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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1928
Page
12
A Bulgarian Agrarian party figure involved in anti regime raids was arrested today following a fall of the Agrarian regime. The operation was carried out by OPIA and other authorities. details remain sparse.
San Antonio post office reports April receipts surpass last year's level by about $5000. Finance release from Toastmaster Y. 4s Taiens notes the increase, highlighting the uplift in postal income for the month.
An old advertisement extols Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a quick safe relief for excess stomach acid. It promotes its use by physicians, claims 50 years of standard efficacy, and notes pricing at 25 and 50 cents a bottle. The ad asserts genuineness and trademark with The Charles J. Whilling Chemical Company dating to 1875.
Kansas City May 1 delegates from 15,000,000 Methodists gathered for the quadrennial general conference. Bishop Joseph F. Berry, of Philadelphia, presided as the opening assembly opened. He forecast constructive and conservative work addressing world problems and church policy, urging lawful action over denunciation in crime matters.
New York reports indicate girls paid Alice Frote McDourall Coffee Shops Inc ten dollars weekly to work in one of its de luxe restaurants. An attorney testified in a manager’s prosecution over withheld funds. Waitresses stated tips could reach fifteen dollars a day, and a waiting list existed offering ten dollars weekly.
A long roster of army orders dated May 1 listing officers and units reassigned training to Dover Fort Monmouth Fort Meade Fort Bliss and other posts. It notes names ranks origins and destinations with training or duty dates and extended leaves. The document records many transfers and postings across garrisons and forts including Fort Benning Fort Screven Fort Robinson and Fort Wainwright.
STOLL Germany May 1 General Nobile ordered the Italia crew to ready for a possible takeoff toward Spitsbergen if weather stays favorable. Reichswehr soldiers were told to assist if the attempt proceeds. He aims to beat a supply ship and risks a night launch pending hour by hour weather checks.
A. Tweltter, assistant general agent of the Southern Pacific lines, will leave San Antonio Tuesday night to visit the Vietnam section of the railroad. He will return to San Antonio Wednesday.
San Antonio seeks to host the 1029 Central Power convention for Texas Louisiana Arkansas and Oklahoma with in person travel by Sidney Kring publicity director and E B Neiswanger general manager. They will fly by pic mail plane with Ed H Kifer of the San Antonio Police Service joining. Mayor Chambers Porter Whaley and hotel group officers will accompany. The gathering anticipates about 1000 delegates. Also Dr Harrison optometrist moves from 203 Alamo to Riverside Building.
Mystery gunmen opened fire on a filling station at Concepcion Avenue and Mitchell Street, shattering windows and riddling pumps, as residents fled Roosevelt Park. Police traced a carload of shooters roaming Roosevelt Avenue earlier, but the assailants escaped before dawn. Witnesses reported bullets striking trees and walls while an emergency squad searched the area with no success.
London May 1 reports a Marl borough street police court hearing over a town described as Sir 100 Money and Irene Savage aged 22 charged with improper conduct in Whitehall Park. Pleas of not guilty entered for both, defended by Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, a prominent English lawyer.
Emphasizes regular use of Squibb's Dental Cream containing Milk of Magnesia to neutralize acids. Claims its particles reach hard to reach pits and crevices, relieves sensitive teeth, supports healthy gums, and is safe for all. Advises regular dental visits and a 40 cent large tube from E. R. Squibb & Sons.
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