Tri-State Fair ticket sales open at City Drug on Polk Street
Advance ticket sales begin today at City Drug No 1 on Polk Street for major attractions at the Tri-State Fair. The exposition opens Monday morning with Beutler Brothers rodeo, Passing Parade and the Al G Barnes Sells Floto circus tickets on sale. Cowboy Band concerts from Hardin Simmons University to accompany the rodeo schedule daily near the grandstand.
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Polk Street
Beutler Brothers
City Drug
al G. Barnes and Sells
Floto
Hardin-Simmons
Chester Byers
Tri-State Fair
Wallace Beery
English Field
Amarillo
O’shaughnessey
Chita
Cosetta
Christiani
al G. Barnes
Hollywood
Fair Season Opens With Three Colorful Exhibitions
Roosevelt County Fair enters its third day with women driving many exhibits. Quilts from Rogers and Dora booths feature state flowers and a map quilt of the United States and Mexico. Portales 4-H clothing and vocational agriculture displays plus large vegetable exhibits anchor the fair, with livestock shows nearby and delegations from Amarillo and Roswell attending in force.
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Portales
N. M
Rogers
Dora
Pep
Asch
Bethel
Bluir
Elida
East Valley View
Mesa
Northwest Portales
Southern Portales
Floyd
Arch
Portales Vocational Agriculture
4-H Club
Portales Valley
Roosevelt County
Amarillo
Roswell
New Mexico
Oldham Displays Horn of Plenty at County Fair
Vega Kiwanis sponsors the Seventh Annual Oldham County Fair opening for two days. Simms community wins first in the booth contest with prizes to top communities. Adrain and Wildorado place second and third. The fair features agriculture, domestic arts, flowers, livestock, and entertainment. Opening football clash between Vega and Adrian high schools. Races including free for all horse race and a county horseshoe tournament, with a carnival continuing through the event.
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Raymond Holbrook Vega
Cornucopia
Panhandle
Oldham County
Simms
Adrian
Wildorado
Vega Kiwanis Club
Vega
Canadian Joint Railroad In Celebration
Massive crowd fills Canadian streets as Hemp hill County and the Santa Fe Railroad celebrate 50 years in the area. The parade features floats bicycle and tricycle races and family games led by C V Terrell and Marvin Jones.
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Canadian Joint Railroad
Canadian
Hemphill County
Santa Fe Railroad
Terrell
C. V. Terrell
Texas Railroad Commission
Marvin Jones
Texas
East
Plains
Amarillo Extends Hand Of Greeting To Clovis Fans
Amarillo greets Clovis football visitors for the opening of the high school season at Butler Field. Clovis Wildcat coach Rock Staubus brings his team and band by special train. Fans gather at the Capitol Hotel for transport to the game scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale at Maxor Drug Store.
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Amarillo
Clovis
Tucker
Butler Field
Rock Staubus
Wildcats
Santa Fe
Wildcat
Capitol Hotel
Clay Thornton
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Hotel
Thornton
Maxor Drug Store
Fisk
Japanese Drive Encircles Chinese Forces Near Peiping
Japanese headquarters report that the Peiping area offensive has captured Chochow and potentially trapped five Chinese divisions along the railway north of the city. Movements from both sides threaten a pincer around Paoting fu as Japanese advances widen with river crossings and rail targets. Chinese sources warn of strong resistance as trains move to deploy Nanking forces to a defense line in central Hopeh.
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Peiping
Chochow
Peiping-Hankow
Yungting
Chuma
Paotingfu
Shansi
Hengyvuan
Tatung
Laihsien
Shansi-Hopeh
Nanking
Hopeh Province
Central Hopeh
Tropical Storm Heads To Coast
Storm warnings were dropped from airplanes for shrimp boats off Louisiana and Mississippi as a tropical storm formed in the Gulf about 300 miles south of Port Arthur and moved northeast at 15 mph. Small craft from Apalachicola to Galveston warned to stay in port. larger vessels advised caution north central Gulf.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Galveston
Tex
North Central Gulf
Coast Guard Air
Biloxi
Miss
Alabama
Florida
Texas
Insurgent Forces Advance South of Gijon
Spanish insurgents and artillery battered a wide breach in government lines south of Gijon, advancing toward Mount Pajares, a 4200 foot peak known as the southern key to Asturias. General Miguel Aranda announced troops were approaching the mountain as shells exploded over government positions.
