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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1930
Page
8
Fr DRAWS SMEARY CROWD HLATONIA reports a large audience at a multi day athletic event in late 1920s era, highlighting a successful program featuring fencing, track races, and public entertainment with notable performers and crowds.
Tokyo to America fliers plan a renewed Pacific crossing from Misawa Japan to Yakima Washington led by Lieut Harvey and mechanic World Gat. Readied after a prior failure caused by a plane that would not rise from a field, the pair prepare for a second attempt.
The regional fair highlights include Gigele Path carnival acts and a Better Babies contest drawing many entrants under Anta Winzige’s department. Clara Krauats showcases an splensid line of exhibits while Economic conditions in the Tlatunia region improve due to diversification. The American Tezion band from Meulten provides music Friday with Scheel days returning for families.
Dawlas Sept 12 Victims of a strange sequence of tragedies include Mrs. Beavers 62 and her son Wesley 4 of Athens who were killed in an auto collision en route to Garland to arrange services for Oscar Ly Beavers 25 lineman for Texas Power and Light killed earlier at West. Mrs Beavers and Wesley sustained minor injuries.
Miss Mirias Hikott O'Brien becomes the first woman to reach notable peaks in the Swiss Alps. Guided by her father and local mountain guides, she completes the ascent in Geneva era reporting.
Local column recalls old and new gossip from Gonzales to San Antonio with mentions of Trails, Hereford Brand, Judge Joe Jones, and figures like Park Fenton. Notes travel, court, and farm humor while tying regional history to scattered names and places in a snapshot of early Texas journalism.
Washington headlines a 1930 tariff change halving duties on uncut diamonds, yet drawing complex drawbacks. The customs service faces new obstacles as importers exploit the drawback provisions to reduce duties. A gem merchant recently importing 100 dollars worth of unset diamonds would see duties drop from 2000 dollars to ten thousand under the revised rule.
San Francisco reports mystery surrounds the killing of a young man and a woman found shot dead. Investigators say the case is a plain murder and mystery as they seek to identify the victims believed to be Mr and Mrs Refu Smith formerly of Los Angeles. She about 22 and he 25.
Three Rivers Texas dispatch reports a 33 percent rise in shipments at a local glass bottle plant for the month ending August 1. The national glass industry declined about 10 percent in the same period. Texas remains the main market for the plant.
The Buckley campaign reports expenditures totaling 18 450 during the race for the United States Senate seat in Ohio. The records were filed with the Senate campaign finance investigation committee through Buckley’s campaign organization in Washington D C.
Advertisement notes construction of a guayule rubber factory near Salinas Valley. It mentions a high rubber content plant and calls for inquiries at Crockett 24K and classified placements.
University of Lamnsee official Viccant announces postponement of high balloon ascent into the stratosphere due to unexpected weather changes. Planned start was Saturday. now delayed as conditions remain unfavorable.
GAMA Peru report from Sept 12 notes American foreigners and other residents in the copper region of Corea de Vasco evacuate to nearby towns amid a workers strike. Peruvian troops guard to keep order as unrest spreads.
Hankow dispatch reports British gunboat Tern off Shangsha aiming to evacuate foreign missionaries stranded in Sianqing Jin Pormnnt Sunanese city 36 miles south of Changcun. Reds establish a Soviet government at Svingtan with no reports of disorders elsewhere.
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