Italy readies for East Africa crisis with consuls and ships
Rome reports the government will cancel all holiday leave for army sailors and air forces as five more vessels head to Genoa to reinforce East Africa. Reports say ships bought abroad bolster Italy's military for action against Ethiopia. An extraordinary cabinet meeting at Balzano halted comment on Somali troops joining the Fihippian banner.
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East Africa
Surlowski
Genoa
Italy
Herrent
Balzano
Adel Ababa
German Church Union Disbands in Berlin Transition to Nazi Labor Front
A Green German Evangelical Federation and several employee federations dissolved today in Berlin to join the Nazi Labor Front. The president said church work remains purely religious and does not require federation dissolution.
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Berlin
Man Failed to Rid Home of Spirits Leads to Arrest
A San Antonio man, Moran of 135 North Laredo Street, failed to expel spirits from the Garcia home at 562 Wyoming Street over several weeks. He was arrested on charges and later convicted in County Court-at-Law No 2. The plaintiff claimed a prior agreement to ward off the shades failed after she paid Moran 9 and observed no result, prompting police notification.
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Sstevan Moran
North Laredo Street
Gregoria Garcia
Wyoming Street
Theil
Moran
Liquor License Rush Follows Texas Prohibition Repeal
After Texas repealed prohibition last weekend retailers rush to sell liquor, four applications for licenses arrive from Hondo Marion Schertz and Macdona. Local officials report over 50 dealers already licensed across 14 counties with 300 in San Antonio, and a $25 annual federal tax per license.
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Texas
Internal Revenue Bureau
Hondo
Marion
Schertz
Macdona
San Antonio
City seeks funds to cover relief HQ bills
Mayor C. K. Quin announced the city commission will try to pay rental and utility bills for the district relief headquarters, noting no sure method yet. Tax Commissioner Frank H Bushick refused to honor the first monthly bill around 1200, threatening loss of government aid and urging a city solution under charter Section 65 to maintain the poorhouse.
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C. K. Quin
City Commission
Frank H Bushick
Megal
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Quin
Emperor orders gas mask drill in Ethiopia to calm natives
Addis Ababa August 26 Emperor Haile Selassie ordered a gas mask drill to prove protective devices are not devils. An American correspondent testing a mask in a hotel corridor spooked Ethiopians who fled screaming. The emperor consults his brain trust led by Everett Andrew Olsen and Benjamin Kotter as European advisers keep costs high.
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Haile Sélassie
Terrax
Gawn
Bral Trust
Everett Andrew Olsen
Maine Yankee
Colaon
Rmperor
Italy
Bittman Benjamin Kotter
Ethiopia
Haile Se Jase
Selassie Builds Shelters for Imperial Family
In Addis Ababa August reports Emperor Haile Selassie I is arranging steel and concrete shelters beneath the palace to shield the imperial family from air raids. The government moved large gasoline and kerosene stocks near a railroad to underground tanks seven miles from town.
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Addis Ababa
Italian deserters flee to Yugoslavia report
In Zagreb and Stillwater reports amid rising deserters from Italy. About 60 Italian soldiers entered Yugoslavia from Zara, were disarmed and sent to Split for interment. Resttlement officers received instructions on how to proceed with resettlement processes.
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Zagreb
Zara
Split
Stillwater
Okla
Ae Resettlement Administration
Ad Trent
Dist F
Adwriter
Marconi to Direct Mussolini Forces Radio Link
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, will direct the telegraph, telephone and wireless communications for Mussolini's East African army units. He plans to go to Brazil before publication of his enlistment, aiming to inaugurate a radio station at San. He sails September 16, after returning from Rome where he tested microwave experiments. He did not comment on reports of work with a wave that could paralyze aircraft ignition systems.
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Genoa
Guglielmo Marconi
Mussolini
East Africa
Marconi
Brazil
San
Rome
Drag River Search for Missing Girl Near New Braunfels
In New Braunfels on August 28, Beard reports continued efforts to locate Vivian Dean, a six year old girl who vanished Monday after visiting Guadalupe River with her parents and siblings. Firemen, Comal County officers and local volunteers dragged the river for the body as officials were notified following the family’s frantic nighttime disappearance.
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New Braunfele
Beard
Vivian Dean
Alvin Dean
Griene
Guadalupe River
New Braunfels
Comal County
Bay Beauts
Dean
Pord coupery sale listed for gale ap 145
Classified ad from 1928 noting a Pord coupery item for sale at 145 dollars under Bee Classification 73 and Light Classified ads.
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Adwriter
Gale
Mothers Your Children Need Glarco for bites and skin relief
An advertisement claims Glarco stops itching from redbugs and mosquito bites and relieves chafing and minor irritations. It touts colorless, stainless and grease free formula and lists a Bay Area address for the Glarco Company in Italy referenced as Bay Aue oni.
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Glarco
Italy
Glarco Company
Luther League Delegation Arrives for San Antonio Visit
About 300 delegates traveled by special train to San Antonio for a two day Luther League convention. The group toured Buckham Curio Shop Spanish Governor’s Palace and San Fernando Cathedral then lunch at Gunter hotel. A sunset service at Sunken Garden followed brief addresses by newly elected officers including C A Wirderanders president and John D Stageman vice president.
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Touther League
San Antonio
Austin
Sunken Garden Theater
Buckham
Koehler Park
Sunken Garden
Leagh
C. A. Wirderanders
Toledo
Ghia
John D. Stageman
Iowa
Carl Edward Ronit
Migs Ruth Deermann
Minnis, Wie
Three Bexar WPA Projects Approved by WEA
Budgeted sums total 47 250.509 for five statewide projects to provide a year of work for 64 632 persons. H P Drought announced Washington approval and listed three Bexar County jobs: a dwelling housekeeper project 34 104, a mattress factory 12 905.51, and a Medina River low water bridge 5 336.74. County commissioners voted Wednesday to declare Monday a holiday under their direction.
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WPA
WRA
Medina River
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