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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1930
Page
4
TERRELL Texas Oct 27 A convention for negro Baptist congregations opens here through November 2 to discuss unification of all negro Baptist churches in Texas under a single program. Leaders plan a statewide merger to strengthen organization and outreach.
An advertising blurb asserts that a half-alite liver and bowels lined with qwisonops waste cause illness in Boston residents. It promotes Dr Tutt's Pills as a fast and certain remedy.
Detroit investigators acting under orders of the War emergency grand jury raided the Capital Coal Company offices. State police and local officers seized a truckload of records from shipments of machine guns consigned last summer from New York and will present them before the grand jury.
Torrential rains in Siyeno cause 80 deaths and 220 houses destroyed. Electricity cut as torrents sweep streets, carrying horses and carriages toward the sea. The scene speaks of widespread disaster with no safe shelter evident amid rising waters.
Police linked a group to three waterhouse burglaries and multiple thefts across San Antonio. Victims include George F. Wroten at 201 Grand View Place with losses around 2000 dollars, plus District 5 Dietz resident and T.F. Garrett on Argle Place reporting stolen clothing, jewelry, and valuables. Two soldiers and several suspects were taken for questioning after early arrests.
Universal Service reports auto accident deaths rose in 1920 over 1919 with 20 641 deaths and a 291 per 100000 rate. Cities listed include Baltimore Boston Chicago Cleveland Los Angeles New Orleans New York San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington and others with varying death counts and rates.
Two 24 year old women Dorothy Allen and Dorothy Tekert were ordered held until appearing before a special grand jury probing the death of Detroit radio commentator Jerry Buckley. They were arrested after visiting Angelo Livecchi, jailed on a murder charge in the Buckley case.
Detroit on October 27 economist Virgil Jordan of Me Gras Hill Corp New York blamed old fashioned banking policies conceived tariff attitudes and lack of management for the current business downturn ahead of the annual fall meeting of the industrial property division of the National Association of Real Estate Bonrie.
A long list of intended marriages and births is recorded with names such as Kenneth Hilne and Minnie Rockler and Arthur B. Sneake and Mary Clarke. Also listed are various birth or notice events with dates in October, addresses, and hospital notes including Memorial Hospital and Medical and Surgical.
An 1885 advertisement from Cerulean Kentucky extols Thedford’s Black-Draught as a superior stomach aid. It claims rapid relief for biliousness headaches indigestion and culls with a botanical formula that stimulates digestive juices and improves health for men and women who take it.
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