Rekab the Great to perform packing box escape at Municipal Auditorium
Rekab the Great will appear in two shows at Municipal Auditorium on Wednesday with a matinee and night performance. In a sensational act, he will be sealed inside a packing box that Long-Bell Lumber employees built and plan to nail shut, and police will handcuff him before the escape. The display box is on view at Peerless Furniture Company 709 Polk Street and the 4 pm Tuesday performance is free to the public. The Wednesday matinee is billed for school children.
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Rekab
Municipal Auditorium
Globe-News
Long-Bell Lumber Company
Peerless Furniture Company
Polk Street
W. R. McDowell
Globe
El Paso Man Survives 150 Foot Drop Into Volcano Crater
Berlyn Brixner, 21, fell 150 feet into an extinct volcano crater 57 miles west of El Paso after the rope broke during a descent. Rescuers pulled him to the surface hours later in Lanark New Mexico. He suffered a broken ankle, scalp wounds, possible internal injuries, and was delirious. He formerly studied at the University of Texas and worked as a lab assistant to an El Paso physician. His father is mining engineer H. R. Brixner of Rodeo New Mexico.
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EL Paso
Berlyn Brixner
Lanark
N. M
Bert Morris
Brixner
Young Brixner
University of Texas
H. R. Brixner
Rodeo
Day 18 Flu Patient Confined at Home in Memphis
DAY 18 flu patient Bill Day secretary of the chamber of commerce confined to his home 700 Bellview with flu not dangerous. Mason King Globe News plans to attend Memphis Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday noon as principal speaker. Admission 10 cents for students with ad ticket. night show at 8 15 featuring Rekab.
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Bill Day
The
Chamber of Commerce
Bellview
Mason King
Globe News
Memphis Rotary Club
Winter in Arizona and a Derby of Cars and Logs
A vivid vignette of desert travel by car at speed with a sax of contrasts. The piece recalls old wagon days, Northern Arizona winter scenery, and a tale of Harry Hartz the 1927 AAA champion winning the Indianapolis 500 as the silver cup looms large. It includes reminiscences of Edsel Ford and Walter Chrysler as royal pace-setters in the era.
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Arizona
Harry Hartz
Indianapolis
Tiffany's
Miller Hartz
Fred Fraeme
Hartz
Henry Ford
Ford
Edsel
Walter Chrysler
Chrysler
Henry Ford dominates racing and a string of odd notes
The article recounts Henry Ford defeating Harvey Firestone 3 to 0 in a race, Ford insuring 30 racers for ten thousand dollars each years ago, Winslow mail plane progress, Donald Nesbitt of Quemada New Mexico named world champion cowboy with 3450 points, a Turkish gold find near Mount Ararat, and Chicago's charity convenience shop with a woman asking for a bow via telephone.
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Mr. Hartz
Henry Ford
Harvey Firestone
Firestone
Ford
Detroit
Winslow
Arizona
New Mexico
New York
Albuquerque Journal
Rodeo Association of America
Donald Nesbitt
Quemada
N. M
Mount Ararat
Kagizman
Turkey
Boy Walks Pup On Rainy Night Sparks Civic Gloom
A boy too young to earn money is seen walking a dog in a rainstorm while the dog’s owner accompanies them to prevent harm. The scene prompts commentary on civilization and calls out the notion of hiring a pup to walk a boy, with a hint that cruelty societies might intervene.
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Cruelty Society
Purse Looting Claimed By Coma Patient On Train
Mrs Helen Baker 23 of Oklahoma City said $300 vanished from her purse on a passenger train between Oklahoma City and Houston. She recovered from a coma at a Houston hospital and reported the loss after awakening near a railroad station, recalling only passing through Waco.
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Houston
Helen Baker
Oklahoma City
Waco
Stop a Cold on the First Day Grove's Bromo Quinine Ad
An old time ad touts Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine as a quick cold remedy. It claims the formula opens the bowels kills germs and fever relieves headache and tones the system. Available today in pocket size box at druggists.
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Grove
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