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Hendaye
Gijon
Miguel Aranda
Pajares
Asturias
Roosevelt to Lead West Coast Trip Next Week
President Roosevelt announced a midweek departure from Hyde Park for a swift Northwest tour ending in Seattle. He will inspect major government projects including Bonneville Fort Peck and Grand Coulee dams with Mrs Roosevelt and a small White House entourage. The itinerary remains flexible with no firm speeches planned and a return anticipated in early October.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
West Coast
White House
Capital
Yellowstone Park
Bonneville
Fort Peck
Grand Coulee
John Boettiger
Seattle
Marvin H. McIntyre
McIntyre
Bremeton Navy Yard
Severe hailstorm hits Roberts County and Amarillo lightning strike
A narrow southeast Roberts County strip endured one of the heaviest hails in years with five inch cloudbusts and hen egg sized stones within 25 minutes. In Amarillo a lightning bolt struck the home of Dr. Sam K. Broyles on Washington Street, shattering a ceiling light and narrowly missing four occupants, who escaped injury. Firefighters extinguished attic insulation fire as rain totals reached about a quarter inch locally and snowless clouds broke by morning.
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Roberts County
Amarillo
Panhandle
Miami
Highway 60
Miami-Candian
Santa Fe Railway
Sam K. Broyles
Washington Street
Chain Moore
Billy J
Canyon
Happy
Tucumacari
Canadian
White Deer
Tascosa
Cadman
MckKibbon
Roosevelt Rallies for Judiciary Reform on Constitution Day
President Roosevelt attacked the Supreme Court as an oddity and urged swift social reform to prevent dictatorship. He warned that constitutional misinterpretation endangers democracy and cited past legal battles from tariffs to civil rights as proof that reform is needed now.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
America
Washington Monument
Lawyers Committee On American Liberty League
Congress
Sinking Land Activity Is Resumed in Idaho
Sinking land near Buhl Idaho resumes after a quiet period with new disturbances half a mile from the original sinking canyon in Salmon River Canyon. Giant slabs of earth and rock thunder into the river as cracks widen on the canyon wall and residents fear continued slides could block the river and flood nearby areas eight miles northwest of Buhl.
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Buhl
Idaho
Little Salmon River Canyon
Tammany Takes Ballot Beating
New York voters deliver a sharp defeat to Tammany old guard as pro Roosevelt candidates gain in the mayoral race. LaGuardia renominated by Republicans while Copeland loses in both parties and Jeremiah Mahoney leads the Democratic primary. Write-ins for LaGuardia surge amid a tense primary season.
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New York
Tammany
Fiorella H. LaGuardia
Royal S. Copeland
Washington
Copeland
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
LaGuardia
Mahoney
la Guardia
American Labor Party
Silverton Girl Goes To Blind Institute
Watertown Mass September 17 Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind hosted the largest gathering of doubly handicapped children with the arrival of Dovie Mae Yocum 15 from Silverton Texas She lost sight and hearing at 11 but retains speech and asks questions followed by the command Hit me upon tapping she knows the answer.
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Watertown
Mass
Perkins Institution
Massachusets
Black Has Drawn Pay For Twelve Days As Justice
The government has paid Hugo L. Black 12 days salary as a Supreme Court justice. A $666.66 check was mailed to his Senate office covering August 19 through month end. The Liberty League revived protests over Black links to the Ku Klux Klan and other officials denied confirming such ties.
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Washington
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Senate
American Liberty League
Roosevelt
Black
Bankhead
Alabama
Jasper
Ala
Patrick Henry Kelly
Boston
Connally
Texas
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Illinois
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Shanghai
Beery
Circus
Odd Justice
David B. Costuma
Board of Elections
Howard Cohen
Jacob A. Livingston
Cohen
Silverton
Blind
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