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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1931
Page
5
An advertorial touts ACIDINE as a quick remedy for sour stomach gas heartburn and indigestion. It claims the product neutralizes acid soothes the stomach and is different from other medicines due to laplace content. The copy urges readers with weak hearts to try ACIDINE and promises refunds and rapid relief.
Hollywood investigators pressed to probe the death of western star Art Acord. Reports say a sinister note and a telegraphic demand for $2000 complicated the case. Conflicting accounts from Chihuahua City and Mexico urged friends to raise funds to bring Acord home for burial.
In Elmwood Park on Jan 9 Mrs. Cech visiting with her husband and 6-year-old Gordon urged to see a neighbor’s pistol. Gordon grabbed the weapon after it was dropped. Mrs. Cech was fatally shot by the pistol. Admiral Nathaniel St. Usher died at his home in Potsdam after a long illness.
In Waco Judge D W Bartlett weighs a divorce case involving Lieut. Robert P War ing and two wives. The first wife Hallie T Waring won a divorce last year. second wife married in Nebraska. Debts over support payments and a final settlement are at issue as the crass action moves toward trial.
A reader letter questions why American officers are kept in dangerous foreign postings to police other nations. The writer argues mothers support local policing but oppose sending troops abroad, noting casualties and demanding government accountability without clear answers.
Luis de la Rosa was acquitted in federal court after prosecutors failed to prove the home brew seized contained alcohol. Testimony showed no alcoholic content, and the arrest followed a raid at 116 Grenel Street where 1852 pints were named. The defendant claimed ownership only to 60 pints elsewhere in the home.
In Dubuque on January, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin of St. Joseph receive a loan of 1.8 million dollars from Merchants Trust in St. Louis. A deed of trust covers five properties as collateral. Part of the funds will fund the rebuilding of a college in Chicago.
A report from the public health service concludes after months of inquiry that no bacillus psitticosi strain or related bacteria were found in the parrot sickness case, despite earlier insinuations blaming a specific party. The finding challenges prior claims and shifts responsibility away from the accused.
Salih Bes, deputy of the Grand National Assembly, proposes allowing multiple marriages again to help thousands of Turkish women who have been unable to find husbands since the one-wife rule began. The idea aims to decrease what he calls the worrying trend of marriage shortages in Ankara.
Members of the San Antonio Vigilance committee agree to restrict permits for hotel operators printing menus and advertising cards. The plan targets ads used to solicit business, with further steps to limit charitable contributions to local aid and curb external fundraisers. Attendees include Sadlon, McDonald, Mrs. Lie Clare, Mrs. Qing, Grosso, Whealley, Tigdon, Sadovsky, Coulter, Woalliner, and Ochs.
The Kiwanis club met at noon at the Gunter hotel where Capt. Max Wardell spoke on Building Ideals. Paul Spor served as toastmaster at the Texas theater, as new officers for the year were introduced led by Dr. Jack Watts as president.
Major Richard M. Cannon son of James R. Carton faced a venue change after his attorneys appeared in El Monte court where Cannon was to be tried on wage complaint issues raised by the labor commissioner. The case will be heard in Pasadena on January 20.
Jan 9. Vivian, in AEORGETOWN Texan report, notes King, president of Southwestern University, submitting a trustees report. The board approved a $50,000 funds campaign and merger of Blinn Memorial College at Hrenbam with Southwestern, with instructions to consummate consolidation.
The Rev W 5 Tomey pastor of the McKinley Avenue Methodist church will hold proper services at the Arms Y M Sunday. Following he will adjourn to Travia Park Methodist church for the evening service. Hospital Service Brice will hold religious services at Station Hospital at 7 p m Sunday under the auspices of Uw Army . pt G AL.
A recommendation seeks an age appropriation to purchase property to convert a site into a state park. Mrs Clara Driscoll Sevier of Austin reports the plan at the legislative session per Strtey. An appropriation of 150000 dollars has been made with a free station site offered adjoining the site.
In CELEING China reports say about 30 000 persons were killed in nine months by bandits as Mohandas Hsien’s forces tighten. The Nanking government plans a punitive expedition while other regions suffer from starvation and large casualties.
Taul Borges, chairman of the strip oil curtailment committee, announced California's crude oil production would be cut from 589,000 barrels to 500,000 barrels daily by the first of next week. The program aims to set the industry on a sound economic footing by the end of 1931.
United States class one railroads posted a net operating income of 831 million dollars for the first 11 months of 1990, a sharp decline from 1.203 billion in the same period of 1920, reflecting a long term drop in earnings across the industry.
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