Marathon News Reports Local Social Ties and Visits
Marathon residents share visits across Alpine, San Antonio and El Paso. Ed Dawson family moves to Bertram while relatives travel from Guantanamo Bay and Amarillo to Marathon and Alpine. A 75th anniversary party marks Midland district celebration of Galveston exchange opening in 1879.
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Guy Combe Jr
San Antonio
Marathon
Roy Akers
W. Sumit
Tom Yarbro
Mara
Alpine
Yarbro
Rmer
Texas
Vada Stone
Alima Chambers
Odessa
Galveston
Marathon switchboard's farewell tour marks progress
Old 100 drop telephone switchboard, in use for about 50 years, retired for a 150 drop unit in January replacing the former. It has traveled to events in Big Spring Alpine and Odessa to illustrate 75 years of telephone service, now serving as a showpiece at open houses and anniversaries.
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Marathon
Texas
Big Spring
Alpine
Odessa
The Queen of Sheba At Granada Theatre Sunday Show
The Queen of Sheba with Leonora Ruffo opens at Granada Theatre starting Sunday for shows Sunday through Monday. The film features action scenes including sieges, chariot driving, and a romantic plot with a son of Solomon, acclaimed by New York critics.
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Lobo Drive
Leonora Ruffo
Claudette Colbert
Cleopatra
Hedy Lamar
Delilah
Susan Hayward
Bathsheba
Paulette Goddard
Jezebel
Miss Ruffo
New York
Astor Theatre
Broadway
Ace
Wanda Hale
New York Daily News
Leonora
Miss Hale
Sheva
Solomon
Jerusalem
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Nora Earls
Billy Paine
Amarillo
Pat McKinney
Clarence Haynes
John Skinner
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Bill Donnell
Robert Lee
Jack) Yarbro
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Ned McKinney
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Sam Mather
Fort Davis
John Henry Mather
Adele Skinner
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Korea
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Morgan Chaney
New London, Conn
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Diana Hampton
Plainview
B. L. Hampton
W. A
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White House
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Storey-Whiteside
Congress
John Klassen
Marathon Cemetery
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