Days and Wets Mark Time for Hoover Speech
Organized wets and drys await President Hoover's acceptance speech to shape 1932 campaign lines. Some expect a brief nod to the Republican plank on repeal while others anticipate detailed positions on prohibition. Prohibition leader Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie said the President’s move may not alter the overall picture.
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Hoover
Washington
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edwin C. Dinwiddie
Prohibition Board of Strategy
Dinwiddie
Kellogg's Whole Wheat Flakes Promote New Cereal
The ad touts Kellogg's Whole Wheat Flakes as delicious and crunchy. It highlights a large economical package made by Kellogg in Battle Creek and urges readers to ask their grocer for the cereal.
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Kellogg
Battle Creek
Prohibition Issue Shapes Party Strategy Across Elections
Dinwiddie stresses the President has no role in enforcing amendments while anti-prohibition groups press Congressional candidates. Labor aims for cross party votes to repeal or amend the 18th Amendment, as the board focuses on the presidential race and possible further actions.
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Dinwiddie
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Labor's Committee
Congress
Board of Strategy
Man to return found $75 if ever he can repay
William Cross, who lost $75, is told the finder is currently jobless and borrowing the money but plans to repay it with interest when a better day comes.
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Camden
N. J
William Cross
Cross
Venezuelan Visitor Guest of Pleasant Valley Hosts
Mrs. R. L. Bodenhamer from Maracaibo Venezuela visits Mr. and Mrs. J Lawton Smith of Pleasant Valley as their guest.
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Venezuela
R. L. Bodenhamer
Maracaibo
J. Lawton Smith
Pleasant Valley
Ocean Gold Stocks Loom Over Earth Population
A National Research Council study estimates about 28 quadrillion dollars in gold in the oceans, equating to roughly 14 million dollars per person. Extraction remains impractical, costing about 50 thousand dollars and years to obtain five thousand dollars worth of gold from seawater.
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Washington
U.P
National Research Council
Research Council
Curtis Garner in Unique Race for Vice Presidency
Washington reports a historic race between Charles Curtis and John N. Garner for the vice presidency. It would mark the first time a speaker and vice president elect sit together or a vice president defeats a speaker, with the Senate and House to convene next February for electoral vote counting. Garner would be the first speaker to become vice president. Colfax previously did so in 1869.
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Washington
Charles Curtis
John N. Garner
Senate
House
Curtis
Garner
Schuyler Colfax
Indiana
Oil Theft Probe Under Way in East Texas Field
An investigation of oil thefts in the East Texas field was under way today directed by a committee of the American Petroleum Institute.
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Dallas
East Texas
American Petroleum Institute
Judge E C Nelson Jr Away For Day
A sign on the office door advised Judge E C Nelson Jr was out of town this morning and would return Friday.
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E. C. Nelson, Jr
Texas Legion Targets Hoover Vet Policy At Convention
The Texas Department American Legion adopted a resolution condemning President Hoover for ordering troops to eject veterans seeking to lobby for the bonus. Another resolution urged repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and returning liquor regulation to the states. Carl Nesbit of Mineola was elected commander with W Earl Earp of Sweetwater as former leader. Wichita Falls named next convention site.
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Corpus Christi
Hoover
Washington
Texas Department
American Legion
Carl Nesbit
Mineola
W. Earl Earp
Sweetwater
Wichita Falls
Former Highway Worker Sues for Compensation
R. Winkle filed a workmen's compensation suit against the Texas Employers' Insurance Co for $2770 over permanent injuries to his arm from a steel form falling while employed by the Highway Construction Company of Potter County He seeks $13.85 weekly for 200 weeks in a lump sum.
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R. Winkle
Texas Employers’ Insurance Company
Highway Construction Company
Potter County
Mexican jailed here on forbidden weed charges
Angel Lasa, a Mexican national, is jailed on felony possession of marijuana. Deputy John Graves arrested him and County Attorney Rhea C. Myers filed the complaint. The charge classifies marijuana possession as a narcotic felony.
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Angel Lasa
Potter County
John Graves
Rhea C. Myers
Troops Take Over Dixie Bee Mine After Picket Clash
Indiana National Guardsmen move in to assume control of the Dixie Bee coal mine area near Terre Haute after a two day siege by Union pickets. Four hundred miners, without medical aid since Tuesday, are hospitalized. one picket was killed and four injured in a rifle battle.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Dixie Bee
Indiana National Guardsmen
Haggard
Annual stockholders meeting for Clinton-Oklahoma-Western R R Co
The Clinton Oklahoma Western Railroad Company of Texas holds its annual stockholders meeting at the company office in Pampa Texas on Tuesday September 6 1932 between 10 A M and 4 P M The directors meeting follows immediately after the stockholders session Secretary L W Klein signs the notice.
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Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas
Pampa Texas
L. W. Klein
Prospector Quips on Twain and Auto Registrations
In Sonora California on August 4 a note recalls Mark Twain possibly missing a bet while living at Jackass Hill. A separate report notes auto registrations fell nearly three percent in Canada last year.
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Sonora
Calif
Mark Twain
Jackass Hill
Canada
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Philadelphia
Albert Huitt
Associated Press
Texas Legion
Kilauea
Hawaii
National Guard
Harry G. Leslie
Joe Dreher
Velvetized
Plough
Texas State Department of Education
Middle West
Amarillo College OF Music, Inc
Emil F. Myers
Amarillo 14Th
Tyler
Aivemala
Steffen
Gulf
Gulf Territory
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