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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1918
Page
8
The Court of Criminal Appeals overruled a motion for rehearing in the George Brady murder case from Bexar County. Brady was sentenced to death after conviction for killing Car.
FEW DANES EMIGRATE NOW. Only 1614 Danes left for foreign lands, 1580 to the United States, the smallest Danish emigration in seventy years. Previously five-sixths were farmers and workers, but in 1917 only one-sixth were such laborers, with more tradesmen and merchants among the emigrants. News item cites Los Angeles Times.
San Antonio Bar Association plans a celebration for Judge W. S. Fly chief justice of the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals commemorating his twenty five years on the bench since September 1893. A committee led by Wallace Newton will arrange the entertainment and notify the judge.
San Antonio will receive northern and eastern mail about 24 hours sooner under a new arrangement coordinated by Postmaster Armistead. The mail will transfer at St. Louis to the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway, with Katy trains arriving at 7:30 and 8:30 each morning, ensuring delivery on the day of arrival.
Obituary notices list D P Sims age 81 native of Linton Lexas died in Jacksonville Lenn and long-time San Antonio resident. Other obituaries include Leona Acton 85 from Hillsboro Texas and J H E Willmenn 30 at 1020 Nolan Street with service details. Also M C Kerr, N Ulrich, Earl G Owlley, Louis Peer, and Orthodox Jewish community Thanksgiving Hanukkah service announced with details and venues.
Mrs. Nonie Tligh of Peseh Orchard Arkansas says backache and heavy feelings eased after using Cardui for several bottles. She reports increased strength, reduced nervousness, and overall improvement. Cardui is described as a mild vegetable tonic built for the womanly constitution. ask your druggist.
Hagg and McCollum, funeral and ambulance operators, earned Avenue C and Pecan Cr. 104, continuing service in the city.
In Austin the District Attorney and State's Attorney argue before the Criminal Court of Appeals on an urgent oral appeal. The case from Bexar County challenges a quarantine detention after habeas corpus, questioning whether health officer findings are final or require court evidence to sustain the order. The ruling could impact environmental city quarantine practices across the state and is awaited in San Antonio.
A fragment from a wartime humor page features the Agony Wat tebte quartet singing mock German tunes and counting shellfire, while nearby artillery and a bugler add to the chaotic scene. A Denver driver tale and a chauffeur ad with a missing reference follow, hinting at enlistment banter and job odds.
War Department telegram directs immediate discharge of Student Army Training Corps units in the Southern Department beginning the week of December 1. About 200000 men, spanning many Texas schools and several western colleges, will be demobilized and officers reassigned under War Department Circular No. 75.
A garbled OCR segment lists numerous colleges and towns in Texas and Oklahoma, including Southwestern, Georgetown, Sam Houston State Normal, Huntside, Trinity University, Waxahachie, Marshall, East Lexus State Normal School Commerce, Howard Payne College, Brownwood, Dallas, San Marcos, Bishop College, Wiley University, and Oklahoma units at Ageienlurn and Mechanica College of Oklahoma, Stillwater, Philips University, Norman, Edmond, Shawnee, with scattered city names and incomplete spellings. Entangled names suggest a directory or map listing of institutions and locations rather than a cohesive narrative.
A discussion of how war terms influence English, noting phrases like going west and decimated, and explaining the origins of takeoffs from military usage. The piece contrasts words such as fly and flee and examines choices in referring to the Kaiser and his people, highlighting nuance in meaning.
Lieut Col James Bordley outlines three stage program for blinded veterans including physical and mental restoration, occupational placement by the Federal Board of Vocational Education, and post training supervision by the Red Cross. Those with saved sight go to reconstruc tion hospitals. permanently blind are sent to United States Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore for training in professional and industrial trades and domestic work.
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