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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1929
Page
8
A physicist states a breakthrough opens the way to defy gravity and step from a window without falling. The comment hints at potential pension disputes and a competition like flagpole balancing without a pole. The text notes growing clarity of planetary convergence and pe digion bertines.
Deakics announces plans to sue Ur Sheldon and Trot Finstein claiming credit for his experiments in stepping out windows. He says he wants recognition in the eyes of the world and contrasts this with being a mere bibliophile. He criticizes Carl Van Vechten and dismisses a painted clock as torture.
A comic tale centers on Hoke and Oscar Wier, a foolish prank involving water from a shot barrel ends in calamity. The incident leads to a violent reaction and a moral about pranks gone wrong. A separate fire narrative describes frozen hoses delaying firefighting efforts at local stations and churches.
A fire destroyed much of a building at a gas station and store after an explosion at a gas stove. Eyewitnesses report the Adair Fire Boys responding swiftly as a wrong act by a worker led to the disaster. Radio music and the President of a national teachers group are mentioned in a stray editorial aside.
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