Kiwanis Prize Awarded At Meeting In San Antonio
Members of the San Antonio Kiwanis club and many visitors attended Fiesta celebrations. The program featured the prize winning skit Sweethearts in Song by the Clark Twain-Club of Main Avenue High School, from the recent inter club vaudeville contest. Other acts included Modern Axi by the Main High Ad Club Bits After Bites by the Jeffersonian Quintette, and Hawaiian numbers from A F Beyer Co. The Westmoorland College Choral Club of 20 girls performed popular songs. An attendance prize of a portable phonograph was awarded by Rivenian Al Beyer.
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San” Antonio
Axi
Garner
A. F. Beyer Company
Westmoorland College Choral Club
Rotarians Hear About Produce And Its Handling
McCrary, manager of McCrary Produce Company, spoke at the Rotary Club at the St Anthony hotel, explaining the produce trade from handling to market. The talk used a 60 pound turtle and fowls in ice to illustrate classification while the meeting adjourned for Battle of Flowers parade preparations.
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Fom McCrary
McCrary Produce Company
Rotary Club
St. Anthony Hotel
McCrary
McCray
Sheriff to rent unoccupied jail in Roby
The last inmate has been moved to the penitentiary and the Roby county jail is now vacant causing a housing shortage. The sheriff contemplates posting a to let sign on the door as homes are scarce in the county for the first time in over two years.
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Roby
Tex
Reward to be placed in pension fund for torch robbers
The State Bankers' Association will place the reward for arrest of the torch bank robbers into the Firemen Policemen and Alarm Operators pension fund. Commissioner Phil Wright announced after a conference with Walton D. Hood president of the Texas State bank and bankers association.
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State Bankers’ Association
Phil Wright
Walton D. Hood
Texas State Bank
Bankers’ Association
Priday
Oil Fire Destroys 25000 Barrels Near El Dorado
El Dorado April 4 Approximately 25 000 barrels of oil owned by Woodley Petroleum Co of Shreveport were destroyed by a blaze in an oil field ten miles north of here. Six steel tanks two derricks and other equipment burned as embers from a brush heap set an open oil pit aflame. Tank explosions sprayed oil over a quarter mile radius.
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EL Dorado
Woodley Petroleum Company
Shreveport
Wates
Here
Cut Rate Bus Fare Between San Antonio and Kerrville
Cut rate service advertises round trip fares at 2.50 and one way at 1.50 for the San Antonio Kerrville route. Nine cars daily. Promotes comfort and singles out Union Bus Line located at 219 East Travis Street Crockett 4634.
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San Antonio-Kerrville
Union Bus Line
Travis St. Crockett
Autos Stolen and Parts Taken Across City Streets
Six automobiles were stolen overnight with most reports showing stripped vehicles. Johnson, a Teas Pesos salesman, parked his car at Santa Rosa and Del Rosa and later found it stripped at Detective Rice’s residence. Nentwiss and Kasherg also reported thefts with two more cars found at Temple and Salinas and another at Elsmere and McCullough.
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Johnson
Teas Pesos Company
Santa Rosa
del Rosa
Rice
A. Nentwiss
Joseph Kasherg
Temple
Salinas
Elsmere
McCullough
Mystery Identity Found for Body on Houston Road
A man found on Goose Creek Crosby road near Houston is identified as Lee A. Robertson of Springville Alabama. The case links a boyhood friend and four women as persons of interest in this Dallas era mystery tied to a 1924 incident.
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Houston Road
Houston
Crosby Road
Savas
Lee A. Robertson
Springville
Ala
Louisiana Sawmill Plant Destroyed in Fire
A fire destroyed a sawmill plant of the Central Coal and Coke company near Lake Charles, Louisiana, causing estimated damages between 150000 dollars. No injuries reported as investigators searched the charred site.
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Louisiana
Lake
Charles
Central Coal- and Coke Company
Kansas
Celebrants jailed after tequila ride ends in chase
Two men celebrating Fiesta del Tequila Victoria were ordered to halt when their automobile weaved and sped off. Patrolmen Mike Livo and Babe Sin nas intervened. after a brief pursuit, officers halted the car and arrested the celebrants on two counts.
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Mike Livo
Babe Salinas
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