Prairie birds open season and Washburn post office return
The season opens Saturday with more prairie chickens than last year and doves more plentiful than in years. A local cowman predicts cow prices will double in two years while Washburn gains back its post office with Henry P. Calvert as postmaster amid a celebratory turnout led by Harry E. White.
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Big Bull Ranch
Washburn
Henry P. Calvert
Old Tack
Mar- Jones
Marvin
Washington
Calvert
Post Office Department
Donations for Bus For Children's Home
Local notices list donors for the Bus for Children's Home campaign with many names and small contributions. The column also includes social commentary on politics and community events, plus a lost wristwatch report and local letters on economy and agriculture.
Letter to Tack Praises Amarillo Police or Critique
A reader from Castro County writes to Tack praising or criticizing the Amarillo police department. The letter appears in the Letters section and refers to local law enforcement efficiency or deficiencies. It signals community debate over policing in Amarillo.
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Tack
Amarillo
Castro County
Texas Relief Probes and Budget Outlook For Winter
The Texas relief plan projects heavy winter needs as rents light and fuel rise. Medical care costs about 1 million annually while the average budget may jump from 10 12 to around 20 and total needs could reach 44 million through April. A Houston representative asks the FERA to report relief contributions by state and fairness in distribution.
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FERA
Texas
Rolland Bradley
Houston
Sinclair Drops Socialism Heads For FDR Parley
Pasadena California August 31 Upton Sinclair Democratic nominee for governor renounced socialist labels as he boarded a Santa Fe train for Hyde Park North Carolina to visit President Roosevelt. He declared I am a Democrat from now on out and said he has come forward with a definite program and dropped all other labels.
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Pasadena
Cal
Upton Sinclair
California
Hyde Park
N. C
Roosevelt
City Gains Top Milk Enforcement Rating in Amarillo
Amarillo and Dallas tie for first in milk law enforcement ratings for Potter County. The health unit led by Jack Wyatt and Lewis Dodson reported 99.5 per cent overall, with full marks in most departments except labeling and tags of milk cans at 90 per cent.
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Amarillo
Dallas
Potter County
M. Pierson
Jack Wyatt
City County Health Unit
Lewis Dodson
Health Unit
Giant sassafras tree toppled in Missouri wind storm
In Boonville Missouri on August 31 a massive sassafras tree believed to be the oldest in Missouri and the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi was blown down. The tree measured 134 feet in girth and stood about 50 feet tall.
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Boonville
U.P
Missouri
Mississippi River
Sandusky papers to present sailing club trophy
Sandusky Newspapers Inc publishers of the Star Journal and the Register will award a permanent trophy to the Sandusky Sailing Club to be contested annually in the Sandusky Bay regatta.
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Sandusky
Ohio
U.P
Sandusky Newspapers, Inc
Star-Journal
The
Register
Sandusky Bay
Strikes Cause Confusion as Southern Mills Face Walkout
Workers across Georgia Alabama and the Carolinas debate the looming strike while New England and Connecticut and New Hampshire factions show mixed support. Police prep with riot gear as Secretary Perkins weighs relief decisions and Roosevelt watches developments from Hyde Park.
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South New England
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Georgia
Alabama
Carolinas
Ford
Harry Hopkins
Frances Perkins
Decatur
Ala
North Carolina
Gorman
New England
Roosevelt
White House
Hyde Park
N. Y
Rainfall spreads across Texas and Canadian cold snap follows
Heavy precipitation marked the latest wet spell with some areas recording up to two inches. Texico to Sweetwater saw widespread rain while Colder air moved south from Canada. Edmonton noted 34 degrees and Helena 44 as Amarillo posted a low of 68, two degrees above last night.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Texico
Sweetwater
Lubbock
Canada
Hart
Castro County
Fort Worth
Denver
Pampa
Skellytown
Collman
South Dakota
Canadian Northwest
Edmonton
Helena
Mont
Amarillo
The Bobby Robinson Path From Midwest Beginnings to NRA Role
Miss Robinson known as Bobby rose from Midwest roots and a convent education to work at RCA and the Democratic National Committee before joining General Johnson as secretary and later executive assistant as NRA began. Her 16 hour days and rising prominence illustrate a Horatio Alger style ascent in Washington.
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Horatio Alger
Miss Robinson
NRA
Bobby
Robbie
Midwest
Radio Corporation of America
New York
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
Washington
Johnson
Democratic Committee
Tin Geese give way to modern Douglas airliners
The article contrasts the Ford tri motor aircraft known as the Tin Goose with the newer Douglas airliners. It notes the Ford fleet carried about a million passengers, logged millions of miles, and influenced early air travel, while the Douglas offers faster transcontinental flights, quieter operation, higher capacity, superior instruments, and greater altitude and efficiency as the successor.
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Equator
Andes
Ford
Douglas
Fords
TWA
Pickford Fairbanks reconciliation rumors denied
Mary Pickford prepared to fly to the National Air Races in Cleveland while Douglas Fairbanks was absent. The couple’s rumored reunion was dismissed as greatly exaggerated by Pickford in an interview with reporters.
