Highlands Flying School Nears Completion Portrait Series
A series of photos from Marfa Advance documents the new Highlands Flying School campus. Images show chapel progress, post theater interior and exterior under construction, a cafeteria style mess wall, a covered runway linking hospital-area buildings, and U S Engineers offices with civilian staff guiding development. Contractors' Row spans blocks with firm headquarters and subcontracts along the street.
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Marfa
Post Theatre
Hos
Keith Studios
Marta
United We Stand weekly paper at Central junior school
Fifth grade under Miss Ward publishes United We Stand a Friday paper with classroom news riddles a cartoon and a poem Editor Kenneth Perdue Assistant Sylvia Smith A pupil writes a poem and draws a cartoon each week Hallowe en excitement fills Central junior school with pumpkins bats and ghost tales as lights glow and candles burn
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Wien
Central School
Junior High Presents Here’s to Good Sportsmanship
A classroom unit on sportsmanship at the junior high explored its definition through acts and habits in sports and daily life. Students linked fairness, defeat gracefully, umpire decisions, and self assessment to school tradition and personal reputation, arguing play should be taught in curriculums to cultivate true sportsmanship among children.
War time changes loom in livestock and meat markets
The article notes major shifts in slaughtering, distribution, and pricing as the United States moves to support the war effort. It highlights calls for price ceilings on beef, increased livestock railcar usage, expedited loading and unloading, and spread shipping days to ease demand at stockyards. Prices for cattle, cows, bulls, and lambs are outlined across grades, with emphasis on cooperation with railroads and practical stockmen.
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United States
Boy brings flowers to tardy teacher lesson in kindness
A Central school third grader arrives late on October 20 and smiles as he shows his teacher a small bouquet, saying he knows he is late but has a gift for the teacher, illustrating a gentle moment of learning social grace.
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Pital
U. S. Engineers
Central School
Tam
Length of an Inch in 1324 Ruling by King Edward II
A medieval standard stated by King Edward II in 1324 that an inch equals three barleycorns, taken from the center of the ear and placed end to end. The measure linked to barley units and ear-based practice reflects early English standardization efforts.
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Edward II
England
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Examina
Reddy
Central Power and Light Company
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