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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1937
Page
7
Keech for the old oaken bucket recalls the Alamo cisterns dug beneath the well under mission padres. General Fost ordered repairs halted when water quality declined. Custodians remember grain storage and partial ruin as parts of the Alamo collapsed.
Samuel J. Hunter 91 longtime judge at the Second Court of Civil Appeals died in a local incident yesterday. Funeral arrangements were pending. Survived by widow a son two granddaughters and two grandsons.
The piece outlines the Union Stock Yards of San Antonio historic role, its 1889 founding and 1894 reorganization, and how cowboys with walking canes manage cattle at the yard. It notes daily routines from 7:30 am, weighing, branding, and inspection, plus the market’s revival after depression days and the prominence of Thursday sales.
A fragmentary account describes a weekly auction operation lasting decades with a bellows of numbers and shouted bids. It mentions a "great-horn" listener, a Sauckiont Suter venture, and livestock shipments growing to thousands of loads annually while passersby recall overheard phrases like Texas cawhovs and walking-canes on South San Mateo Street.
Justice of the Peace Marvin Rep today was cleared by a jury of not guilty verdict on misapplying Tarrant county funds. The case involved the first of 26 indictments against a defendant, with expectations that remaining indictments would be quashed.
Miss Jean Glen-Walker will discuss theosophy in daily life at 7 p.m. Sunday in the San Antonio Theosophical Society Sudibrium, 806 Milam Building. Glen-Walker is visiting from Janden, at WALA. ITAS OIL Ol found on Willan Hall's farm in Karars.
State banking department releases December 1 1931 Texas banks call showing total resources at 220 877 040 up 23 147 749 from year end 1930 loans rise across personal and government securities real estate loans fall 711 480 while savings deposits climb 868 086 to 5 931 007 dis position cashes depits up 140 011 ab ove 119 and bonds in safekeeping increase 731 155 from 8 405 107 December 31 1930 end of 1936 business.
Fragmentary newspaper ad line urges readers to place a want ad by dialing a code F-12a1. The text appears incomplete and may be part of a larger classified or contact instruction.
A Dallas event marks the formation of a consular corps intended to represent 20 Latin American nations. The move follows Texas Pan-American expo plans and makes Dallas the third city outside the capital to gain full representation, with New York and New Orleans as the only others previously served.
Austin Texas January 33 INS Texas employers were given an extra 30 days to pay their 1996 unemployment tax contributions. Durelor R A Anderson of the Unemployment Compensation Commission said the extension helps explain the act to employers and avoid penalties for late payment beyond February 25.
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