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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1924
Page
3
New York interview quotes playwright Margaret Mayo defending equal self regard and partnerships. She argues couples should share roles according to strength, not gender, supports preserving marriage when based on love, and comments on social dress and propriety with wit.
Nyasaland Times reports the spread of fly-borne disease in Nyasaland due to unprotected big game. The paper says Nyasaland is too small for a game reserve, natives suffer, and urges relaxing restrictions on game destruction to curb sickness and cattle disease.
In Christchurch New Zealand doctors at Christchurch Hospital found the heart, stomach and liver on the opposite side in a six year old boy. Despite this complete transposition the child is exceptionally healthy and strong. The condition is described as extremely rare.
Blythe officers search for Barry Williams alias J J Saunders a colored man jailed on five charges of forging checks who reportedly escaped last night by sawing the jail bars severing his confinement and fleeing the Blythe area.
Berlin dispatch reports a broad campaign against poachers across Germany following the 1918 revolution. A Potsdam court sentenced a six year hard labor term for a poacher, unusual for Germany, as authorities target gangs that shoot gamekeepers and foresters. About 48 poachers await trial on the Luneburg Heath near Berlin.
Police found William McCarthy in the 900 block West Commerce Street and rushed him to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital. He is in stable condition and his home is listed as Boston Massachusetts.
Gus Wilson, 34, reports a robbery near West Commerce and Comal streets. He is jailed after an affray with Jim Hart, 23, Navidad Street. Detective Layne disputes the holdup claim, saying Wilson led a rock fight and forced Hart and another to flee.
A city ordinance requiring specific materials for future sidewalk construction has led contractors to raise prices by 3 to 4 cents per square foot. Council members call the increase unwarranted while contractors claim it reflects required specs. Some contractors reportedly ignore the specifications and the city cannot enforce them without an inspector.
Five men aged eighty plus met in Madison to swap old stories. The group included James Elisbury 85 WesT Brown 88 J S Dunaway 81 and Capt Hugh Stewart 85, all but Dunaway lifelong Monroe county natives. Dunaway joined after moving from Kentucky decades ago.
President Alessandri of Chile begins a six month leave of absence after a military junta assumed power in Santiago. He travels by the Argentine presidential train sent to the frontier and placed at his disposal, with Ambassador Collier aboard. At Mendoza he is welcomed by the provincial governor and foreign office representatives before continuing toward Buenos Aires.
London reports that brewer profits dropped to 95 million dollars in 1932 23 from 150 million in 1918 19. The data reflect tighter markets and reduced demand in postwar Britain.
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