Three Die in Separate Houston Area Accidents
The week end saw three fatalities from separate road accidents near Houston. Manasi Grafton, 85, of Pearland was struck by a motor vehicle on Houston road while Roy Hincon, 66, died from a head injury after a skidding crash. Clarence Milhelper, 98, of Howaten and Charles Morphy sustained fatal injuries when their vehicle overturned on the Iwerton highway.
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Manasi Grafton
Pearland
Bic
Streck
Gusemeblie
Houston
Hincon
Roy
Skell
Clarence F. Milhelper
Howaten
Charles Morphy
Iwerton
Fliers Reported Safe From Greenland Air Rescue Efforts
An early 20th century dispatch details concern over a Simon-Detroiters flight missing after departure from Quebec area. Communications limited to one station as search teams monitor Greenland coast and inland ice with no word of the pilots since 11 03 GMT.
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Ieee
Eienee
Igre Fu
Rockford
Lake Apiskigamieh
Tes
Que- Labrador
Baffin Land
Ser Hons
Greenland
Mt. Kivans
Island Jo
Unio
Goast
Greenwich
Rate Case Continues With Freight Rate Change Debate
H B Cummings assistant chair man of the Tease veriff bureau notes railroads will not waive 10 day no fee on any commodity rate change. A shippers committee led by Ba P. Byare will work with a railroad committee to map freight rate changes in upcoming hearings. Preliminary statements were given by shippers on what they oppose or advocate, described in technical terms.
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H. B. Cummings
Tease Veriff Bureau
Dal
Ba P. Byare
Worth Freight Buresu
Father heroically rescues child at sea amid peril
A father braved exhaustion to reach the shore with a child in his arms and died not. British railroads warn motor buses threaten travel, causing vote reductions for weekend trips and user impacts as rail services adapt.
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Bae
Local political antics and community notes in Ama
A lively summary of Ada era civics and small town happenings. Readers hear about local campaign practices, charity stories, treasure hunts, treasure hunts, a run off vote urging citizens to participate, and a misdirected vegetable donation incident with Home and neighboring residents.
Mining Engineer Slain in Mexico
The death of American mining engineer Henry Behmidt at the Travador mine in Trinidad Durango was reported to the U S State Department by Consul Jackson Torfion. General Vecobar promised help to locate suspects and recover the body with military support. a colonel was sent to sixteen pluchers to assist.
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Washington
Henry
Behmidt
Travador Mine
Trinidad
Durango
State Department
Jackson Si Torfion
Mexico
Cones Jackson
Generel Vecobar
Jackson
Tori
Wanted dogs and jobs in a busy office note
A fragmented plea describes an office seeking a dog and a capable bookkeeper. It mentions a personal contact offering a setter and a reward for a lost pet. The piece also notes a job-seeking, earnest young man ready to do office work and asks business readers to pass along openings.
Moore County News Letter and Barbecue Invitation
A Moore County News note from R. W. Miller invites Tack to a free annual barbecue and rodeo event on the coming Saturday August 18, amid playful jabs about maps and a satirical verse about states. Other items reference letters about guinea pigs and a humorous fiction style exchange with Tack.
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Amarillo
Tack
Big Boob O
Moore County
R. W. Miller
Mr. Miller
E.R.T
Mr. BE
Rasmus
Panhandle
Pyate
Crossword Puzzle Pi The Yl-letver Center Word and Border Words
Puzzle shows horizontal clues like Plots together and A finger or toe it. Definitions mix archaic spellings and garbled words such as Greedy and To connive et. Includes entries for a widow, loom of fabric, lair of beast, common gannet, mesh of lace and other cryptic terms. Several numbered hints appear with misspellings and misprints unclear from the fragment.
Word Puzzle From Historic Clip
A fragment lists archaic clue style phrases such as Yesterday's Answer, flat fish, fragrant odor, put out by legal process, feather scarf, unit, almost a donkey, house compartment, bulb flower, sour, scattery hay, young salmon, hare, born, and to wander idly about as a set of crossword like entries from a 19th century page.
