Block System On Santa Fe In Operation
The electric lock system on the Santa Fe double track from Pampa through Amarillo to Panhandle is active. Electrically controlled semaphors signal approaching trains with colors and flashing signs, including a train indicator within one mile at Thirty-fourth Street crossing. The line will be fully double tracked and the electronic block system will manage traffic along the entire route.
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Santa Fe
Amarillo
Thirty-fourth Street
Pampa
Panhandle
Trusting shopkeeper shifts from cash register honesty to explanation
Al Mour, once owner of a downtown newsstand in Salt Lake City, built a business on a self serve trust system. He closed the stand after a rival opened nearby and reopened as a flower shop with a stricter pricing policy. Mour says he never lost a nickel and still believes in people's honesty.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
al Mour
Mour
Twisting Into Beauty By Union
Twisting exercises described as a route to a leaner waist and healthier liver with a sequence of twists and reaches. The routine, done daily, should be paired with music for enjoyment. The note ends with a line about Coral replacing jade in popularity in Europe.
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Europe
Legion Spring festival to crown Miss Panhandle and host baby contest
The first annual Legion Spring festival runs April 11 to 28 with a grand prize baby show and a Miss Panhandle pageant in a medieval Court of St James replica. Nominations come from Legion members at Arcade D Amarillo building, babies registered there, and doctors plus nurses will examine entrants. Grand prizes include loving cups and cash. Murry Watts will photograph entries at no charge.
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Court of St. James
England
Legion
Arcade D
Amarillo
40 And
Tri- State Fair Association
Panhandle
Murry Watts
Twice Air Crash Widow Admitted For Observation
Mrs Joy Bright Hancock, widow of two dirigible disaster victims, was admitted to Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia for observation. Her condition was described as not critical.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Joy Bright Hancock
Jefferson Hospital
Debutante Chooses Work Over Society Life In New York
Miss Victoris Frelinghuysen, daughter of a former New Jersey senator, leaves Park Avenue for Fifth Avenue daily to work from 9:36 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. telling people how to tour. Her tax fate remains a secret amid world railway statistics noting 740,000 miles of railways.
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Associated Press
New York
Victoris Frelinghuysen
United States
New Jersey
Park Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Cuticura Healed Eczema on Baby Face and Neck
A Knoxville reader reports eczema on her baby’s face, head and neck cleared in six weeks after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The testimonial from Mrs. Elizabeth Faulkner notes relief, sleep return, and healed skin.
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Elizabeth Faulkner
Rt. 2
Carryton
Tenn
Usi
Northwest Climate Once Was Tropical
Fossil records read by T A Bonser curator of the Eastern Washington Historical museum in Spokane indicate a tropical climate once prevailed in the Northwest. Fossils show plants found in tropical regions and Asia grew here, including figs, ginko, oaks, bald cypress, stinking cedar, incense cedar, silver poplar, sweet gum, elm, laurel, magnolia and persimmon, with many species now absent from Washington.
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Associated Press
Spokane
Wash
T. A. Bonser
Eastern Washington Historical Museum
Northwest
Orient
China
Japan
Washington
South
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Stacy Adams
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Stetson
Johnson
Crisco
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