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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
4
A great earthquake rattled Enza Italy on July 19 two hours after the initial tremor. Observers at Flapbar Bendondi logged the quake and noted its two hour duration. Relatives visit: Thalph English stays several days with Mr and Mrs Dereon in Slockdale.
A physician from Battle Creek Sanatorium touts Flaxolyn as a remedy for insomnia linked to constipation and indigestion. The advertisement claims Flaxolyn calms irritants in the stomach and digestive tract, improves appetite, and provides natural, non-gripe relief with noticeable tonic benefits. Sold in bottles with a $1 price, distributed by Federal Battery Co. 411 St. Marys St. Cr. 3090.
The article sketches Gonzales county lore, naming the Dilworth and Sahusos families as long standing figures. It recalls Sheriff Bill W. Sahusos and anecdotes about local figures like George W. Saunders, Col. William M. Atkinson, Ike T. Pryor, Otho Adams, and Ernest Abbott. It mentions land deals, Bandera history, Altitude lore, and a tale of a bandit hold up near San Angelo, with genealogical and regional memory threaded through.
Mrs Minnie Kennedy, mother of Anne Semple McPherson, discusses the hoax that claimed her daughter drowned. She recalls fear and searches, telegraph threats to the Angelus temple, and the later revelation that McPherson had reappeared in Douglas Arizona. The interview covers letters of unclear meaning and a long search before the truth emerged.
President Coolidge proposes to join the day’s river expedition with John Larock and Nat Howe aboard a canoe ready for rapid travel toward the wilder stretches. Mrs Coolidge wishes to accompany her husband but John offers to wait for her while their son John stays behind at the lodge.
The Daily Express reports the marriage of Mrs. Jove Person to James Montgomery Hecker, named co-counsel in the Tennyron divorce suit, was dramatically postponed. Hecker is described as a con of the former solicitor general of the United States.
London reports James Maxton and John Wheatley before a parliamentary Labor meeting, amid criticisms of party actions and calls to discipline members. Miss Melon Wills returns to break speed records aboard a chip to America Cherbourg trip. In Williston, Bro Olany breaks 100 strokes for first time, winning low net at the National Democratic club golf tourney.
At Liverpool on July 10 the Wesleyan conference approved by 482 to 0 a resolution urging passage of an enabling bill to unite the Wesleyan Methodists Primitive Methodists and the new United Methodists into a single church.
Judy Rayford of Mobile meets sculptor Gutzon Borglum at his North Carolina studio. Borglum, who had previously shown interest in the boy nicknamed "the goat," decides the youth has potential and plans to accompany him toward Richmond. The encounter follows a voyage from Mobile, with poems and sketches exchanged earlier.
New York Central West Public Service has acquired the Texas Ice and Cold Storage company of Dallas, including its properties and business. Financing is to be through sale of bonds and preferred stock. The Dallas firm traces its origin back twenty years.
At Lake Tahoe on July 19 Aimee Semple McPherson expressed hope that her mother Minnie Kennedy would believe her account of being kidnapped. She said she had prayed for her mother’s belief, noting Kennedy had doubted the narrative. The incident follows reports of McPherson's disappearance and later reappearance at Douglas, Arizona.
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