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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1931
Page
3
Woodbay officials approved an ordinance to remove caging and barking nuisances from town limits aiming to make the area safe for human beings. The measure, backed by the city council, targets disturbances and public safety concerns within municipal boundaries.
The Light promotes its large Sunday circulation of over 44 000 in San Antonio and Southwest Texas urging advertisers to profit from its popularity. Readers are invited to place ads via Crockett 2400 to reach a broad audience.
In a Paris edition of The Daily 3mil, Sir Elly Mune Williams argues the dangerous age for marriage is always moving. The piece dismisses fixed ages as critical, noting marriages face threats from outside appeals and the eternal triangle can arise at any time. It cites cases from 18 to 60.
In Charlevoix Michigan on April 2 an elderly couple Daniel Williama 84 and his wife are noted as perhaps Northern Michigan's oldest musicians. Williama plays the accordion and organette while his wife backs on the organ both longtime lighthouse keepers for nearly six decades. A distant banking record emerges in Catskill New York as the Catskill Savings Bank opened an account with a resident from Angangnes Michigan Mexico.
Cleveland a minister named Naty Thurber, a former missionary to Korea, announced plans to volunteer for experimental treatment at Johns Hopkins. He faces a suspected rare disorder called distomiasis, described as exceedingly uncommon in the United States and possibly fatal within months. He was being evaluated at City Hospital in Cleveland and hoped to travel to Baltimore for care.
In Tonducan interior government trains claim victory as rebel forces retreat from Ban Vedeo Buln. Advices report all forts cleared near Puerto Correa with no believed danger to San Pedro Sula and the rail line to the coast.
Court battle over a $2700 diamond ring tied to a will dispute between Mies McPherson and Bisa Lazel Stirling. A 1930s probate case pivots on which woman should inherit the ring as Miss Stirling is deceased and Miss McPherson previously won the ring but the appeal court favored Miss McPherson again. Charity note: Raleigh NC students to donate Sunday night meals for a year, raising $1260 for Wake County relief.
Confused OCR details a Fort Sam Houston soldier named Sisson who lent money to a needy man and two hungry children. Traveling from San Antonio to Chattanooga, he later helped a family, then the couple vanished with his automobile and most funds in Rockwall Texas. The report centers on the search by a local resident for the family and the car.
Senator Hopkins of Gonzales announced plans to revive the liquor suspension bill in Austin. The measure would let courts grant suspended sentences to violators aged 25 and older, per a minority committee report and related church and legal debates.
Ralph Forbes, motion picture actor and Ruth Chatterton’s husband, fell ill while on a trip to Los Angeles. Doctor William Be Branch diagnosed an acute appendicitis and ordered immediate hospital treatment with high chances of recovery. The surgeon noted the actor could have died without timely care.
Representatives from universities worldwide attended Goucher College in Baltimore on April 24 to witness the installation and confer degrees on women. Among the honorees was Mrs. Herbert Hoover as part of the presidential events led by Dr. David Allan Molert and colleagues.
Part of a potential homeward migration of 15000 unemployed Mexicans, including 1150 men women and children, began as groups boarded wagons toward Tucson Arizona and Nogales Mexico. An $18000 fund organized by multiple groups will cover transport to Mexico City via Juarez with the Mexican government to provide follow up care.
Helena Montana April 24 Farm Chief Agricultura IT state board will not recommend reducing wheat. He says Montana agents cannot be compelled to purchase other farming equipment. soil is resilient to wheat and cultivation of other crops would entail. April 20 a person serves as foster mother for five fox kits in sheriff Daniel Sembrickson's taro.
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