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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1931
Page
7
Texag fruit shipments for March 1931 totaled 7007 tons, up from the prior year and topping the earlier month. Spinach shipments with Wild ears and mixed vegetables led total tonnage, while strawberry shipments reached four carloads higher than the same period in 1940.
At a circus last night Alvaro Acero performed atop a high wire as his wife Auraria teetered on a suspended rubber mouth gag. He dashed to her side, she fell, then he steadied himself and she crashed at his feet. She remained unconscious at a police hospital with skull and pelvis injuries reported.
Gertrude Keating, a student at the Rape Walle Emerson junior school, spoke on milk and its relation to health before members of the Lou An fonin Retail Credit association at the Menger hotel. Dr Mary Warner acted as sponsor for Miss Keating.
Polly Moran suffered injuries after a fall at her Hollywood home. Reports say she sustained a broken nose and additional facial injuries while in a Hollywood hospital for treatment yesterday.
The former prize fighter nicknamed Kid McCoy has filed for a gubernatorial pardon. He is jailed for the slaying of his sweetheart Mrs. Trrosa Moersann and has been confined since June 1923. The pardon request is backed by 37 letters from supporters, including Alfred Smith, former governor of New York.
Gypsies and political chatter frame a brief note about travel to Managua with Will Rogers referenced. The fragment mentions El Paso, Vera Cruz, American Air, and a ballot, hinting at election logistics or civic details alongside Rogers.
Detroit readers report that a governor backed measure to reestablish capital punishment in Michigan was decisively defeated in yesterday's election. The proposal, supported by Governor Wilbur M. Brucker, would have reinstated law that would carry out executions, but the vote outcome ended the effort.
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