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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Pioneer Telegraph Operator Knows
100000 of Her Neighbors' Secrets
San Antonio Woman Still
Going Strong After 81
Years Of Service.
By BESS CARROLL.

How would you like to know 1000.
600 of your neighbors' secrets?-Se,
crets Of the heart, Of business, of the
everyday and the out-of-the-ordinary-
This immense fund of information
concerning the lives of Mr.. and Mrs.
General Public lies locked in the heart
of a small San Antonio woman, Mrs.
Ethzelva Davidson, a pioneer tele-
graph operator, and the sender of
approximately 1852 $40 kilograms.
For SO years Ethzelva Davidson
has listened to the messages of the
people, has learned of their hopes and
heartaches and pleasures; and in that
time she has averaged handling at
least 20 kilograms an hour-though
most of the time that number would
be way too small-making, her record
equal more than 100000 messages.
As one of the oldest employees of the
local Western Union office, Mrs. Da-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
2 SUSPECTS BAILED
ON KILLING CHARGES

Bonds for two men charged with
murder were set by Special Judge Ed
Haltom in habeas corpus hearings
Tuesday.
Ollie Galloway, charged with tbs
murder of Manuel Reyes Jr., who was
killed in an automobile accident, was
granted a $500 bond.
Herman Silar was held on a bond Of
$1,000 for the alleged shooting Of Jesse
Clark.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Where Did He Go?

20, father. dear father, come home
with me now"
She pleaded-but pleaded in vain;
For father, dear father, was having u
time
Bookkeeping with might and with
main.
"Oh, father, dear father" she said to
her dad,
"Oh, why do you squander your
kaie?"
And fnther, dear father, who wouldn't
go home. ...
Went, shortly thereafter, TO jail.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
VOLUNTARY PETITION
OF BANKRUPTCY FILED

That he be declared bankrupt was
asked in a petition filed with the
United States district clerk, Tuesday,
by William r. Jones, Harlandalc
plumber. The petition set forth that
his assets were s7371.33, his liabili-
ties 3,2S450, and exemption was
claimed on $6S10.64 worth of prop
erty,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
SISTER HAS YOUTH
HELD AFTER BEATING

The thicker than water" theory 81
the blood was dissipated considerably
Tuesday night.
After a three-day search at the be-
hest of a sister of the hunted man
Mounted Officer Valdez arrested 4
25-year-old man on a charge Of ssgra.
waited assault.
The sister, a victim Of the mans
fists, declared she would prosecuts.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
WARN AGAINST USE
OF WORD .REALTORS'

Exercising their prcrogative to pre-
vent the illegal use of the word real
tors" San Antonio members of the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards Tuesday notified all persons
using the name that they faced injunc-
ton suits.
The letter to the non-mcmbers de.
clared that if the users of the word
did not remove it from their letter
heads, legal steps would be taken to
force such action.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
DUAL WEST
WILL RETURN SOON

Federal Judge Du Val West is ex-
pected to return to San Antonio Sep
TENDER ?, from San Francisco, where
he has been holding court for six
weeks. Judge West will preside at a
session Of court here, beginning Sep
TENDER Z.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
CINCINNATI AVENUE
is ORDERED PAVED

Paving of Cincinnati avenue from
the city limits to the Bandera road has
been authorized by the commissioners
court. Bids will be asked for at once.
Clandora street in Los Angeles
Heights has been ordered grayeled.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
ODD FELLOWS PLAN
S. A. CELEBRATION

Grand officers of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows will come here
October 10 to attend the dedication
ceremonies of the new lodge rooms
here of that order in the Crockett
hotel building. The entire building has
been repodeled.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
SOUTHWEST TEXAS
DRUGGISTS TO MEET

The Southwest Texas Retail Drug.
gists Association is to be formed here
in September. according to Frank
Wolters, president of the San Antonio
Retail Druggists Association, who has
issued a call for the greater co-opcra.
ton with the state organization.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

Margaret Passes Safely
Through Illness After
Andrews Death
CHAPTER XIV.

