Brackenridge High Plans Reading Improvement Courses
Brackenridge High School will offer two leading courses for seniors and sophomores with scholastic trouble. Principal Gary outlined a plan emphasizing rapid reading and skimming, using newspapers and magazines as study material. About 90 students are expected to enroll. classes are optional and not for college entrance credit.
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38 West Pointers Enter Dallas Training Class
Dallas aviation school will receive 38 West Point graduates for the October 1 primary training of Army cadets. The Dallas school is among a handful of civilian facilities used for pilot training nationwide.
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Comedian's Wife Jail Term Upheld in Hollywood
In Los Angeles a five day jail sentence for Tijana Laurel, estranged wife of comedian Stan Laurel, was upheld after the Superior Court denied a drunkenness appeal from last May. Friends said Mrs. Laurel is in New York.
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La Tenayuaca Named Don's Personality of the Week
Don Politico declares Emma Tenayuca as Personality of the Week for 1910 era politics. The feature cites her rally at Municipal Auditorium and the police response as causing notable public distress. The piece hints at repercussions for upcoming campaigns and political tensions.
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Political patronage in Bexar County court orders
An election dispute surfaced as court orders in Bexar County appoint a “utility man” Schimpff for political use. Commissioners Doswell Uhr and Slappenbeck set his pay at 150 dollars monthly, placing him in the courthouse to assist, while August orders shift him among precincts and transfer 59 dollars of his salary to Stappenbeck’s fund.
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Herman Schimpff
Jogal Schimptl
J. W. Doswell
Robert F. Uhr
R. W W. Slappenbeck
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Auditor
Rural constables reap fees amid summer traffic crackdown
July fee accounts reveal rural policemen and justices of the peace across Bexar County collected substantial sums from traffic enforcement. Precincts report arrests and fines for overloading, speeding, and parking violations, with officers wearing uniforms and ticket campaigns extending beyond city limits.
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Victor Yecker
Otto Marckrwalds
Pete Gorzel
A. L. Brelin
Charles A. Fincher
R. A. Magnus
Harlandale
Ottis A. West
Ed Schacher
Hot Wells
O. L. Wiley
S. C. Cain
M. A. Malisberger
Taw
Justice of the Peace
W. K Shipman
Lion Loses Out as Ship Commander
Gape May New Jersey Aug 26 There was a dead lion at the bottom of the sen today and the ship the beast commanded for more than eight hours steamed peacefully toward Caracas Venezuela First Sergeant Michael Peskall of the Marine corps coast guard Chief Boatswain's Mate John Wil Usine and seven coast guards found not a soul in sight yesterday when they came alongside the Dutch freighter Amazone six miles southeast of here The Amazone crew and passengers barricaded below deck when the lion broke loose and led the forward deck The guards boarded and fired through a porthole striking the lion between the eyes two shots then killed it The captain feared firing would rouse the other animals The crew lashed the carcass and threw it overboard
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Executioner II Substituted in New York Execution
An early 20th century notice reports that after a two month illness the official executioner Bing Sing died in the chair at Ossining. The warden, Lewis Lawes, announced a substitute would be chosen from among 100 applicants to perform future executions, following a murder sentence of Ark Perry, a year-old Queens man, for killing his wife.
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Old Timers 10 Take Exams for Reinstatement
The fire and police civil service board ruled that reinstatement applicants must reapply through standard procedures. Chairman Harold W. Keller said former members meet eligibility requirements and may reenter only after completing full civil service tests and criteria, including age, residency, credit, and medical exams.
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Bridges Case Goes to Prison in Deportation Hearing
In Alameda Bay area during August 25 hearing, Harry Bridges moves from Angel Island to San Quentin for testimony from two convicted slayers Bar King and Ernest G Ramsay. The two inmates serve five years each for the 1836 murder victim, George Alberts, tied to a freighter incident. The hearing, led by Dean Jarvis M Landis, aims to challenge alleged improper inducements and Bridges potential repatriation to Australia for ban from pro-violent activities.
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Cadets Begin Civilian Primary Flight Training Expansion
A new class of 399 cadets is ordered to civilian primary flight schools under the Army Air Corps expansion plan. The Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa will train 90 cadets, with Texas supplying 45 of the students and California 28. Cadets will receive three months of primary training before reporting to Randolph Field for basic training.
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Burning Question Closes Interview
A Pittsburgh report recounts a reporter asking about a fire hitting a building. Marle Black describes how burning rubber caused the blaze and apologizes that she must go because she lives in the burning building.
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Acquittal for bakery worker in Hitler photo case
Lloyd Watson a 32 year old bakery worker was acquitted in city court of malicious trespass after admitting he rented and displayed a photograph of Adolf Hitler. Watson testified his boss Edward Tathin found the charge unfounded and urged leniency. The judge Jurist John Y McNelia cautioned about temper and the implications of the image.
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Actress Con Witherspoon Injured Tripping Over Dog Lucky
In Los Angeles on August 25 actress Con Witherspoon suffered a fractured leg after tripping over her dog Lucky. She spent six weeks in hospital and an understudy stepped into her role in the stage play Gutward Bourt.
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Wartime plans mapped by government for wartime controls
Washington notes a batch of neutral act drafted orders to be issued if war comes in Europe. They cover financial markets commodities shipping aviation communications and more. Proposals would bar unneutral short wave broadcasting and seal belligerent ships’ transmitters on entering U S ports. armed merchant ships could operate under defense pretexts.
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Tuberculosis War Mapped and National Strategy Outlined
Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general, warned that tuberculosis, syphilis, and gonorrhea could become major health problems within a generation due to new medical discoveries. The Public Health Service plans a national campaign against tuberculosis, targeting workers ages 16 to 25 and races including Negro groups, in a battle similar to the syphilis drive.
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Thomas Parcin
United States
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Patran
106 U. S. Warships Built Since 1933
Washington analysis shows 105 fighting ships and auxiliaries totaling 40 325 tons commissioned since March 1933 while 106 more are on the building ways or projected.
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