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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1928
Page
10
Four popular New York City night clubs were ordered padlocked for one year for violating Prohibition laws. Federal agents testified before Judge Goddard, leading to closures of the Silver Slipper the Charm Club the Frivolity Club and the Ate Club amid a presidential campaign backdrop.
The sun rose over a frostbound landscape as temperatures fell to 38 degrees at 5 am, staying low for three hours. San Antonio and North Texas endured cold, with lows near 30s and teens in several cities, while statewide readings included 34 in Dallas and 84 in Austin amid a cold front.
A powerful early winter blizzard blankets the Middle West with heavy snow from a few inches to several feet. Chicago reports a temperature near freezing as others endure stranded autos, paralyzed railroads, and two deaths from exposure amid the storm. New York notes an onset of extreme cold with a northerly gale and plummeting records.
The item lists social scene highlights from residents including Katherine Koch, Betty Duggan, Ruth Walter, and Thurmond, plus university student Nay Thurmond and others visiting relatives and friends over a recent weekend. Mentions trips to Dal AY D, Bidore, and Black Creek with family and neighbors.
Arthur Bugs Baer critiques President Coolidge’s naval policies, noting a shift to a larger navy and its implications. The column, written in a satirical voice, parodies naval enthusiasm and public sentiment as the era’s defense posture evolves.
London reports Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang will be enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury on December 4. Charles H. Brent of Western New York travels to England to represent the American Episcopal church at the ceremony.
Searchers at Fort Sam Houston report no bodies found from the Malagor Bay crash last Friday. Private James W Stroedeker and Frank Coron of the Second Piginian air service drowned after a parachute descent from a disabled plane. Undetermined if bodies were swept away or entangled in vegetation at the bay bottom. The plane struck the water almost vertically near a town target as it sank.
Unclear Los Angeles probate record states a judge ordered Donnelly’s $1200 estate to pass to Eamon de Valera the Irish patriot. Inmate Donnelly reportedly claimed he would do a lot for the defense of Ireland as authorities noted his connection to Treland.
An ailing, misread dispatch reports Captain Jones suspended for four months without pay after conflicts over ward placement at a county hospital. The action followed a refusal to accept a medical assignment, amid confusion from the runaways and city officials.
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