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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1936
Page
5
Wilson Presley, a former salesman, camps in Mountain Home campaign in county assessor race. He leaves home each Monday to walk the countryside visiting farmers, wood cutters, and store operators and returns Saturdays. Also notes the Pacific railway last spike and a science curiosity about insect leaps.
Absentee voting in Texas runoff primary lagged behind the first primary in Dallas and Travis counties. Dallas County showed 340 ballots, Travis 357, Amarillo 440 about 60 under the last second primary, Beaumont 450, Navarro County 369 up from 329, while Longview Brownsville Corpus Christi Sherman Denison posted lower figures.
Courthouse records show multiple real estate transfers including lots in Bik 186 SJH and Eakle additions for various buyers with prices from 10 to 230 dollars. Vehicle registrations include Chevrolet, Buick, Studebaker and other makes with names linked to owners. Marriage licenses issued to Orvel Bethel with Jewel Lawson and to G. C. Luce with Elna Wickstrom.
Oklahoma Governor FE Marland asked editors to poll readers for input on whether to call a special election on the Henshaw prohibition repeal liquor control measure. In Texas a man named Charley Norman Grigsby died after a 52 foot fall from an oil well derrick near Longview.
The Ohio division of charities faces a custody dispute over 10 year old twins. A Columbus mother seeks help to obtain custody of both girls. The father, who placed them in a Wheeling institution, will surrender only one child and claims the other was sired by another man. The division weighs legality before acting.
Chicago police rounded up more than 100 men in parks and the loop to prevent violence after the hotel killing of Mrs. Mary Louise Trammell. Investigators questioned 27 year old Rafe Swain to determine if he also killed Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle in a similar attack.
Captain Daniel Gilbert of the state's attorney police said the burly negro confessed to killing Mrs. Trammell, according to official statements.
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