Local Marathon Library Adds Several New Volumes
Marathon public library received The Heart of the Home by Elizabeth Goudge as a gift from Mrs GC Miller and five more volumes from Rev and Mrs Doyle Riley. Additional books from the Big Bend regional library include The Time the Grings Lonely People Dark Enchantment Cowhand and several westerns and mysteries. Fifteen new children’s titles plus field guides to birds rocks and minerals expand the collection. Construction on the new library proceeds with hopes to move soon.
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Marathon Public Library
Nas
Elizabeth Goudge
GC. Miller
Doyle Riley
Big Bend
Elliott Arnold
Mary Manning
Macardle
Fred Gipson
Trusting neighbors and shared resources in a small town
A narrator recounts finding a sign on an emergency gas can inviting mutual aid, noting the timely meeting and return home thanks to a trusting friend. The piece praises neighborly trust as making the world better and mentions inviting others to share personal preferences and choices.
Gun Fury crew battles snakes on Sedona set
Eighteen rattlers were killed near the Technicolor cameras during derailed outdoor shoots for Columbia Pictures western Gun Fury starring Rock Hudson and Donna Reed. Director Raoul Walsh had ground cleared and beaten, but snakes continued to appear in the rugged Sedona locations. Irving Wallace and Roy Huggins wrote the screenplay based on Ten Against Caesar by R. K. G. Granger.
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Columbia Pictures
Rock Hudson
Donna Reed
Phil Carey
Roberta Haynes
Granada Theatre
Sedona
Ariz
Raoul Walsh
Paris Traffic Worsens as 180 New Vehicles Enter Daily
Licensing authorities report Paris streets grow more congested with 180 new vehicles added daily. The item also notes events in Texas including a Lobo Drive-In showing Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas, a chicken pox illness in Mary Yarbro, and several March of Dimes fundraisers on January 23 and 30 with local organizers and community hall dances.
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Paris
Paganini Quartet To Play In Marfa January Evening
The Paganini quartet with Temianka Rosseels Foidart Laporte arrives Jan 25 at 8 p m at Marfa Christian church. The group, famed for chamber music seen as the pure form of melody and harmony, draws large audiences as a standard annual event and a nerve tonic in troubled times.
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Pabanini
Marfa
Paganini
Henri Temianka
Gustave Rosseels
Charles Foidart
Lucien Laporte
Temianka
Rosseels
Beethoven
Washington, D. C
Paganini Quartet
Dissolution of City Drug Store Partnership
Notice states the partnership of R A Bow and E G Nance of Alpine Brewster County under City Drug Store was dissolved by mutual consent on December 31 1953. Debts to the partnership to be received by R A Bow and all demands presented to him. Bow will operate the business as sole owner under City Drug Store.
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R. A. Bow
E. G. Nance
Alpine
Brewster
City Drug Store
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Marathon News
Alma Chambers
Ed Birdwell
San Antonio
Laster Killingsworth
Killings
Worths
Jimmy Hampton
B. L. Hampton
Fort Bliss
U. S. Army
Mrs. W. C. Donnell
Neeland Allebrand
W. G. Gulihur
Tony Willeke
Odessa
Tony Joe Willeke
Gus Willeke
Gus
Methodist Wscs
Ed Hancock
J. A. McGonagill
Miller
Roark
Mabel Arnold
G. W. Worthington
Beulah van Deman
G. C. Miller
Pat McKinney
John I. Smith
O. M. Roberts
Fritz Rau
Etta Sansom
F. M. Roark
Emma Burnham
Bridge Club
Reece Moore
Hotel Parkway
Tommy Allen High
W. FE. Young
Ralph Coe
Zoye Decie
L. C. Ritchey
Jack Todd
W. E. Young
Mabel Arn
Moret and
Maree Tee
Os Midland Livestock Auction Company
Eaet Meer
Adee
Joe Marsh
Centerville
United States Brewers Foundation
Tee
Performan
Torboiee, Confertoa Chonte
Ford
America
CAL Encomat
Brewster County Motors
E. Holland Ave
Rattlers
Lobo Drive-In
John Smith
Pocahontas
Old
Mary Jack Yarbro
Mrs
Tom Yarbro
SMMA
Jose Cordova
Cordova
Charles Cook
Blue Room Dress Shop
Ida
Hargus
Marathon
Texas
Acousticon Research Laboratories
Aot
Dept
P.O
Jamaica
New York
Heid Bros
Texas At Dallas Str
el Paso, Texas
First National Bank
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