Scout leader offers plan for curing delinquent boys in Bexar County
Arthur Michas proposes a pioneering program using the Boy Scouts to reform delinquent youths before juvenile court. The scheme would enroll compliant offenders into scouting, evaluating conduct after 20 days, and extend vocational training in the Rexor County Juvenile Home. He cites a similar plan in St. Louis and urges rapid adoption to curb crime among local boys.
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Bexar County
Optimists’ Club
Arthur Michas
Alamo
H. N. Jones
Boy Scouts
St. Louis
Moses’ Trartman
Gourt
Ray Tadge Horton
Michael
Rexor County
Report of Attack Proves False Alarm
Deputies rushed to a Bandera Road location ten miles from San Antonio after reports a woman and a man in a truck were attacked. No trace of any person or vehicle was found and officers searched several miles along the road for the midnight incident.
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Banderarand
Sa Antonia
Tach
Sleeping sickness and spring fever in Diverse Here London
A jumble of brief items with slang humor notes on sleeping sickness spring fever and oddities. Mentions Ford airplanes Datel jokes about the prince of Wales a millIonaire Nogales soda seller and a car invention with riots feared. A rabbit collision near Oroville injures three.
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London
New City Bathing Pool Nears Opening
Acting Mayor Phil Wright announced Friday that the new West Side Municipal bathing pool at Mata Moras and Frio streets will open soon. The facility includes washrooms and dressing rooms, with ample space for visitors.
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Phil Wright
Priesday
West Bide
Matamoras and
Frio Strests
San Antonio Sees Big Rise in Valley and West Texas Shipments
A report by A. Pawickett of the San Antonio Freight Bureau shows a 100 percent rise in shipments to the Lower Rio Grande Valley and a 50 percent jump to West Texas over April 1924. April 1925 posted the strongest trade in history with ongoing gains driven by package car service, greater local business activity, and cooperative city efforts despite drought and low produce prices.
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Rio Grande Valley
West Texas
San Antonio
Pawkett
Freight Bureau
Texas
Pawickett
Coffee habit grows among San Antonio workers
A San Antonio article notes heavy daily coffee consumption reaching near one million cups citywide, with restaurants supplying about half. It credits office workers and business people for sustaining revenue, saluting coffee as a workplace staple rivaling cigarette smoking and signaling a shift toward tea only in colder months and for social breaks.
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San Antonio
Crowd cheers as officer chases escaped suspect in street
Spectators watched Tuesday night as Detective Edwards pursued a tire toss fleeing from arrest around a stationary car. The pursuit included taunts and a mock game of tag as the suspect repeatedly escaped new holds before the detective drew his pistol amid mounting crowd insistence on catching her.
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Tettive Edwards
Tiretoss
Hey
Burglar Turns Out to Be Workman on Way Home
A resident reported two burglars near Paso Hondo Street. detectives detained a man claiming to be headed home from work with loot. On reaching his destination he thanked officers and said he wasn’t out of danger yet.
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Paso Hondo Street
Ward
Sehoenstein
Thieves Take Old Coins and 3 Guns
Thieves stole three pistols including two .43 caliber and one .45 caliber from P. H. Phillips at 2015 South Presa Street. Also missing were six two dollar Mexican gold pieces. Entry gained by forcing a rear window. Detectives Kohr and Bradshaw assigned to the case.
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P. H. Phillips
South Presa Street
Kohr
Bradshaw
Musical Instrument Bargains Limelight Columns Invite Buyers
Daily want ads trumpet bargains in all kinds of instruments from pianos to saxophones. The newspaper urges readers to turn to the Musical Instrument Column for courteous ad takers and up to date prices, inviting the buying public to act now.
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Iveue
Birds in His Beard and a Busy Post in San Antonio
Postmistress Harriief aL San Antonio, Miss Jess Newnan, served briefly as postmistress and secretary to the postmaster and civil service before Assistant Postmaster Fuller returned, ending her brief reign. Passanter P. G. Lacay visited on city business, while Rudolph Luckerbach took vacation and the postmaster’s secretary was ill.
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Jess Newnan
Miss Newnan
Civil Service
Passanter P. G. Lacay
Gus
Fuller
Rudolph Luckerbach
San Antonio
COLLINS FUNERAL IN L A THURSDAY
Funeral services for Captain F. F. Gollins SO who died at Buffalo Saturday will be held here at 5 o clock Thursday afternoon. Dr P B Hill pastor First Presbyterian Church and Dr Hugh McLellan Central Christian Church will officiate Nephews of Captain Collins will be active pallbearers Honorary pallbearers will be the entire membership of Albert Sidney Johnston Camp United Confederate Veterans of which Captain Collins was a member Burial will be in the LO O EF cemetery The body will arrive in San Antonio Wednesday.
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F. F. Gollins
Buffalo
P. B. Hill
First Presbyterian Church
Hugh McLellan
Central Christian Church
Collins
Albert Sidney Johnston
United Confederate Veterans
LO. O. EF
San Antonio
State Insurance Chief to Speak at WT Insurance Meet
Tohn M. Scott, state commissioner of insurance, will speak before the Southwest Texas Insurance Underwriters Association at a luncheon in the St Anthony Hotel at 2215 Pone Thursday.
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Tohn M. Scott
Isurance
Southwest Texas Insurance Underwriters’ Association
Bt Anthony Hotel
Sparrows Shape Old Head-piece Into Happy Home
An old farmer Lear once lamented birds nesting in a beard, but in a twist sparrows occupy Jack Jackson’s cap hanging in his garage at 3711 Broadway. Mary Faye Morton, nine, spotted the nest and alerted the Jackson family as four sparrows hatched inside the cap.
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Mary Faye Morton
Lear
Jack Jackson
Rick
Jackson
Broadway
Brackenridge Park Showcases San Antonio Beauty Spot
Visitors touring Brackenridge Park in Texas admire its water features and busy bathers in winter. They observe the blue catfish feeding, the Japanese Garden tucked 100 feet below Alpine Drive, and a diverse menagerie from Asia and beyond.
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Italy
Alps
Niagara
San Antonio
Brackenridge Park
America
Texas
Aires
Arotin
Ancient
Asia
Tent Evangelist Drives Free Church Revival in San Antonio
A new tent church at Granada and Comal, led by Rev. John W. Milton, opens as a nonDenominational layman mission. Services every night, noon Bible classes, Friday sick prayers, Saturday midnight prayer, and Sunday school. Milton, unpaid, denounces hypocrisy and preaches a strict gospel to both churched and unchurched.
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Galilee
San Antonio
Nazarene
Granada and
Comal Streets
John W Milton
Alfred Marshhal
San Antonio Bible Institute
Milton
Evangel
Leig
Evangelist
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