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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1924
Page
11
Vast market chatter shows investors warning that higher costs loom as shares shift and cotton prices rise. The piece notes big stock activity, rail and shipping Industry plans, and mentions Coolidge potential actions affecting employment and prosperity. It also cites a Berlin art exhibit with controversial works and historic references.
A garbled report outlines a broad clash of family law and civil actions. It references Texas leadership in divorces and mentions an accidental death tied to a murder case, with phrases about Bexar marriages and Commerce department signals, all amid court battlegrounds and equity courthouses.
Texas led the nation in divorce numbers in 1928 while ranking high in marriages. Bexar county shows a heavy share of statewide divorces with 220 in the 37th district and 150 in the 64th, amid a general pattern of rising nuptials and separations across the state.
The article reflects on how copper wires and the telephone connect people across distances, contrasting fast modern communication with the pony express and railroad. It highlights a San Antonio Light Cooking School feature with Ida Chitwood, a renowned culinary artist, hosting multiple sessions on the hotel roof to aid housewives.
A Washington report from Nov 10 notes that American beauty aids are gaining favor with European women. Department of commerce statistics show exports of toilet preparations and perfumery rising over the past two years while imports increased in tandem, with creams rouges and cosmetics used more both domestically and abroad despite a dip in perfumery and toilet waters.
Four round world planes left Ellington Field Houston at 11:30 am heading for New Orleans. The trip should take about four hours with plans to return Wednesday. They will stop in Fort Worth and Muskogee, then meet Capt Lowell Smith in Belleville before flying to Dayton and on to Washington to join the Smithsonian exhibit.
The 14-year-old Florence Gwards was found murdered near East Chicago, her body showing throat slashed and tongue cut out. She had been missing since yesterday afternoon after leaving home to go to a picture show, and her mother rushed to the scene as news spread through town.
Marion Ohio November 30 Mrs Warren G Harding's condition improved slightly according to a bulletin from her physician Dr Carl W Sayer She rested comfortably last night and has been able to take some nourishment as her general status shows a small gain
In Long Beach California on November 10 W W Counts and two companions landed a seventeen foot devil fish. They said the octopus was caught on hook and line in ninety feet of water off Santa Cruz Island after a two hour struggle. They killed it with an axe once alongside the boat.
Francis J Malone reports in 1924 on a social circle's attempt to hide a fatal beating of Charles H Rogers after a late night motor ride with Marjorie Schneider. Four men in a gray roadster allegedly attacked Rogers, who died from head injuries. Witnesses include Robert Ohl and Bernard Wilhelm detailing a confrontation near Tong Hill Inn and Long Hill Inn.
More than 40 delegates from eleven Elk lodges in the Southwest Texas district gathered at the Elks Club on Peeat Street for the annual district meeting in San Antonio. Judge James R. Davis welcomed them and plans for the coming year dominated the morning agenda. Jack Burke spoke on grand lodge and district work, with a luncheon at the St. Anthony Hotel followed by round table discussions and talks on fraternalism and secretary duties.
United States Judge James Wilson approves a plan to reorganize and liquidate the San Antonio Land and Irrigation Company. The move would form a water improvement district covering over 43 000 irrigable acres near Medina Lake with a bond issue of 2 500 000 and elections of directors to fund canal work.
Howard E. Rice, regarded as the father of burlesque in the United States, lies critically ill in New York with kidney complications. He has been at Polyclinic Hospital since Saturday under specialist care, with slight improvement reported today.
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