Fort Davis Notes on Local Commerce and Visits
Fort Davis Barry Scobee reports the Eaton store sale to Garland and Coodys, while the stock is being invoiced mid-week. Local travel includes Chapin's highway work and visits from Mulhern, Thomas, Easley, and the Newton family. Rev Townsend resigns after 18,000 miles as Fort Davis pastor, with many friends and scout leadership noted. Artist Orville Rice from Yoakum visits, sharing bird studies and watercolors, drawing praise for his field sketches and planned future as a birds painter.
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Bar Ward Townsend
Fort Davis
Archer City
Texas
Townsend
Fort Worth
Intercolor
Orville Rice
Yoakum
Mr. Rice
Univer of
Tex
Tau Sigma Society
Phi Beta Kappa
Wilson
Rice
Old Fort
Linking Carlsbad Caverns and Big Bend by Scenic Highway
A map outlines a proposed scenic highway linking Carlsbad Caverns and Big Bend National Park through multiple Texas locales. It lists Marathon Alpine Fort Davis Davis Mountains Pecos Balmorhea Toyahvale and other points along the route near U.S. Highway 80 dubbed the Broadway of America.
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Carlsbad Caverns
Big Bend Park
M. J. Swinehart
Pecos
Red Blutt Lake
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Big Bend Nasional Park
Alpine
Sul Ross State College
Marfa
Marathon
Conoco Starts Extensive Campaign for New Nth Motor Oil
Continental Oil launches a major advertising push in newspapers across the United States to promote Conoco Nth Motor Oil. The campaign, supported by Will A. Morgan, highlights claimed benefits like reduced wear and longer mileage aided by a new synthetic Thialkene Inhibitor. A Death Valley test supervised by Prof. H. M. Jacklin of Purdue showed Conoco Nth lasting 73.67 percent more miles than rival oils.
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Ponca City
Okla
Contiental Oil Company
Conoco
Will A. Morgan
United States
The
Avalanche
Continental
Death Valley
H. M. Jacklin
Purdue University
Mecca for Tourists Seen With Big Bend Park Link
Col Thomas Boles of Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Pecos Alpine officials foresee a two way tourist flow between Big Bend and Carlsbad Caverns National Parks. They describe contrasts between the parks and note Alpine Fort Davis Balmorhea area attractions. Carlsbad Caverns attracted nearly 250,000 visitors last year and may see numbers double or triple with the Big Bend development.
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Big Bend National Park
Carlsbad Caverns
Fort Worth
Bigend
Thomas Boles
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
M. L. Swinehart
Pecos
Santa Helena
Mariscal
Boquillas
Rio Grande
Mes Carlsbad Caverns
National Park
M. R. Tillotson
Santa Fe
New Mexico
National Park Service
Rocky Mountains National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Death Valley
Big Bend
National Parks
Davis Mountains
Fort Davis
Balmorhea
McDonald Observatory
Indian Lodge
Davis ‘Mountains
Balmorhea State Park
Caverns
Texas
Texas Lease Boom Ties Up Over One Quarter of State
More than 45 million acres of Texas land, over one fourth of the state’s area, were under oil and gas lease in 1939. Farmers and ranchers received about 125 million dollars in lease and royalty payments that year, equating to 27 cents per dollar of cash farm income, with government benefits raising the ratio to 22 cents per dollar.
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Texas
Defense bonds praised as patriotic safe investments
The piece urges Texans to buy defense bonds and stamps, arguing they fund national protection and future security. It stresses lending money to the government earns interest, supports defense, honors war dead, and acts as the best investment while building confidence in country and community.
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Defense Savings Staff of
Texas
United States
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Barry Scobee
A. V. Chapin
Joe Mulhern
East Tex
Houston
J. M. Thomas
el Paso
Mulhern
Sam Easley Jr
Taylor
Easley
A. G. Prude
Audrey Fay Newton
Austin
Audrey Fay
Joe M. Newton
Newton
Harry Anthony de Young
San Antonio
Sul Ross College
Fort Colony
Warren v. Bloys
Hargis Parker
Roswell
Parker
Warren Jr
Colorado
Sion of
Bloys
Richard G. Irving
Jeff Davis County
Ams
Fred S. Rogers
Argona
Oklahoma
Corisbad Caverns
Uy Band Park
Va Fort Avis
Wieners
Pimiento Loaf
Gerberos Marvtat
LUX Soap
Libby
van Camp
Can
Avant
Ron
Hormel
Herryland
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