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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1925
Page
1
A fragment from 1885 remarks on the Grid Iron era, Secretary Mellon, and Wheeler La Follette conspiracies. It also cites a Princeton professor claiming Jews are not legal in America, contrasting Zionism and citizenship. The piece ends with a father beating a son leading to the boy killing him, a cautionary tale on cruelty.
Prohibition agents seized seven quarts and an expensive touring car in a major San Antonio liquor ring case. Three men faced charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act with evidence from a downtown hotel sting and a liquor delivery scheme. Agents praise the investigation as they probe a possible cache of illicit liquor tied to local business figures.
A fragmentary report describes a loss where a watchman’s clothes were left unattended while he was busy. The incident involved eight shirts underwear and a pocket book containing five dollars, with detectives reporting the details.
Voters in Bexar Medina and Atascosa counties will vote on April 20 to decide whether to issue 2,500,000 in bonds to irrigate 43,000 acres. The Medina project hinges on the outcome as a $9,000,000 irrigation effort now under a receiver may proceed if bonds win.
A San Antonio detective sergeant handles a flood of calls from the public acting as a social confessor and problem solver. Citizens seek directions time questions and even requests to mediate home issues and domestic disputes.
District Attorney C. M. Chambers and Sheriff Stevens announce a campaign against road houses selling liquor into the early hours. An injunction to close the road house on the South Leap near the Second mission was filed in district court. Deputies raided the venue Saturday night confiscating about six gallons of liquor and beer.
Former Secretary of State Hughes, heading the American Society of International Law, departs for New York then sails to Bermuda for a long vacation. He warns the U.S. must curb internal strife before aiding Europe toward peace. The remark echoes a tale from British Ambassador Sir HM Howard about an elderly woman bitten by her own teeth.
A fragmentary report states King Victor Emmanuel laid a cornerstone during a visit described as momentous. The article mentions Associated Press coverage and indicates formal ceremonies in an Italian context with general references to masonry and a cornerstone event.
The Turkish government orders strict watch along the Bulgarian frontier to prevent Bulgarian communists from crossing. Istanbul source notes heightened security measures and mobilization of border forces amid regional tensions.
April 27 William O shepherd, charged with killing William Netgon McChaitock, his foster child who he inherited a lawn estate from, will be tried May 18 before Judge Lynch in Chicago.
Welcott Blair son of millionaire grain broker Watson F Blair was arrested on a charge of reckless riSing after his car struck a steel post while attempting to cut in on another vehicle Miss Geraldine Markham of Brooklyn N Y 23 was thrown from the car and received a fractured skull Blair a Chicago youth leader and friend of the Prince of Wales had hosted a social event for the royal visitor during his Chicago visit
Vincenzo Larosa, believed to have painted the popular Stella at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, died penniless in a county institution in San Francisco. The aged barber and Milan-born artist, 39 at the time of Stella’s creation, faced burial in potters field if no friends claimed the body. The painting had recently been shown publicly in the city.
Five laborers died in a mine explosion at Humphrey mine operated by Westmoreland Coal Company in West Newton Pennsylvania. Rescue crews found bodies amid debris and the foreman remained unaccounted as investigators began work.
Caroline Kobie Bauderer, former "love injunction" plaintiff, faces Henry Bauderer in a heated Thirty-seventh District Court divorce trial. She contends false evidence and cruelty. she denies misconduct with Otto Witte and challenges deposition testimony. The proceedings include cross examination over intimate articles found and earlier trial statements.
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