Women tackle Amarillo rat plague with calcium carbonate campaign
Miss Allaa May Wright of Portsmouth and Miss Madu Case of Seattle arrived in Amarillo to lead a rat extermination drive. They plan a month of citywide visits teaching owners how to keep rats away and emphasize the economic damage rats cause.
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Pied Piper
Allaa May Wright
Portsmouth
Virginia
Madu Case
Seattle
Washington
Amarillo
United States
Miss Wright
Hawaiian
Alaska
Philippine Islands
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Mise 4c
Panyandhe
Davis Niece Receives 600-Panel Indoor Tennis Court
Alita Davis, 11 year old niece of Secretary of War Davis, receives a $60,000 indoor court from her parents Samuel and Mrs Davis to train in winter tennis. The Marcel Boulicault designed court features a ridge skylight with 600 window panes and 182 floodlights, plus heated dressing rooms and lounges.
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International News Service
ST. Louis
Alita Davis
Dwight F. Davis
Samuel C. Davis
Miss Davis
Davis
Marcel Boulicault
Massachusetts Tax Up In State and Local Levies
The sixth edition of Massachusetts Tax Law and the Public Finance reports total taxes assessed in 1927 rose to 2927 for state, county and municipal purposes, an increase of about 2.5 million dollars. Federal internal revenue taxes in the state declined by nearly four million dollars in the year.
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International News Service
Troston
Massachusetts
Boton Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts Bay Towns Plan Tercentenary Celebration
Boston February 4 plans for the Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary are advancing with 37 cities and four townships forming local committees. Officials expect about 100 towns and cities to participate in the 1920 celebration, with several cities marking their own 300th anniversaries.
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Chicago Grid Team Traveling Schedule
Chicago plans an intercontinental football schedule for the next three seasons. The Maroons will play Yale, Princeton, and the University of Washington Seattle, aiming to rival Notre Dame mentor Knute Rockne as a premier touring coach of the era.
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New York Gangsters Target New England Cities
Portland police link a series of daylight holdups and robberies to New York gangsters fleeing Governor Whalen's crime war. Paymaster Jacob F. Coombs was robbed of $2,000 near the Portland Foundry. he was hospitalized but not seriously hurt. A 21 year old woman, Helen Badesa, is held in Providence for a diamond ring raid. Other incidents include a $1,500 payroll theft at Minerva Lunch Co and a $100 robbery of Napoleon Ledoux of Saco.
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New York
Grover Whalen
New England
Manhattan
Jacob F. Coombs
Portland Foundry Company
Coombs
Maine General Hospital
Helen Badesa
Providence
George T. Springer Jewelry Co
Napoleon Ledoux
Saco
Minerva Lunch Co
Artificial snow solidified by pressure cools ice cream shipments
The text describes liquid carbon dioxide becoming solid as pressure lowers and temperature reaches 109 degrees below zero. Professor Wilkes notes this artificial snow is compressed into blocks for commercial use and is widely used to ship ice cream and other products.
Rail line to land bed is being built near Hamlin
Hamlin Texas February 4 Actual construction of the roadbed for a 10 mile railroad to link Hamlin with Swenson ranch sand and gravel deposits north of town is expected to begin Tuesday with survey complete and right of way secured. The Swenson pits cover over three sections with sand and gravel five to fourteen feet thick and 100 car lots would take 75 to 100 years to remove at current rates. The Moore and Moore Sand and Gravel company of Chillicothe Hardeman county is building the railroad.
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Tex
Swenson Ranch
Moore & Moore Sand and Gravel Company
Chillicothe
Hardeman County
Boozeville Georgia Considers Name Change
A movement in Boozeville Georgia aims to rename the town due to residents’ dislike of the name after prohibition. Citizens have begun discussing alternatives as the idea is pushed locally.
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Boozeville
Georgia
Booseville, Ga
Carbon dioxide snow finds commercial use
Cambridge Massachusetts February 24 Carbon dioxide snow emerges as a new application of artificial cold. Professor Gordon B Wilkes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Physics discusses this latest scientific contribution to industry.
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Cambridge
Mass
Gordon B. Wilkes
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Goose Creek Pioneer Ends Life With Gun
In Goose Creek Texas Justice of the Peace J E Flowers ruled the death of 56 year old O A Samuel a Walk er county pioneer a self inflicted pistol wound personal safety related Samuel was found wounded at a relative's home with a pistol nearby and died Sunday afternoon at Baytown hospital
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Goose Creek
Tex
O. A. Samuel
Walker County
J. E. Flowers
Samuel
Baytown
Condition of Foch Showing Improvement
Paris February 4 United Press report says a communique on Marshal Ferdinand Foch notes his lung condition is improving. His temperature read 100.4 and pulse 84. Four physicians signed the bulletin. Old residents recall the town’s name coming from a pioneer named Booz.
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