Underpass Construction Brings Large Southwest Project
Dirt flies at the Buchanan Street underpass site as a steam shovel digs, pile drivers drill 20 foot holes, and heavy timbers brace tracks for Rock Island and Denver. Oren Speer, once a dry goods merchant in Alvord, now heads a major Southwest contractor working two underpasses and a pavement effort with equipment costs exceeding 50 000 pounds under state supervision and federal funding.
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Buchanan Street
Rock Island
Denver
Oren R
Speer
Alvord
State Highway Department
United States Bureau of Public Reads
AD FOR WIFE NETS 13000 EAGER NOTES
Samuel Frank, an ex minister and Fort Worth educator, claims his list of 13000 prospective brides includes predominantly teachers and nurses. He says ages range from 11 to 103, justifying his mail order search while defending his conduct in a prior case of $125 obtained from a widow. He cites a joke that started his venture and asserts no crime was committed.
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Oakland
Calif
Samuel Frank
Fort Worth
Texas
Dane Cole
Louise Kennedy
Frank
Modesto
James V. Allred
Hopkins Services Will Be Wednesday
Funeral services for RF Hopkins of Dumas who died Saturday in a veterans hospital at Hines will be held Wednesday afternoon in Dumas. Hopkins was a former Santa Fe agent. Definite arrangements have not been made.
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RF. Hopkins
Dumas
Veterans Hospital
Hines
Hopkins
Santa Fe
Garner Catches Largest Fish In His Party
Vice President Garner, sun browned during a vacation fishing trip near Uvalde, caught the largest fish among his party, a four pound channel catfish. He rowed the boat about ten miles. Mrs Garner manages the household and serves as secretary. Wednesday they will be honored guests at the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas, designated Garner Day.
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Garner
Garners
Honor Roests
Dallas
Beverly Sitgreaves a famed actress across three languages
Beverly Sitgreaves, renowned in French Italian and English theater, is slowly recovering from a nervous breakdown after years of stage success. From Paris to London and Australia, she impressed in roles from ingenue to strong supporting parts and later became a noted dramatic coach. Her life intertwined with Sarah Bernhardt friends, major tours, radio work, and a long list of productions, with a curious note on a Paris chapel sale involving Rockefeller and national authorities.
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Beverly Sitgreaves
New York
Richard Mansfield
Beverly
Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
Jean de Rezke
Gal Ne
The
Edward Sheldon
Leo Deitrichstein
London
Moscovitch
Australia
Louis Bennison
Africa
British Empire
Bernhardt
Duse
Beverly Silgreaves
Theater Guild
Shooting Star
Charleston
Rockefeller Restores Versailles and Receives Chapel Gift
The article notes Rockefeller's funds for Versailles restoration and his global philanthropy. It mentions his visits to Versailles, the Legion of Honor award, and a Beaux Arts gift of a small 15th century chapel built by the Duke of Burgundy for Saint Hubert relics. The piece emphasizes his wealth, international service, and the Beaux Arts commission in gratitude.
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Saint Hubert
Chauviery-Le-Chatel
Department
la Hatte-Saone
Rockefeller
America
Tarrytown
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
England
Paris
Hubert
Ogivale
Fifth Avenue
Rist Street
Mayor la Guardia
Versailles
Napoleon
Beaux Arts Department
Charles
Burgundy
Louis the Eleventh
Quentin Durward
Tack Letters Continue From Page Two
A series of community notices and personal appeals seeking employment and help are printed. Contributors describe farm and dairy experience, pet adoptions, child care, housekeeping, and general labor, with contact details across Amarillo and surrounding towns.
Lost dog Shaggie seeks owner reward offered
Mrs. Lloyd Mint appeals for help locating her white curly haired dog named Shaggie. She offers a reward and provides contact details at 307-B Alabama, telephone 2-3582.
