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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1930
Page
7
Striking students crowded the courthouse yard to oppose reopening of the university. Authorities warned of severe punishment if resumption was attempted. Citywide notices listed classifications and prices for various sections of the area.
Bollywood era notes report actress Ruth Chatterton confined to her home denying pneumonia rumors. Studio officials say she will return to work in a few days. The item mentions local crime names Welker Wolfe Ray Brown and a drug store holdup case in the city last February.
Geneva reports the League of Nations disarmament preparatory conference will convene November 3. Dr J London, head of the preparatory commission, announced the date from Geneva. An advertisement mentions Whitman’s candy for Mother’s Day on May 11.
By Harry Williams a reminiscence piece recounts Eliza Roberts and kin in Devine and San Adelanda de Dejar. It traces Emma Roberts aging 82, her Ursuline childhood, and visits to Scotland and Russia, with Wells drilling, Russian travel, and a rural tale of loss and hope amid harvests and fortunes.
Federal agents under orders from Washington raided Capone operated night clubs in Cicero and nearby areas. Five arrests were made and a small quantity of liquor was seized. The Cotton Club run by Raleigh Cajony and the Areshound Inn were among the establishments raided.
A Denver attorney William S Quigley is named in a presumed affections suit filed by a New York broker and involving a wife denying charges. The background references a man named William D. Une and mentions a New York apartment scene and family connections.
In Moscow on an unspecified May day the home affairs commissariat bans sale of vodka wine and all alcoholic drinks during the ghost walks, enforcing dry pay days across the region amid unrest and shifting policy.
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