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Hollywood
Screenland
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Miss Pickford
Cleveland
Fairbanks
Patrol to stop hot oil on East Texas highways
Kilgore August 31 Texas Railroad Commission agents patrolled roads out of the East Texas oil field to enforce orders requiring tenders on petroleum products. FE N Stanley head of the East Texas division said trucks carrying oil would be checked to enforce the rule.
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Kilgore
East Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
FE. N. Stanley
Commission
Clipper Sets Pace For Southern Air Traffic
The American Clipper, a 19 ton flying boat, rested at its Miami moorings after completing a 15,000 mile maiden flight from Buenos Aires to Miami. It now shortens Buenos Aires to Miami time from seven to five days and brings Rio de Janeiro within four days of Florida by dropping into Biscayne Bay.
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Miami
Fia
America
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Florida
Biscayne Bay
Son of Vega Couple Dies in Minister's Home
James Eldon Pingel two week old son of Mr and Mrs C L Pingel Vega died at 1 oclock this morning at the home of Rev H R Frerking 314 Alabama Street The body is in state at N B Griggs and Sons chapel pending funeral arrangements He is survived by his parents two brothers and four sisters
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James Eldon Pingel
C. L. Pingle
Vega
H. R. Frerking
Alabama Street
Griggs and Sons
Windy City Woman Faces Court Over Nude Dance
In Chicago on August 31 Rosita Royce was arrested by exposition censors for dancing at the World's Fair without a figleaf. She will plead defense in women's court citing wind as the cause.
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Windy City
Chicago
Rosita Royce
Allred Announces Resignation of Assistant AG Everett Johnson
Attorney General James V. Allred announces the resignation of assistant Attorney General Everett F. Johnson. Johnson will return to San Antonio to join the law firm Johnson Slatton Rogers and Johnson.
Extortion Letter Targets First Family With Ransom Demand
A White House mail incident led to the arrest of Varn as he left a YMCA. The letter demanded 168000 in mixed denominations under threat to harm the President and the Elliott Roosevelts including their two month old baby. The note warned of harm to "Sissie" and "Buzzie" if payment failed. Also mentioned a new autogire developed in England that can hover and land on a tennis court.
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White House
Secret Service
Sissie
Buzzie” Dall
Elliott Roosevelts
Varn
England
City of Amarillo to Demo Flights Over Amarillo Canyon
Prominent Panhandle business leaders invited to ride Transcontinental Western Air’s new Douglas airliner City of Amarillo during Sunday demonstrations over Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon. Flights run 2 to 4 pm with ceremony at English Airport under Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.
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Panhandle
Transcontinental Western Air
City of Amarillo
Amarillo
Palo Duro Canyon
TWA
English Airport
Chicago and Kansas City Market Roundup August 31
Chicago grain prices for wheat corn oats and barley show mixed calls with Sep contracts near stable. Kansas City Livestock reports hogs cattle calves and sheep trading steady to lower amid drought effects and varied feeder prices. New Orleans cotton opened slightly easier with hedge selling following the market call.
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Chicago
Dee
Kansas City
New Orleans
Liverpool
Sterling Exchange
Market dips and holiday quiet on futures trading
Futures prices fell early with October down to 13.0 and December at 18.10 or 4 to 7 points below the prior close. By mid session December steadied around 13.19 while October hovered near 13.09 as shorts covered ahead of a holiday.
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Hudson Motor Co
Venetee Ea
Internal Harvester
Kelvinator
Kennecott
Loew's
Iweewee
Texas
Ken
Montgomery-Ward
Vawee
Nat Distillers Serene
National Steel
Central
North Amer Aviation Pray
North American Co
Northern Pacific
Ohio Oil
New York
Asf Ae
Dno
Clark and Co. Packard
A - Penney Co
Vennsylvania RR
Ener
Cloee Phillips
Soneta
T. Pure Oil
Alaska
Juneau
Amer
Amer Smelt
Seer
St Joseph
Lee
Seaboard
Amer Tel & Tel
United
Schulte
Nam Armour & Co
Seare Roebuck
Atchison Top & S&s F Ween
Auburn Auto
Southern Railway
Ife Standard
Barnedall
Gt Standard Gas & Fler TM
Standard
Tide-Water Assn
Calanese
Chi Rock Island
Trans-America
Chrysler
Columbina & Flee
Union Carbide Rat
Union
United Aircraft
Wee Tee
Comwith
South Steneees
United Gas
Dome Mines
Uu S Steeleee A Ms
Ml. du Pont
PON
U S Steel
Ekastman Kodak
Klee Auto
Westinghouse Flee
Klee Power & Lite
Ayy Woolworth
Freeport
BAN Gen Motors
Teeee
Gulf Oo
Gillette Rae Sereenene
Humble Oil
Goodrich
Penn Road
Aes Goodyear Steer Oy
Swift
Sen Ea
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