President Coolidge allies face criticism amid stock market notes
The column defends President Coolidge and his Morgan interests against Untermyer attacks. It cites friendships with Dwight Morrow and business ties, noting Coolidge’s public service focus. It covers stock market shifts in Standard Oil, tire and rubber prices, Ford’s rubber planting experiments, and cotton market pressures alongside brief society and arts notes.
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Standard “Oil
Indiana
Mackover
Henry Ford
Florida
Auto Fire Fatal to Youth on Cotulla Road Tragedy
A Cotulla youth Walter McMahon, 19, died after a car wreck two miles beyond Moore on Cotulla Road. Father M H McMahon drove him toward San Antonio for aid but he died before help arrived. Clyde Tarver, 22, suffered severe burns and loss of an ankle, while Barner Claunch escaped unharmed as the car collided with a culvert and caught fire.
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Bess Carroll
Tife
Walter McMahon
Cotulla
M. H. McMahon
Moore
Mr. McMahon
San Antonio
Clyde Tarver
Tarver
Youns McMahon
McMahon
Destruction of Seized Slot Machines in San Antonio
Sheriff's and district attorney's offices destroyed fourteen confiscated slot machines by breaking, burning, and sifting coins at the county courthouse. The devices, already used as trial exhibits, were smashed with sledges, drenched in kerosene, and set aflame under supervision of Chief Deputy Alphonse Newton and Fred M. Cowan.
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San Antonio
Sheriff's
District Attorney's
Alphonse Newton
Fred M. Cowan
Johnson
John Sabira
Prisoner escapes after leap from Bertillion office
A self confessed Gerlach store robber fled custody Monday by sprinting from the Bertillion office at the police station. He dodged printing procedures, vaulted a window, then fled 15 feet to the ground and ran toward the San Antonio river, evading recapture with two other suspects still in custody.
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Bertillion
San Antonio Tiger
Charles Gerlach
East Travis Street
Gerlach
Carver
Ruhnke
Milstead
Antonio
Pearl Harbor Fortified as World’s Strongest, Plan Revealed
Washington May 11 reports that Pearl Harbor Hawaii will be made the strongest fortified place in the world under plans announced by Representative Thomas S Butler of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House naval affairs committee, highlighting its key role in Pacific defense.
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Universal Service
Washington
Pear Harbor
Hawaii
United States
Pacific Ocean
Representative Thomas
Butler
Pennsylvania
House Naval Affairs Committee
Floods Swell Creeks Flood Downtown Streets in San Antonio
Heavy rainfall totaling 1.68 inches in under an hour caused San Pedro and Alazan creeks to overflow. Downtown streets flooded four to eight inches as the San Antonio River rose over two feet. Winds toppled trees and damaged buildings including Crawford Motor, where a roof collapse flooded the stock room. Continued coverage teased.
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San Pedro
Alazan
Gatdy
Weather Bureau
San Antonio
Crawford Motor Company
Main Avenue
Mayors and secret ticket shake up local race
Secret instructions were broadcast as a city election fight between administration supporters and an opposition ticket emerged. Dr. Jeremiah Rhodes, school superintendent, initially agreed to head the ticket but later said he would not run against Mayor Tobin. Opposition leaders met behind locked doors to select candidates, aiming to surprise voters at polling places, with filing deadlines looming on April 21.
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Jeremiah Rhodes
John Tobin
Rhodes
Tobin
John "Tobin
Fredericksburg Road
Plange
Cwo
Veniremen questioned over Klan ties in murder trial
In the Thirty-seventh District court Jim Lubbock faced a crowded venire for the killing of J. L. Culpepper. One juror, Adam Franz, 66, was selected after denying Klan sympathy or knowledge of the case. Defense and state battled over KLan affiliations as additional talesmen may be summoned. Several veniremen admitted past Klan ties or affiliations but were not disqualified. Court adjourned for lunch as testimony delayed.
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Ku Klux Klan
Thirty-senth
Jim Lubbock
J. L. Culpepper
Adam Franz
Veniremen
Elan
Charles Erhardt Jr
The
Wen
Erhardt
Anderson
J. F. Buck
W. A. Murphy
High Water Maroons Mother And Babies
People stranded in a car with their mother and two children near Quincy and Atlanta streets were rescued after a city wrecker attempted to pull them free but became stuck in rising floodwater. The vehicles remained immobilized until the water receded.
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High Water
Maroons
Quincy
Atlanta
Coast Guards Aid Starving Sailors On Distressed Ship
Galveston May 11 The Mexican steamship El Amigo is in distress 50 miles southeast of the Rio Grande mouth. Coast Guard Captain Wallace Reed at Point Isabel led a relief party in a surf boat carrying provisions despite bad weather and heavy seas.
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Galveston
Rio Grande
Coast Guard
Point Isabel
Wallace Reed
Car Crash Injures Father and Daughter on Fredericksburg Road
Andrew Albrecht, 66, seriously injured and his daughter Miss May Albrecht, slightly hurt, when a car driven by an unidentified woman collided with their vehicle on the Fredericksburg road and fled. Albrecht was rushed to Robert B Green Hospital for X rays to assess possible skull fracture and other injuries. the family resides in Elmendorf, Texas.
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Andrew Albrecht
Miss May Albrecht
Fredericksburg
Albrecht
Robert B. Green Hospital
Elmendorf
Tex
Amundsen postpones pole flight to late May or June
Captain Roald Amundsen has decided to postpone his North Pole flight until the end of May or the beginning of June due to bad weather. The decision was announced by Universal Service from Oslo Norway on May 11.
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Universal, Service
Oslo
Norway
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Colorado canals flooded after heavy rains
Cloudbursts near Rockyford Colorado caused irrigation ditches to overflow flooding the street and filling basements. A culvert washed out along the Santa Fe railroad delayed trains for hours near the town.
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Rockyford
Col
Santa Fe Railroad
Judge Considers Padock Suits in San Antonio
Judge W W McCrory in Ninety fourth District Court weighed four dozen petitions to enjoin and padlock alleged gambling houses in San Antonio. District Attorney M Chambers pressed the suits amid vigorous defense from about a score of defendants resisting the action.
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San Antonio
W. W.W. McCrory
Ninety-fourth District Court
M. Chambers
Eleven Die in German Crossing Accident Reported
Berlin May 11 Eleven people were killed and several more injured when the Fraugtort Basle express train struck an automobile carrying twenty five near a grade crossing. Dispatches describe the scene as a tragic railway collision with multiple casualties among both train passengers and auto occupants.
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Berlin
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