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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1948
Page
5
After a year away with the army in Germany, Robert Co. Buford reports his 10 year old black and white paint stallion stolen from South San Antonio. The sheriff was notified Saturday and deputies heard little about where the horse was pastured or stabled.
A garbled ancient anecdote links Cleopatra to a pearl dissolved in wine to prove a point. The ad text pivots to a modern stomach relief claim for Udys tablets, promising quick soothing effects and a double money back offer after a misfired remedy.
A group led by Dr Hugh Warren completed negotiations to purchase the Texas Chiropractic College in San Antonio and will run it as a nonprofit. The 500 plus student enrollment supports plans for a chiropractic hospital, with board elections set at the Gunter Hotel. The college was founded in 1908 and has been privately held since 1923 by Drs J H Drain H E Welser and C B Laoftin.
The Texas Aeronautics Commission announced that 12 airports in Texas received merit awards for good operating practices. Awarded sites include Faust Field New Braunfels Tomeo San Antonio Flying L Bandera Cuero and Brady Flying School Brady plus Texas Art University.
At 220 E. Travis the Methodist Service Center opened in 1942 and was run by Mrs. O. L. Miller as director since 1944. Sponsored by San Antonio churches, Travis Park church took over in 1947. The center, free of rules, averages about 6000 soldiers a month aged 17 to 19 who seek a homey refuge and often meet spouses there.
Detectives traced a 29 year old woman posing as a Philadelphia school teacher who came to San Antonio to live. She passed a $75 check at Wolff and Marx drawn on a Brownsville bank and admitted swindling three other local firms of 213.47 in cash and merchandise in one day. She also left four worthless checks totaling 147 in Corpus Christi and was held on a vagrancy charge pending further investigation.
Myra Wakefield of Austin was named outstanding UT woman at a campus ceremony. She received Alpha Lambda Delta scholarship honors for the highest four year grade average.
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