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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1927
Page
2
The chartered British oil tanker Black Sea burns on Gravesend Bay near Brooklyn with two crew injured and forty more endangered after a napkin explosion ignites the vessel. The ship carried potentially hazardous ethylphthalate material, heightening harbor danger near New York.
Three school groups at Main Avenue Senior School announced officers for the coming term. Architectural club picks Zilmon Booth as president, Philip Bernard as vice president, Jack Birk as secretary, Janes Thornton as reporter. program committee to tour Scottish Rite cathedral. Hasty Pudding elects Katherine Von Riper president, Elizabeth Watson vice president, Theresa Littleton treasurer. Poetry club names Jean Canaday editor in chief and R Leal, Irma Gugenheim as editors.
Police in Washington arrest 15 year old Frank Vernon Webb who called himself the phantom and is linked to attacks on white women in the northwest. Officers say he cleared up six similar assaults and thirty four robberies in the capital. Webb stabbed one pursuer with an eleven inch stiletta before being subdued.
Five year old Hugo Nilton was struck while crossing South Laredo at Guadalupe Street. An automobile struck him on Wednesday and he was taken to Robert B. Green Hospital before being released to his home.
An earthquake in the Shoomla region of Bulgaria caused several buildings to collapse in a tremor that struck days earlier provoking a strong gale. Authorities report no loss of life at this time and damage extended to nearby shing ping along the Bleck Sea.
Beautiful jars and household utensils designed by Indians many centuries old were uncovered in caves in Imperial Valley west of Brawler, about ten to twelve miles north of the Superstition mountains.
The steamer City of Annapolis, a passenger vessel plying between Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay stations, sank this morning after a collision with her sister ship the City of Richmond in the Potomac River off the mouth of the river. No lives were lost.
Captains Pedro Amaro and Jose Cabedy aides de camp of the Mexican Secretary of War are in San Antonio for bolo games at Fort Sam Houston. They will spend several days before returning to federal duties in Mexico.
A youth was arrested in connection with an incident at a church, reports indicate a man slept during the event leading to police action. Authorities said the charge stems from disruptive behavior inside the church building.
Rabbi Seth H. of Bast Mets will preach in the suburb about faith and life, outlining his authority and the role of religion in modern life. The address emphasizes community guidance and spiritual leadership in troubled times.
The Mexican government conscripts red-blooded men and prisoners aged 18 to 40 in Sonora for an army mobilizing against the Yasui Indians, according to dispatches reaching here from Nogales Arizona dated February 24.
San Antonio detectives plan to question an aviator suspected in the Jan 22 robbery of Piggly Wiggly No 12 on South Presa. The manager Reed airplane was confiscated at Piedras Negras and the man served a short Mexican jail sentence before being held crossing into the United States at Eagle Pass and to be returned to San Antonio.
In Jersey City on February 4 a chauffeur named Ernest P. Gervais wed his bride inside a lions cage. The Lions Club organized the ceremony to aid a children's home. A trainer monitored three lionesses as they sat still and did not attempt to kiss the bride.
Liquor is being shipped to the Pacific Isles for storage as charges and regulations are said to be more satisfactory than in Vancouver. The report notes shipments headed toward the Pa ede in the South Seas.
George B Hughen of 5835 Velasco Street Dallas recounts relief from chills dizziness indigestion and weight loss after using Tanlac He claims better sleep appetite weight gain and steadier nerves and urges others to ask their druggist for Tanlac today.
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