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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1929
Page
2
It is late to participate in a movie contest by The Gig Long readers. Readers are asked to name the pictures of eleven baby photos of famous stars, some young stars of today, with prizes for correct identifications.
Readers solve a puzzle using clues in the accompanying story and Light wanted columns to identify baby photos of now famous screen stars. Fifty prizes available. The contest requires a short story of under ten words for each star and full name in the coupon.
Four people hurt when automobile left the road and went into a ditch near M Kinne y Texas with victims including Mr and Mrs M S Harper of Fort Worth and Mr and Mrs J W Martin of Weatherford. The crash occurred yesterday and the injured were being treated locally.
International News Service reports a Midland to Shreveport flight by the army plane Question Mark with Capt. Ir anker at the controls. A refueling ship followed. no mutual refueling planned. The plane narrowly avoided disaster in dense fog near Midland, nearly clipping a ranch gate before a safe landing.
An explosion in a boiler at the Magnolia tank farm blew steam to gas out a storage tank, killing M. D. Dell, a truck driver, and badly scalding Slack Kinsolver and Tomer Tindler. Kell’s home was a Center.
The Rev. Sid Williams, shown here during his farming in Atascosa County, harvests unusually large turnips as a second crop. Some specimens exceed five pounds, illustrating his notable produce between sermons.
Rev. Sid Williams of Willow Brook Farm, 60 miles south of San Antonio on the Pleasanton road, grew five and a half pound turnips on a five acre, non irrigated patch after broadcasting seed on a plowed pea field and raking it in. The crop will feed five cows and neighbors, with the unusual result praised as naturally good by the farmer.
McAllen reports its first corn crop of the year pushing leaves above ground spreading a green blanket across the Valley. The warm climate allows earlier planting than Central and North Texas, northern states delay to May, making the Valley one of the earliest corn plantings in the United States. Wink seeks data on city government formation.
Routine matters were to be taken up at a regular meeting of the board of education this Thursday afternoon at the offices on Tamar and Laryan streets, with Frank Haines presiding.
Cuero Negro Anier Wile was found guilty by a district court jury and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary for the late 1928 burglary of the MS Jusenb state home. A two year suspended sentence for cattle theft previously given to Lin will be added to the sentence.
Tracy Jan 22. Harvey Daye 81 was fatally injured today when a broken device toppled on him as he worked on a soil platform. Day fell to the concrete striking his head and shoulder. Local authorities investigating cause and safety measures at the site.
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