Amarillo Sets Dates for First Exposition and Stock Show
The first Amarillo Exposition and Fat Stock Show will run March 2 3 4 and 5 1931 after a Monday Chamber of Commerce meeting approved the name and date. Auctioneers from Indiana Oklahoma City and Turkey are expected for sales and six associations back the venture with plans for a large show ring and livestock shipments aided by a spur switch and festival facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Fred Reppert
Decatur
Ind
Earl Garton
Greensburg
Swine Breeders Association
Ed Hare
Oklahoma City
Charles Franz
Turkey
Panhandle
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Wilbur ©. Hawk
P. C. Bennett
Earl Fuqua
Grover Hill
W. E. Bennett
R. T. Alexander
Hereford Breeders Association
W. M. Gouldy
Baby Beef Club
R. E. Prewitt
Canyon, Swine Breeders Association
Roy Cullum
Amatillo Automobile Association
Ross D. Rogers
O. L. Taylor
Col. E. O. Thompson
J. F. Ford
Probe death of Santone grocery man
An investigation was opened into the death of J. J. Cavazos 40 a wholesale grocer of Mission who fell from a hotel fifth floor in San Antonio. Friends said his business affairs were in excellent condition and they feared foul play yet no reason for suicide was known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associa San Antonio
J. J. Cavazos
Mission
Cavazos
Not Tardy a Day After 44 Years at Western Electric
Frank A. Stock retired after 44 years with Western Electric Company in Chicago. He was never tardy, a record highlighted as his long service ends with his retirement announced yesterday by the Associated Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Frank A. Stock
Western Electric Company
Three Killed by Natives of Burma
Burma reports two village headmen and a forest ranger killed as 206 natives attacked two villages near Tharrawaddy. Uncertainty remains about the disturbance’s cause. Also in Fort Worth a Weatherford pair, Lynn A. Boyd and Joe Cableman, die and are injured in a street car collision while traveling by automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burma
The
Associated Press
Rangoon Burma
Tharrawaddy
Fort Worth
Lynn A. Boyd
Weatherford
Joe Cableman
Christmas Tree Beacon Shines From Galveston Wharf
Galveston on December 23 reports the first illuminated Christmas tree since 1854. A giant evergreen, 250 feet high above ground atop a grain elevator on the Galveston Wharf Company, serves as a beacon for ships 36 miles offshore. Seven men and 30 hours of work placed the tree amid Yuletide lights, recalling a holiday tree erected in 1854.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Galveston
Galveston Wharf Company
Pioneer land agent Edwin Searle dies in Los Angeles
Edwin M. Searle 81 longtime Union Pacific land agent who sold over 1.25 million acres in Nebraska in the past half century died of heart disease in Los Angeles. The item notes a grain bin ritual and a port elevator investment of 3 million dollars, and includes a brief Passing Show humor snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Dee
Edwin M
Searle
Union Pacific Railway
Nebraska
Also Mentioned on This Page
Santone Grocery
Hills Bros
Coon
Brunswick Radio
Chester
Polk St
Dal
California
Brazil
Wisconsin
Alc
Graham
STAR
Carton
Brookfield
Howe
Texas
Brown Cracker and Candy Co
E- Reeves
Libby
Heinz
Canada
Scholl
Schilling
Iowa
Hershey
East
Snow
Office Boy
Brown
Walnuts
Metzger
Fowlkes Bros
Pierce Street
Eighth Street
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!