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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1929
Page
1
Arthur Brisbane offers a satirical column on public figures and manners with playful questions about identity and civility. The piece reads as a reflective skit on social manners and intellectual curiosities in a late 19th or early 20th century voice.
A stranded trapper J Echevers is rescued after freezing on ice 125 miles from people. An Indian guides rescuers W H Clarke and Bill of General Airwave to the scene, transporting Echevers to a Quebec hospital where he survives. The article interweaves notes on Einstein, relativity, the fourth dimension, and various scientific ideas, mixing rambling opinions with dramatic rescue.
Washington January 10 Herbert Hoover closes a four week round of conferences and prepares to rest in Florida as action narrows on cabinet selections. The president elect will depart Washington Monday with several key posts likely filled from the Coolidge era, including Mellon as secretary of the treasury and Jardine at agriculture while Donovan and Brown are eyed for attorney general and commerce respectively.
HARLINGEN Jan 29 In attempt to prove fertility of the Valley golf G L Jones of Westchester Ba leaves taking several boxes of dirt gathered in Sarliegen He came to the Valley for the first time with six couples and expressed pleasure at the mate and agricultural conditions found there
Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan were designated as American observers for the reparations conference in Europe. The announcement stated no American alternates or deputies. Mr Young will sail February 1, and Mr Morgan will depart around January 26 to participate in plan completion and revision.
Universal Service reports from Wasington D. C. that President Coolidge signed the Porter bill today. It creates general farms where narcotic drug addicts may be cured of their affliction under state supervision. The move aims to treat addiction as a public health issue and establish facilities for rehabilitation.
Police were asked Saturday night to help solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of $150 from the locker of El F. Barnes stationary engineer at the 3 K and Jonnie station.
A Texan named Perris, former Smith County attorney, was fined 16 dollars and costs for speeding in Denver. The report from International News Service notes the court action and the modest penalty imposed.
A doomed inmate, Bennie Aldridge, on death row at Wallawa Jail, allegedly sold a look for ten cents to a high school girl. Tailor Jack Gorman intervened after a jail visit, while another prisoner acted as a lookout and collected the dime for the act. The incident occurred amid a riot-like disturbance.
In Atlanta on January 19, jurors found George Marsh guilty of murder in Willard Smith's slaying and a related holdup. He received the death penalty by electric chair for the March 1 execution date, with his accomplice Richard Gallogly awaiting trial later this month. The defense prepared a motion for a new trial while his family showed distress in the packed courtroom.
The article reports John McKenzie facing the death penalty in Huntsville after a Texas death row appeal, with hundreds in San Antonio urging clemency. Judge McGrory plans formal sentence next week. petitions for commutation are being signed and delivered to Governor Moody, while McKenzie studies scripture in jail.
The singer Jolson says his hit Sonny Boy takes on greater meaning after marrying dancer Ruby Keeler, describing renewed enthusiasm for the song and its significance.
Rumors spread along the Indian Afghan frontier via an Indian news service claiming Colonel Lawrence is the new ruler in Afghanistan with Bache Sakno as the third king in a week. The reports recall persistent beliefs Lawrence never sailed for England and question authenticity, while editors note lack of corroboration from key figures.
A local paper reports a Richmond and Camden accident where a driver avoided a collision but was hit when a machine toppled onto his car. Testimony given Saturday at the incorporation court details the incident and sequence of events.
Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, touring from the Pacific coast, await confirmation of an expected child. Reports mix whether the baby will be a son or daughter as Jolson faces domestic notes and questions about his marriage to Miva Revies, with scant reliable detail on timing or official status.
A battered wartime dispatch from San Diego reports Captain Baker may be returning to his mother. Earlier rumors suggested his mother suffered a relapse from pneumonia, but latest messages indicate possible recovery and reunion plans.
A youthful bandit entered Collier's confectionery on Lioners Housth and Daylor streets at 048 p.m. Saturday and held clerk Md Ives at pistol point while he rang up a $2 sale and stole about $55. Owners Mr. and Mrs. Collier were unaware of the hold-up. The suspect, about 25, 100 pounds, fled with the cash.
Two women stand accused in a welfare home for girls death. Evelyn Frisbie, formerly of Des Moines, and Misa Teeth Lipsy, physician and superintendent, face second degree murder and manslaughter charges after coroner’s verdict linked the 18 year old inmate Elon Haslow’s death to lack of water and alleged sedative sleep-inducing substances administered at the state facility.
A garbled notice indicates a trip to the capital with stops including Python and Midland references. The text mentions a sequence of cities and times, with uncertain spellings and fragmented place names.
A wartime censorship report from Atington describes Guatemala enforcing strict limits on information about an ongoing rebellion. The government claims control of the narrative as insurgent movements struggle against blanket restrictions.
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