Supreme Council Honors 33rd Degree and Knight Commander List
The Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction announced its honors list for the thirty third degree and Knight Commander of the Court of Honor. 225 knights commander will receive the thirty third degree, with Texas leading by 28 honorees, followed by Kansas and Missouri. Texas also tops the prior thirty second degree selections with 55. California 42. Oklahoma 43. Notables include Horace Austin Lay, Charles R. Trowbridge, and Harry Plunkett Vaughan of El Paso, among others.
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Washington
Supreme Council of the
Scottish Rite
T’ree Masonry
Court of Honor
Supreme Council
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
China
Canal Zone
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Court of
Oklahoma
California
Porto Rico
Coolidge
Horace Austin Lay
el Paso
Charles R. Trowbridge
Harry Plunkett Vaughan
Enid Wilson Wins Britain Girls Golf Title at Fifteen
London report details Enid Wilson, age 15, winning the girls golf championship of Great Britain at Stoke Poges. She stands nearly six feet tall, weighs over 150 pounds, and drives the ball exceptionally far despite a lack of grace. Her power is showcased by several 430 yard second shots amid wet greens, with Arthur Havers as her recent instructor.
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London
Enid Wilson
Great Britain
Mily
Stoke Poges
Wilson
Arthur Havers
W. A. Gavin
Dr Wolcott's Glasses Endure In Panhandle History
Dr Wolcott's glasses have served as standard eyesight equipment in the Panhandle for 31 years since 1894, reflecting a long local habit and a landmark in regional vision aid history.
Gunnybags Still Made Where Vigilantes Had Fu
A Sacramento street gunnybag maker operates on the site of Fort Gunnybags, the 1851 vigilante stronghold in San Francisco. The fort, famed for summary justice, once loomed over a city with hundreds of murders unpunished and a 500-strong Vigilance Committee seizing arms and arming sacks with sand.
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Associated
San Francisco
Sacramento Street
Old Fort
Russia Exports to U S Surpass Quarter Mark
Associated Press reports that over 26 percent of Russia total exports went to the United States in the last half year. Nearly 60 percent of fur sales from that period were exported to America. Dr. Wolcott notes preference for lightweight rimless glasses.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Russia
United States
America
Feel Splendid Cascarets Laxative Advertisement
An old time ad touts Cascarets as the nicest laxative candy like tablets that relieve head aches dizziness biliousness and constipation. It claims mild stimulation of the bowels with no griping and promotes a clean feel and rosy skin and notes directions for all ages on each box sold in drug stores.
Passengers Make Sensational Charge On Ship Disaster
Three passengers testified at a Jacksonville inquiry into the Comanche disaster reporting alleged crew drunkenness and disorganization during the Mayport fire. Fred Rau Adolph Jachncke and Berthold Mayer testified that whiskey bottles flashed after the fire was found that crew members failed to obey orders and that lifeboats were mishandled. One man said his lifeboat was last to depart its side of the ship with passengers picked up by a sailing boat.
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Jacksonville
Fla
New York
Mayport
George Uhler
George Harney
Third District
U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service
Curry
Comanche
Fred Rau
Paterson
N. J
Adolph Jachncke
Berthold Mayer
Ray
Broadcast First Hand of Bridge Eve in October
Cincinnati reports the first hand of bridge to air from Station WSAI at 9 p m on October 27 with expert explanations. The schedule lists stations and times on Tuesdays Fridays and Saturdays starting Oct 27 through early November.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
WSAI
C. T
WEAF
WEEI
WFI
WGR
WWJ
KGW
P. T
KHJ
WGY
BE. T
London Woman Surveyor Sees Victorian Ugliness
Miss Irene T. Martin, England’s only woman surveyor, criticizes London’s housing as atrocious Victorian designs. She notes suburbs mirror the ugliness with uniform villas, narrow windows, imitation pillars, and pompous lych gates, reflecting little progress in urban ugliness.
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Associated Press
London
Irene T. Martin
England
Soroptimist Club
Manchester
Liverpool
Urges Conservation Of Coal Program Too Late For Oil
Horace H. Clark, a Chicago fuel engineer, told the American Gas Association that it is too late to start an oil conservation plan because oil will be gone before the program finishes. He urged a national coal conservation program as coal is a nonreplenishable national resource. Gas industry advocate Horace C. Portier of Philadelphia noted gas firms seek to reduce oil dependence.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
Horace H. Clark
Chicago
American Gas Association
Horace C. Portier
Philadelphia
Bosh claim sparks debate on women and homemaking
Ada Bessie Swann of the American Gas Association denounces charges that American women neglect home and children as bosh. She says the only new fashion is replacing housekeep ing with homemaking and argues women are driven by a natural duty to support family happiness.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
Ada Bessie Swann
Home Service
American Gas Association
Seek new name and use of blue stain lumber
The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association calls blue stain a ten million dollar hoodoo and has begun a campaign to popularize the lumber and replace the term with a fresh name. Officials say the stain is a blemish in grading but does not affect usefulness for many purposes, per forest service assurances.
