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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1929
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR text lists various car makes and models such as Chevrolet and Ford. The readable items mix spellings and garbled phrases like tourer coupe touring and coach, with stray punctuation and nonstandard terms, offering no coherent event or person to summarize.
Flores ad lists numerous used cars for sale with prices, models, and conditions. It promotes Flores Flores street location at S Flores Street, open evenings, and details options from 1928 Chevrolet to 1924 Nash, with trade and financing hints and multiple dealer names like Shing, Flores, and Smith Motor Sales. The piece reads as a dense classified car sale section from a city newspaper.
Radio broadcast listing for KISA and associated stations details schedules September 12 with programs on news theater musical variety and children's shows featuring Theresa Martin and others, plus NBC CBS and local program blocks. Mentions frequencies 1290 kilocycles and multiple stations including KG tl 1410 Kyeesetes and KYW.
The Teznn theater frolic hour airs Wednesday night on KTSA San Antonio. Olive Gaye Ingenue Storton Bowe Alex Morrison Cliff Crane and Texas theatre music personalities perform with Ming Pere and Mim. Morrison will broadcast golf notes as Crane provides sump comedy. Thursday morning brings The Morning Merry Maker with a special Pnian Bove Song arrangement and other relors. Mrs Martin describes Hawaiian housekeeper customs and shares an engaging talk for listeners.
London dispatch notes a grave concern among the English public over young girls frequenting public houses and drinking at the bar with men. It alleges the tendency is serious as the newspapers record a shift from beer to whiskey or gin among these young drinkers.
SAN FRANCISCO September 1 Mrs Hilde Koenig 22 was found dead in her room believed strangled by a man who had access to her home. She was the wife of Exenid Koenig, SHRID CANNENG ON, NAW ONDEANS. More than 2000 men and some women observed watching end canning abriaps there.
Jane Smith, a Newark schoolteacher, claims a Paris hairdresser overcharged and caused a botched dye, seeking 600 dollars but facing a 4000 pound claim. The case hinges on whether the depilatory mistaken as dye warrants payment and apology.
In Portland on September 11 Mary TP Driscull of 21 Quincy Street was sentenced to six months and fined $500 in municipal court on one liquor poisoning charge. Deputy Sheriff Alman Bisbee testified the defendant had a prior similar offense two months earlier as she appeared in court.
Miya Mary Ridgley Poe, a 11 year old Maryland heir, swam the Chesapeake Bay from Tolchester Beach to Bay Shore unheralded and unchested. Her grueling crossing took about ten hours and ten minutes.
Vienna dispatch says Count Dele fnsaycky reaches agreement with Peruvian authorities to establish Austrian settlement in Peru. In Portland Maine an account notes the Baye in Bla marching at the opening of the thirty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic with over a thousand on foot and eight hundred on horses in attendance.
Austin report notes a brief special pension plan to amend the Confederate pension law and reimburse members for expenses. A poll by Benacor Wy A. Williamson of San Aptaniny shows 46 members of the House of Representatives and 18 senators favorable to the idea, with eight House members opposed and no clear strong opposition.
Jerusalem reports a growing Jewish boycott across Palestine as merchants appeal to the government to reopen shops. Jewish youths allegedly staged vandalism on carts, fish sales halted by phil ly residents, and calls spread not to employ local fishers. British French authorities met in Safed and warned of rising violence, while Malta denied rumors of regional rifts and urged unity.
Deputy Prank Newnam was injured in a West Commerce Street crash on Tuesday and will be confined to bed for a month due to a sprained ankle ligaments, the physician announced Wednesday. Newnam, a former police chief, serves in Tire ahd per five car inci— unclear text. Mrs. L. M. McCown of 1702 Michigan Avenue was released on a $500 bond after aggravated assault charges were filed.
Gen Charles P Summerall chief of staff of the United States Army will not visit Eighth Corps new army posts this week as previously announced. The Missouri Pacific route delay was not explained. A Texas itinerary including San Antonio Laredo Brownsville and Galveston was planned for his announced visit.
