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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1925
Page
1
A citywide pushmobile and scooter race event in San Antonio draws eager youngsters racing for 30 prizes. Entries may reach 80 with heats needed to crown 1st 2nd and 3rd place winners across multiple classes. Girls may enter and sisters can steer for entrants.
The Field Museum will perpetuate customs and ceremonials of Potawatomi and other tribes that once ruled Chicago through collection and research started today. Museum authorities expect good materials remain from their restrictions and fund the search from a trust established by Julius Roxnuwvald to expand the North American Indian collection.
In county probate court the will of John Cotter, who died July 2, bequeathed about $15,000 in property to Albina Fivingston and the exduo executrix Lena M Fitzpatrick. Arthur Fitzpatrick, who died in June, left an estate around $8,000 with $250 bequests to Saint Vincent de Paul Society and to the Queen's Daughters.
The Re liance of the United American line survived today with a report of a floating mine sighted off the Grand Banks. Captain F. J. Trerson died, and other ships were notified of its presence. During the war, mines have been found in many parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
In Sulphur Springs Senator Earle J. Mayfield denounces the Bach-Cumming transportation act as harming Texas growth and announces plans to introduce a measure in the Sixty-ninth Congress to restore rate-making powers to state commissions.
Mak Billing, 35, died at San Antonio hospital Thursday. Survived by widow Mrs. Carnie Billing. parents Mr. and Mrs. Tob Billing. son Charles. daughter Maxie. and five brothers and three sisters. Funeral details not listed in the fragment.
Thieves forced entry at the Frank Pavelka drugstore at 323 Water Street using a sharp knife to bore holes in a rear door panel and lift the panel. They left cash and perfume, passing up cigarettes and fur items, frightening by bold actions observed in the break-in.
The Board of Control awards contracts in Austin to Brydson Brothers for $12,973 for a laundry building and to Wyank Rundell for plumbing control at the same institution. John L. Martin of Austin awarded the plumbing control for both buildings.
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