Precinct 4 Voting Place Changes to Sanborn School
Precinct No 4 will vote at Sanborn School for the mayoral runoff on July 12 replacing East Amarillo School. City manager Bill Durham explained the change as eight precincts were designated. Absentee voting runs through July 9 at the county clerk’s office.
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Sanborn School
East Amarillo
Bill Durham
Ross Rogers
Lon D. Marrs
East Amarillo School
Durham
the Globe
Bids On Road Jobs To Begin In Texas
The State Highway Commission will start a two day session to receive bids on road and bridge construction costing over 2 million dollars. Projects span Wheeler to Coke counties with 17 bridges to be built as part of the bids. Delegations from Gregg Morris Walker San Jacinto Madison Leon Cooke Wise Delta Fannin Galveston Harris Chambers Liberty Upson Wood Brewster Pecos Cherokee Shelby Gonzales Roberts and others will attend, with three more counties added for Friday.
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Austin
State Highway Commission
Wheeler
Panola
Houston
Calhoun
Jackson
Matagorda
Washinton
Madison
Childress
Tyler Val Verde
Harrison
Erath
Wood
Caldwell
Gray
Delta
Lamar
Coke Counties
Gregg
Morris
Walker
San Jacinto
Madison, Leon
Cooke
Wise
Fannin
Galveston
Harris
Chambers
Liberty
Upshur
Brewster
Pecos
Cherokee
Shelby Gonzales
Roberts
Tarrant
Franklin
Red River
Bowie
Love Is A Racket at Paramount with Fairbanks Jr
Paramount opens with Douglas Fairbanks Jr in a witty columnists role in Love Is A Racket. Francess Dee plays a chorus girl pursued by a reporter amid gangster threads and a mix of comedy and drama. The mixed bag is entertaining and features J Dawn organ music.
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Paramount
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Chas. Chase
J. Dawn
G. W
Glowgrammes Patrolling London Theaters End Lighting Arches
London cinema managers report theater glowgrammes and glow drama text read by transmitted light from stage or screen. The practice of striking arches or lighting cigarette lighters in theaters has been stopped. The glowgramme uses cellulose with text stenciled by a special process.
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London
Bit of Old West Comes to Modern Riding Academy Theft Case
W. V. Cox manager of Amarillo Riding Academy filed a horse theft complaint against Clovis Stafford of Palmer County. The horse valued at $100 vanished May 10 and was found on a ranch with a man named Slim suspected. Stafford, jailed in Farwell, says a stranger left the horse for pasturage.
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W. V. Cox
Amarillo
Clovis Stafford
Palmer County
George S. McCarthy
Cox
Dude
Friona
Farwell
Stafford
Slim
Canyon
Flight delayed by thick weather over Harbor Grace
The start of a proposed round the world flight by James Mattern and Bennett Griffen was postponed by thick weather over Harbor Grace Newfoundland. Meteorologist Dr James H Kimball said conditions were clearing and a takeoff could be possible the next day as the monoplane received its final tuning before attempting to beat the globe circling record set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty.
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New York
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
James Mattern
Bennett Griffen
James H. Kimball
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Civil Appeals Reverses Ruling in Jackson et al v Hughes
Proceedings in the third court of Civil Appeals reversed and remanded the Evelyn Jackson et al case against D. E. Hughes and Tom Green. Motions granted in the Linthicum v Angelo Furniture Company certiorari case.
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Austin
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Evelyn Jackson, Et al
D. E. Hughes
Tom Green
C. Linthicum
Angelo Furniture. Company
Tom Grn
Brown Goliath Beetle Named Largest Beetle
The brown Goliath beetle from equatorial Africa tops the list of 100,000 known beetle species. It reaches about four inches in length.
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Equatorial Africa
Modern alchemy claim baffles German scientist
German scientist H. von Bohndorff asserts he witnessed metals transform when exposed to radium causing speculation about transmutation. The report notes no independent verification and frames the claim with scientific skepticism.
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H. von Bohndorff
Texans to Send 135000 Exhibit to World's Fair
A Texas World's Fair Association planning committee designated 135000 to fund a Texas exhibit for the Chicago World’s Fair. E H Kifer of San Antonio named chairman, E H Whitehead of Corpus Christi general manager, and Porter Whaley sec retary treasurer. South Texas Chamber of Commerce grants six month leave to Whitehead to lead fundraising. Other officers include Wilbur C Hawk Gus Taylor Frank W Hawk Amon G Carter and Frank Holland. GENES MAY TELL SEX says Dr John Belline of the Carnegie Institution who tests heredity and unborn child traits using genes.
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Dallas
Texas
Chicago
E. H. Kifer
San Antonio
E. H. Whitehead
Corpus Christi
South Texas Chamber of Commerce
Porter Whaley
Wilbur C. Hawk
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Gus Taylor
East Texas Chamber
Frank W. Hawk
South Texas Chamber
Amon G. Carter
Fort
John Belline
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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R. Winch
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Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Carter Glass
Virginia
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
A. Mitchell Palmer
Washington, D. C
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Jos. C. O’mahoney
Wyoming
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Wm. G. McAdoo
California
William A. Comstock
Michigan
Wunstop Duzzitt
Fred Ballew
Cal Farley’s “Wunstop Duzzitt
S. Fillmore St
Tletoe
Heam
Wunstop
Peerrsit
Farley
Fillmore St
Marallah
Mantell
Automobile Bldg
Fair Grounds
Cal Fable
Cal Farley
Goodrich
General Auto Repairing
Silvertown Tires
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