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Associated
Washington
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Forest Service
Cornelius Heads Student Body at Clarendon College
Rives Cornelius from Vanhandle was elected president of the Clarendon College student body in a closely contested vote. Polls ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Cornelius edging out Dewey Young of Wellington, a college visitor. The junior plans to graduate next year and previously won a best debater prize.
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Clarendon
Rives Cornelius
Vanhandle
Clarendon College
Cornelius
Dewey Young
Welington
Edwin J Clapp to Visit Floydada Citizens
Floydada prepares to host Edwin J. Clapp noted Hearst writer on finance and development. A telegram says he will arrive from Crosbyton Wednesday evening and tour the city before dining with Floydada business leaders that night.
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Edwin J. Clapp
Floydada
Lhe News
Hearst’s
Claude High School to Publish Fifth Mustang Annual
Claude Oct 20 The Claude high school student body elected Pauline Fox editor in chief Talbert Lee Brady business manager Kathryn Davis assistant business manager John Campbell art editor David Dodge society editor Henry Wreck joke editor Burley Welch Kerrik athletic editors Thelma Kemp senior representative Melba Dodge junior representative Claudine Fox sophomore representative Elizabeth Griswold freshman representative Mr Doyle Williams and Miss Louise Raby faculty advisers This marks the fifth volume of The Mustang engraving by Service Engraving Co San Antonio printing and binding by Russell and Cockrell camera to be purchased for own photographs
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Claude
Claude High School
Pauline Fox
Talbert Lee Brady
Kathryn Davis
John Campbell
David Dodge
Henry Wreck
Burley Welch Kerrik
Anne Jackson
Thelma Kemp
Melba Dodge
Claudine Fox
Elizabeth Griswold
Doyle Williams
Louise Raby
Service Engraving Company
San Antonio
Texas
Russell and Cockrell
Druggists Form Southwest Texas Retail Association
In San Antonio on October 20 110 wholesale druggists met to form the Southwest Texas Retail Druggists Association. They organized under tight membership rules after executive sessions led by keynote speaker E C Koerth of Yoakum, aiming to curb independent drug store proprietors.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Southwest Texas Druggists
San Antonio Retail Druggists Association
Southwest Texas Retail Druggists’ Association
E. C. Koerth
Yoakum
Oxford colleges crumble but keep a new face
Oxford, Oct 20. Soft local stone makes college walls crumble and flake, requiring repeated resurfacing and constant scaffolding. An Oxford firm has spent eighty years mending one college, and ivy removal now risks more stone damage and falling debris. In Herkimer, Austria claims typewriter invention are challenged by John W. Vrooman of the county historical society.
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Associated Press
Oxford
Herkimer, N. Y
Innsbruck
Austria
Peter Mitterdorfer
John W. Vrooman
Herkimer County
Floydada Poultry Show Set for December 10 11 12
Floyd County Poultry Association schedules its fourth annual show in Floydada December 10 11 and 12. The event aims to boost local poultry, with judge J W Frye and secretary E S Shoaf. Officials foresee entries from Texas Oklahoma New Mexico and Kansas and offer liberal premiums as the association expands farm poultry
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Floydada
Floyd County Poultry Association
Floyd County
South Plains
J. W. Frye
American Poultry Association
Waynoka
Okla
Shoaf
South
West
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kansas
England's Latest War Invention Sprays Bullets Like Hose
A machine gun mounting for aircraft is described as England's newest war invention, likened to a sprinkling nozzle spraying bullets. The device is highlighted as a notable development in aerial warfare.
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England
Plainview Man Elected President of County Exhibitors
T. J. Burnette of Hillsboro was chosen president of the County Exhibitors Association at the State Fair business meeting in Dallas on October 20. Officers elected include Maury Hopkins secretary of the Plain View board of city development, E. Gentry Tyler first vice president, and George Samson second vice president of the Post chamber of commerce. Burnette has long worked for the State Fair and Hill county agricultural programs and serves as secretary of the Hill County Fair, the Hillsboro chamber of commerce, and the Hillsboro Retail Merchants Association.
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Dallas
T. J. Burnette
Hillsboro
Maury Hopkins
Plainview Board of City Development
E. Gentry Tyler
Smith County
George Samson
Post Chamber of Commerce
Hill County
Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce
Hillsboro Retail Merchants Association
Western Unton repairs Playdada Plainview line
Floydada, Oct. 20. Western Union Telegraph Company undertakes extensive repair work on the Playdada Plainview line by installing new poles and wires. Foreman J A Westover leads crews at Lockney as the company prepares a Floydada downtown office following lease negotiations on Missouri street.
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Floydada
Western Union Telegraph Company
Playdada+ Plainview
J A. Westover
Lockney
Missouri Street
Aspironal claims quick relief for colds and flu
An advertisement touts Aspironal as a guaranteed, lab approved two minute remedy for cold and cough. It promises dramatic relief within two minutes, urges purchase at drug stores, and claims safety for children and adults with bold overstatements.
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