Burleson Urges Spirit In Community Chest Drive
EF E Burleson assistant to the Southwestern division of the American Red Cross spoke in San Antonio on tour, urging the Community Chest to foster true spirit rather than mere fundraising. He warned that initial years test a Chest’s resolve, but lasting success comes from broad donor support and closer cooperation among social service agencies.
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EF. E. Burleson
American Red Cross
San Antonio
Cest
Burleson
V ‘Ous
Social Seq
Community Chest
Woman Succeeds Through Strenuous Effort and Faith
A narrative profile of a woman who built success by intense daily dedication. She moved to San Antonio as a stranger, worked almost 24 hours daily, studied at home, supervised and planned, believing hard work and passion are essential to improvement. She urges fidelity, consistency, and a focus on doing each task well to achieve lasting achievement. The piece notes balancing marriage, motherhood, and professional duties.
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San Antonio
Hawkins
Tageckoeyer
Janever
Details of Cooper Dah Trial Reveals Blood Stained Instrument
The defendant testified he planned nothing after a dream to keep ownership of the blood stained instrument used in the killings. The double tragedy at the Billings home left Hollyfield dead and Mrs. Billings gravely wounded. Officers found the weapon on the floor as the victims fought for survival. Hollyfield died later at the hospital while Mrs. Billings battled for days before also succumbing.
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Billings
Nagalitas Aire
Hollyfield
Ieilings
Trentent
Cadoo changes plea in mail theft case
Cadoo pleaded guilty last Saturday to burglarizing a Long Island mail route and stealing about $14,000, abandoning his not guilty plea in the Brooklyn debt case. He remained in jail, represented by counsel retained by his father.
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Cadoo
WSO
Daar
Sauoee W
Auilly
Long Island
Brooklyn
Gail
Geoge J. C
Tune Beale
Asted Nwr
Guatemala Bandits Ambush Briton for 2000 Dollars
Boston dispatch reports six armed men ambushed and killed inspector Wig il London of the Guatemalan division while returning with 2000 dollars from a Waited Fruit company commissary. The men fled with the money. a reward has been offered for their capture. Wig il London, formerly with the Royal Air Forces, was stationed in Guatemala.
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Boston
Wigil
London
Lssues
To Waited Fruit Com
Sioux Farm
Guatemala
Tnired Fronit
Witnesses Called in Wheeler Case
Washington reports the Department of Justice has summoned a number of witnesses in the pending indictment of Senator Wheeler of Montana. Reassembling testimony concerns alleged fees after his election for appearing before a government department about oil land lenses. Evidence will go before a District of Columbia grand jury in early February.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Mst
Wheeler
Montana
District of Columbia
Philip K Wrigley to Succeed Father as Head of Company
Philip K Wrigley will become president of the $35,000,000 Wrigley chewing gum company, succeeding his father William Wrigley Jr. at the annual stockholders meeting in Chicago. The elder Wrigley will be named chairman of the board, a post to be created. The younger Wrigley, a 2 University of Chicago graduate, has spent time in Australia on company assignments before returning to executive work.
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Chicago
Philip KK. Wrigley
Chewing Gum Corporation
William Wrigley Jr
Ieported
Wrigley
Philip Wrighty
University of Chicago
Australia
Girl Will Deliver Wheat to President Coolidge
Hutchinson Kansas January 22 Yada Watson, a 19 year old farm helper, planned to leave to deliver to President Coolidge a sack of wheat credited to the late President Harding. The note says Kansas grows the best wheat in the world and references Harding harvesting on the ONeal farm near Hutchinson in 1923. The wheat is described as hard wheat, recently quoted in Kansas City at 2 dollars a bushel.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Yada Watson
Kansas
Coolidge
Harding
Ikansas
Ghester O'Neal
Watchinson
Kansas City
George Palmer dies in Brooklyn half tone inventor at 70
George Palmer, aged 70, pioneer of half tone printing in newspapers, dies in Brooklyn. Born in England, he led camera work in early photoengraving, headed the mica research bureau at the Heart newspaper, and had a long career starting as a sea tale writer for the San Francisco Examiner before marriage to Virginia Burke in 1887.
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George Palmer
Brooklyn
Tan
Abta
Palmer
Mica
Heart
England
San Francisco Examiner
Father and Daughter Banquet Planned in San Antonio
The Girl Reserve clubs announce a Father and Daughter banquet on February 5 at the YWCA. More than 150 girls with their fathers from Brackenridge and Avenue high schools are expected. The event aims to showcase the clubs' work to fathers, with plans including place cards and decorations.
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United States
San Antonio
Girl Reserve ‘Clubs
Ithe
Ream Avenue
Brackenridge
Miss Weaver
British Garrison Sentry Fire At Temple Breedy
Cork correspondent reports attackers opened fire on a British garrison sentry near Temple Breedy, four miles south of Queenstown. The assault used machine guns but attackers remained unidentified. no one is reported wounded.
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Temple, Breedy
London
Cork
Hvenin
Temple Breedy
Queenstown
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