City Awards Water Works and Park Contracts
The city awarded two contracts for the municipal water works extension and one for park improvements at a special session. Worthington Pump and Machine Co. will furnish an eight million gallon daily pump for 564 via A M Lockett Co. Sullivan Machinery of Chicago gets the air compressor bid of 9642. Morrison Supply of Amarillo wins sprinkling system for Sanborn Park at 1748.
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Municipal
City Commission
Municipal Water Works
Worthington Pump and Machine Company
A. M. Lockett Company
Dallas
Sullivan Machinery Company of
Chicago
Water Works
Morrison Supply Company
Amarillo
Sanborn Park
Cotton and Corn Champs Leave San Antonio on Valley Tour
Cotton and corn champions of the South depart San Antonio for a Rio Grande valley tour. They toured the Alamo missions Fort Sam Houston and Kelly Field and visited a large Hereford herd at La Coste. The trip includes Edinburg Harlingen Brownsville and Matamoras with a wreath for John W. McFarlane in Palestine.
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United Press
San Antonio
Tex
South
Rio Grande
Ship school urged in Texas bill for seamen training
Texas Senate panel favors a bill by Senator Cousins to create a Gulf port ship school for Texans with a $75,000 appropriation. Captain G W Williams said the federal government would supply a $500,000 ship and $25,000 yearly support. He noted other states already run such schools to recruit local crews.
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Associated Preas
Austin
Texas Gulf
Senate State Affairs Committee
Cousins
G. W. Williams
Williams
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
California
Fort Worth seeks Dallas aid on school bill change
The Fort Worth Association of Commerce adopts a resolution urging the Dallas Chamber of Commerce to help separate North Texas Agricultural College at Arlington from Texas A and M and convert it into a semi technical vocational training school. A bill to authorize the change will be drafted for submission to the current legislature.
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Ft.worth
Dallas
United Press
Fort Worth Association of Commerce
North Texas Agricultural College
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth Association
Special Stock Show Rates From Wide Texas Oklahoma Area
The Rock Island railway announces special round trip fares to the Pan handle Livestock exposition from Texas Oklahoma Kansas and New Mexico and Kansas City St Joseph Mo and Omaha. Children 5 to 12 pay half fare. No stopovers. Fares listed include Adrian 2.05 Alanreed 4.05 Benonine 6.00 Conway 1.40 Groom 2.25 Glen Rio 3.00 Jericho 8.00 Lela 4.00 NeLaan 4.00 Middlewater 4.55 Ramedel 45 Shamrock 5.25 Stratford 6.40 Texhoma 7.00 Vega 1.00. Also notes Mr Clutter is city passenger and ticket agent of the Rock Island. In Oswestry London a pet cat Londontethie aged 25 and a half is reported born February 6 1905 and has raised 220 kittens.
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Rock Island Railway
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Kansas City
St. Joseph, Mo
Omaha
H W. W. Clutter
Revk Tpland
Clutter
Adrian
Alanreed
Benonine
London
Tethie
Mian Evans
Oswestry
Golden wedding tale and a lucrative pearl dive
Mr and Mrs Tom Lovelock celebrate their golden anniversary recalling low early wages of 210 and later 225 a week in Lyneham Australia. In Broome a pearl diver recovered a marble sized gem valued at about 50000 dollars after a single dive.
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Tom Lovelock
Lyneham
Lovelock
Broome
Australia
Elore
Craine
Radio clock with four-tube net patented by London innovator
Hugh Lawley of London has patented a four tube radio net built into a grandfather clock, describing the device as a compact self contained receiver.
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London
Hugh Lawley
Oxford
Ancient tomb found near Tivola with Mithras sanctuary
On the road to Tivola from this city an ancient tomb was unearthed, likely of a patrician Roma family. Nearby stands a sanctuary dedicated to Mithras, the god of light.
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Rome
Tivola
Mithras
Light
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WEFK
Polk ST
Pansandle’s
Credit Jewelers
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Seiberling Protected Service Corp
Allison & Webb Fillmore
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