Hall Scene Reveals Gibson in Dramatic Curtain Setting
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a scene titled the Hall featuring Gibson in a dramatic curt setting. Details are sparse but imply a performance or literary tableau.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1926
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a scene titled the Hall featuring Gibson in a dramatic curt setting. Details are sparse but imply a performance or literary tableau.
Arthur Brisbane surveys 1926 era tensions as stock bonuses loom and end-of-era fear. He cites looming dividends, Wall Street power, and farmers watching markets, while Canadian dry laws shift and U S politics brace for a dry or wet 1926 presidential race with Senator Sunday looming in the White House contest.
Jersey City dispatch reports Mrs. Jane Gibson, who testified against acquitted Hall defendants, remains ill in Dorset City Hospital. She has not been allowed to read newspapers for over a week as doctors withhold the not guilty verdict news to avoid possible relapse.
Treason a lineman is dead and four others injured when a Southwestern Hell Telephone Company truck plunged fifty feet into Deep Gully seven miles from Boerne on the Bandera road Friday. Charley Truter Fe Brown J H Cottingham and Red Turman were among the victims who were treated at St Marys hospital and later expected to be moved to San Antonio. The truck brakes failed on the truck and caused the accident as the men were returning home to Boerne.
August Ahr, a Santa city fireman, died from injuries after a crash near Leming twenty miles south of San Antonio. Two men were killed when a light car was struck by a larger vehicle, with one victim dying at the scene and another succumbing before assistance arrived. Funeral arrangements were under way Saturday for Ahr, of 1205 Monterey Street.
Mexico City dispatch reports 38 people drowned near Pueblo Nuevo in Tabasco when the motor boat President Obregon sank in the River Irhlya. Among the dead are five children and six women. one day later telegrams offer no more details.
In Beverly Hills Chaplin and his estranged wife Mrs. Chaplin resume a court clash after a family war of words. Each side issued statements denying cruelty and accusing the other of wasteful spending and alienation as attorneys seek a property settlement to keep the case out of court.
A Marine, Pfc J G Moore, faces a court martial if he presses to give his blood to Mildred Manning a 18 year old patient in Louisville recovering from tuberculosis. She is in critical condition with constant hemorrhages and may need a transfusion immediately. The Navy says Moore cannot donate without a Washington permit despite family blood tests.
Police, led by Inspector Grimsinger, arrested twelve motorists for headlight violations during a renewed Solar-com war on noncompliant headlights. The campaign targets improper or dim headlights before new license plates are issued and stresses winter safety.
J B Arbee of the Weather Bureau for San Antonio and vicinity reports a cloudy weekend with possible showers. Rain was observed in parts of North Texas and the southwestern states, with panhandle areas expected to see cinder weather but no temperature impact in the next 28 hours.
Defendants in the Hall Mills murder case were released after Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker quashed the indictments upon the Attorney General Katzenbach's motion. Jury members were paid for three days of service. The case remains unresolved with the Hall and Mills slayings still a mystery.
Attorney General Dan Moody governor elect left Saturday for a trip to the capital where he will represent Texas in two boundary cases before the United States Supreme Court.
If any issue arises with Pan Am planes, Captain F. Woolsey will lead and oversee the repairs and engineering of the flight.
Captain Clinton F. E. Woolsey, engineering officer on the Pan American flight, directs strengthening work in the Duncan Field test hangar on the San Antonio, the first ship to be modified for South American travel. Lieuts. Muir Is Fairchid and Ennis C. Whitehead assist as Woolsey’s unit pushes ahead with the redesign and part fabrication.
Amanda Harborth testified in Ninety fourth District Court that Austin Hardy of Floresville promised marriage and took 300 to buy a car for their honeymoon but did not return. Hardy was arrested in Floresville on theft by bailee charges and later bonded out after a habeas corpus hearing.
San Antonio Public Service Company announces new reduced electricity rates for home use. Under the plan led by E. H. Kifer, the rates apply to lighting heating cooking and refrigeration with charges based on tiered kilowatt hour usage. The five room home pays 10 cents for the first 25 kWh, 8 cents for the next 10 kWh, and 4.12 cents for all above 85 kWh, with five additional kWh per extra room at 5 cents per hour.
Paris notes the American consulate reports widow Mary De Guise-Hite, once wealthy, killed herself on Thanksgiving Day. Relatives are being sought.
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