In the ghosty stiffness Nora Lee watched her mothers
face blanched and quiet marble mask She touched
her lips to the soft hair and to the Swallowed eyes, Mother
do you me sitting here? Nod-please, mother dear
if you are hearing me-"
She waited in panic. Margarets hands opened and
cosed the blue line deepened at her mouth. But she
didn't speak Two days she lay thus. Z
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Sporty Feature

A st. Louis minister says that
marriage is a joke in America. The
sporty feature is that neither prin-
cipal knows who the joke is on at
the start.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Power Possibility

Scientists seeking 10 release the
power in the atom might also try
Harvesting the next plague of grass
hoppers, synchronizing their kicks and
uslng the tremendous power thus
obtained.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
kentucky's Bid

Kentucky makes strong bid for
some of the publicity Tennessee has
heen getting by filming the editor Of a
paper at Covington for printing what
was construed to be gossip.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
More Proof

Additional proof that exercise is
good for a fellow is supplied by
the fact that Walter Camp, au-
thor of the daily Dozen" left
$4,000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
5. A. BAKERIES
USE MODERN
METHODS
Thousands of Loaves Are
Made by Machinery
Each Day.

"Patty-cake, patty-cake, bakers man ;
So I will, Master, as fast as / can"
So runs the old nursery rhyme and
while the bakers man of today no
longer "patty-cakes" his loaf by hand
as he used to do, he is still making
loaves for the master" as fast as he
can, and that master is the consuming
public.
San Antonip's so bakeries, running
full shifts, have a capacity output OF
$4,000 to 100000 loaves of bread a
day. One bakery alone has a capaci-
ty of 10000 loaves, another 10000 to
10000 and another 25,0OO to 35,OOO
while smaller ones will run from 1000
to 6OO0 daily.
MADE BY MACHINES.
These figures refer to bread alone
and do not take into consideration
the thousands of rolls of every variety,
cakes and other pastries of the bakers
art, of which thousands of pounds are
sold daily, nor of special orders re-
ceived for entertainments and other
social affairs, from the exclusive we'd
dings, to church sociables.
Bread today is almost exclusively,
and in some plants is exclusively,
made by machinery from the mixing
of the flour to the wrapping of the
loaf ready for delivery. Electric mix
ers, kneaders, monlds and bake ovens
take the place of the old methods.
Even the weighing of the ingredients
is done automatically by machines.
BETTER BREAD.
Modern methods make for purity,
evenness of texture, sanitation, and
better quality in the bread produced
that could possibly be achieved by
hand.
San Antonio-made bread is in high
demand and is daily shipped to every
point of San Antonio's trade territory
where its various trademarks have
become household words in more senses
than one.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Unquestioned Now

A man at Monrovia, Cal, was
badly injured when a newspaper
press fell on him. He no longer
questions the power OF the press.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Either One

The New York ZOO now claims
to- have fish with bobbed hair,
one with electric lights and a third
with feathers. This either is a
good story or fish story.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Senate Delighted

vice. President Dawes jabbed fish
hook into one thumb while fishing in
Colorado. All senators interviewed at
Washington said they were glad he
got the hook.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26