Indignant Letters and Local Quips In Townpaper
A collection of reader letters and observed vignettes from a small town paper. Contributors rail at socialists and wage concerns, question Mr Kahn’s sales, and joke about a mule and horse misunderstanding, while a reader offers ten dollars for the culprit who damaged a parked car.
Missing Amarillo taxi driver still unaccounted for
Mystery surrounds Lewis Avritt an Amarillo taxi driver missing since August 8 after driving a man to oil fields near San Angelo Police say foul play is feared Telegraphic search extended to western towns but no new leads Avritt’s wife Mrs Avritt and Hammond Taxicab Co report no word from him or the passenger who used aliases and may be an outlaw the last message cited road delays as the reason Avritt reportedly headed toward San Angelo days ago
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Lewis
Mbsrty
Avritt
Amarillo
Los Angelo
H. L. Gaither
Nolan MecCaleb
David Means Dies at 25 in Amarillo Home
David M Means 25 of 1004 Taylor Street died at a local hospital at 10 20 pm after a brief illness. Survived by father A D Means of Iowa City, five sisters including Mrs Will Snider Kalona and Miss Morrow Means Los Angeles, and two brothers Paul Means and G J Means both of Los Angeles. He was a Amarillo brick mason and Methodist. Body to be sent by Santa Fe to Town City for burial under N B Griggs and Sons.
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David M. Means
Taylor Streat
A. D. Means
Iowa City
Will Snider
Kaloma
Morrow Means
Los Angeles
Melvin Justice
David Thomas
Paul Means
G. J. Means
Means
Amarillo
Methodist Church
Santa Fe
N. 8
Griggs and Sons
Town City
Rotary Orchestra Heads to Mineral Wells District Meeting
Ten members of Amarillo's Rotary club orchestra led by Doc Par cells travel to Mineral Wells for a two day district meeting of Rotary International district presidents and secretaries. The group includes Pred Bone Rolla Townsend George M. Waddill W H Matthews Jr Bill Smith John Cunningham Jess Rogers and Jimmy Farwell. They expect to return to Amarillo Wednesday with others having planned to join the trip. Ambitious leaders attempted to establish a dictatorship over Chicago society but failed as the scepter fell and the domain fractured into several.
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Rotary Club Orchestra
Doc” Parcells
Mineral Wells
Dist
Rotary International
Amarillo
Pred Bone
Rolla Townsend
George M. Waddill
W. H. Matthews, Jr
Bill” Smith
John Cunningham
Jess Rogers
Jimmy Farwell
Two Murder Appeals Filed in Austin by AP
The Associated Press reports two murder appeals filed today in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Marshall Ratliff, sentenced to death for killing Taylor County Sheriff G. E Bedford during the Fires National Bank robbery last December, seeks a review. Henry Davis of Mitchell County, given 99 years for killing Ernest Hardin last spring, also appeals.
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Asociates Press
Austin
Appesia
Court of Criminal Appeals
Marshall Ratliff
Taylor County
G. E B. Bedford
Cleee
Fires National Bank
Henry Davis
Mitchell County
Ernest Hardin
Ratliff
Abilene
Goebel Finishes Coast to Coast Flight Despite Fatigue
Goebel arrives after a nonstop cross country trip aboard the Yankee Doodle, reports 8 000 to 9 000 foot legs and winds favorable. He lands at 11 26 a m after circling Curtiss Field, greets crowd, and notes 150 mph average with 9 gallons of fuel left from 450. He telegraphs his mother of the safe arrival. comparison notes Maugham's 1924 21 hour 43 minute non nonstop record.
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Henry Tucker
Santa Monica
Calif
Goebel
Curties Field
Albuquerque
N. M
Wichita
Kans
St. Louis
Columbus
Ohio
Frank
Frank R. Tichenor
Aero Digest
Mines Field
Emma Goebel
Los Angeles
Russell L. Maugham
Maugham
New York
San Francisco
Children Host Play at Tenth Street Church
At Rev. I. B. Walker's invitation children from the Presbyterian Orphans Home will perform The Spark of Life at Sanborn school auditorium Tuesday evening. The show, previously staged at the Tenth Street Church with success, will feature the Bovina Punch and Judy quartet and raise funds for the church building fund.
