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SAPL : October 29 In San Antonio History...
Investors traded a record 16.4 million shares and lost $14 billion on the New York Stock Exchange, worth $206 billion in 2019 dollars.
Andrew Crews
29 October 2021
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1913
Syrus Edwards, a 13-year old boy, was arrested yesterday by Motorcycle Policeman Flores on Zarzamora Street for having exceeded the speed limit of 30 miles per hour. The court today warned the boy’s father that it was against the law for the boy to operate an automobile due to a traffic ordinance that states that no one under 16 years old is to be issued a chauffeur’s license. A fine of $5 was imposed by the court, but was suspended.
1929
The Express-News dedicates its new building (right) at the corner of Alamo and 3rd streets on “Black Tuesday,” the fourth and last day of the stock market crash of 1929. Investors traded a record 16.4 million shares and lost $14 billion on the New York Stock Exchange, worth $206 billion in 2019 dollars.
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1982
City Councilman Joe Alderete throws a switch closing the flood gates at Woodlawn Lake marking the completion of a two-year, $750,000 program to improve the once-popular facility that had fallen into disrepair.
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