City Awards Contracts for Water Works Extension and Park
The city awarded three contracts at a special session. Worthington Pump and Machine Co via A. M. Lockett Co won the eight million gallon daily pump for the water works extension at 5A4. Sullivan Machinery Co of Chicago won the air compressor contract for 9,642. Morrison Supply Co of Amarillo secured the sprinkling system for Sanborn Park with a low bid of 1,748.
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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 Wax
Water Works
Morrison Supply Company
Amarillo
Sanborn Park
Cotton and corn champs tour Rio Grande valley trip
Cotton and corn champions of the South leave San Antonio for a Rio Grande valley tour hosted by the chamber of commerce. They visit Edinburg Harlingen Brownsville Matamoras and Palestine to honor John W. McFarlane with a wreath and view ranches and historic sites. The trip organizers include George L. Foster Elstner Beall W. H. Dupuy and J. W. Wendricks.
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United Frees
San Antonio
Tex
South
Rio Grande
Texas Bill Urges Ship School For Seamen In Gulf Ports
A Texas Senate committee approved a bill to establish a ship school for seamen in a Gulf port with a $75,000 appropriation. Captain G W Williams said the federal government would fund a $500,000 ship and $25,000 yearly for the school to train Texans for seafaring. He noted rival states already operate such schools.
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The
Associated Press
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
Fort Worth officials ask the Dallas Chamber of Commerce to back a plan to separate North Texas Agricultural College at Arlington from Texas A&M and convert it into a semi technical vocational training school. A resolution calling for Dallas support was adopted by the Fort Worth Association of Commerce. The plan envisions drafting a bill for the current legislature to authorize the change.
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Ft.worth
Dallas
United Press
Fort Worth
Tex
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth Association of Commerce
North Texas Agricultural College
Fort Worth Association
Rock Island offers stock show rates to city
The Rock Island railway announces special stock show fares for March 4. round trip one and one third, half fare for children 12 and under, no stopovers. Fares listed to numerous towns from Adrian to Vega. Also notes cat London Tattie born Feb 6 100 and sired 220 kittens.
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R.1
Rock Island Railway
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
Kansas City
St. Joseph, Mo
Omaha
HW. W. Clutter
Rehbeland Rai Road
Clutter
Adrian
Alanreed
Bejonine
Conway
Groom
Ilen Rio
Jericho
Lota
McLean
Middlewanter
Ramedel
Shamrock
Stratford
Texshoma
Vega
London
Tattie
Mien Evans
Upwestry
Sev
Golden wedding couple reveal hard luck tale in London
Mr and Mrs Tom Lovelock of Lyneham celebrate fifty years together. Lovelock earned $2.50 weekly then $2.25 after a cut, showing a fall from earnings amid postwar hardship. A separate story from Troome notes a pearl diver bringing up a pearl valued at about 650000.
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London
Tom Lovelock
Lyneham
Lovelock
Troome
Australia
Radio clock patent by London Lawley innovates four tube set
Walt London Lawley of Oxford outfits a grandfather clock with a four tube radio set, securing a patent for the novel timepiece radio integration. The design blends traditional clockwork with wireless reception, signaling a new convergence of clockmaking and electronics.
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London
Walt Lawley
Oxford
Ancient Tomb Uncovered Near Tivoli Beside Mithras Sanctuary
On the road to Tivoli a mile from Rome an ancient tomb likely belonging to a patrician Roman has been unearthed. Nearby a Mithras sanctuary dedicated to the god of light is found.
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Rome
Tivol
Mithras
Light
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Texas A. & M
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