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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1925
Page
5
A partial notice references Amy Butcher tied to a Chicago event in April. Details are uncertain due to text gaps but the parties and location are legible. Further context is unavailable in the remaining fragment.
Report discusses officials' briefing on the Leopold and Loeb case. A shoe with a missing strap found about 300 feet from the body trail leads toward a swampy lake. The dog tracked to the lake and divers planned to pump it dry to recover evidence and determine identity via dental chart comparison. A wife of a Gary rail road employee from Farina, IL was mentioned, with her husband questioned and then released.
Paris reports that Sidi Mohammed father of Abd-Eb-Arim Moroccan rebel leader has entered the French zone of Morocco leading a large tribal harka. Official information received by the French government confirms the move and significance for the ongoing conflict.
News note reports Nancy Jordan located in a Kansas City hospital after a separation. The account mentions her husband Claudé Hetherington Clarke and her child, with details about a romance and divorce, as friends search for more information. The piece cites April 20 events and a boat meeting that linked the couple.
City detectives and county officers recovered 49 of 56 stolen automobiles. Eighteen city cases involved stripped cars, while 23 were intact. The rest were found by county or other town officers. Joy riders are suspected to have taken most of the vehicles.
Mrs Catherine Brown of 115 La Harpe Street was struck by two automobiles at North Flores and Laurel streets Tuesday night. An unidentified car sped away after the first impact and knocked her into the path of a second car driven by Z L ope of 24 Hays Street. Though knocked to the pavement, she suffered only minor bruises and scratches and refused hospital care before being taken home.
Students from Nathans Hawthorne Junior High School present a musical called The Jolly 3 7 directed by Miss Sarah Goddard. Principal performers include Arthur Bolland Frank Moved Jack Réury and Herbert Or penheimer with funds raised for school entertainment.
The American steamer Wytheville faced a wild encounter when a rhinoceros broke from its pen on the forward deck unloading cargo. The beast wrecked hatch covers and roved the deck for over an hour until the quartermaster dared a lasso from a cargo boom to capture the animal and herd it back to its pen.
Two special deputies were identified as the suspects in a pistol assault on Lige Marshall. Marshall reported being driven off the road by a car whose number he recorded, leading to the arrest of its owner and a companion. Police traced the vehicle to a special deputy amid Tuesday’s arrests.
The San Antonio school board bought 1000 tons of Empire coal at a total of $9060 from C. G. Meusbach Co on a lowest bid basis at a special Thursday session. The board also approved $206 to pipe gas to the Collins Gardens school cafeteria.
Supreme Court reverses Multnomah county ruling in case M. George and others versus Portland. An ordinance banning aliens from selling soft drinks was held unconstitutional, affecting the city’s laws on sales by foreigners and widening rights for noncitizen vendors.
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