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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1931
Page
10
Through the San Antonio Musical club the city hosts its distinctive modern morning musicale. The second event of the season featured Miss Ellenor Cook and her attractive assistant Camilla Edwards.
An advertisement claims flu saps strength and blood richness. It promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a standby tonic trusted by Southern families for three generations. The copy promises purifying quinine, iron rebuilding red blood, improved appetite, sleep, and work within days.
Tarrence O NeaI of 301 Van Ness street was fined 5 dollars in Corporation court after striking I E Courtin, a National Family store employee, during a dispute over a suit returned by the purchaser. O Neal testified he had the suit two years and the store would not take it back, leading to the confrontation. The incident occurred as Courtin attempted to return the suit and was struck when O Neal dropped the garment. The fine was paid in the Crystal Ballroom of the Gunter hotel during a public luncheon with a folk performance by Cook and Edwards. The program included Czech numbers and praised Miss Edwards as a skilled accompanist and performer.
The Nuevo Laredo flour mills halt operations due to a Mexico bound wheat embargo. Only wheat for scientific uses may cross. The chamber of commerce protests to the federation of chambers and to the Mexican government, arguing Mexico cannot meet local mill demand.
The committee on penitentaries starts a three day tour of the Texas prison system. They will inspect the Huntsville state prison and the prison farms. Action on several prison bills is postponed pending the tour.
The Shipping Board announced twenty six vessels for foreign trade costing 116 million and change were under construction in American shipyards as of March 1, with five more for ocean trade at about 8.8 million.
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