Santa Fe line to open between Lubbock and Levelland
Santa Fe officials announced the new Lubbock to Levelland branch will be open by July 20, with rails laid to Smyer en route. Level land leaders plan a mammoth picnic and barbecue on opening day, date to be confirmed by railway officials.
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Santa FE
Lubbock
Santa Fe Railway
Bledsoe
New Mexico
Cochran County
Levelland
Hockley County
Smyer
Leveland
Chamber of Commerce
Mining Students of Missouri Held for Robbery
Mark Mills of Joplin Missouri and Carl Seiffert of Tulsa Oklahoma, Missouri School of Mines students, were arrested after a running gun battle with officers. They allegedly held up George Forsythe, amusement resort manager, and robbed him of more than $3,000. They planned the heist after watching money be placed in a safe Sunday night and intercepted Forsythe on a road as he drove toward a bank.
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Associated Press
Butte
Mont
Mark Mills
Joplin
Carl Seiffert
Tulsa
Okla
Missouri School of Mines
George Forsythe
Brotherhood selects Frisco for next meeting
Detroit July 6 San Francisco was chosen today by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers as the convention city for its next triennial meeting to be held starting the second Monday in June 1928.
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Associated Press
Detroit
San Francisco
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Brotherhood
Laundry Men Open Convention Today
The Laundry Owners National Association convenes with talks on retaining customers and industry topics. Addresses list W A Johnson and W E Fitch among leaders. reports, committees, and adjournment follow. Separately in Rome on July 6, police arrest a principal organizer of the St Peter’s treasury robbery. accomplices seized as recovered treasures are recovered.
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Rome
Associated Frese
St. Peter’s
Publicity! Solicitor and Actress Clash Over Breach Suit
A solicitor tells an actress sued for breach of contract that he can keep the matter out of the papers, while the actress protests, Don't you dare. from Passing Show in London.
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London
Railway heads obtain Castro County figures
L. I. Dargen and F. L. Lucas of Santa Fe met with Castro County chamber of commerce members in Dimmit on July 6 to compile last year’s county grain tonnage. The data will support the forthcoming Plainview hearing and is reported as satisfactory for volume.
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L. I. Dargen
F. L. Lucas
Santa Fe
Chamber of Commerce
Plainview
General Naulin Named Supreme Commander in Morocco
Paris July 6 General Stanslaus Naulin commander of the Thirtieth Army Corps on the Rhine has been appointed supreme commander of operations in Morocco. Naulin, now on leave, will proceed to Morocco at once. Premier Painleve said the choice aims for a young vigorous officer skilled in European and colonial warfare and familiar with native mentality.
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Associated Press
Paris
Stanslaus Naulin
Rhine
Morocco
Naulin
Painleve
Texas education ad min section meet urged for 1927
AUSTIN July 6 Eight M N Marrs state superintendent urged large Texas cities to begin a campaign for the 1927 meeting of the administrative section of the national education association. He said attendance will reach about 5000. the Indianapolis meeting was just attended.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
National Education Association
M. N. Marrs
Indianapolis
New Text Book Commission
Miriam A. Ferguson
Ferguson
S. M. N. Marrs
Long Step for Laundry Research Aids Industry Progress
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry notes a second edition of the Manual of Standard Practice for the Power Laundry Washroom issued by the Laundry Owners National Association. The cooperative research effort enables thousands of small units to share results, improving water treatment, soap analysis, stain and bleaching methods, cloth care, and sanitary conditions while reducing harmful practices.
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Laundryowners National Association
Association
Laundry Owners National Association
Purification Health Boost Promoted By Calotabs
Physicians tout purification as foundational to health and urge a thorough course of Calotabs. Take Calotabs weekly for several weeks to purify the system, with family packages and trial 10 cent offer available at druggists.
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Nature
Northern Baptists adopt compromise on fundamentalism
In Seattle the 19th annual Northern Baptists convention approved a compromise resolution ending days of conflict between modernists and fundamentalists. The measure affirms Baptist beliefs fixed by the Bible while omitting mention of the Park Avenue Church in New York. Dr Cornelius Woelfkin was elected to the ministers and missionaries benefit board. Also noted: Alfred Ben Atkinson and his son reconciled after 25 years in Austin.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
Northern Baptists Convention
Baptist Church
Park Avenue Baptist Church
New York City
Indianapolis
Cornelius Woelfkin
Fosdick
Park Avenue
Ministers’ and
Missionaries’ Benefit Board
Woelfkin
Austin
Alfred Ben Atkinson
Alfred Ben Clark
University of Texas
Depositors to be paid from state bank fund in seven defunct banks
Debtors in seven defunct banks will receive 1 215 000 dollars from the state guaranty fund, drawn by the state bank board at its meeting in Austin. Bank commissioner Charles O Austin will distribute the money to depositors from banks including American State Bank Harrisburg and First State Bank Douglas ville. The banks had been closed for some time amid talk that bad oil paper contributed to their failure. A conference on crop conditions followed the funds decision.
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State Bank Guaranty Fund
State Bank Board
State Treasury
Charles O. Austin
American State Bank
Harrisburg
People’s State Bank
Ranger
Security
State Bank
Cooper
First State Bank
Rio Hondo
Douglasville
Rock Island State Bank
Rock Island
Lometa State Bank
Lometa
Austin
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