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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1930
Page
9
The May 20 report details Arkansas and Texas floods with towns isolated by high waters from the Ouachita and Trinity basins. Rescue efforts compress, typhoid risk rises as Red Cross immunization began. Roads, rail lines, and bridges suffer impassable conditions across several routes, while towns like Texarkana brace for higher crests and evacuations proceed.
Beverly Wilbur May 20 quotes Will Rogers critiquing U S naval force and allies. He argues America shares a long, costly maritime policy with England and warns about the burden on taxpayers while highlighting parity in naval strength as a goal.
East Waco residents face flood risk as the city section nears overflow. Heavy rains and storms last week destroyed many cotton crops, with replanting required. The channel at Austin fell to three feet, far below the 18 foot flood level.
Yoakum 12 year old son of Mr and Mrs P B Ginn was bitten on the tongue by a spider while drawing water from a hydrant in the back yard last Saturday. He grew very ill briefly but recovered after medical attention.
Piedras Negras across from Eagle Pass reports a 25 000 population per Te cert census cited by El Bravo. The city is described as growing rapidly as of March 20 with Teoxes Sunton noting the figures. Ingleside school will hold a closing success Tuesday evening. South Texas chamber of commerce president W Kinsolving will deliver the commencement address.
In Sherman on May 20 seventy counts against fourteen men accuse arson rioting and burglary tied to disturbances that damaged the county courthouse and surrounding buildings during a mob action. The indictments rely on a military inquiry report with no trial dates set.
CRICAGO May 20 UP The plan to cure the What’s the Use feeling harming 80,000 Illinois Central Railroad workers is led by endocrinologist Dr James H Hutton and associate Dr Hatton. They aim to boost efficiency by treating glands including thyroid adrenal pituitary and others, claiming removal of carbon from glands will restore alertness and lifting of working power.
Vatican reports indicate Pope Pius likely will travel to Castel Gandolfo in early July for his summer vacation. If confirmed, he would be the first pope to spend the summer outside the Vatican in about six decades since Pius IX.
The prisoner was placed by officers to keep him from the crowd and was burned in the nearo section. The next day Sherman W. imposed martial law and a military court of inquiry was established to investigate the outrage.
Dr Bertuan N Dundesen Cook County coroner defended Chicago against unjust crime labeling the city not first but thirty ninth in homicides per 100000 population He stated Chicago ranks thirty ninth and argued for a fair view amid criticism from May Washington DC
Nance and Trowalter plan a Wednesday night ball with music by Homen's Merry Makers. Admission adv.
Strange requests from all over the region pour into the chamber of commerce daily. People seek souvenirs, lore, and even a Texas horned frog relic, with some asking for items linked to the Alamo and other San Antonio life details.
Warsaw reports a Polish government note proposing negotiations with Germany to reach an agreement on import and export restrictions. The move aims to regulate duties and trade limits between the two nations.
The report from Fora City Oklahoma outlines the Booker Pike's Peak Tots Confrs with detailed test narratives and named data. It references Address Continental OU Company and includes photographs from the event.
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