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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1929
Page
2
The document reports a charged call to Creager a Republican from Texas to appear February 28 before Trankhart Patronage investigators. It mentions a protest over alleged protectors amid campaign ties and references Wichita and Texas figures in a contested political scene.
Dr. EF. L. Thomson of San Antonio and R. B. Creager Texas GOP committeeman will testify before the senate patronage investigation in Washington on February 28. Creager will reply to attack.
A premier benet concert and dance is planned for Fort Sam Houston, featuring four or more musical acts from local groups. Proceeds aid Second Division enlisted men as the swimming pool project advances, with a Mort Sam Houston Orchestra supplying the music and sponsors from the San Antonio business community backing the effort. The project, costing about $12,000, involves building a pool in the creek bed near the two artesian wells, with dress lighting and other improvements funded by government provisions not yet available.
The piece envisions a sensational scene as a Denver Post offers Mr. Coolidge seventy three thousand dollars to attend a congressional session. The narrator imagines Coolidge wiring a reply and becoming a celebrated writer while observers expect vivid reports from the press gallery.
A vintage ad text extols Old Gold cigarettes, praising the Acart leaf for a throat friendly, smooth smoke. It frames Mother Nature as partial, highlighting top and ground leaves while lauding Acart leaves for sunup to sun-dawn smoking. The piece references Sunny South growers and a radio broadcast on Columbia Broadcasting System.
Roving reviews mark graduation events for air cadets as Maj. Gen. William Tunssiler delivers the address at the Advanced Flying School, with certificates from Brig Gen. Wrank DP. Lab and Lt Col Le Winker assisting. About fifty-five students from Brooke Field move to Kelly Field for advanced sessions and an aerial review, followed by graduation exercises led by Maj. S. Wilt Gerald.
City attorney Joe Ryan worked on a contract with WG. Uhreail y ill and pairapture to be paid 189 upon completion of three bear pile and a monkey istani at Brackenridge. All work to be finished within 125 working days. Appropriation of 60,000 dollars approved at a city council meeting on Wednesday.
A Justice of the Peace returned a verdict of death by own action in the case of Lois A Lavanture, wife of Capt Te A Lavanture, found dead on the kitchen floor from gas inhalation at 17 Graham Boulevard. Judge Bolte presided with a diquest held over the death. Local officials and statements indicate the deceased was married to Captain Lavanture and a medical examination confirmed the cause as gas poisoning.
Fragmentary text notes a pharmacy law passage amid legislative comments. W L Whisenunt, chair of the legislative committee, voices the Texas Pharmaceutical Association on the bill limiting new pharmacy licenses and aiming to raise standards for public safety.
A garbled Vital Statistics license notice lists numerous names, likely applicants, witnesses, and officials. The readable fragments show names such as Albert Aitseie and J. oR, with addresses and dates in February. The text is largely unreadable, but indicates a formal licensing or oath report process on a February date.
A fragmentary local notice describes fence erection by Parks official Al Wanson to deter vehicle parking at Fort Fenced Old Field. A nearby project, labeled a rape anchor near the huera per, is mentioned with unclear intent for a shelter and rides, but details are obscured by faulty OCR.
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