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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1925
Page
7
J B Wilson drives his roadster through two armed highwaymen on Frin City road near Camp Normoyle. He avoids the ambush by accelerating between the robbers, who level revolvers then flee to a parked car and depart toward the city. No injuries reported.
San Antonio social news lists Miss Harriett Sprague hosting a small party for Miss Gertrude Mensing of Galveston and others at her home, with decorations and guests including Miss Ruth Baldridge of New York. Guests travel plans include Mrs. Tom Holmes visiting Houston and Galveston, and Lt. Tom Holmes. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Storms plan a Fort Clark weekend with Lt. Hindler. Mrs. W. W. Holden to return from Rochester after a month away. Several families plan visits to summer homes in Connecticut and Long Island, and guests include Miss Henriette Steele, Miss Mary Newton Scott, Mrs. Rupert Gresham and family, Mrs. William Nesbit hosting a Jane beer at the Zan Antonio Country Club for Miss Peter McCall Keating. Mrs. Hitton Lynch travels through France England and Scotland, returning to Brownsville in October. Lorraine Bertrand and family travel to Asheville and Washington, and Mrs. Edward Russell Byrd voyage across Tennessee and Missouri. The Ladies Aid Society of Highland Park Lutheran Church to hold a business meeting Wednesday night.
Letters from Mrs Quigg of Royersford Pennsylvania and Mrs Betton of Ridgely Maryland describe improvements in daughters with menstrual irregularities cramps and nervous exhaustion after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Both families offer testimonials and consent for use of their statements.
Wednesday The Alamo Country Club hosts an irregular regulator dinner dance. Thursday Mrs Elis Green will entertain with a morning bridge party complimenting her sister Miss Helen Davis of Emb Ple Peay.
Austin Aug 5 Gib Gatloway defense attorney appears before the board of pardons and Governor Mirlent A Verguson regarding the death sentence of a defendant. Efforts to commute the sentence to life imprisonment are urged by attendees including Clem Gray of Titus county.
A United States naval seaplane from the USS New Mexico crashed today in Tarhan Creek within Sydney’s suburbs. The pilot and a woman passenger escaped unharmed, while the aircraft sank. This marks the first air accident since the fleet arrived in the area.
Austin Aug 5 G C Hawley chief engineer of the fire insurance commission and G N Holton secretary will leave Thursday for Houston to resurvey the fire hazard situation Houston has been moving to lower the fire insurance key rate by buying national fire fighting equipment and making other improvements
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