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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1929
Page
6
The article notes growing pedestrian numbers in Antonio and highlights hazards from jaywalking. Cant. Gus Klocken-iv lists traffic rule breaches such as ignoring signals, leaving street cars, crossing behind cars, and stepping into crosswalks from between parked vehicles. Pedestrians risk injury by not adhering to established crossings.
In Chicago on October 18 Philip Keafta faced a rough trial at the city hall tests. He answered the civil service question about the Declaration of Independence and mayor of Chicago correctly, then failed in hurdle attempts yet was told he had passed the dog catcher exam. He collapsed with a sprained ankle and was taken to hospital but expressed happiness about the result.
The annual meeting of the Texas Automatic Jobbers Association convened in the Southwest region with attendees from Oklahoma Kansas Arkansas Missouri and other states. The gathering discusses industry issues and regional cooperation among auto parts wholesalers.
The report notes John D Rockefeller plans to travel to New York by Sunday December 1 and begin work on December as his present tour ends. The exact role and company are not specified in the fragmented text.
The will of Mrs. Anna Bryan Ayres, a high-salary executive shot to death in a Wallingford hotel, leaves an estate valued over 310000 to her three children. Grace Bryan of Branktin is named guardian. the will filed in New Haven court and deputy coroner Jonas J. Corrigan notes uncertainties in the deaths of Mrs Ayres and William H. Gaylord, a bookkeeper.
Kiwanis Club of San Antonio held a lunch program at the Gunter Hotel Friday to demonstrate mail handling. Group 4 chaired by J. Y. Williamson organized the event showing street box collection to postmarking distribution and dispatch. Charles ran now supplied the attendance prize, with details unclear due to unfinished text.
Chicago tale of Agnes McGraw a 73 year old woman who says she was locked in her home by daughter and son in law. She escaped by cutting a window screen climbing a fence and seeking police as she appeals to Judge Immenhausen for relief.
Paris dispatch reports Algerian forces ambushed a French Foreign Legion column near Djih 01 in Algeria, inflicting heavy casualties on European troops. The dispatch cites 50 French dead and wounded, while the war ministry has not confirmed the report.
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