Weather notes and fishing tales from Fort Worth era
Rain showers brew into a possible rainy spell as readers get a candid, humorous field note on weather, fishing antics with Jack Lamb and a fish hook accident. The column blends casual weather chatter with anecdotes of fishing prowess, full moon effects, and local social tidbits about weddings and curiosities.
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Mr. Lamb
Tamb
Marvin Jones
Jude Wilson
Pred
Tepe
Mason King
Mrolf
Judge Wilson
Mason
Marvin
Tack
Wilson
Lamb
Jack
Tickets Sold Out For Piano Concert Here
Tickets for the Ten Piano Concert at the Musical Arts Conservatory of West Texas are sold out per Jadys M. Glenn. The Ensemble Club presents the program at Playhouse 1800 Harrison Street tonight and tomorrow, featuring Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies and works by Weber, Chanson, Sibelius, Schubert, and Ellington. Proceeds aid Americans and Dallas-bound trip funds.
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Musical Arts Conservatory
Jadys M. Glenn
Recaliar
Tomoorrow
Ensemble Club
The
Musical Arts Conservatory of
West Texas
Harrison Street
Lisers
Conservatory
Tolmen
Amarillo spelling team seeks volunteers and practice sessions
A call goes out for persons to join Amarillo spelling efforts and meet River Road team in a spelling contest. Two practice sessions are planned in Porter County courtroom with volunteers needed to fill in and help with coaching and reading. Practice nights are Thursday and Wednesday, with some spellers already selected from student and adult programs.
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Potter County
Girl Held From Funeral In Mother Slaying Case
Seventeen year old Gladys Mar Knight cannot attend her mother’s funeral as she is accused of killing her. Attorney R Lewis Kennedy described the girl as confessing while police Chief Cornelius O Neill said she confessed during questioning from 9 30 p.m. to 3 30 a.m. Donald Wightman her sweetheart cried as he spoke. The slain mother was said to have brandished a breadknife during a quarrel over an early supper and Gladys struck her mother several times with a hatchet. Private services will be held tonight for Mrs MacKnight.
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Bayonne
N. J
Gladys Mar- Knight
R. Lewis Kennedy
Cornelius 4
O'Neill
Donald Wightman
Glacys
Kennedy
Wightman
Edgar W. MacKnight
Cable Company
Gladys
Harley Sadler Presents The Play Without a Name Tonight
Harley Sadler Company opens with a comedy drama titled The Play Without a Name offering eight vaudeville acts and Eddie Lee orchestra numbers. Ladies admitted free tonight and tomorrow. prize offered for best play-name suggestion. The run runs a week in Amarillo, with The Siege of the Alamo staged on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Harley Sadler
Eddie Lee
Sadler Company
the Alamo
Republic of Texas
Sadier Company
Amarillo
Hanson Post
The
American Legion
Fourth Avenue
Jefferson Street
Waistline focus in New York fall fashions
Worry over waistlines dominates advance fall styles in New York. Designers show day and evening frocks that emphasize slender waists without discomfort. Full busts return with shirring and jeweled clips highlighting the upper figure, hips trimmed, necklines high, and shoulders enhanced by shirring.
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New York
Cream of
Tommy May Weds Nancy Carroll in New York
Tommy Manville Jr a millionaire playboy famed for multiple marriages returned from Europe aboard the Normandie and declared he had asked Nancy Carroll film actress to become wife number five though still married to Marcelle Edwards. He claimed a definite understanding for a divorce and noted Nancy in Paris as his intended wife.
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New York
Tommy Manville
Europe
Normandie Today
Nancy Carroll
Tommy
Marcelle Edwards
Tsaw
Nancy
Paris
Manville
Kinlaces to Reston for Patti Kinade Hospitalized
Mr and Mrs A W Kinade and family with Mrs Kinade's mother plan to travel to Reston this week then Patti Kinade will be admitted to a hospital there Patti Jo Kinade was injured in a prior accident last fall The family will visit in Bowton before Patti's care Civil docket for Potter County court cases set to begin this week with a sparse criminal docket. Judge N Riggs presiding and limited trial expected later this month
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A W. Kineade
N Riggs
Potter County
On the Air with KGNC Evening Radio Schedule
Radio listings outline KGNC Monday to Tuesday schedules with multiple program blocks from 2:30 to 11:90, including Organ Reveries with John Josey, Dance Matinee, The Fairy Princess, News Commentary, Sports Review, Hal Kemp Orchestra, U. P. News, Texas Club, and 1945 Ma Perkins among varied music, dramas, and news segments.
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John Jones
Harley Sadler Talent
Babs
Hal Kemp
Roland Amythe
Sid
Ivaugh Veazey
Steamboat Bill
Charrles Magnant
Andy Kirk
Francis Nevins
James Landry
U. P. News
Ma Perkins
Tommy Dorsey
Carson Robison
Wayne King
Flying Dutchman
Bertrand Hirtich
Betty
Bob
John Josey
The
Texas Rangers
Chamber Seeks Cooperation With President's drought tour
The Chamber of Commerce urges agencies to cooperate with a drought relief commission arriving August 18. An agriculture committee led by Walter Barlow will meet Chamber directors to align data with the commission, with local officials and experts including Dr. Finnell Geibe Hau ter Hill Rogers Fuqua Olver and Duke, plus Congressman Jones to greet the delegation at Amarillo.