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I. B. Walker
Tenth Street Methodist Church
Presbyterian Orphans Home
Spark of Life
Sanborn School
Tenth Street Church
Bovina “Punch
Judy
Www
E. Williams
Wilbur Charles
Ross Buckner
8. N. Martin
The Race and the Quiet Evening Walk
A reflective piece on life as a race, urging steadfast focus on one goal while noting the beauty of trees hedgerows clouds birds and ripening trails. The narrator recalls walking alongside Edgar A. Guest’s lines and the illusion of rushing ahead.
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Edgar A. Guest
Markets: Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices Steady to Lower
Kansas City markets report hogs weak with top at 12.10 on 260 215 batches, sows to 16.85, yearling feeders around 13.75, cows to 11.50, stockers 11.60. Sheep lamb demand soft, lambs 13.00 to 14.95, ewes 4.60, cattle calves mixed with steers steady to weak, yearlings 12.50 to 13.75, cows 6.00 to 9.00, stockers 11.50 to 12.75.
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KA City
Kansas City
Cnlves
Emile Fedateers
East St Louis Livestock and New York Market Roundup
East St. Louis livestock figures show hogs at 13 500 head with prices around 12.49 to 12.60 and cattle about 9 000 head with steers bulls at 8.75. butter and eggs prices rise, poultry daily quotes listed. New York cotton prices rise then ease with October near 18.08 and December 18.19 while Liverpool and U.S. stock markets post mixed moves led by rail shares and mixed earnings reports.
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East ST. Louis
Theated Press
New York
Aus
Liverpool
Wih
SF Louis Southwestern
Reading
Island
Canada
Chiveler
Consolidated Gee Eed Radin Afitet Cheméiat
Gen
Ore Motors
Colemble Gav
Ite
Texer & Pacific
St. Part
Silway
Valen Pacific
Wp & Pelst
Lehigh Valley
Rointe
Genees
Women Attend Nomination Events Amid Albany Ceremonies
A large contingent of women including Mrs. Roosevelt's board members and national committee figures will gather for a misty ceremony near Albany as Gov. Smith departs for New York for a series of political briefings. The guest list features Mrs. John J. Raskob, Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, Ida Tarbell, and Congresswoman Mary North among others.
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Emily Newell Blair
National Committee
Agnes Hart Wilson
Congress
Pennsylvania
Mary 7
New Jersey
Elisabeth Marbury
New York
Albany
Gov. Smith
Capitol
Smith
Race Victim To Be Buried at Taylor
Funeral arrangements are set for William Tennill 38 of Taylor following his death in a Taylor race on August 20. He was killed when his car collided on the first lap of a 10 mile event at the local track. Tennill died at the scene as Rammell the other driver arrived.
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Associated Press
Austin
William Tennill
Taylor
Tennill
Rammell
Bie
Mrs Nettie Carden Dies in Denver While Visiting
Mrs Nettie Carden 43 wife of D L Carden of Trinidad Colorado died in her rooms at the Lucerne apartments at 10 45 this morning She is survived by her husband and a daughter Mrs L N Perry of Tucson Arizona The body is held in state at Grigg Sons funeral parlors pending relatives arrival and will be forwarded to Topeka Kansas for burial once relatives arrive
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Nettie Carden
D. L. Carden
Trinidad
Colo
Lucerne Apartments
L. N. Perry
Tucson
Arisons
N. 8
Grigg, and Sons
Topeka
Kansas
Britain to Modernize Telephone System Over Three Years
Britain will invest 125 million dollars over three years to upgrade its telephone network. The plan funds new apparatus, improved trunk services, new exchanges, and rural extensions, with manual exchanges converted to automatic operation.
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My International News Service
London
Britain
Europe
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