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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1924
Page
3
In Roncesvalles Spain on August 30 a fragmentary note suggests a tale of Roland and Charlemagne slaying half a million Saracens in a single afternoon, later collapsing Roland’s blood vessel after his trumpet. The report hints the basque legend may replace the epic with a more prosaic version.
Reading Pa reports a long, mixed record of antiquities and ecclesiastical affairs. The piece notes relics of Roland and Turpin at the Abbey of Roncesvalles and describes the abbey chapel, its abbot, six canons, and services attended by soldiers and parishioners. It also recounts Pamplona bull festival customs and local personalities with colorful anecdotes about archbishops, matadors, and a horseman named Midnight, interwoven with reflections on faith and culture.
A 11-year-old schoolboy, Chester Mbutelewoz, died after a tombstone weighing about 200 pounds toppled in St. Monica's Cemetery in Hu. Witnesses say the stone, described as heavy and improperly supported, fell during maintenance work, trapping the child.
Joe La Fors, a rugged frontier figure and former US marshal, recalls in vivid terms a life filled with arrests, gun battles, and daring rescues. He helped quell the sheep vs cattle wars and tracked bank robbers and train thieves, building a legend that inspired popular western fiction.
In Chicago on August 30 Sergeant John Ford of the detective bureau Nis squad recovered 10,000 dollars worth of silk hosiery stolen from Campbell, Inc. The suspect, John Cambellos Cambello, confessed and named accomplices Charles G. Paruline Jack Shuts and a man called The Pole.
Mrs Gamhild Anderson of Spruce, a farmer's wife near Alpena, died from burns after an oil stove expanded and set her clothing ablaze. She rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire and died within 24 hours in Alpena, Michigan, following the accident at the farm home.
George W. Hensel announces that fiddlers convention arrangements are complete for Parkesburg. One hundred violinists from Lancaster and Chester counties will attend. violinis ts will be barred but pitied.
Syracuse Aug 30 police search for the husband of Mrs Hanna Hoyee 56 after she says a masked man with a revolver robbed her of jewelry worth over 200 dollars. Investigators want to question the husband about the robbery circumstances.
The incident at W. A. Vickery's on Summerville Pike involved robbers taking inner tubes and auto accessories, breaking the gas and oil tanks to drain them, and fleeing. The sheriff investigated and deemed the robbers to be traveling.
Washburn Wisconsin notes a young mayor Paul Ungrodt age 23 who seized office last April and implemented retrenchment measures. He fired the city attorney and street commissioner, restructured schools, and moved toward refunding bonds to reduce the debt while raising property values. Locals praise his drastic program and credit improved finances and revived business sentiment to his leadership.
Aug 30 Union, C C Eleazer Hodgins 41 shot and killed Tarena McKinney at the Hodgins home. The child reportedly pointed a gun at the others during play and discharged it accidental. The tragedy left the girl fatally wounded.
A man identified as Blake We was fatally injured when a swarm of bees attacked on a farm north of the city. He attempted to check the swarm and was killed by the bees.
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