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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1932
Page
9
Deputies searched Saturday for P. G. Silines a dining car chief for the Missouri Pacific railroad, believed abducted Thursday noon in downtown. His wife reported a mysterious daytime telephone call followed by his departure in a highly nervous condition.
The notice details wholesale prices and shipment data for fruits and vegetables as of April 2 1953. It lists crops like spinach cabbage lettuce carrots and tomatoes with state origins mainly Texas and Columbia and notes freight rates market movement and arrivals at various ports. It mentions shipping point information and daily market updates including prices per crate per hundredweight and per pound.
In Guascow in April, new railway appointments reveal that eighteen women have been named as station masters. The positions cover small depots across the Midlands rail system, signaling a shift in staffing patterns and opportunities for women in railway leadership.
A survey by Harry Freeman of the Buffalo municipal research bureau shows American cities cut to meet budgets by salary reductions, service restrictions, department consolidations, and delaying capital projects. Detroit plans replacing patrols with janitors at intersections. other cities named include Los Angeles Cleveland and Milwaukee.
Mrs. Thomas B. Thompson hosted an informal tea at her Woodlawn home honoring June graduates from Incarnate Word and Lady of the Lake Colleges. About seventy-five guests attended from 4 to 7 PM as Miss Charlotte Rossy led at the punch bowl and Alvin Rossy served cake. The Palette and Chisel club held a lamb barbecue at Mrs. Rena Maverick Creen’s ranch on the Fredericksburg road. Missionary circles of the First Baptist Church planned multiple meetings with circle numbers and hostesses listed for the week. Brooks Geldwill hosted a spring social dance at the Plaza hotel, while the Delta Phi Sigma fraternity planned a spring dance at the Saddle Club with listed honorees and chaperones. Visits by Mrs. Russell and others from Corpus Christi, plus dinners and a theatre event featuring Hiawatha and Carl Veath were noted as weekend highlights.
Los Angeles official sand cleaner H Le Maner salvages valuables from beach sands and keeps found items with no salary. A relief fund in New York helps a family with a cow chickens and other allotments.
Readable fragments show activity in cotton trading with prices noted around 8.50. Reports reference futures values, commissions, and varied regional demand including eastern and southern sources, with mentions of buyers, sellers, and stock movements in New York and Manchester areas.
The Produce Row market reported firm prices on several items including bananas 414 to a cent, green beans 5.59 per bushel, cabbage 64.50 per 10, lettuce 4.75, and oranges Texas 3 cents per unit. Dairy products and poultry showed steady quotes with butter around 39 cents and chicken eggs listed.
Twenty five members of the Methodist orphanage glee club from Al-Waco will perform public concerts in San Antonio. They will sing at McKinley Avenue Methodist church Saturday night at o clock under Dr W F Barnette then broadcast on radio KABC at 0 15 p m Sunday and continue at Travia Park Methodist church at 11 a m. The group then proceeds to Austin for further engagements.
Mac Murray, an actress, faced county pressure over supporting her brother William Koenig. Frank Shaw, county supervisor, announced plans to seek repayment under California pauper law for county funds used to aid Koenig’s family, while Murray denied the relationship amid the controversy.
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