Northwest Texas Flourishes Under Santa Fe Rail Lines
A comprehensive review by Tom Gallaher details how the Panhandle and South Plains region transformed from cow country to an agricultural and industrial hub. Santa Fe Railway expansion from 1887 to 1920 opened Gulf and Pacific markets, spurred farming, cotton, dairying, and livestock growth, and built a network with Plainview, Lubbock, Floydada, and Amarillo as centers.
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Lubbock
Floydada
Crosbyton
Lamesa
Seagraves
Gulf
Pacific Coast
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Stockley
Cochran
Briscoe
Castro
Potter
Carson Hutchinson
Hereford
Deaf Smith
Tulsa
Swisher
Hale
Muleshoe
Bailey County
Lamb
West Texas Normal School
Canyon
Wayland College
President Covo Lidge Heads to Chicago Farm Bureau
President Covo Lidge will visit Chicago on December 7 to address the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. His headquarters will be a two story Georgian residence atop the 20 story Sherman Hotel, described as a mid western sky white house with a fireplace, dining room, kitchen, and four upstairs bedrooms.
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American Farm Bureau Federation
Sherman
White House
Derby Entrant Isostasy Possibly Long Shot For 1926 Race
In Frankfort Kentucky fans may need a dictionary if the New York Jockey Club approves Swigert Taylors chestnut colt Isostasy as a 1926 Kentucky Derby entry. Friends say the name will be hard to pronounce and wager upon. The name was suggested by W A Parks a Canadian professor in a poem submitted to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in South Hampton England.
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Frankfort
New York Jockey Club
Swigert Taylor
Taylor
British Association For the Advancement of Science
South Hampton
England
Realism Invades Ranks of Frisco Chinatown Theaters
San Francisco dispatch reports a new stage realism in Chinatown theaters with a Cantonese spoken play The Golden Butterfly using a river scene on screen. Actors react behind the screen as they play out a riverbank setting in the drama. The hero kills the villains in a dramatic water swirl on screen.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
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