Weather and social notes from Amarillo amid Prohibition debate
The column mixes light weather notes and mock weather for Amarillo with broad remarks on liquor repeal and rising drinking, especially among women and youth. It reports football prospects for the Bandies and Amarillo, praises Dr. Thomson at a Monday banquet, and notes an art exhibit and local social events at the Temps Club.
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Las Temps
Ben Mead
Amy Heirs Jackson
Harold Bughee
Isabel Robinson
Mia
H. G. Hendricks
Lucile Turnley
Betty Zelley
Margaret Seewald
Maria
Helen Mayer Bellars
Lloyd Allbricht
Regina Tatum Cook
Dalhart
Vernon Minter
Les Temps Club
Panhandle
Dear Tack Lost purse and contact offer
A woman seeks help after losing a purse during a town visit. She offers a reward for its return, listing contact addresses in Lincoln and Hayden streets and asking for the purse and keys to be returned. A second note asks for help locating a son’s gold rimmed glasses in a blue case with a name inside.
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Tack
Minnie Patterson
Hayden Street
Tack Tam
West Tenth Avenue
Washington and
Hayden Streets
J C. Penney
Toy Department
Oregon Trail
Potter County
Tack Margaft Jean Newcomer
Swiss Girls Smuggle Curlies Stir Border Tension
Vienna reports Swiss border authorities monitor Swiss girls crossing into Austria for permanent waves. The practice produces tension with Swiss beauty parlors and prompts talk of tariffs, while officers watch for travelers returning with frizzy looks and new waves.
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Vienna
Vorarlberg
Austria
Switzerland
Canton of
St. Gallen
Radio schedule and community notices for Thursday to Friday
A dense radio and daily notices page lists KGNC programs from Thursday afternoon through Friday, including Texas Blue Boys, Matinee Dance Time, Passing Show from WFAA Dallas, World Daytime Revue, The Fairy Princess, and various music and news segments. It also contains reader letters seeking farm work, domestic help, and lost items, with multiple addresses in Texas towns.
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Texas Blue Boys
WFAA
Dallas
Mary Louise Broome
Ed Drake
Jack Armatrong
All American Boy
Archie Blyer
California Governor Merriam Portrait Reveals Steely Resolve
The article portrays Frank Finley Merriam as California’s eighth governor, a former town farm boy noted for a remarkable physique and 16 hour workdays. Described with a deep voice and cautious speech, he projects shrewd leadership learned after succeeding Governor Rolph and defeating Upton Sinclair in 1934. He is a widower with a plain, steady demeanor.
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California
Frank Finley Merriam
Chunky
James Rolph, Jr
Upton Sinclair
Berg
Roosevelt Aims for Short, Early-Ending Congressional Session
Senators Walter F. George and Richard Russell of Georgia said President Roosevelt hopes the forthcoming session will be brief and adjourn between April 1 and 15. They spoke as they left the White House at Warm Springs Georgia.
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Warm Springs
U.P
Roosevelt
Walter F. George
Richard Russell
Georgia
White House
Russell
Australian Planes To Hunt Ellsworth
Australian government to equip two air force planes with wireless floats and skis for an Antarctic search of Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick Kenyon. Prime Minister Lyons telegraphed Roosevelt the move is a gesture of friendship as radio contact failed on the trans Antarctic flight on November 23.
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Canberra
Australia
Air Force
Lincoln Ellsworth
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
Joseph A. Lyons
Roosevelt
America
Fiteworth
Hollick-Kenyon
Contempt Threat Looms Over Hopson in House Probe
Washington December 5 United Press report says Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House utility lobby investigating committee warned Howard C. Hopson former Associated Gas and Electric executive to supply specified income data by December 16 or be cited for contempt of the House.
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Washington
UPR
John J. O'Connor
House Utility Lobby Investigating Committee
Howard C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric Co
Aggie Exes Delay Final Yule Plans
The Panhandle A. and M. Club will confer with the mothers of A. and M. students before final holiday plans in Amarillo. About 20 exes attended a Capitol Hotel banquet, with B. C. Rogers presiding.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Capitol Hotel
B. C. Rogers
Governor Not To Stop Execution
Governor Alfred refused to interfere with the execution scheduled for early tomorrow of Pierson Cantrell, convicted of killing Frank Guy a 70 year old Edgewood farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Alfred Today
Pierson Cantrell
Frank Guy
Edgewood Farmer
Crowd dispersed outside Italian consulate in Boston
Police dispersed a crowd of student demonstrators from Radcliffe Harvard and MIT outside the Italian consulate in downtown Boston. In Nashville Tennessee George Wilbur Moss, 23, one of three convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary, was captured at Tazewell. The others, McCoig and Dean, fled in a car.
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Boston
U.P
Radcliffe
Harvard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nashville
Tenn
George Wilbur Moss
State Penitentiary
Tazewell
Upper East Tennessee
A. W. Neely
Neely
Guy MccCoig
Pete Dean
Oil proration hearing set for December 16
The Railroad Commission announced a monthly oil and gas proration hearing for December 16 in Austin Texas. The report also notes Tolstoy birthplace Yasnaya Polyana in Russia will mark the November 25th death anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Railroad Commission
Yasnaya Polyana
Russia
Leo Tolstoi
Persian minister confronted in Elkton traffic stop protest
Ghaffa Khan Djalal, a Persian minister, was stopped for speeding in Elkton Maryland and protested outside the State Department in Washington. Secretary Cardell Hull and Maryland authorities expressed regret over the incident.
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Elkton
Ghaffa Khan Djalal
Persia
State Department
Washington, D.C
Cardell Hull
Maryland
Kansas City Livestock and New Orleans Cotton Roundup
Livestock trading shows cattle at 3,200 head with weak to lower bids and slow fed cattle demand, veal prices steady, and lambs topping around 10.85 while natives reach near 19.78. Cotton opens higher in New Orleans with December at 11.90 and May at 11.48, amid firmer tone and light buyer interest.
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Der
B.D. A.j
Howe
New Orleans
Liverpool
Dannery
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