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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
6
A vintage testimonial ad extols California Fig Syrup as a reliable remedy for colds stomach upset and feverishness. The narrative highlights a mother’s praise spanning fifty years endorsing the product for infants and children with claims of digestion appetite and energy benefits.
The thirteenth Rotary club gridiron show titled Rotors Marsherries at the San Pedro Playhouse drew a near full house with city officials and prominent citizens in the audience. Comical targets included city and county figures, parks and incinerator sites, and several local politicians in a lively program of parodies and skits led by Andrew J. McKenzie.
New York on March 28 reports George Moore devised a plan to cut amusement prices by hiring a taxi in Newark and touring the city. The taeler registered 24 dollars, he etched a French lease and was arrested for refusing to pay a fine higher than typical penalties. He received 19 days in jail.
London reports Charles Francis Adams wife will sail for New York on April 3 due to ill health. Mrs Morrow likely to return soon for health reasons. The items mention health-related departures amid naval envoy movements and a separate Tulsa note about a birthday celebration on March 26 and a wait until March 27 for an event.
A visitor laments scarce automobile courtesy in San Antonio. Drivers hug curbs before left turns and linger in the center for right turns, causing near-misses. Road hogs slow arterial traffic while many cars run with a headlight or taillight out. The writer urges police to enforce light and signal violations for real safety.
Bologna reports a new book by Simmer Colombine on the savage that made Bologna famous. The work traces a mythic origin tied to a 1661 order of pine joists and nine tail cat or meat boats, with a note on a navsape crafted from pork in a large celebration.
Fifteen hours after Jimmie Booker, 16, was buried beneath twelve feet of rasp soaked earth, the body was recovered late yesterday from a cave-in beneath a bridge near Arlington. Fifty workers in shifts of ten used a steam shovel to clear the dirt. Two others were buried but rescued before burial.
Fort Worth fiery pastor J Frank Norris urged Bible supporters to resist modernism during a Thursday night address at Heethoven hall. Speaking to about five hundred, Norris denounced evolution and urged adherence to every claim of the Bible, outlining three stages of modernist doubt and urging preachers to reject pussyfooting and slippage. Judge T Cobbs of the Fourth Court introduced Norris.
Corsicana Turus March 2. Franks county farm Bunel faced an indictment for murder in the death of Relph B Graf 20 Lipton Ind. The youth a former United States Marine and a non commissioned officer in the Indiana National Guard was shot not fatally wounded when he jumped from a truck transporting prisoners to the county farm Tuesday. Graf held on a charge of unlawful train riding.
Houston March 28. Judge J Hutcheson planned to hold court in Brownsville to relieve congestion in Rio Grande Valley jails where hundreds of federal prisoners are held. Telegram from Edinburg reported more than 200 prisoners awaiting transfer there and 200 more to Brownsville.
Reports from Paris claim Lila Grey Chaplin and Charlie Chaplin may reconcile but Chaplin dismissed the chatter as likely prompted by a press agent. The Beverly Hills scene echoed the rumor on March 1.
Missouri Pacific president B W Baldwin announced February 1980 net operating income rose to 1 853 773 from 1 780 084 the same month a year earlier. Total gross revenue reached 10 016 082 for February this year, slightly higher than the prior period. Revenue figures include Gulf, Caesar lines and the International Great Northern system, with modest gains noted.
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