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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 19, 1929

Page

8

Explosion hits main street district causing blackout

A morning explosion in a Mamhole near Lo l and Hanstad cut lights across part of the Avatown district for about an hour. No fatalities or major damage reported as Public Service Company officials investigate. Lights also knocked out at the Ganler Hotel and the Elite where work on the new National Bank building continues.

Lax Hanstad Avatown Na Geal Demage Mar Dune Tng Ling Ale Ganler ew _ National bank

Proxies and Civil War Echoes In A Murky Parlor Talk

Fragmented discussion references Colonel Stewart, proxies, and Standard Oil era figures in a satirical and garbled meditation on political and economic power. The piece obsesses over loyalties, a faulty memory of the Civil War, and a mock treaty of prestige amid fictional characters and blurred timelines.

Robert P. Stewart John D. Rockefeller Jr Standard Oil Company

Dodd Field Planes Leave for Work During Maneuvers

Unclear OCR text references Dodd Field planes and maneuvers with garbled phrases and names. Details about personnel, locations, dates, or outcomes are not decipherable from the readable fragments.

Dodd Field

Medicinal Liquor Demands Dropping

A fragmentary report notes a shift in medicinal liquor demands amid wartime supply concerns. The text references proposed reductions and mentions legal or institutional oversight, with attention to pricing or taxation signals and potential impacts on related industries.

Tax on gasoline license fees and levy plan outlined

In Austin last night the finance and revenue committee proposed raising the gasoline tax by 33 percent and repealing license fee collections on private cars and commercial fleets. Counties could keep all license fees up to 340,000 with the state receiving the rest, and no county would retain more than 800,000 under the plan.

Austin Feb Boner

Klan Card Traps Suspect In Auto Theft Case

In Washington D C a disturbance led police to question a suspect who opened a pocketbook showing a driver’s permit and a Klansman card. The case centers on alleged car theft with a Morbart Hamilton name appearing on a card found.

Warmington D.C Reeauay Carl MM. i Mil Maobert Hamilton Mitchell Ia

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