wilson, at the age of Go, still is "work-
ing a wire" and-to use her own
words-is still going strong" She
first talked Morse" in San Antonio
in 1893.
Like a tale of the early West. when
frontier women helped to blaze hard
trails, is the story ofNEthzelva David
soma story colored from the start
with the courage that makes trail-blaz-
ers. And Mrs. Davidson did blaze
trail-a unique trail in the frontier
world of business. She learned Morse
when she was IA years old-in those
old days when women were not want
ed or often allowed in real business.
FIRST JOB.
Her first job was the obscure and
dangerous post of night operator in
the little rough numbering town of
Provencal, La, where she worked
alone in a tiny railway station with
nothing but pine trees and foreign
"lumberjacks" as neighbors. She was
10 years old then.
I'll never forget one wild night in
that lonesome little town." Mrs. Da-
wilson said. 1T was sleeting out.
side. i must have dozed for a little
while, because along in the middle OF
the night l suddenly noticed that my
signal light was out. Before / real.
lied what had happened, a freight
train whizzed past-and l had orders
not to let it pass until passenger
got by. That signal going out had
caused the mistake, and l knew that
unless could stop that freight train
there would be a terrible wreck.
grabbed my lantern and ran down
the track, waving the red light. The
impossible happened-a brakeman saw
me in time"
ATTACKED BY LIONS.
There were few-if any-women
telegraph operators when Mrs. David
son started, yet she found her bust.
ness thrilling even though many
frowned upon such a career" She
has worked in nearly every large tele-
graph office in Texas, besides her first
experience in rally way offices.
After a while the expert young
operator married. and it happened that
her husband was connected with d
circus. 1t isn't hard to imagine that
dauntless little night operator of Pro
vencal becoming a lion-tamer. She
trained five wild lions for the Al G.
Barnes Circus. One day they caught
her off guard and tried to kill her.
Great scars on her head and arms tes-
tify to the viciousness of their ut.
tack. She quit the arena then, but
quit it regrctfully.
81 still like lions" she says. "But
there's no such thing as a tame wild
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
Music With Meals

sixtecn-piece convict orchestra
viii play during meals in San QUEEN
tin prison. The theory back OF this
must be that Emusic hath charms to
soothe the savage beast, and there
fore proper at a sherifrs feast"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
All He Lacks

According TO news from Doom.
Holland, the former kaiser still calls
himself emperor Of Germany"
However, he hasn't anything to
emp"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
ADOPT COLORS.

While runabout and touring cars re-
main in black, the closed bodies are
finished in harmonic color schemes,
enhanced by nickel radiators. The
coupe and tudor bodies are finished
in deep channel green while the fordor
is rich windsor maroon.
Greater comfort is provided for
driver and passengers in both open
and closed cars by larger compart-
ments, more deeply cushioned seats
and greater leg room.
Many new convenieuces are also in.
corporated in the improved cars. In
the runabout, touring ear, coupe and
tudor, the gasoline tank is under the
cowl and filled through an ingeniously
located filler cap completely hidden
from sight by a cover similar in ap-
pearance to a cowl ventilator. One
piece windshield and narrowed pillars
in the tudor and coupe offer the driver
greatly increased visibility and i'm
proved ventilation.
SEATS LOWER.
Driving comfort is materially in
creased by lower seats, scientifically
improved back rests and lowered steer
ing wheel. Brake and clutch pedals
lContInued On Page 20. Part %
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
NEW FORD CARS
( RADICALLY
CHANGED

Body changes and chassis refine
ments more pronounced than any
made since the adoption of the Model
T chassis were announced here today
by the Ford Motor Company. There
will be no advance in price, it also
was stated.
Outstanding features of the i'm
provcments in both open and enclosed
types are lower, all-steel bodies on a
lowered chassis, complete new design
in most body types, change from
black to color in closed cars, larger,
lower tenders. newly designed seaIs
and larger, more powerful brakes.
Longer lines, effected through high
er radiator and redesigned cowl and
bodies are apparent in all the i'm
proved Ford cars, but are especially
pronounced in the open types. Wide
crown tenders hung close to the wheels
contribute to the general effect of low
r,s, o,J s.,,,, rEraes
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
EXPAND SYSTEM.

Within a short time it was demon
strated that official traffic could be
expeditionsly handled at an appreci-
able financial saving for the govern
ment.
In June Of that year the Signal
Corps began the work Of expansion
that has resulted in the present sys-
TEN covering the entire country.
The War Department radio net now
contains IL major radio stations. One
of them is located in each of the nine
corps areas, two are relay stations and
the other is located at Washington.
The net also includes go stations in
corps area nets, II departmental sta
tons and % stations in Alaska.
HANDLE 600 DAILY.
Counting ship stations, there is to-
tai of 165 radio stations under control
Of the Signal corps.
When the net was first put into
operation, an average of about so mes
sages was handled daily by the WASH
ington station.
The present daily average handled
at Washington has reached GOO.
The War Department net does not
confine its activities to sending mes
sages for that department alone.
Inland communications for all gov
ernmental departments and bureaus
are handled by the army net, and over
seas business is handled by the navy.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-26
SIGNAL CORPS
RADIO NE I
BLANKET
NATION
Most Complete System ii
World Developed
by Army.

