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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1935
Page
2
Mrs Willa Mathers and Miss Belen Wernwag hosted an afternoon tea and shower for Florence Wernwag and noted Charles Fermison's marriage plans to Annette Bittel Specht. The item lists numerous social events, attendees from Houston to Floresville, and various society gatherings with clubs, guests, and upcoming nuptials.
Southwest Texas oil news notes new wells and completions across Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, Live Oak, Bandera, Duval, and surrounding counties. Francisco Guerra reports initial production around 40 barrels daily at Rogers Oil and Gas No B2 with 350 psi pressure, while Seabury, Breck and Showers, and other wells show varying depths, casing, and perforation plans. Other operators, including Skelly, Union, and Magnolia, outline attempts to rework, perforate, or test pay sands, with several fields projected for future production and several completions pending.
An OCR fragment describes a product named B C claimed to relieve periodical pains in three minutes. It lists various ingredients and preparations, with many garbled names and passages. The text is incomplete and reads as promotional copy with unclear details and sourcing.
County agents Luke Halford and Mamie Pryor lead demonstrations for Stephens county farmers on trench silo digging. They visit 25 to 80 farms to supervise winter feed storage, explaining a trench filled with roughage covered by earth to be dug out as needed for livestock feed through the winter.
Miss Ruth Cross head of physical education for women and Miss Isable Hobinecon head of the art department have secreted places on the program of the State Teachers association convention in San Antonio during Thanksgiving week. Cross will discuss health and physical education as credit subjects in high school and Miss Tobyingon's address will compare studying drawing painting and design to art history for appreciation.
In Texas part time jobs funded by the National Youth Administration enabled 4647 students to enroll in state colleges and universities this fall. Monthly NYA expenditures total $60,705 with director Sydon B. Johnson noting the aid was crucial for attendance. Only seven colleges did not apply for aid.
Henry Altmeyer Cameron county farm agent reports a resident of China asked for help on how to fill certain bugs infesting fruits or vegetables. Dr HE L Newshaw, a former San Benito resident and medical missionary in China, wrote seeking guidance and asked for medical advice on pains he has been experiencing.
The oldest member of the Chetatee county banking system and the county’s first to offer farm loans marked its 35th birthday October 1. After two private bank failures, Edmund Key of Marshall proposed investment in a new bank in 1909. W. C. Bolton, his brother John H. Bolton, and Wesley Love matched $1000 in stock to break the deadlock and meet minimum stock requirements.
A windit leaped from the ging board of seven cars driven by H Hellman on Taft Boulevard in the 700 block of South Flores Street and slugged him with a black Jack, robbing him of 34.5 and his car. Alberta Wilson was forced into a car at South Leredy and West Houston, driven to Nineterith and West Commerce streets, slugged and robbed of 3450 and her shoes.
Longview resident David Eubanks recovered a bottle from the Babine river near the Longview Kilgore road. Inside was a yellowed note dated May 4, 1629 from Gladewater Texas naming passengers on a major launch and asking for advise when and where to recover the fast quit.
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