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Lloyd Mint
Alabama
Young girl seeks work and barter opportunities
A young woman with housekeeping and waitress experience seeks daytime work only and offers to trade eggs, bacon, chickens, and vegetables for sewing. She can provide references and invites interested readers to call 513 B East Fifteenth Avenue or dial 6124.
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Amarile
North West
Second Avenue
Tack Pease
Tam
Tack
East Fifteenth Avenue
Dial
Mable
Nutsy era parlor game hits parlor with knock knock craze
New York August 3 a nutty era of self amusements brings a parlor game knock knock into fashion with quips like Mollycoddle and Tarzan stripes forever. The piece notes the shift from puzzles to loud, silly play as parlor fun becomes bedlam. It interleaves classified personals seeking work from Burkburnett Texas readers amid the playful trend.
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New York
America
Molly
Tarzan
Bedlam
Ethiopia-Italy clash reported from Djibouti
Paris reports heavy fighting between Ethiopian forces and Italian troops. Dispatches claim Ethiopians may have seized Dessye after a battle with about 7000 killed. Fighting continues with bands of native troops said to have entered Addis Ababa.
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Paris
Excelsior Today
Djibouti
Mrs Hawk Returns From Eastern Visit Aboard Airplane
Mrs Hallie Hawk widow of Wilbur C Hawk is back from an eastern trip aboard an airplane. The item notes her return and identifies her connection to the late Wilbur C Hawk as his widow.
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Wilbur Hawk
Hallie Hawk
Wilbur C. Hawk
Snowfall in Amarillo Delights Colorado Delegation
A carload of snow was transported to the Texas Centennial by a Denver delegation led by former Senator Edward V. Dunklee and Mayor Ben F. Stapleton. The snow, regaining in the 90s Fahrenheit, was shipped in a refrigerator car and used for a snowball fight.
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Amarillo
Texas
Edward V. Dunklee
Ben F. Stapleton
Denver
Traveler returns to Amarillo after New York visit
Last night returned to Amarillo after a two month stay in New York and New Jersey. For five weeks Mrs. Hawk was the guest of her sister at Asbury Park New Jersey. Chic Sale famed for four years as a star of the musical comedy Gay Paree does not sing nor dance.
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Amarillo
New York
New Jersey
Chic Sale
Gay Paree
Contour farm land gains shown in SCS demonstrations
The July 1 report shows 110,980 acres bought into contour tillage on 14 SCS projects, up from 13,000 previously. Terracing covers 33,021 acres, with 216,127 acres planned for contour and 197,307 for terrace. Demonstrations span Dalhart to Liberal Kansas, including Amarillo pasture work and gully control efforts.
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Plains Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Dalhart
G. A. Dobkins
The
Conservation Service
Stratford
Perryton
Channing
Vega
Littlefield
Lamesa
Hereford
Memphis
Clayton
N. M
Springfield
Colo
Guymon
Ohio
Liberal
Kansas
Amarillo
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Britain
Haile Selassie
Sheba
British Museum
Lake Tana
White Nile
Sudan
Feyot
Mussolini
United States
France
Paris Soir
Chauvrey-Le-Chate
Haute-Saone
Savantes
P. S
Saint Hubert Chapel
Standard Oil
A. J. Black
Optometrist
Richard Hogo
Crockett Street
DM. Young
Jackson Street
Filwood Park
Washington and
Polk Stavers
Dear
Speeks Ranch
Lincoln Street
Prospect Street
Seventh Avenue
Tack T
Elliott Brookes
Fort Sumner
New Mexico
Burkburnett
Amarilla
West
S. O. Levin
Rell Weatherford
Room
Andrews Holet
TON W. 16Th
Ave
Sallie Waller
J. H. Bentley
Addif
Harry Benson
Arthur Street
Mary Hynes
General Delivery
Mrs. Hawk
Contour Farm
Panhandle
Carter
C.m.co
Ellin Vision Hyden
Polk
Hunsley
Panhandle Plains
Maweston Ality House
White
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