Ancient Spear Heads Found With Elephants Near Clovis
Excavations at Blackwater Draw between Portales and Clovis uncover stone spear points and bone artifacts with mammoth remains. Dr. Edgar B. Howard leads the joint Academy of Natural Sciences and University Museum of Philadelphia team. Estimated human presence on the continent dates to about 8000 B C, with specimens suggesting coexistence with mammoths.
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Clovis. N. M
Blackwater Draw
Portales and
Clovis
Academy of Natural
University Museum of Philadelphia
Edgar B. Howard
Academy
Alte
Howard
Ernest Anters
Carnegie Institution
Harold Colton
Museum of Northern Arizona
Frederica de Laguna
University Museum
Philadelphia
Strange Superstitions By Edwin Finch
Canadians sprinkle salt about stable doors to prevent imds from entering and tease horses by sticking bars to their manes and tails as a superstition.
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Edwin Finch
First Screen Duet For Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
The piece notes that for the first time two trained singers perform Carry Me Back to Old Virginny as a screen duet. The old time song predates the Civil War and has long been sung as a popular number.
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New York
N. J
Peg Doe Sain
Pat
Old Virginny
Know Your Language By C L Bushnell Sebel
A language note discusses paradoxes in sentence grammar and meaning. It compares two sentences about a ship and crash, showing how the word in charge can imply active direction or passive steering depending on usage.
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Chirase
Sul Ross Students to Attend TIPA Meeting in Commerce
Eleven entries in contests and five Sul Ross delegates will attend the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention in Commerce. April 15–17. Delegates include Evelyn Ethridge Rose Marion Dodson Dr EC Coleman Grant Sanders and Frank Chadwick.
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Sul Ross
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Commerce
Evelyn Ethridge
T. SP. A
Rose Marion Dodson
Press Club
EC. Coleman
Grant Sanders
Frank Chadwick
Pipple
Julia Gen‘try
Myrtle Barnes
Sage
Del Norte Hotel Promises Modern Comforts and Air Conditioned Rooms
Leaders of social and business use of the Southwest gather daily at the Del Norte an address of distinction and more than that a modern hotel embracing all the fine features of a perfect home. Air conditioned single rooms for 2.50 to 5.00 dollars and double rooms from 4 to 8 dollars.
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Southwest
The
del Norte
English Starlings Invade West Texas
English starlings invaded West Texas in flocks this month, unseen by local bird observers. Two types were noted, young bill yellow at base and mature males with metallic green plumage. migration linked to food shortages further south. The birds, pests since their 1890 New York introduction, unsettled West Texans expecting a transient visit.
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Stamford
Texas
Gulf States
West Texas
Central Park
New York
United States
Funeral train joke prompts station agent chagrin
An Alabama station agent was astonished when a Black woman asked for a round trip ticket to Montgomery for a corpse. She said her husband had many in Montgomery who wanted his remains to be viewed, and shipping him there and back would be cheaper than hosting the wake.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Trains Feature Longer Berths Called Long Johns
Rail lines add six inch longer sleeping berths in new streamline trains in the West. The feature, dubbed Long Johns by railroad men, is praised as a boon to tall passengers. Autographs tempt Lauritz Melchior, famed Metropolitan tenor, who says he is bothered by fans but signs as many as possible, though a recent check showed his name misspelled.
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Anotnet FallToin Weneveeros
Lauritz Melchior
Metropolitan
America
Lauritz
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