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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1931
Page
5
Prime Minister Hampey MacDonald remains in office after the government defeats an education bill amendment by 282 to 240 in the house. The outcome keeps MacDonald in power despite the opposition vote and signals stakes in the parliamentary maneuvering.
Mrs. T2 CL Smith of Mesquite Texas shares how California Fig Syrup has long kept her two daughters content and well. Physicians endorse its pure vegetable formula for baby bowels, aiding digestion, appetite, and energy when kids are constipated or run down. Seek the genuine product at drugstores.
Funeral rites were planned for 210 p.m. in Lubbock for By Heck Quinn, 32, publisher of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. His body was found on a Yoakum County ranch after exposure and exhaustion from getting lost Sunday while searching for a telephone line. He had left Lubbock with Charles Guy, editor of the Avalanche Journal, and Mrs Guy on a trip into sparsely settled country thirty miles west of here. The car stalled in sand and Quinn was last seen alive when he left the area. Guy and his wife were recovered Tuesday, suffering from the shock of the tragedy.
In Zowin gaville Kentucky an inquest was planned into the death of Richard Williams 25 who died from a fractured skull after a raid during a rum bust in Bath County Cook Payette County deputy constable Tadlow said Williams ran into a tree as he tried to flee knocking himself unconscious and later died Prohibition agents and Lex riders described the raid and subsequent arrest timeline
Ann Harding was guarded by police today after a string of threats led to alleged armed men attempting entry to her home. Officials identified suspects Messelt and Calvor and noted plans involving professional roles and a glider pilot wearing wings in a chaotic, fragmentary report.
A blast at the Chryston colliery in Lanarkshire fatally wounded five miners and left six others injured. Reports describe a gas eruption triggering the disaster and ongoing emergency efforts at the scene.
Jan. 22. Scarface Al Capone was ordered by Federal Judge George A. Carpenter to appear February to answer a contempt of court charge. The indictment cites his failure to answer a federal grand jury subpoena alleging he was ill in Florida while at a race meeting.
Austin reports the highway commission nears completion after days of arduous effort. The panel awarded contracts totaling over 2.5 million dollars, with plans to return to ranch life as Mr and Mrs Green Martin head back to Artesia Wells from San Antonio.
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