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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1928
Page
7
W W McAllister of the San Antonio Mortgage and Loan Association notes in a Tecent interview that building and loan associations offer lower mortgages and better affordability. He explains these groups keep costs low, focus on owner-occupied homes, and boost community thrift and taxable value through improved property and reduced rents.
The Rev W L Day Nor of Beacon Hill Baptist Church will lead three evening discussions on dance halls and youth behavior. The sermon topic following the talks asks whether the young will follow guidance and moral standards.
Pastor Dr Mien Te Jones of Maison Square Presbyterian resumes pulpit duties after an extended vacation. Activities of the Feenten'a asce tio in other church organizations will restart in the second week of September.
Karotkin Furniture Co adds 16 018 square feet of display space at 221 West Commerce Street San Antonio giving the store a frontage on West Commerce through to Crockett Street. The enlargement includes a new Spanish duplex with nine rooms and updated lighting and an elevator. The expansion follows decades of growth and includes two warehouses and an attached shop and garage.
Detective Sergeant Aubrey Hopkins released his monthly report noting 19 people arrested for running toting in San Antonio during August. Twelve arrests involved driving under the influence of liquor and a total of 841 cases were tried or moved to county courts. Officers also recovered state property valued at SITIO] dollars during the month. Hopkins said.
Police investigated a robbery at Royal Tailors shop 117 West Nova Street where a thief escaped in a small auto after taking 45 dollars from the cash register. A store employee reported the incident and workers pursued the suspect briefly before the escape.
A miniature nine foot long model of the Belgenland, the giant liner, is now on show. Built at a cost of 45000, the detail mirrors the great vessel weighing more than 27000 tons. The display is arranged through the courtesy of the Titanic Steamer agency and the Mercantile Marine company of New York.
Two new left turn lanes were inaugurated Saturday at downtown intersections at Main Avenue with West Street and at Main with West Iousby Street. The additions expand regulated traffic flow under signal lights, Commissioner Phil Wriplt announced.
Sheriff J A Tiurdett of Rockport reports thieves looted the Rockport mercantile store taking goods valued at about 200 dollars and a quantity of silk dressers. Antonie Coliis was assigned to watch for thieves and investigate the break in.
A daily vacation Bible School conducted by Alnuio Weights Presbyterian Church at Sownsend and Aviso streets will open Monday morning and run daily until Sept 1. Kate Owens, superintendent, selects teachers including Mrs 0 A Wrivehuwuth for beginners, Miss Sweeney and Felon Gray as assistants, Ethel Hvetts for primary, Alliance Werner for Dorothy McC assistant, FR RB Simmons for juniors, Leo Turner as assistant. Rev RTM leads junior manual training.
In Oliveside neighborhood residents protested a planned brick church on Olive and Bund Boulevard. City Attorney Jocs th Ryan notes the permit cannot be refused. Reverend T. L. Flanson and The Organized Church of Balter Day confirm plans to build the new church, promising quiet use and community service.
Arrangements by Garey and Prebenson of a new air transport company plan regular passenger service to Reading cities in West and North Texas with a Pacific coast line. Service may start October 1, linking Dallas Fort Worth Wichita Falls Amarillo and other cities with two Texas loops terminating at Cabhork and the connecting point to the Pacific coast line.
Arraigned in Corporation court Saturday morning Oriental Moy pleaded ignorance of American law in a charge of parking in front of a fire log. The judge imposed a five dollar fine after Moy claimed he did not know better.
A Newport beach incident sees four elite women from New York society surround a passing observer, pull him from a van, beat him severely and dump him into the water. The affair occurred at a sunlit Recpod beach near Malley, with high-profile figures identified among the victims.
Settlement of the Illinois coal wage dispute was to be presented to a joint committee of mine operators and miners. The accord would raise or adjust wages for a second time in the long-running conflict that closed most Illinois coal mines for years, with representatives of both sides involved in the process.
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