Room for Two Congressmen in Panhandle Plains District
Population shifts in the 18th Congressional District show growth from 257,170 in 1920 to 372,026 this year with 12 counties yet to report. missing counties add about 100,000 more, pushing district totals toward half a million. Texas redistricting likely, Panhandle Plains could gain representation.
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King
Knox
Lamb
Palmer
Swisher
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Washington
Panhandle Plains
Thice
Unemployment in the Panhandle Seen Low in April figures
The census report shows unemployment around one per hundred in IT counties with 17 Panhandle counties reporting. Farm activity, wheat harvest, and rail construction absorb workers and could push unemployment toward zero by mid-summer.
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Census Bureau
Panhandle
United States
Mid-Ummer
Butler on insulated life at Columbia commencement
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler urged graduates to seek the bridge from an insulated to a true life, calling the life selfish and embittered. He warned that public interest alone is insufficient and urged timely pursuit of vitality and imagination to move from living to life.
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Columbia University
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Hospitality critic job tops hotel guest experience
The piece chronicles a unique year long post for a hospitality critic in a major New York hotel. Jo Dahl will dance, eat, sleep, bathe, and review services like barbering, maids, cigars, and dining while traveling through 300 hotels worldwide. It also notes quirky New York roles from gum scrapers to subway sleuths and decorative designers shaping consumer appeal.
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New York
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Dahl
Statues Added to Capitol Statuary Hall Names Jefferson Davis and J. Z. George
Two new statues were installed in the Capitol Statuary Hall, joining 63 existing figures in a crowded gallery. Among the additions are Jefferson Davis and J. Z. George, with other notable honorees including Frances E. Willard, Gen. John Campbell Greenway, and Robert Fulton. Rep. George Tinkham urges larger quarters and a proposed American Hall of Fame to house current and future statues.
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Frances E. Willard
Ilinois
Henry Clay
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John C. Calhoun
South Carolina
Daniel Webster
New Hampshire
Clay
Rhode Island
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Pennsylvania
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Robert E. Lee
Lincoln
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George Tinkham
Massachusetts
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Tinkham
Mussolini as Tyrant Yet Admired In Debate
Walt Mason reflects on Mussolini as a feared yet admired figure and recalls a book claiming his rule jailed patriots and cleaned up crime. The verse notes how bands of criminals thrived before his rise and suggests a fantasy where such a crackdown could occur in the United States with Uncle Sam backing the effort.
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Mussolini
Uncle Sam
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Benny’s Note on Feeding Baby and Careful Advice
A fragment from a child care note discusses Dr Sparrow’s advice to mothers on feeding babies. It highlights the difficulty in judging hunger versus overfeeding and suggests that a calm mother can reflect to determine if the infant has recently been fed. It mentions sharing the advice with Gladys and mentions William and Pop observing.
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Pop
William
Neighbor's Police Dog? Old-Time Jokes by ABE MARTIN
ABE MARTIN muses on changing neighborly labels from "our neighbor's chickens" to "the folks next door's police dog" with a sly aside about Floyd Gibbons playing the role of a bold rider at speed. The quip channels early 20th century humor as it winks at police and traffic.
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Floyd Gibbons
John F. Dille Co
Childcare Advice From a Fractured Note
A fragmented OCR passage offers bizarre guidance about handling a baby and avoiding harm, including instructions to drop a child only onto soft surfaces and never onto hard floors. The speaker dismisses the advice as nerving and jokes about calling someone named Gladdis to verify the baby’s wellbeing.
Pascal Birth Date and Early Life Landmark
Blaise Pascal, born June 19, 1623 in Clermont Ferrand, France, emerges as a prodigy in mathematics. His early work on Conics, with the Pascal theorem, marks his teen years before shifting in 1654 to Jansenist religious life at Port Royal near Paris.
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Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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France
Paris
Leibnitz
Rouen
Port Royal
Muscle Training For Health And Beauty
This fitness essay argues muscles shape the figure more than fat, urges balanced development over bulging strength, and notes endurance as key for health. It cites a dancing marathon that grew 10 to 24 pounds via muscle, suggests regular, moderate workouts build abdomen and lower back strength, and warns against excessive sun exposure and overhydration.
Pascal and the Provincial Letters Spark Religious Irony Debate
The text notes a clash between Jesuits and Jansenists leading to Pascal’s Pro vincial Letters, praised as ironic masterpieces. It suggests Pascal shifted to religious devotion after a carriage accident.
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Pascal
Officers of Lamesa Legion are elected
Special to The News LAMESA June 18 Guy Bradley chosen commander and R G C Willis vice commander of the reorganized post of the American Legion at O Donnell this week Other officers elected include M B Hooda adjutant and service officer G S Dowell publicity chairman and historian E D Hobdy chaplain Irvin S Street sergeant at arms and J L Shoemaker chairman of finance VEGA SHOWER VEGA June 18 Another shower covered this territory benefiting the growing row crops A large acreage is being planted to maize hegiar and kaffir Much land is being summer fallowed for wheat.
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Guy Bradley
R. G C. Willis
American Legion
O'Donnell
M. B. Hooda
G. &. Dowell
E. D. Hobdy
Trvin 8. Street
J. L. Shoemaker
Vega
Grammarships quiz questions and answers sample
A set of language questions and answers covering grammar, pronunciation, misspellings, and vocabulary. The items discuss sentence structure, pronunciation of maritime, misspelled word rtillery, meaning of lucrative, and a de prefixed word for skill with answers Omit to, a as in at, i as in it, ivory, highly profitable, dexterity.
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