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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1924
Page
9
Thirty five oil tank cars owned by Texas Company sit on a siding at Panhandle while the Plains Pipeline Company completes a four inch line from the oilfield to Panhandle. Santa Fe officials cite completion before June 15 and readiness to handle oil flowing through the line.
Don Tyler of Los Angeles won the national high school oratorical title with Ruth Newburn of Washington and John M. Dallam of ITT Philadelphia taking second and third. President Coolidge presided at Memorial Continental Hall as he lauded disciplined rhetoric and civic duty.
Okmulgee district oil and gas association directors call a June 14 meeting in Okmulgee to discuss a general shutdown of drilling in the mid continent field. The plan gains support from the National Association of Independent Oil Producers led by W. H. Gray of Tulsa, with similar meetings planned in Kansas Oklahoma Louisiana and Arkansas to curb over production blamed on weather and economic conditions. More babies die from safety pins than from circus weapons, says a noted physician.
Sharon Vermont resident Mia Trombley reports improvement after using Lyia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She was weak and run-down with bearing-down pains and tired feeling, and says the product stopped the pains and she now recommends it.
Mapet Hart of Brooklyn recounts months of back and side pains and leaving work unfinished. After using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, she felt better by the third bottle and warns others to believe in its healing claims.
Washington June 6 members of the Senate committee investigating the contest to Senator Mayfield of Texas said no final report would be made to the Senate at the current session. The contestant George E B Peddy demanded reading of testimony from earlier proceedings delaying closing arguments. Peddy's lawyers planned additional witnesses, and members hoped to close hearings soon for a report after Congress reconvenes in December.
An atmospheric disturbance of slight intensity over the western Plateau and northwest caused local thundershowers of light character, except heavy over the Panhandle of Texas. Temperatures are seasonal, except below average off the Pacific coast from San Francisco to Portland.
In Memphis on June 6 flags furled and drums muffled as Confederate Legion departed for home after a grand parade and pageant. Led by General W. B. Haldeman, the march included Company B Tennessee infantry and Forest's Cavalry troop A under Lieut. Reed with Color bearer Funk. Spectators cheered rebels as veterans in autos and on foot streamed past reviewing stands before a civic auditorium ball.
A. P. Gouthey of Seattle was nominated for vice-president by the national Prohibition convention on the first ballot. He received 78 votes while Miss Marie C. Brehm of California and Colonel A. L. Moudy of Indiana trailed with 24 and an equal share respectively.
The reply to the Japanese exclusion protest was completed. A rum and narcotic smuggling treaty with Canada was signed. The Pueblo Indian land bill was sent to President Coolidge. The House passed the Hoch bill for revision of freight rates. The Senate passed a bill for a national reforestation policy. The postal salaries increase bill was sent to the president. The Bursum bill was advanced in a Senate bid on farm legislation. Mellon denied charges by Gaston Means.
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