Immense Panhandle newspaper collection to Panhandle Plains library
Special to The News From Canyon Texas June 1 immense newspaper collection containing historical Panhandle material has come to the Panhandle Plains Historical Society via the late Oscar D. Short. His brother Harvey H Short and Laura V Hamner arranged the donation. The archive includes Amarillo News Wichita Beacon Star Telegram Fort Worth Record Denver Post and many other papers with templates of journalism trade journals and pamphlets including Campbell campaign literature for Woodrow Wilson 1911.
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Canyon
Panhandle
Panhandle- Flains Historical Society
D. Short
Mr. Short
Harvey H. Short
Brazil
Indiana
Laura V. Hamner
Amarillo
Oscar D. Short
Plains
Southwest
Amarillo News
Wichita Beacon
San Francisco Daily Bulletin
The
Star-Telegram
Fort Worth Record
Denver Post
Ferguson Forum
Southern Lumber
Nosebag
Texas Outlook
Dearborn Independent
Old
Short
Special Risks Found in Building
The Associated Press reports the American Institute of Architects proposes a safety code for construction after noting ten daily worker deaths. The guide lists seven hazards including demolition excavations blasting and floor openings with rules on footwear, gloves, railings, secure stairs, and not carrying blasting caps.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
American Institute of Architects
Architects Needed to Aid City Plant in Los Angeles
June 16 report notes more than 560 American cities have planning commissions yet few have active committees. Charles H. Cheney, chairman of regional planning for the AIA, urges architects to curb enormous economic losses from lack of constructive city planning.
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Los Angeles
Charles H. Cheney
Cheney
American Institute of Architects
Dorothy Dix on alimony and the divorce dilemma
Dorothy Dix argues alimony laws are unjust to men and that divorce will rise. She contrasts gold diggers with wives who endure hardships for their families and calls for reform including optional alimony contracts and easier, fairer divorce.
Crippled Boy Goes to Classes on Cot at Dearborn High
Earl Young a high school freshman in Dearborn Missouri has attended school on a cot for three years. Lying on his back he has completed two years of grade school work and his first year of high school. A spinal ailment left him bedridden four years ago. His desk is a suitcase kept beside his bed. Dogs are dying by the thousands in an epidemic of canine typhoid in England.
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Associated Press
Dearborn
Earl Young
England
Gland Extracts Promote New Modern Tonic Morex
Startling gland laboratory discoveries lead to a glandular tonic named Morex. The ad claims thousands use it and druggists nationwide recommend it. It urges readers to take two tablets three times daily for ten days and obtain guidance from Randal Drug Co. by mail or at 422 Taylor Avenue.
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America
Randal Drug Co
Taylor Avenue
Hereford Hosts Amarillo Air Caravan Visit July 5
Hereford officials request Amarillo Chamber of Commerce to send a caravan of 1 to 20 planes to celebrate the Hereford field opening west of the city. Lighting for night flights will be installed, and cables under the ground near the field. Tentative opening set for July 18 coinciding with Transcontinental Air Transport inauguration day.
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Hereford
L. Baskin
Roy Arnod
Chamber of Commerce
Mason King
Amarillo
United States
Bar Harbor Lab Established For Cancer Research Memorial
Bar Harbor Me June 16 a permanent cancer research laboratory is founded in memory of Roscoe B K Jackson of Detroit by his widow with Edsel Ford Richard H Webber and George B Door. Dr Clarence Cook Little heads the association with Dr W S Murray and Dr L C Strong among others joining from Michigan Maine and A&M College in the effort.
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Bar Harbor
Roscoe BK. Jackson
Detroit
Hudson Motor Company
Edsel Ford
Richard H. Webber
George B. Door
Jackson
Seal Harbor
Clarence Cook Little
University of Michigan
University of Maine
Little
Maine
Michigan
W.S. Murray
New Laboratory
L. C. Strong
J. M. Murray
A. & M. Collegefthgan
A. M. Cloudman
University of
Vermont and J J Bitner aid ant cancer research at Michigan
The text notes Vermont and J J Bitner assist a University of Michigan cancer research effort. It lists incorporators Judge Lucre B Deasen and David O Rodick of Bar Harbor, William Mac Crillis Sawyer of Bangor, and J L Lovell Little of Boston.