Texan H W Page once broke in health and paralyzed, moves to work, now nearly recovered as a successful farmer. He grows Bruce plums, earning 7 dollars 12 cents per acre, securing a steady market. His crop adapts to local conditions and keeps his finances stable.
Heney Sanileys of 114 Monterrey Street was fined five dollars after pleading before Judge McCallum Burnett in County Court on September 6 for carrying a slung shot. Rondorst paid a 25 fine on the charge.
Reports reach here from near Towner Lake indicate Congressman J Keale perished in a cottage fire that destroyed Nix cottage last night. Investigators are en route to determine cause. Pass Sanders resolution noted. National Association of Power Employers meeting in Chattanooga approved resolutions urging rapid development of Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam resources.
County officials discuss razing the West Whig County courthouse to widen Main Avenue between Dolorosa and Nova streets. Judge Peery and commissioners weigh the project with limited comment as city planning moves forward.
AUSTIN September 11 Dates can be grown commercially in the fertile lower Rio Grande valley, says J M Del Carto chief entomologist of the grate department of agriculture after examining samples from Tacedo season. The samples were from stock introduced from Mesopotamia 10 years ago and several growers imported more stock this year, with the belief that in ten years the section will become a large commercial producer of dates.
The San Antonio chamber of commerce hosted a joint 4 PM meeting of its industrial and ceramic committees. Preliminary clay testing reports were shared and a canvas of the industrial situation was discussed. Charing Ballas chaired the industrial committee and Dr J McGimrey led the ceramic committee.
William Arkner of Chicago was ordered held after charges were filed in a July case before Judge John F. Gnion. A preliminary hearing before Judge W. S. Anderson, Thirty-Seventh District, determined Arkner must remain in jail until bond is set.
Army Engineers at Fort McIntosh prepare a two month maneuver near Port Allis under command of Rent. Ta Tx Bisehom. Company B Eighth Engineers will move by truck to the area, reaching Fl Paxo around September 4.
The Turkish aviation commission led by Maj. Sheiik Bey seized art from Kelly Field at 1 50 a m Wednesday and moved toward the Pacific coast. The three army officers and two civilians arrived in San Antonio Monday after a long tour of flying fields and a visit to total army facilities.
In BUMAGEWATER Massachusetts on September 11 a second woman barely saved Martha Powers forty from disaster as the Cape Cod express locomotive struck near the crowing interval Dale Powers a Brockton resident was hurled free to safety when the coupe was dragged nearly the length of the track by the express, witnesses said.
Muddled text describes heated stop and go garters labeled first word stop and second garter with ga. The product is pitched as tenifie garters tied to a washer brand. The readable lines hint at novelty attire amid a crowd of enthusiasts in Los Angeles.
Houston Jewish community in Texas collected about $4000 for aid to Aerosilem and the Holy Land. A mass meeting denounced British administration in Palestine, calling for restored law and order and removal of officials not in line with the Balfour Declaration.
Students entering the new Cornell Medical College in New York, part of the university’s medical center, will likely form the freshman class expected to graduate from the medical center era. The move marks Cornell’s expansion of its medical education into a northeast center.
Paris Texas Sept 11 Shipment of truck products from the Red River valley district shows a season larger than ever with good profits. The volume and earnings exceeded expectations, indicating a strong market demand and productive operations for the period.
Marvin C. Johnson, 20, arrested charged with assault with intent to murder Miss Attilee Virginia Johns, his fiancée, after she was shot in the breast. Johnson says the shooting was an accident. The man’s father is Auson Tohar. He was taken to a hospital with eight bullets in the fiancée’s breast.
In Dallas on September 11, observers note four month old Sacha Sharp weighs 11 pounds and has logged three hours in flight. Local belief holds she will become a top feminine pilot of the future after a notable trek from Dallas to Weoka Oklahoma. Also advertised job offers highlight college graduates and both genders for factory roles with links to capsules for daily opportunities.
A Polish Springs woman in Maine travels arctic routes seeking dogs to pull her sled in reindeer and dog racing. Reports note the voyage across Alaska and the Sulu and the uncertainty of finding fourteen dogs. A hotel at Teeleaves avenue hosts a literary showcase while local radio entertains.
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