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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1924
Page
5
A San Antonio Christmas Cheer Association appeals for gifts for the elderly and needy. Requests include a mattress a wheelchair an overcoat and trousers as well as clothes and toys for children. A Christmas tag day is planned to raise funds and collect clothing at 230 Broadway with volunteers urged to help.
Expect good year for Michigan firms led by Lee Reynolds and Bake lite Dept with orders for first quarter 1924 about three times larger than last quarter. Candy sales four times higher than last season, wholesalers report record volume only surpassed in 1920. A dealer received a Christmas order of eighteen carloads or more than half a million pounds.
Detectives blame bootleggers for stealing 2300 pounds of sugar from a freight car on the M K T siding near Jenner Manufacturing. The car door seal was broken and a delivery truck from Ehler Manufacturing was used to haul the sugar away. No suspects named yet as investigations continue.
In Austin on December 18 the state will ask Hopkins county district court to dissolve the temporary injunction against the state superintendent of education canceling teachers certificates after hearings. The move aims to uphold the law's constitutionality after prior irregularities and an assistant certificate clerk’s disappearance prompted cancellations.
Five tests of Texas lignite coal at St. Paul Power Company in Minnesota show pulverized fuel for large plants is viable. Hy Kifer of San Antonio Public Service Company says a planned Guadalupe river plant near New Braunfels will be designed to burn lignite as the base fuel, with capability to switch to gas or oil.
Thousands suffer kidney trouble and many do not realize it. Kilmer’s Swamp Root is advertised as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder issues with claims of rapid improvement and widespread testimonial support. A trial bottle is offered with instructions to send 10 cents for a sample and information booklet.
Second Lieutenant Lawrence C. Craigie of Brooks Field is delayed en route to the current week’s airway trip as sleet and cold conditions halt progress over the northern U.S. He reports he is held up at Fort Scott Kansas by a heavy sleet storm and will resume once weather improves.
Elmer Dyer manager of the Wardman Park Hotel testified in Washington that mortimer did not report his apartment being broken into and that mortimer often showed large sums of money. He questioned mortimer's general truthfulness and said he would not believe him under oath.
Three lawsuits filed in the Forty-fifth District Court accuse the Fowler Brothers Land Company and agents of Naylor and Jones of failing to deliver promised improvements in the Frio Valley Winter Gardens subdivision. Plaintiffs Mary Kenward George P Elliot Norma H Miller seek damages totaling 20 110, 9700 and 5000 dollars respectively, claiming the promised plant and facilities would raise land values but were not delivered.
Federal officials said the theft of fine liquors from a government warehouse in Chicago was solved after Niles Tejack, 41, a civilian guard, died by suicide. Tejack had been grilled by investigators and claimed innocence before his death, a watchman at the time of the robbery.
A blast at the Pacific Coast Coal Company mine in Burnett 29 miles southeast of Tacoma trapped seven men on the 1800-foot level. Buckley reports say the miners are dead. dynamite blast released black damp causing the roof to collapse.
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