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Vermont
J. J. Bitner
University of Michigan
Lucre B. Deasen
David 0. Rodick
Bar Harbor
William MacCrillis Sawyer
Bangor
J. Lovell Little
Boston
Frontier battle sites eyed for national park in Alabama
Montgomery June 16 Alabama may gain a national park to honor colonial southerners who expanded the union toward the Gulf. Col H L Landers surveyed historic forts in southern Alabama including Fort Mitchell Fort Blakesley Fort Williams and Fort Jackson noting Fort Toulouse first established by the French in 1714 and the area’s repeated contest between European powers and Americans.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Gulf of Mexico
Col
H. L. Landers
Army War College
Washington
Hugo Black
Fort Mitchell
Russell County
Fort Blakesley
Baldwin County
Fort Williams
Talladega County
Fort Jackson
Elmore County
Fort Toulouse
Coosa River
Tallapoosa
London butlers view old silver exhibit
English butlers attend an exhibition of old silver at Seaford House Lord Howard de Walden's town home. Hundreds of servants include a tour with a half rate for butlers and an expert tracing histories of poman ders chains tazzas and porringers while one sample wine cistern prompts a wry remark about cleaning.
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Associated Prean
London
Seaford House
Lord Howard de Walden
Miss Auto-Dore Defies Night Food Ban In London
In London Miss Auto-Dore unveils a robotic vending slot machine at Charing Cross to sell perishable foods after 8 PM despite Aunt Dora the Defense of the Realm Act. The machine dispenses cheese pickles ham beef sausages butter tea sugar fruit and more. Police enforcement hinges on fines for shop sales after hours, while no slot machine law exists. The public, shocked by the Home Secretary's stance, watches the stunt with amusement as license machines are rumored to appear nationwide.
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Associated Prean
London
Auto-Dore
Dora
Great Britain
Charing Cross
Whitehall
Dort
Miss Auto-Dore
William Joynson- Hick
Jix
Plane lands at sea become seagoing vessel under law
From New York June 16. An amphibian plane that lands at sea is considered a seagoing vessel under maritime law. Louis Reichers of New York along with friends fished after landing at sea near Atlantic City. Officials told him to equip the aircraft for deep sea flying with life preservers lights signals and flare cartridges on return to New York.
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Associated Preas
New York
Louis Reichers
Reichers
Atlantic City
Landslide Terms Across The World In Dictionary Report
The report compares landslide terms from many regions. It notes New England usage and cousins such as Seree Clitters clatters schutt and taus for rock slides with Talus as the scientific term.
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Philadelphia
New England
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History
C. D. Short
Dorothy Dix
Durand
Europe
Florida
Public Ledger
Amarillo Air Caravan
Cancer Laboratory
Netzgers Milk
Razy
Mineral Wells
Texas
Crazy Water Hotel Co
Sportlight — Review
Amarillo Auto Parts
Rusco
K. F
North Fillmore
Perryton
Liberal
Ryton West Way
Moody
Canadian
Tex
G. W. Cutter
Bend
Amarillo Rubber Btami’ CO
Colorado Springs
Silver Grill
E. 3Rd Ave
Ymin
Glade
QOD
Panhandle Mutual Hall Association of
Texan
J. B. Latham
Sec’y
Memphis
Wellington
Plainview
Lubbock
Shamrock
Hollin
Altus
Mangum
Okla
Sterall
Panhandle Paint & Glass CO
A Polk
Corinne
Alno
American Philosophical Society
John W. Hershberger
University of Aesylvania
Tintes
Paris
Tintex Group
Tintex
Vintex
All Drug
Tilford
Eard Ave
Harley Sadler
T. and
American Legion Big Tent Theater
West
Fourth Street
Hedgecake’s Drug Store
Polk. Street
Miller & King Rodeo
Tri-State Fair Association
Texan Park
Clyde Miller
Holly
Colorado
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