State tolet 10 millions in highway work
The Texas highway system released a tentative list of road and bridge projects totaling about 10 million dollars. Bids will be sought in September and October, with a September 18 19 meeting and no October date yet. Projects include grading drainage and paving across multiple counties and a Fort Worth overpass. Parachute jumper Almeda Babcock, widow of a fallen jumper, remains in the field.
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Gray
Pampa
Donley
Hansford
Hutchison
Ochiltree
Motley
Matador
Cottle County
Hall County
Oklahoma Line
Perryton
Moore
Potter County
Dumas
Wilbarger
Fort Worth
Denver City
Antiknock Gasoline From Seal Reported
Denver dispatch notes Dr. Gustav Egloff reports to the American Chemical Society that sixty percent of Pribiloff fur seal oil becomes anti knock gasoline after laboratory work at Universal Oil Products in Chicago. The seal also yields road asphalt, diesel oil, illuminating gas, and water, with discussion of petroleum origin theories and potential wider uses.
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Denver
Pribiloff
Gustav Egloff
Universal Oil Products Company
Chicago
Egloff
American Chemical Society
Lelia Lake Suspect Posted $2,000 Bond for Post Office Larceny
E. R. Annis an Oldham County farmer posted a $2,000 bond and was released from Potter County jail on a charge of intent to commit larceny of the Lelia Lake post office on August 13. James Leland alias Walker of Oklahoma City, jointly charged, could not make bond. Both men had been in a hospital after an automobile crash during a police chase.
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E. R. Annis
Oldham County
Potter County
Lelia Lake
James Leland
Walker
Oklahoma City
Annis
200 Farm Club Delegates End Yearly Confab
Two hundred farm club women and children and 4-H workers from Potter Carson Randall and Armstrong County concluded a two day encampment at Jack Hall's Ranch. The event featured education and amusement, with Bill Lampe addressing about improvements for the Tri-State Fair and the September 19 to 24 schedule. Randall County delegates missed part of the two days due to date conflicts, Armstrong County attended midweek, and Potter County organizers led arrangements in Brady Bushland River Road.
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Carson
Randall
Armstrong County
Jack Hall
Mary Litton
Potter County
Margie Lyon
Panhandle
Bill Lampe
Tri-State Fair Association
Randall County
Potter County Club
Carl Hill
Bushland
O. A. Blankenship
A. C. Roddy
Brady
Bob J. Johnson
River Road
Hoover Seen as Dry Ally
Washington reports President Hoover finds common ground with prohibitionists in a letter to Dr. Daniel A. Poling. Poling, who endorsed Hoover for re election, called Roosevelt personally dry and politically wet. The Allied Dry Forces say the endorsement signals a rising national tide affecting many states.
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Washington
Pesident Hoover
Daniel A. Poling
Allied Dry Forces For Prohibition
Poling
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country Club Park to Get Sanitary Sewer Project
City engineer E N Stanley said a new sanitary sewer for the Country Club Park addition will start soon after work on a storm sewer at Seventh Avenue and Taylor Street. City crews finish 450 feet of pipe and six catch basins as pavement replacement proceeds. The addition joined the city after a special election about a year ago. Project cost is estimated around 400 dollars.
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Country Club Park Addition
E. N. Stanley
Post Office
Seventh Avenue
Taylor Street
Country Club Park
Amarillo Country Club
Buchanan School Sets Attendance Record at Health Parleys
Buchanan Street School leads in health conference attendance after a season of meetings in Summer months. At the Buchanan School last week, 65 preschool children were examined by health unit doctors and nurses and dentists from the Amarillo Dental Society. One of the season’s final conferences was set for Thursday at Margaret Wills School.
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Buchanan Street
Buchanan
Amarillo Dental Society
Margaret Wills School
Bank note issue warning and river story mix
The board warned that issuing more national bank notes would merely substitute currency for Federal Reserve money, signaling caution if banks exploit the new law. In Canada, Aboriginal trackers killed a large black bear with a pole, the bear drowned after the pole was driven into its neck as the party saw brain swimming ahead. China reports a 1931 flood affecting a farm population comparable to the U S farming population.
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Federal Reserve
Canoe Lake
Brain
Federal Reserve Says Expansion Power Largely in Few Hands
The Federal Reserve Board reported that the billion dollar currency expansion authority granted to national banks under the Glass-Borah amendment is concentrated in a few large banks. If fully exercised, it would affect the Federal Reserve system’s influence on the general credit situation as outlined in its monthly business review.
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Federal Reserve Board
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