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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 01, 1924

Page

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Morality in American cinema and other notes

A column of varied notes reviews George Bernard Shaw on morality in film, reports on divers recovering bullion from the Laurentic, Canadian money and trade with the U.S., a spiritualist named Margery and Houdini, and tensions over immigration and border smuggling by air with planes ferrying foreigners into the United States.

Wall Street United’ States Rio Grande Brownsville Laredo United States

Night Flyers and Smuggling Rumors Along the Texas Border

Reported activity near the Texas border involves mysterious night fliers and persistent rumors of smuggling aliens. Federal authorities are expected to investigate the nocturnal craft and its echoing motor through the murky darkness.

Texas Mexico Alic

Roving Boat Sees Race To Corpus Christi Route

A small craft, searchlight piercing the night, shadowed the San Antonio to Corpus Christi boat race as it neared Seadrift. Racers like the Christies and Jefferson faced engine trouble and rough rapids, with supply cars unable to assist and repairs being sent to Rockport.

San Antonio Christiles Ia Rockport Chris Seadrift Lamar Corpus -Chrieti

San Antonio Opens Woman Smokers Room At Alamo Plaza

A year ago J. J. Sterne opened a women only smoking room at Alamo Plaza in San Antonio. Local women, some older and married, visit daily for cigarettes with a two per visit limit, while Dunhill and other brands supply smokes from New York or the shop’s own stock. Tourists also join the gatherings as perfumed smoke rises from countless tiny fires in the dim room.

San Antonio J. J. Sterne Alamo Plaza

Hobbies Are Children And JM

Miriam A Ferguson writes that hobbies are like measles and her hobby is her household world. She divides it into five parts Jim Derrace Ouida Earnest Nalle and her flowers, noting every wife and mother has a place in her heart for each.

Miriam A. Ferguson Miceratio Nemineo Texas Temple Tex Jim Derrace Ouida Earnest Nalle Iteelf

Laborites Celebrate in San Antonio Park Event Draws Crowds

Widespread labor celebration at Woehler Park attracts families for athletic meets band concerts and a grand ball. Union members attend church service and a parade is canceled funds support the Labor Temple and Trades Council while organizers name Rossi Bonne maison Boergen Nordhaus to lead planning efforts.

Woehler Park AML Industries Exce Hose Jebor Ad- Moyer Madison Square Presbyterian Church Koehler Park William ZL. Hoefgen Weekly Dispatch Meyer Labor Temple Trades Council

Sheriff Blamed for Herrin Clash by Police Chief

In Herrin Illinois on September 1 Chief of Police A M Walker signed statement accusing Sheriff George Galligan and his gun men of precipitating last Saturdays clash that left six men dead.

Herrin, Ill A. M. Walker George Galligan

Mississippi jurist killed under car near Raymond

Clayton D. Potter former attorney general and justice of the State Supreme Court was killed this morning near Raymond when the automobile he rode in turned over.

Mississippi Jackson Mixs Clayton D. Potter State Supreme Court Raymond

Fire devastates Ashland City business area in Tennessee

A blaze swept Ashland City today destroying three frame stores and nine frame reel themes in the business district. Insurance covers part of the losses.

Tennessee Ashland City Enn

Linotype Operator Plans Framing of One Cent Income Check

Chicago September 1 William B Black a linotype operator for the Chicago Daily News will not cash his one cent income tax rebate check under the new revenue law instead he plans to frame it. He claimed the one per cent reduction is a public symbol of the tax change.

Chicago William B. Black Chicago Daily News United States

Robbery and assault on visitor in Tampico Street

G D Garrison of Three Rivers Texas reports being choked almost to unconsciousness by three Mexicans who halted him on Tampico Street Sunday night and robbed him of 140 dollars after forcing him to surrender cash and belongings.

G. D. Garrison Three Rivers Texas Tampico Street Cistridt Thie Cother Turodel Bis

Hurricane warning advisory issued for tropical storm near Turks Island

Washington reports a weather bureau advisory noting no report of a tropical storm in the vicinity and placing the center about 175 miles northeast of Turks Island. Caution advised vessels in anticipation of hurricane winds.

Washington Weather Bureau Turks Island

Ice Bound Lady Kindersley Crew Rescued at Sea

The crew of the gasoline schooner Lady Kindersley was taken aboard the U S Boxer after their vessel was abandoned due to ice in the Alaska Arctic. The Lady Kindersley is reported to be drifting with the ice.

U. S Alaska Arctic Arctic Ocean

Dawes Plan Officially In Effect In Paris

The reparation commission announced the Dawes plan is in operation and became effective at noon today. Paris reports the plan reduces German reparations and reshapes payments under Allied supervision.

Associated Paris Reparation Commission

Osage Woman Dies in Car Crash Near Winfield

Mrs Myrtle Hunkohhoppy Pahmahmie of Fairfax Oklahoma, Osage tribal member, was killed when the touring car she drove overturned sixteen miles north of Winfield Kansas on Saturday evening. Her husband and four-year-old son were seriously injured.

OSAGE Winfield Kan Myrtle Hunkohhoppy Pahmahmie Fairfax Oklo Here Pabmabmie Oklahoma

Farmer Held for Murder After Quarrel in South Dakota

Gilbert Gilbertson, a farmer, was held without bond in Moody county jail, Flandrean, on a murder charge. Avon Nordlie is dead and his brother Hjalmar is hospitalized with a shoulder wound after a quarrel yesterday, per a special dispatch from Flandrean to the Argus Veader.

Siumn Falls Gilbert Gilbertson Moody County Flandrean Avon Nordlie Hjalmar Argus Veader

D Haussonville 81 French savant dies at home

Gabriel D Hone Heuer D Hauss onville 81 former deputy and renowned biographer dies at his home in D Haussonville. He was a prominent member of the French academy and a widely known writer on biography and social politics.

D’haussonville Gabriel D'Haussonville French Academy Chamber of Deputies

Convention Control in Hands of Nominee

The Democratic convention in Austin faces a Ferguson dominated slate as a Klan influenced sub committee forms. Mills says Ferguson voters must avoid clashes and the Klansmen will back Ferguson if the anti-Klan group stays quiet. Delegates arrive amid talks of a permanent chairman and platform crafting as internal friction subsides.

Austin Tex Ferguson Seph. I Hanisoff Oor Idan Mills Larry Mills Felts Robertson Dallas Judge Robertson

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