The most complete and comprehen-
sive radio net in the world is operated
by the Signal Corps Of the United
States army.
Back in January, 1922, the five ini-
tial stations in this great network were
opened for business to serve as an
communication system cons
Meeting certain strategical cities for
use in case of failure of commercial
wire systems.
These stations were located at
Washington, d. c., Fort Benjamin.
Harrison, Ohio, Fort Mcpherson, Ca.
Fort Howard, Md. and Fort Wood,
y. Y.
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SEATS LOWER.

Continued On Page p, Part
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-06

heart was breaking And her pride
was broken. too.
Il suppose I'll lose my Job she
thought duly shes sure 20 tel
Nc Gregory She'll make him dis
charge me. sure as death,
n was characteristic OF susan
Briggs thar she never thought OF
tho man she loved except A. Mr.
Gregory She never had.
A. Gloria went up the front steps
OF her house. tho mother OF Tho
punbcrg twins eamo across her
front lawn toward her
There was policeman az your
house awhile ago" she aid. pleas.
antiy. What crime have you been
committing"
She carried her menGing basket In
her hands. Gloria could SEQ That
sho was primed for neighboEly
chat. But she didn't want 20 b.
ncishboriy with Mrs. Donbcrg She
was tho type Of woman for whom
Gloria had no use tho homo
body who talked Of nothing but
narmalade. marketing and moth.
marbles
Eve had burglars last might,
Gloria said, without smile, and
I've been so excited all dsy Tint
haven't done BIT or housovDrt.
I've got to set busy now and do Il
before my husband comes home
She went into the house. and
closed the door behind her,
There was a musty smell In tho
rooms. Tho house needed thoro
airing. az well as good cleaning
Gloria threw tho windows wide
, open and went upstairs. She took
OF her hat and went to work.
All the soilcd linen came or the
beds. She made them up fresh and
smooth shn hung neat row OF
towels In tho bathroom. and
secured the tub.
Sho began to enjoy her Job u
was rather fun to dash around from
room 10 room banging the ashes
! from the tray on Dicks bedside
table, slapping up the pillows on the
window scat I'm the room where
| Dick had banishcd her.
Well. she wouldn't stay in Danish.
ment much longer. Gloria made up
[ her mind
sho would show Dick that she
really did mean TO be good wife
to him and he would take
her back into his heart again.
IL WINS perfectly silly for them to
live apart this way. under the same
roof. And unnatural, besides.
And if-Dick ever brings up stan
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-06
1EAl6Ws HTOSGg
@S TN5 FNOScG
X ~ y Olive Roberts Bartor>
NO. 8-THE LAND OF LOST THINGS

Juggle Jump and the Twins
Knocked on every door In Key.
hole Land.
But instead Of doors opening. all
they heard was come in and
ihs three OF them had to squeeze
in thru about hundred keyholes.
which IS a most difficult thing to
do.
No one had even heard Of Puff.
Jet alone Puff's lost buttons, so
the three travellers got tired and
left that place for good and all.
NOW where do we go from
here?" asked Nick.
Juggle Jump stopped and con.
pidered. IN look and see,I he
raid, touching the button that said
"stretch."
SO off went his neck again, like a
Hkyrocket on the Fourth. or pulling
taffy on Halloween night! In
decd. his head disappeared al.
together.
by and by nc came back. i've
gust been to see the Man in the
Moon" he said, and no advised
mo TO go TO the Land OF Lost
'rhings. He Gays that most every.
thing goes there, even balances"
'Balancesr' cried the Twins.
what arc they?'
4 II don't know. He didn't say"
remarked Juggle Jump, but I've
heard OF people who lost their bal.
pncc. And tcmpers, too he added.
mo doubt lost tempers go TO that
queer place, too, 10 say nothing
of minds and patience and all tho
things people are losing oil the
time"
orr TO the Land Of Lost Things
they went then, still looking for
Pufrs lost buttons. And pretty
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-06

