Nebraska girl and Indiana boy win health test awards
Gertrude Heikes of Dakota City Nebraska is crowned America’s healthiest 4-H Club girl with 99.9 points, while William Sanders of Hopewell Indiana is named healthiest 4-H boy with 99.1. Both praised for fitness and milk drinking habits. smoking and stimulants banned. Altogether 850000 youths entered state contests.
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Gaeaco
Gertrude Heikes
Dakota City
Neb
William Sanders
Hopewell
Ind
Miss Heikes
Breeding Stock Holds Spotlight at Show King Spotlight
The International Livestock Show honors breeding stock as main source of meat supply with grand championship steers awarded to Briarcliff Thickset from Briarcliff Farms Pine Plains New York. Ed N Lux Waldron wins 1931 corn king with Indiana claiming corn championship. University of Illinois presents Sini Major shorthorn calf as reserve steer champion.
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Chicago
Briarcliff Farms
Pine Plains
N. Y
Indiana
Ed N. Lux
Waldron
Churchill Barr
Tipton
University of Illinois
Rock Island Offers Special Low Fares to Oklahoma City
Rock Island gives special low fare round trip excursion to Oklahoma City on Friday and Saturday December 11 and 12. Round trip fares are 7.50 in Tallman coaches with loaner charges. tickets in coaches are 5.50. Rates apply to trains leaving Amarillo Friday evening and Saturday trains morning and evening. Return valid to depart Oklahoma City by 11 25 P M December 13.
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Rock Island Railroad
Amouctees
Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Mexican bishop safe after kidnapping in Mexico
The Rev. Luis Guiznar, Bishop of Campeche, Mexico, was released by bandits near the U S border in El Paso. He said the abductors gave him five pesos and left him near Presidio, Texas, later claiming commissions were formed in Chihuahua to expel priests.
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EL Paso
Tex
Luis Guiznar
Campeche
Mexico
Chihuahua
Father Guiznar
Presidio
Texas
Two headed steer shown in Melbourne
A seven month old steer bred from pedigreed stock arrived in Melbourne Australia. It has two heads meeting at the center of the forehead and four ears and four horns. It uses both heads but eats with only one. It lost sight in one pair of eyes six weeks ago and a showman paid the farmer $500 for it.
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Melbourne
Australia
Pension Club Meeting At Courthouse Tonight
Members of Railroad Employees National Pension Club No. 75 will meet in the district court room of the old courthouse tonight at 7 30. They urge all members and families to attend as time for presenting the pension plan to congress nears. Marvin Brummett left Sunday for Stillwater Oklahoma to study at Oklahoma A and M College with his parents Mr and Mrs Co J Brummett at 1312 Taylor Street for Thanksgiving visits.
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Railroad Employee’s National Pension Club No. 75
Railroad Employees
Congress
Marvin Brummett
Stillwater
Okla
Oklahoma A. & M. College
Co. J. Brummett
Taylor Street
Admission tax hit by theater owners
The Texas Theater Owners Protective Association meeting in Dallas adopted a resolution opposing a federal theater admission or gross receipts tax. It also opposed the Brookhart bill for federal regulation of the motion picture industry. Officers named: Roy Waler president and I S Melcher secretary. Dallas chosen as convention city.
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Dallas
Texas Theater Owners Protective Association
Roy Waler
I S. Melcher
Wabash Railroad Receiver Named By Federal Judge
Federal Judge C B Davis appoints Walter S Franklin president and Frank C Nicodemus Jr assistant general counsel as co receivers for the Wabash Railway Company with petition filed by Fred E Williams attorney for T J Moss Tie Company of St Louis and railroad consent.
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ST. Louis
C. B. Davis
Walter S. Franklin
Frank C. Nicodemus, Jr
Wabash Railway Company
U. S. District Court
Fred E. Williams
T. J. Moss Tie Company
Home remedy for lingering cough with Pinex mix
Cough remedy instructions describe mixing 2% ounces of Pinex with sugar syrup or honey in a pint bottle. Claims include immediate relief, soothing inflamed membranes, and quick end to severe coughs from colds and epidemics with no substitutes. Pinex advertised as pine creosote extract guaranteed to relieve or refund.
Denton Man Named Grand Master in Masonry Conclave
Joe W. Pender of Denton elected grand master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Master Masons at the annual conclave in Waco. Hardy Petty of Terrell was chosen grand high priest of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons.
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Waco
Tex
Joe W. Pender
Denton
Grand Council of
Royal and Select Master Masons
Hardy Petty
Terrell
Grand Chapter of
Royal Arch Masons
Seymour Enjoined On New Power Rate
Federal Judge W H Atwell granted a temporary injunction restraining the city of Seymour from enforcing a new electric power rate ordinance. The action by Texas Electric Service Company claimed the ordinance set a rate designed to drive customers away from its service.
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Wichita Falls
W. H. Atwell
Seymour
Texas Electric Service Company
Municipal Plant Service Rate Dispute Reaches Court
The plaintiff asserts the minimum rate charged by the municipal plant is higher than the company’s rate. Miss Johnnie Louise Gilkerson of 1107 West 19th Avenue will visit Higgins relatives later this week.
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Johnnie Louise Gilkerson
J. FP. Gilkerson
West 19Th Avenue
Higgins
Girls Raid Market For Red Flannel Shirts
New York dispatch notes fashion minded winter athletes raid market shelves for red flannel shirts as a practical layer for cold practice and competition. Fire and street scenes aside the piece highlights athletic girls embracing functional warm outerwear.
Market raiders repurpose red flannel undershirts into outdoor shirts
Raiders scout the market for red flannel undershirts once mocked for granddad wearing them. They cut and transform the fabric into smart outdoor shirts for themselves, showing practical reuse and evolving style.
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Granddad
Japan Government Steel Works Reduces Steel Prices
Japan's government steel works announces price reductions on steel products signaling a shift to lower costs for manufacturers. The move affects various steel grades and could influence downstream industries and market prices globally.
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Japan
Government Steel Works
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