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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1930
Page
11
The San Antonio Light runs a Master Mystery contest offering a $25 weekly prize to the best solution for "Fatal Rendezvous" and two tickets to Majestic Theater for the next 40 best answers. Winners, including the top solution and author’s solution, appear in the Light next Monday with cash prizes and theater tickets for finalists.
An advertisement touts Zemio as a fast acting, odorless cream to relieve summer itching from rashes bites and irritation. It claims to draw out heat heal skin, clear pimples and fungal troubles, and to be safe with widespread availability for $1.00.
In a sunlit garden Mrs Pollock misses a phone call while picking tomatoes. The article notes how an in-home extension telephone could have alerted her, suggesting a two or three cent-a-day extra case and advising readers to contact Southwestern Bell Telephone Co for installation.
In Hammond Indiana on August 20 Caleb Gibbard guarded a railroad crossing at Michigan Central Road. Automobiles waited as gates stayed down and motorists honked. Police found Gibbard dead having lowered the gates to protect the crossing until relief arrived.
United States District Attorney Thomas J. Sparks announced federal warrants against nine alleged conspirators in the Providence Kentucky oil mine bombing and related Webster county coal disturbances. Targets include aviators Paul Montgomery Murphysboro Illinois Edward Hecklebeck Zeigler Cerrofl Vaulzon and miners Angus Merilt Essel Geant Ewing Riley. Names of three others held pending arrest.
Louis dean Bourgeois, architect and Bahai follower, died last night in Chicago. He had long worked toward starting the Bahai temple project, begun 20 years earlier, with actual construction not to start until September. Bourgeois won a 1920 international contest for a Chicago temple design representing the sect.
A vintage listing highlights a 50 horsepower six cylinder motor and a 48 pound crankshaft along with a full length frame. It notes four semi elliptic springs, fully enclosed four wheel brakes, four Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers, and a Fisher hardwood steel body with adjustable driver’s seat. A safety gasoline tank in the rear and a non glare VW windshield accompany a new and Uberal service policy.
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