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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1925
Page
5
Representative George C. Burl of Dallas married Miss Bernice Dillard of Austin on Tuesday. The ceremony was held at the home of Dillard's parents, Mr and Mrs R. W Dillard.
Mrs. Frank Knox awoke to two prowlers rifling her husband’s trousers as he slept in pajamas. The intruder fled when Knox chased him. the thief dropped money from pockets and fled with a flashlight. Police speculated the burglar had not long since drawn his pay.
Gilbert L Pfeiffer age 15 from Main Avenue School wins a gold watch in a drill contest at the RCC C field. Cadets from Main Avenue Brackenridge and West Texas Military Academy competed with a demanding 46 minute drill. Pfeiffer, a junior and member of the Main Avenue corps, outlasted rivals after twenty minutes of nearly flawless execution.
In Greenville on April 21 Armond Stinsell a year old son of Mr and Mrs George Stinsell was burned when a kerosene can exploded his clothing caught fire. His grandmother Mrs Marion Speers was burned while trying to extinguish the flames and there is little hope for the boy's recovery.
Herrin opens its mayoral race amid a wave of violence and fear. The April 10 bombing hit the McCormack store run by Marshall and Clarence McCormack, while Harry Fowler’s home was dynamited injuring the family. Five men are jailed after bombings. John Pisoni’s home was damaged April 12. Deputies guard properties as fear lingers.
Mrs. Dellors Angell Norris sold her Lake Forest palatial home for about $300,000 to Frank Hixon, a millionaire lumberman. Before marrying Lester Norris, the heiress to John W. Gates, she announced she and her husband would live in a bungalow while raising their two children in a cottage near the Rockefeller McCormick estate.
Captain W. E. Lynch director of basic training at Kelly Field advanced flying school receives a three month leave of absence. He will depart in June for an automobile tour of the Northwestern states.
Providence April 21 the American Telephone and Telegraph Co announced a new single cable design capable of about 2400 simultaneous conversations nearly double the present maximum of 1200. The inside wires will be coated with a semi liquid skin rather than cut paper strips for insulation.
A woman, claiming a husband would arrive, waits in a random car outside Santa Rosa infirmary for four hours. She ignores attendants protests and horns loudly, insisting the car is her husband’s. Police resolve the argument with no change in her plan.
In Hartsville Tennessee Noel Linville 10, in county jail, charged with murder of his 17 year old bride. The body was exhumed and sent to Nashville for batteriologist examination after her April 5 death at her in law’s home. Her father John Gregory ordered the exhumation citing possible poisoning. Linville denies knowledge of the death amid family tensions after marriage.
Chicago April 21 Federal Judge Wilkerson ruled Elma Rockwood Streeter cannot claim rights to Streeterville lake front once held by Cap'n George Wellington Streeter. The court found the couple were never legally wed and that she failed to prosecute the ejectment suit against property holders.
San Angelo April 21 The death of Tejane Laws a 4 year old boy after swallowing a nut from a bolt is attributed to a doctor’s failure to consider the danger. Lejune Laws the child’s father and mother Mr. and Mrs H L Laws of San Angelo were mourned after Tejane’s burial in Cisco where he died following an emergency operation.
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