gertiz
Peante
Durany
Lenin
Dovant
Mr. Durant
Ephal
Pierre
Whaler
Tory
Gorlin
Fikewaka
Remembering a Swift City Hotel Landmark in 1920s Photo
The Chamber of Commerce published a photograph of a historic hotel once named the Mfalmoke, owned by Ludwig Mataycke, long connected to the city’s early hotel scene. It stood where the Gunter hotel now sits, hailed as a fine southwest landmark and a key storefront region in its era.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ludwig Mataycke
Onr le Areel
Merryhore Suwells Company
Td Fellows
Antes
Pillow Top Pattern Promises Elegant Embroidery
Nell Brinkley illustrated pattern 519 offers dainty pillow top ideas for round or square cushions with simple stitches. Directions and color suggestions enable boudoir or living room uses, with a ten cent pattern order from the San Antonio Light Needlecraft Department as the tale includes social chatter and dance floor gossip alongside.
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San Antonio
Table Talks and Green Tomato Marmalade Recipe
Mildred Kitchen presents two recipes green tomato marmalade and green tomato pickles with steps and ingredients. The prose also includes a quarrelsome, gossip laden dialogue about a character named Gertie and remarks by Durant, with a note about republishing from Cosmopolitan Magazine and a Cosmopolitan Production.
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Mildred Kitchen
Marian Martin Pattern 9796 listing with sizes and prices
The San Antonio Light advertises Marian Martin pattern 9796 with sizes 36 to 46 and yardage for 38 inch fabric. It promotes slimming seaming and contrasting collars, notes fabric options like crepes and satin, and instructs ordering by sending coins or stamps to the Pattern Department. A pattern book price is 15 cents and combined book with pattern 35 cents.
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San Antonio
Beauty and Broadway Style Reflections
A fragmentary column notes beauty trends with eye shadow shimmer and evening elegance. It contrasts strict beauty rules with Broadway devotion noting actresses in dressing rooms reading devotional books. A veteran evangelist figure hints at religious seriousness amid showbiz.
Advice to Lovelorn by Beatrice Fairfax
Dear Lester B. asks how to handle his father who forbids dating, noting he will be 18 soon and believes a wife is premature. Fairfax suggests there is no valid reason for the father to bar socializing with nice girls, urges balanced socializing with both sexes, and cautions against adolescent “crazy” phases while acknowledging parental concern.
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Miss Feirfax
Lester B
King Feaa
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Hines
Ian
M. Aeort
Gazotti
Stevens
Gramm
Mimi Montagne
Singer
Empire Gleb Tower
Trinidad
Oklahoma
Layton
Wil Regan
Mr. Regan
Leyton
Mies Montaens
Nell Brinkley
Nimarchly
Genery
Gareth
Garett
Mrs. Reed
Folger
Schatchon
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Majestic Wiealar
Cosmopolitan
Metra Geldwini
International Magazine
Marian Martin
Dolly
Beauty Hoyle
Pay King
Beautiful Lady Evangelist
Broadway
Broad Way
Folger's
Central America
Nattien
Kenoven
Fulger
Jin USA Lan
Nui
Ank Far
Fotaer Coffee Company
Blanbar City
San Francinco
Rallow Tha Naw Radio
Adventures of
Folgar'y Cofies
Avery
Evar Wade
Orc.c Tay
Waportarti Folger
Folger's Coffee wAcor
Beatrice Fairfax
Folger’s
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