Girl prize winner makes own clothes
Frances Smith an 18 year old Oklahoma farm club member from near Geary was named the best farm club member among 600000 in the United States at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. She wore a modest warm maroon wool dress home from Chicago and has earned cash prizes totaling 478.25 plus a farm club work value of 2300 dollars.
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Stillwater
Frances Smith
Oklahoma
Farm Club
United States
Chicago
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Geary
Miss Smith
Oklahoma Bankers’ Association
Oklahoma A. and M. College
R. L. Smith
Blaine County
A. and M
Willing Workers Farm Club
Ford Mercer
Wellston
Oklahoma Taxpayers Association visit Ada prompts reform push
James A. Wilson of the Oklahoma Taxpayers Association visited Ada as Campbell Russell leads a drive for a bill. The plan would let all taxpayers share in recovering illegal taxes after a single successful challenge, currently only big taxpayers profit. Petitions will circulate soon to gather hundreds of signatures.
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Lony
James A. Wilson
Oklahoma Taxpayers Association
Campbell Russell
Ada
Carter County Farmer Eyes Turkeys Profit Growth
Charles Rollins, a progressive farmer near Milo, notes a tenant paid nearly 150 for turkeys, prompting him to expand turkey raising next year. Local home demonstration agent and Mathews of the Chamber of Commerce will promote poultry work, citing strong holiday demand and high profit from self-sustaining turkeys.
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Ardmore
Charles Rollins
Milo
Rollins
Mathews
Chamber of Commerce
Oklahoma City Reports Slight December Industrial Dip
Oklahoma industrial analysis shows a small drop in December employment statewide while November gains in chemical and food plants offset by declines in iron and steel and related sectors. Oklahoma City sees full-time work with gains in food and textiles and minor losses in metal, beverage and furniture sectors.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
United States Department ‘of Labor
Muskogee
Enid
Tulsa
Ponca City
Prague Hit by Mysterious Triple Blast
Prague Oklahoma residents were startled by three violent explosions between 8 and midnight Thursday night. Authorities investigated potential causes while noting no debris or clear source. The events echoed a prior mystery blast near Beggs and a refinery blast at Okmulgee.
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Prague
Okla
Beggs
Okmulgee
Pleasant Hill Superior Model in County Judging
Pleasant Hill school under G. W. Booker became the first in Pontotoc county to be named a superior model as Rural Supervisor Herring and County Superintendent Heflin judged the examination. Booker’s school scored 1339 points, the county high, with city schools none ahead. Drive slow signs were placed near the Pleasant Hill school courtesy of W. B. Jones of the Toggery.
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Pleasant Hill
G. W. Booker
Pontotoc County
Herring
Heflin
Booker
W. B. Jones
The
Toggery
Norman Opens New $100000 Medical Building at OU
The University of Oklahoma formally opened a new medical building valued at $100000. The report notes the U S remains the richest nation and highlights that New York residents receive 15 percent of the country’s vast income.
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Norman
University of Oklahoma
U. S
N. Y
Largest Carillon Dedicated To New Rockefeller Church
The article notes the Park Avenue Baptist Church carillon in New York City, installed by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in memory of his mother, as the largest in the world. It explains carillons origins in the Low Countries, their chromatic scale, and differences from a chime, with global examples and a note on August Heckscher’s offer to fund a Central Park tower as WWI memorial.
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New York
Belgium
Holland
United States
William Gorham Rice
Park Avenue Baptist Church
John D. Rockerfeller, Jr
Rice
Dodd, Mead & Co
August Heckscher
Central Park
Low Countries
Carillonneur
Metropolitan Church
Toronto
Says
Church of Our Lady of Good Hope
Gloucester
Mass
Andover
Cohasset
Birmingham
Ala
Cranbrook
Detroit
Mich
Morristown
Plainfield
Princeton
N. J
St. Paul
Notre Dame, Ind
Philadelphia
Life of a Movie Producer in a World of Constant Decisions
A New York report outlines the daily grind of a top film producer like Jesse L. Lasky. The job blends massive budgets, location shoots from Europe to the Sahara, star negotiations, legal matters, and continual choices driven by weather, offers, and personal demands.
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New York
Europe
Alaska
Porto Rico
Sahara
Jesse L. Lasky
Mr. Lasky
England
Lasky
Arties
Thomas Meighan
Trotsky Extra in Early Cinema Revealed in Reminiscence
Hollywood memories recall Leber Bronstein from the Bronx who appeared as a Russian anarchist extra in My Official Wife and The Battle Cry of Peace in 1915. Directors note he later rose to world fame as Leon Trotsky and express surprise at his dramatic career shift.
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Hollywood
Leon Trotsky
Russia
Lord of the
New York
Leber Bronstein
Bronx
Bronstein
Leon Trotzky
Two Arrested on Charge of Conspiracy to Murder
In Golarksdale Mississippi J T Traynham planter of Counts Spur Go Can an employee of the Traynham plantation and H S Blockley of Clarksdale were arrested on charges of conspiracy to murder in the lynching of Lindley Coleman a negro Thomas Nichols of Quitman county also arrested The warrants were sworn by Dr S W Glass county sheriff from whom Coleman was taken by a group of unmasked men
Sloths Cling to Trees While Living Upside Down
Sloths, famed as animal curiosities, spend most of their time inverted. They move eat and rest while clinging to branches by their toes, illustrating a unique arboreal lifestyle.
Mother of Ada merchant recalls Civil War era life
The writer, the mother of M C Wilson, recounts life in the Southwest from the Civil War through World War I era. She describes blockade hardships, home industry, Southern pride, and memories of three marriages leading to a golden wedding. She notes her religious devotion and long wait to raise her children, age seventy seven turning eighty.
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M. C. Wilson
Lometa
Texas
Southwest
South
Lincoln
Abe
Irvin
Masons
Terrell
Movement to cut rubber use gains federal backing
December 22 193? move to reduce American rubber consumption organized with support from Secretary Herbert Hoover and rubber trade groups. Hoover met with National Rubber Association and National Automobile Chamber of Commerce to urge public help in extending tire mileage and repairing tires. He said a 25 percent reduction is possible without limiting car use if tires are kept in good repair and worn tires reclaimed.
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Washington
Sec
Herbert Hoover
House
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