First Yuletide in America Not a Happy Event
United Press reports Dean Gleason L Archer explains Plymouth Christmas of 1621 marked by work over worship and conflict over observance. Bradford and Standish debated duties as settlers chose labor or prayer. In the day’s second item, Lower Rio Grande Valley cotton bale total on December 1 rose to 75,516, up 379 percent from 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
United Press
Dean Gleason L. Archer
Suffolk Law School
Boston
General Society of
New York
Plymuth
Church of England
Gow
Standish
Master Bradford
England
William Bradford
Jay di
Governor Bradford
Mcallen
Tex
U.P
Lower Rio Grand Valley
Wild Oil Well Burns Near Houston in Kittrell Field
Flames from Humble Company's Number Three E. T. Shaw well west extension gusher in Southern Houston County burned after more than 70 hours of out of control flow. A 1200 barrel daily estimate, twisted derrick, and oil flooding a nearby creek were reported as two derrick men left minutes before ignition. The incident began as a gasser last Friday and shifted to oil just before the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity
Tex
Humble Company
E. T. Shaw
West Extension
Kittrell
Houston County
Seventeen Cents Per Vote In Kerr County Election
Kerrville Texas December 25 The last general election in Kerr County cost seventeen cents per ballot with total expenditure of 497 dollars and 2941 votes polled.
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Kerrville
Tex
Kerr County
Hashimura Togo in Collier’s stories described by reader
A correspondent from Amarillo recalls Will Irwin’s Hashimura Togo tales in Collier’s weekly before 1918. He notes Togo’s English word coinage and comic, philosophical charm reflecting American foibles, and asks for publication details or book form existence.
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Mr. Tack
Juan Estrada
Will Irwin
Panhandle
Clarendon
Togo
Collier's
Senor Estrada
Hashimura
Help Wanted and Lost and Found Notices Continue
Local column carries a mix of lost items and help offers. Letters seek reward for a missing wallet, a red chow dog, and requests for ironing, work opportunities for students, farm and dairy experience, and a bulldog named Dixie missing near 7304. Names and addresses provided.
Dear Tack Help Wanted and Lost Items Notices
A series of community notices run in a column. A bachelor seeks companionship and help finding a lost Jersey cow. Frank Brown provides contact details. Mrs A L James asks for work for herself and her three children, listing ages and location. Another reader requests a stove a gas heater and a coat or a gas heater, with address listed.
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Frank Brown
North
Buchanan Street
Tack
Oliver Fable
A. L. James
Gillespie Street
Pampa
Texas
Girl
Bay
Baby
North Taylor Street
Overcoat Request From Minister Seeks Size 38 Wearer
A minister appeals for help with clothing and money for small church work. He asks if someone has a spare overcoat size 38 to donate and notes financial strain from serving underserved congregations. A reader is urged to respond to the Tack column for assistance.
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Tack
Weather lore and Tonkawah tales clash in a long letter
A reader chides Tack for dismissing circle around the moon as omen. He cites Tonkawah Indians at Fort Griffin in 1884, recounts floods, battles with the Comanches and Kiowas, and claims moon rings forecast storms and days until their arrival. He recalls Palo Duro Canyon exploits and Fort Griffin factions.
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Fort Griffin
Shackleford County
Texas
Pecos River
Vernon
Palo Duro Canyon
McKinsey
You
Tack
Coat mixup at Rainbow Gardens Dance Hall
A reader reports a brown size 38 coat with a large stitched collar taken by mistake Saturday night at Rainbow Gardens Dance Hall. The owner asks the girl seen wearing it to return it to 745 North Williams Street and take her own coat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rainbow Gardens
North Williams Street
Cleveland uses gas to scare starlings from public square
Cleveland officials announced hydrogen cyanide gas will be used to purge thousands of starlings from the public square. Herbert C. Shamo, head of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said the method targets the birds disturbing building owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
Herbert C. Shamo
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Beaumont High Band Ordered Out Of 1935 Contest
Beaumont Texas Dec 25 Beaumont High School band long time state champion cannot compete in the 1935 statewide band contest due to a rule barring a first place winner from next year's event after six consecutive victories. The Royal Purple Band directed by R A Dhossche will attend to perform but not compete.
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Port Griffin
Fort Griffin
Tack
Beaumont
Beaumont High School
Beaumont Schoolboy
Royal Purple” Band
R. A. Dhossche
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America
By Dean Gleason L. Archer
Houston
Post, Office Department
E. St. Ave
Taylor St
J. M. Hyden
Jessie Dawson Bray
Amarillo
Polk St
Williams Hardware Co
Electrolux
Steen
Amarillo, Texas
Prospect Street
East Twenty-first Avenue
J.M Gast
Red
Pinder
Pierce Street
Mamie K. Doby
Bryan Street
East Tenth Avenue
Bulldog
Dixie
Helen Gill
Clarence Parr
Luther Brown
North Side Station
G.H
Grant Street
the Gas Company
Globe News
Merry Xmas
Tolzien
Polk
Music Store
Yuletide Joy
Panhandle Plains
Globe
News
Penney
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