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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1924
Page
5
Chicago dispatch notes that among states with looser local bans doctors issue permits and blank prescriptions for liquor. Last year 28,486 new permits and 11,268,469 prescriptions led to millions of gallons of whisky brandy gin rum wine and alcohol being dispensed through legal channels despite Prohibition.
Pastor Burgin launches a series of character study sermons each Sunday in August at Laurel Heights Methodist Church with topics including Adign the Double Dealer and The Man Who Dodged Promotion. Music programs planned by David L. Ormesher with tenor soloists and duets accompany morning and evening services. Rev Hubbard of Denver Boulevard Presbyterian will take a four week vacation after Sunday services and return August 1.
Members of the Christian Endeavor Societies hosted a watermelon supper on the church lawn Friday night. School classes resume with Roosevelt and other activities mentioned. ministers from local churches will lead sermons as Rev. W. D. R. presides. Senior B. Y. P. U. unions held a joint picnic at San Pedro Park last Tuesday with quarts reports due at the Auxiliary Executive Board meeting at First Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon.
About 200 pupils from Harlandale Baptist Church joined a Saturday afternoon program at Roosevelt Park. The afternoon featured games and a concluding musical program led by Rev. S C Hubener who returns after a three Sunday absence to preach The Cost of a Great Revival.
The report notes brands sold at 200 to 500 percent profit, with many popular from the old saloon era found in pre Volstead purity drug stores. Supplies come from pre eighteenth amendment stock held in land, now small. Some distilleries stay open to produce medicinal liquor for future use. 169 distilleries registered in 1923, 76 of which made industrial alcohol only.
Herman Meier Jr., 36, was declared dead for three months after vanishing near Easter. He reappeared at his home in Philadelphia claiming he was alive, saying an unsigned letter persuaded him he was dead and his wife had paid for a funeral. His wife identified a body as her husband before he returned.
In Muskegon Michigan on August 2 coroner R J Balbirnie said John Vekete, age forty, may have taken his own life after watching his three sons play and the Muskegon Heights team lose. A fisherman found a body in Mona Lake suggesting a possible suicide.
Detectives James Springman and George Darnall held 52 year old man Michael Oscar Mich for eloping with a young girl named Rebecca P Pitts. The pair were associated with a rooming house on Ty Sheet near th Street Northwest. Michael is charged with violating the Mann act and is held at First Precinct station. Rebecca Pitts is from Glen Grove West Virginia and was sent to the House of Detention.
In Geneseo Kansas on August 2 Mrs Lot Champion aged 19 died after being forced to drink poison by her husband Gsexr who also drank a draft of poison and is dying. Their infant son survived as the father prepared more poison but the child did not drink. Neighbors were alerted by the screams of the child in bed with its dead mother.
Public School Principal A. S. Dodd announces prizes for winners from Main Ave High School. Mrs J Wright as historian and Miss Frances Smith as teacher oversee the summer session. Prizes payable in cash at the office on Tuesday August 5 and thereafter at winners’ convenience.
A chaotic ad filled with nonsensical phrases ends with a promotional line for a bus service. The readable parts reference a ship chief banning jazz to quiet waiters and advertise the Red Ball Bus Line to Austin with hourly cars. The piece blends era-sounding headlines with garbled text and a marketing prompt.
Deputy sheriff M Johnson of Pikeville Kentucky returns to Chehalis with Dave Steele of Nesika in custody. Steele faces a murder charge from 21 years ago tied to a West Virginia shooting across the Big Sandy River. Johnson notes many involved are dead or fled.
Historians note the royal carriage in the Trianon palace at Versailles is the world’s most valuable. It was built for Charles X with lavish gold plating and extravagant taste, costing over 200000 at the time and far more today.
In Tientsin the S Women's Daily News debuts as the first publication edited by Chinese women. Editors Miss Liu Ching-yang and Miss L I Tao lead the effort, both active in the women's student movement. The paper aims to uplift Chinese women and promote progressive ideals.
In Nogales Mexico the president told the Women’s Christian Temperance Union that he cannot check commercialized vice or end the gamblers’ social cancer. He noted Mexican law allows local authorities to decide these issues and voiced approval of border night hours closing plan.
An advertisement notes that liquid carbon dioxide, the same as used to charge soda water, is being used successfully as a refrigerant in refrigerator cars instead of ice. Woodward Vichy for the bladder.
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