Sports Preview Signals Busy District Intramural Season
The junior high school plans six entrants in district intramural baseball as Sul Ross and nearby schools stage tight race for finals. May events showcase runners and other athletes with workouts underway for the big day. Sal Ross tennis faces strong TI A A competition with Pete Funk and Fred Dancem Corte mised of Prusioe, while Spring football squads at Sul Ross and neighboring schools prepare under Coach Graves. Key players from last year like Acker Hill Rosette Reese and Middleton join a growing Miners and T I A A squads in daily fundamentals, with new recruits Cox Parker and Two Story Stephens hoping to break into lineups.
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Sul Rose
Sal Ross
Pete Funk
Fred Dance
Sul Hoss
Graves
Acker
Hill
Rosette
Reese
Middleton
Elkins
Lattimore
Williams Smith
Robinton
Dean
Newton
Starnes
Terrill
Cox
Parker
Stephens
Pantries and Gardens Slash Grocery Bills in Tyler Region
Ten Smith county farm families spent an average of 4.00 dollars for groceries in December and 3.30 dollars in January. They kept a pantry with 750 containers of home grown product year round. Mise Nettie Shultz, home demonstration agent, highlighted these records from 4-H pantry demonstrations for an achievement day exhibit showing a family of five meals a day with modest cash outlay.
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Tyler
Smith County
Mise Nettie Shultz
Visitors to Carlsbad Cavern Reach March Attendance
Carlsbad Cavern saw 2105 visitors in March, down from 4077 the prior March. The 1929 March tally was 1920, with nine foreign countries represented among attendees. Cavern superintendent Thomas Boles released the figures reflecting a months long slowdown.
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Carlsbad
Thomas Boles
Carerue
Wonders of Wooden Dipping Stick in Modern Superstitions
A Plainview Herald piece recounts local fascination with divining rods used to locate water or oil. It traces historical belief in wooden forks, from medieval miners to Australian plains and Colombian oil smelting, noting scientific skepticism and cultural persistence.
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Plainview
New Mexico
Texaco
Walla
France
England
Australia
Fds
Colombia
South America
United States Leads In Radio Stations
United States dominates broadcasting with 608 stations versus 644 globally, per Commerce data. Population-adjusted capacity shows U S leadership, though congestion prompts reduction efforts as other nations hold about half as many stations.
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United States
Commerce Department
America
Bitterweed menaces West Texas stock losses warns cattlemen
West Texas ranchmen report losses blamed on bitterweed a deadly poison to cattle and sheep. J A Matthews of Shackelford County first suspected the weed and organized removal efforts with Mexicans rooting out plants near Fort Grit. Samples sent to Washington confirm toxicity and ongoing losses in some herds reaching 10 to 15 percent.
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West Texas
West
J. A. Matthews
Shackelford
Fort Grit
Thos. Blanton
Abilene
Dustry
Washington
Bureau
W. G. Houck
Houck
Matt
Fragmented statewide notices and stray OCR remnants
A garbled mix of text references broadcasting and global radio reach, a New York showgirl traffic fine, weed plant descriptions, and a judge’s note on San Angelo sheep losses. The passage blends unrelated items with incomplete sentences and scattered proper names.
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LANGE
Fifth Street
Kazmeiefer
Kazmeier
F. W. Kazmeier
Bryan, Texas
Poultry Husbandman
Texas A. & M
First National Bank
First Investment CO
Alpine, Texas
H. L. Kokernus
W. Baines, JR
SM. Deoib
Singer
Caldwell
Evelyn Donnelly
New York
Matthews
San Angelo
A. Whitten
State Livestock Sanitary
Goodyear
Poultry and Dairy
Home People
Alpine Mercantile CO
Casner Motor Company
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