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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1927
Page
2
An editor discusses a simple cheap one dial radio receiver labeled the 96 circuit. It promises low cost under $12, ease of construction, strong speaker volume, good DX ability, and sufficient selectivity to pass local stations. The design uses one RF stage, regenerative detector, and two audio stages with a noncritical tickler control.
A San Antonio delegation will ride into Edinburg Monday morning behind a locomotive to break a giant banner marking the opening of the new extension from Felfurries toward Edinburg. The program includes addresses by Judge A W Cameron and H M Lull, plus a school demonstration, street dance, barbecue dinner, and a special round trip rate of 16 50 from San Antonio.
National City Bank of New York president Charlie E. Mitchell says pessimism about a depression after prosperity is unfounded. He notes production and wealth are rising, consumption growing, and price declines offer no reason to curtail expansion despite current misgivings.
Maj. Gen. William D. Connor, commander of the Eighth Division and Fort Sam Houston, will address a Chinese theater topic in a speaking engagement at the theater. He commanded American forces in China during the war and will discuss his subject, with the talk rescheduled after a brief postponement.
A garbled list of radio station calls and program notes spans multiple stations and times. The scrambled text mentions concerts, services, sermons, orchestras, and music segments across WGN WCX WLW KPRC KNX KNX KFI WCCO and others with scattered times from early evening to after midnight.
A petition to the San Antonio board of education requests a suitable gymnasium for Brackenridge high school. The circulated document appears after a Friday Parent-Teacher Association meeting led by Mrs. C. F. Tinnin, noting lack of indoor space for physical education during bad weather.
Miss Reynolds, county home demonstration agent, outlines a spring program of work for Bexar County clubs. She collaborates with Saturd ar Surmerset women’s club and the chamber of commerce to establish club houses in districts including Mack Culebra, Hesse Serta, and the Deludona area.
Sixty girls from Main Avenue High will form a chorus for a junior chamber of commerce musical revue on February 4. They may be changed by the school advisory committee as needed.
Plans completed for a West Texas Conference training school of the Methodist Episcopal Church South to be held at Travis Park church February 13 to 19. Twelve courses will be offered including a young people's course and a home course conducted by Dr. L Cuninggi. Registration handled through Sunday school secretaries per Mrs A A Bather religious education director.
Fremont at Macitie roust news paper men and San Francisco Call editor presents a true tale of the Lime House of the Pacific. The book covers sensational crime, kidnapping, murder, ransom, and reform struggles set in a great city under stress. It frames adventure with a moral purpose and high ideals.
An oddity from the sea reports a lone fish, previously Mediterranean and Indian Ocean in origin, captured near Lowestoft in the North Sea. The discovery suggests unusual migration or acclimation of a warm-water species.
The Rt. Rev. William T. Capers announces a crusade to align the Episcopal church with modern needs and moral reform. Services run January 9 to 12 at St Mark's and other city parishes led by Dr. H P Almon Abbott and Dr. Christopher Sparling with Rev. Rolfe Crum coordinating the schedule.
The Rev. Edgar Hubbard began the sixth year of his Denver Boulevard Presbyterian church pastorate in Los Angeles. He arrived from Mesville Texas First Trinity church. He increased membership and built a self supporting congregation, moving away from prior dependence on the national missions board.
Texas Senator Earle B. Mayfield introduced a bill authorizing the Veterans Bureau to make direct loans to former servicemen using bonus-Insurance certificates as collateral. The move aims to remove red tape that has kept banks from accepting the certificates. San Antonio Legionnaires and veterans have pressed legislators since January as banks nationwide balk at lending on the certificates. Telegrams were sent to Mayfield Sheppard and Wurzbach after a mass meeting.
A tableaux series depicting famous master works and debutantes will run the first week of Lent in San Antonio. Mrs. P. J. Lewis chairs arrangements. Proceeds fund new cages for exhibits at the Witte Memorial Museum.
Professor Anton J. Carlson of the University of Chicago argues the body is an electro chemical machine with atoms as interacting electrons. He says physiological processes involve electrical phenomena, disputing Dr Charles Mayo of Rochester who said science is baffled by the soul.
Spinach at the shipping point moved from 40 to 65 cents per bushel as 45 cars were shipped in Texas on Saturday. J Austen Hunter of the Chamber of Commerce market news bureau notes lighter Virginia movement and higher local quality.
In Georgetown on January 8 two key figures, Mrs Leahy bride of the defendant and Mrs Ramsey widow of the slain physician, attend the court as Harry J Leahy awaits a new life trial date. The case, moved from Oak County to Williamson County, follows a previous conviction and 50 year sentence. Martinez, an eyewitness, testified while Leahy seeks to prove an alibi via his parents.
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