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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1929
Page
1
Rip Van Winkle stage actor Holly Woon known for the title role died of pneumonia at his Hollywood home yesterday after a brief illness. The obituary notes his fame on the boards and his familiar character portrayals.
A vintage ad promises a penny daily policy to provide up to 100 dollars a month for 24 months and a total sum of 1000 dollars in care. It touts easy qualification with minimal examination and a free erection of the policy, urging readers to name address and relationship to receive further details.
An old advertisement promotes Mistol for coughing and irritated membranes. It urges frequent nose applications with a dropper and gargling Histol to relieve inflammation and aid healing. The note credits Wade by the makers of Nujol.
A presidential page-one note details about a housing bill authorizing approximately 4 million dollars for military construction across multiple forts and bases. It lists specific quarters, officers and non commissioned quarters, guard houses, theaters, and support buildings at Fort Sam Houston and numerous other locations, with amounts pending appropriation.
Romorlogan and Mikeeawutank, Osage Indians, travel with a color party to Aguilares, Texas, to gather peyote cactus for their tribe. The cactus is described as the dry whiskey of the border and reputed to have intoxicating effects.
A fragmented list details officers quarters and related facilities at numerous military sites including Fort Lewie Washington Fort Monroe Fort Ontario Presidio of San Francisco Fort Riley Shreveport and Fort Wayne. Figures show extensive funding for non commissioned and commissioned officers quarters storage warehouses incinerator post exchanges and various support buildings with varied sums in dollars pounds and local currencies.
The noisy draft of a political rumor mill cites Mussolini and Mafia power struggles as it veers through kidnappings and killings. Mentions of Marne gang murders in Chicago collide with garbled notes about authorities and bold claims of upheaval.
A fragment reports the Osage tribe journeying to a peyote pilgrimage toward Aguilares, dressed in modern attire and traveling in new cars. It notes peyote, a cactus from Texas and Mexico, valued in ceremonies and restricted in import, with mixed views on its safety and effects.
A new Floresville ice plant is planned by the San Antonio Public Service Company and Mesoretite company of San Antonio, with completion expected within the stated months. The project includes a district office space and an electric distribution facility, led by E H Kiter, manager and vice president of the San Antonio company.
German newspapers denounce the Franco Dutch alliance as a secret war pact aimed at Germany. Observers expect reaction to the revelation of the Minnesota Belgian alliance and its impact on Kellogg policy.
NF International News Services reports the first official account of the February 20 kidnapping of American mining engineer Charles Underwood and his colleague in Guanajuato Mexico. Federal troops recovered the bodies, while discrepancies remain between names released to the press and those transmitted to the State Department.
A man was fined ten dollars by Corporation Court on Monday after a handwriting witness testified that a note urged divorce. Judge Penk Bushirk, acting, said no fault in the note’s wording but imposed the small penalty.
Reports say Henry L. Stimson and Meg Stimson arrived in Hong Kong after rain in Manila while en route to the United States. The former secretary is expected to accept a post in the Hoover administration.
Judge J. D. Moore, formerly Travis County district attorney, sits as judge in the first criminal trial involving Congressman-elect Mullocky in Province No. 20 Hexar county. The case marks Moore's shift from civil docket to a criminal charge, following prior Texas indictments and statewide curiosity about this novel courtroom action.
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