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Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture Committee
Walter Barlow
Grover Hill
H. M. Bainer
Santa Fe
Drouth
H. H. Finnell
H. V. Geibe
L. MH. Hauter
Resettlement Administration
John F. Hill
Ross D Rogers
W. H. Fuqua
A. N. Olver
F. R. Duke
Marvin Jones
Roosevelt
Amarillo
Texas
Dakotas
Morris L. Cooke
Rural Electrification
Important Commission
Rexford Tugwell
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
John Co. Page
Bureau of Reclamation
Col
Richard C. Moore
United States Army Engineers
Frederick H. Fowler
National Resources Committee
H. H. Bennett
Soil Conservation
Guy Saunders
Capitol Hotel
Foust 50 Dies. Funeral Set in Clarendon and Sedan
G. T. Foust, 50, died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque after a three week stay. Funeral services will be held at Boxwell Brothers chapel tomorrow with burial in Sedan, New Mexico. Survived by two sons Roy and C. T. Foust, and two daughters Mrs. J. A. R. Johnson and Mrs. A. V. Coalewell, all residents of Clarendon.
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G T. Poust
Clarendon
Presbyterian Hospital
Albuquerque
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Sedan
N. M
Roy
CT. Foust
J AR Johnson
A. V. Coalewell
Ufer Artist Dies at 17 After European Study
Art prodigy Walter Ufer died in Santa Fe New Mexico at age 17 after working to reach Europe to study painting. A Taos artist since 1916 he fell ill July 27 from appendicitis his appendix burst causing peritonitis. funeral plans awaited his wife arriving from Minneapolis.
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Santa FE
N. M
Walter Ufer
Europe
United States
Taos. N. M
Ufer
Minneapolis
Lily Pons Afraid to Name Wedding Date
Opera star Lily Pons arrived in Hollywood with Andre Kostalanetz and again dodged questions about a wedding date. In New York she hinted a Hollywood ceremony, but she blushed and refused to specify when.
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Hollywood
Calif
Lily Pons
New York
Andre Kostalanetz
Manhattan
No Skin Blemishes Says Black and White Ointment Ad
An old advertisement touts Black and White Ointment as preventing pimples and bumps for over 29 years. It claims the product smooths skin when used with Black and White Skin Soap, with a trial size and large can available through druggists.
Coughlin vows to oust Communists from top posts in New England
In New Bedford and East Providence on Aug 31 Rev. Charles F. Coughlin denounced Roosevelt and Hoover, praising past actions against Hoover while pledging to remove a Communist from the White House seat. He attacked the New Deal as surrounded by atheists and radicals and argued neither Landon nor Roosevelt offered real choice between gold and dole standards.
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New Bedford
Mass
Charlies F. Coughlin
Detroit
New England
Washington
Herbert Hoover
White House
National Union For Social Justice
East Providence
R. I
Stalin
Secret Service
Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mr. Landon
Mr. Roosevelt
Buddy Rogers Visits Amarillo Before Chicago Flight
Dance orchestra leader Charles Buddy Rogers passed through Amarillo by plane this morning on his way to Chicago. He spent about ten minutes in town and phoned his mother in Olathe Kansas near Kansas City during a brief stop.
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Charles Buddy Rogers
Amarillo
Chicago
Olathe
Kansas
Kansas City
Heaviest Car Loads Since 1931 Reported
Washington reports the first 30 weeks show 19,416,417 freight cars loaded, up 11.7 percent from last year but 11.9 percent below 1931. Farm product shipments surged with grain and grain products totaling 1,097,183 cars, up 30.7 percent over 1935.
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Washington
J. J. Pelley
American Association of Railroads
Association
Roskob Arrives Home After Illness From Yellowstone
John J. Raskob former Democratic national committee chairman arrived at St Vincent's Hospital in New York on a stretcher from a train after knee arthritis sidelined him for over three weeks during a Yellowstone vacation. The guardian police man described him as very sick.
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New York
John J. Roskob
Yellowstone National Park
Democratic National Committee
St. Vincent's Hospital
Raskob
Anne Belle Waggoner Granted Divorce in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Aug 30 A special district court session granted Mrs Anne Belle Waggoner a divorce from Guy L Waggoner. A prearranged property settlement was approved and her request to resume the maiden name Anne Belle Stinnett was granted. They married in 1928 and separated in 1931.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Anne Belle Waggoner
Guy L. Waggoner
Mrs Waggoner Testifies Husband Absent Without Explanation
Mrs Waggoner testified that her husband left for long periods without giving an explanation, detailing disruption to the household and concerns over his absence.
Jones protests Texas PWA fund allotment request
Congressman Marvin Jones wired Washington officials protesting the lack of PWA funds for Texas. He argues skilled labor remains a small percentage of needed labor and urges modification of the order to allow allocations for deserving projects. He emphasizes the public need to complete projects and equal treatment with other states.
Spain Acts to Halt Bank Withdrawals and Rents Cut
Madrid authorities proclaimed civil measures to quell the revolt starting in Spanish Morocco. President Azana signed a decree cutting rents by 50 percent for homes under 201 pesetas monthly, arguing most Spaniards already pay far less than that amount.
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Spain
Madrid
Spanish
Morocco
Manuel Azana
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