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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1929
Page
9
Fire Insurance Commissioner urges observance of Fire Prevention Week October 6 to 12. He cites high fire losses, stresses education, engineering and enforcement, and asks city officials clubs and the public to join in improving building standards and fire laws to reduce deaths and $20,000,000 annual losses.
The Hays County grand jury adjourned and returned 54 felony indictments and two misdemeanors. George W. Edwards was awarded $1,250 in a lawsuit against the Luling Oil and Gas Company over damages to a rig leased to the firm. Edwards serves as city attorney for San Marcos.
Unclear OCR reads about shotgun shells and cart ridges tied to A W Maier and related individuals, with scattered place names and files making a brief item irregular. The readable text hints at a storage or sale note involving firearms components and local names.
Corpus Christi reports 15 year old Maximo Ramirez received six years in Gatesville for kidnapping four year old Juan Ramon of Robstown on Sept 11. Ramirez also faced auto theft charges after the child was found safe in a vacant San Antonio house on Sept 23.
P R Austin of Victoria Texas a descendant of Stephen F Austin and wealthy cattleman was found dead in his Hot Springs hotel room. His hands and feet were bound a gag in place and a missing large diamond ring. Police suspect chloroform restraint and strangulation with the gag. the body likely died last midnight. An elevator boy saw three men leave the floor around 11 pm.
A joke exchange shows a boss’s college son boasting about anything and a stenographer noting a life insurance doctor just examined him and found him OK. The remark lands as the only exam he ever passed.
A public utility president at an employees party dances with a guest who asks if he is an employee. He replies he does not work any harder than he has to, and she retorts neither does she, highlighting casual office humor.
For sale two strong hornless Nubian milk goat lambs and a full bred Swiss Toggenburg bucklamb. Also a two month old Alpine Toggenburg bucklamb suitable for raising larger Spanish goats.
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