SHE loved him.
rive felt that way Tor good
many years aud II hasn't
done anyone any harm" she said.
miserahly.
1T has done YOU HARM. Gloria
told her. IL u hadn't been for Dick,
you'd probably have married long
ago"
''Oh no. Miss Briggs crled "Y0u
sec. this was nv first fob Mr. Greg
ory's been my whole life Tor years
couldn't have thought OF marry
ing
That's Just a." said Gloria. III
girl happens 20 work for a young.
good looking man. she's 40 likely to
fan in love with HIM She's the
sort OF a daytime wife 20 him. look.
Ing after his comfort. reminding him
af his engagements. keeping his pen
ellis sharpencd. oh. l knowl
used to BE- n stenoESapher. myself.
you know"
And wero you in love with the
man YOU worked for7''
Heavens. mol You should have
seen him. Old as Mcthuseiah. and
erosser than two stieksr' Gloria an
swcred We'll. l guess ia better b.
going tell Dick stopped in 20 sec
him. will you3"
Miss Briggs nodded. dumbly. She
looked as II she wanted to say some
thing else But before she could
frame tho words, Gloria was gone.
She sal quietly at her desk. when
the sound Of Glor!as high heels
had died away down the corridor.
All around her was blanknsss
that left her brain naked 10 out.
ward impressions the loud
ticking OF a clock IN Dicks private
office, the changing sound Of the
elevator outside the door.
II shouldn't have told her" she
thought at last How did happen
10 tell her OF all people? 7
must be losing my mind
She got up and walked. Ia her
small dignity. to the clothes rack.
and took down her hat.
She closed her desk. and went
out OF the office. She knew she
couldn't face Dick that day.
But she faced the world with a
high bravery. She smiled at the ele.
vator boy. and told him It was a
lovely day and She was going out to
enjoy ito play hockey for once.
From sheer habit. she bought a
paper.
80. She wondered II she would
ever enjoy anything again. Her
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-06
6artoN

soon they came to the biscuit.tln
house OF Ruby Joan the rag doll
What are YOU doing here?"
asked Ruby Joan. trying to look
pleasant, but only succeeding in
staring staring without any eyes
for her eyes were completely gona
Looking for Puffs lost buttons. {"
said Nick. "Puffs the Fairy
Queens cook. and he snee2ed 80
much shaking pepper that he's lost
the last button of his coat"
Coat" cried Ruby Joan. That's
nothing to a head I've lost both
my shoe button eyes Off my head,
and ] can't see a thing. I'm trying
to find them. We might go 10.
gether."
Just hang onto my coattails."
offered Juggle Jump. Wen go
IN squad OF four. Left, right
Left, right March
Look" cried Nick This street
is paved with buttons"
"Of course II IT," said General
Pershing. the tin.soldier who had
been lost down a crack In n board.
walk and couldn't find his way
home. "Of course II Is. Where
do you suppose all tho buttons 10
to that are lost IN the wash. Down
tho drain, Of course. Then where?
Why right hero to tho Land Of
Lost Things. But all OF them
aren't washed Off. Some arc snoez.
cd Off and some Just como or.
You may all look"
Down on their hands and knees
went the four of them. Ruby Joan
luckily found two shoo.buttons at
once, which sho said were Just 30
good as tho ones she had lost. ~
know Il sounds funny" she snid
but buttons are like medicine. Yol
can change them around"
Nancy helped TO stick tho shoe
buitons into place and the rag dol
seemed very happy. Now I cor
sec 70 help you" she cried az thcl
all went az 1t again
And what do you think Tho!
found ono Of tho precious buttons
That made two.
! (To he Conilpucd)
Copyright 1895. N. 70. A. Service, Inc,