Washburn post office slated for revival and drought fears
Telegrams claim the Washburn post office will be re opened by Post Office Department and Senator Connally. The writer muses on weather, drought, and a crow that talks, then shifts to Chester Grounds a local shooting victim leaving a widow and infant with reduced city insurance and calls for $2000 officer insurance.
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Washburn
Marvin Jones
Washburn Post Office
Tom Connally
Post Office Department
Dear Tack column about bright season and star letters
Dear Tack notes a star-filled period near the meridian with many brilliant letters. The excerpt mentions a wide sky area within sixty degrees east and west and ninety degrees north and south, inviting readers to see more on Page 7.
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Tack
Alfalfa Bill Hosts Midnight Firemen Party
In Oklahoma City at 2 15 A M Governor Murray’s electric refrigerator leaked. four firemen arrived on pump No 5 and fixed the leak. The governor, in pajamas and bathrobe, served coffee to his guests.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
Parents Worry Over Il Son With Byrd
Texarkana Texas February 20 News of the illness of Guy O Shirey on Admiral Byrds expedition ship reaches anxious parents Dr and Mrs W L Shirey They wait by their radio after eastern stations sign off hoping for news from Little America about his heart attack condition.
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Texarkana
Texas
U.P
Guy O. Shirey
Admiral Byrd
Jacob Ruppert
W. L. Shirey
Antarctic
Shirey
Little America
New Zealand
Planes on Air Mail Route Stop Amarillo Service
Amarillo notes that no planes flew the skies Tuesday marking the first day since 1929 with no daily transport planes refueling here. TWA will operate two night flights east and west with nine local employees affected by February 28 cuts and possible Army mail service revival within a week.
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Amarillo
Transcontinental & Western Air
TWA
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
St. Louis
Drestis
English Field
Postal Department
Western Air Express
Transcontinental Air Transport
Fort Worth
Dallas
American Airways
Denver
Western Air
Kana City
Wichite
Winslow
Indianapolis
Columbus
Pittsburgh
Harrisburgh
Philadelphia
New York
Kansas City
Army airmail service launches with hazardous flights
The report covers multiple routes as Army planes depart from Chicago to Omaha and Newark under winter conditions with zero temperatures and fog on the West Coast. It notes civilian airlines preparing for drastic cuts, layoffs, and service reductions while investigating past Hoover era mail contract actions and bid objections.
Texas auto registration fee cut in House bill
Texas House passes a bill to reduce passenger automobile registration fees to two thirds of current amounts. The Senate and governor must approve before any final reduction, with officials estimating the potential impact on state finances and motorists. The measure arises amid broader centennial planning discussions and regional competition.
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Austin
Texas
House
Senate
Thieves Steal Guns From Texas National Guard HQ
Officials report burglars took four machine guns 13 Army pistols and ammunition from Company I in Eastland. Rangers from Fort Worth join local officers in a statewide hunt amid fears of holdups in the region.
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Ranger
W.P
Texas National Guard
Company I
Eastland County
Texas Rangers
Fort Worth
Punitive Socialist leaders seek haven in Czech lands
Vienna based socialist leaders flee to the Czech Republic while German officials push Nazi unity. The Anschluss is labeled inevitable by the Nazi party newspaper as Germany proclaims solidarity with Austria. Neighboring states including Yugoslavia Romania and France monitor shifts amid border tensions and prewar alignments. France and Italy oppose a Nazi cabinet in Vienna and Paris historically resisted German Austrian customs union moves.
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Vienna
Czech Republic
Germany
Austria
Yugoslavia
Czechosovakia
Alexander
France
Italy
Paris
Weather and coast guard summary of cold wave and storm
Coast guard and seafarers chased distress signals amid a nor’easter. CG235 failed to tow a vessel to New Bedford as Nantasket beach reports of flares emerged and vanished. Meanwhile Texas cold snap ends with temperatures from 22 to 48 across cities.
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New Bedford
Nantasket Beach
Coast Guard
New England
Connecticut
Dallas
Texas
J. L. Cline
Austin
Palestine
Rio Grande Valley
Galveston
Abilene
Amarillo
San Antonio
Houston
Port Arthur
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Austria Arrests and Dissolution Orders Amid Civil War Toll
Austria police found 350 bombs with the arrested group at Treste and the Nazi party in Trieste was ordered dissolved. At a funeral Emil Fey warned Europe’s peace hung by a hair as police soldiers and Heimwehr victims were mourned. The list includes 25 policemen 17 Heimwehr members five Austrian soldiers and three Catholic storm troopers. Over 50 government side dead have been buried or are to be buried as secret burials of Socialist dead occurred at night in the past week.
May to Stand Trial Over Trio Slaying and Robbery
Jurors were selected as Judge Hosey allowed Stevens and Howard to be brought here. May faces trial for the slaying of Jack Sturdivant of Eula and is charged with the deaths of J. B. Rutherford and Harry Rutherford, found wired together in the Trinity River. Officials say the killings stem from a quarrel over a $72,000 postal robbery haul from February 1933, with May, Stevens, and Howard also charged in the robbery.
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Hosey
Stevens
Howard
May
Jack Sturdivant
Eula
J. B. Rutherford
Dallas
Harry Rutherford
Abilene
Trinity River
Proposed 1935 Auto Registration Fee Reduction
The text notes that passenger automobile registrants paid from eight to thirty dollars per car depending on weight and horsepower. A proposed reduction would take effect with registrations in 1935, while the original bill aimed to fix the fee at five dollars flat.
Monarch Funeral in Brussels Amid Storm and Mourning
Queen Elizabeth faced deep grief as King Albert's body lay in Laeken Chapel and a royal procession began to the palace. European leaders and dignitaries attended as 100,000 mourners lined the streets while stock markets in New York opened after snow disruptions and a broad rally in select sectors amid ongoing weather crises.
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Laeken
Elizabeth
Grand Duchess of
Luxemborrg
Doumergue
France
Chateau
House
Senate
Brussels
Count de Brocoueville
Albert
Veterans’ Organizations
Kansas City Market Report Hogs Cattle Lambs Prices
Hogs 4,000 cattle 6,500 calves 8,000 lambs listed. Hogs steady to 5c lower. top 4.45. Cattle mixed. light fed steers 6.30, good and choice 4.00 to 7.10, stockers 4.25 to 5.75. Lambs 8.75 to 9.50, ewes 3.75 to 5.00. New Orleans cotton opens easier on snow delays. May 12.08 to 12.24 quot. Bond bids show 96 1/2% bid, 97 1/4% asked. Stock market snowbound.
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Exchange
Sterling
United
Dowaiax Aircrafia
Santa Fe
Delaware & Hudson
N. Y. Central
Pennsylvania
U. S
American Ee
Steel
Republic Steel
du Pont
American Telephone
General Motors
Chrysler
Montgomery-Ward
New York Central
Kansas City
New Orleans
New York
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Potter County Library
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Army Mail Service
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Richard W. Robbins
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Transcontinental
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William P. MacCracken
Trest
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John F. Clark & Co
Allied Chemical
Cee Esecee
American Smelt & Ref
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American Tel & Tel
American Tobacco
Atchison Topeka & Santa Feo
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Barnedall Oi
National Distillers
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NY Central
Vose Northern Pacific Rio Ohio Oil
Packard Motor
Penney
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Petroleum Corp
Phillips Pet Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden
Chicago Rock An & Ag
BRM
Columbian Gas
Columbian Carbon
Bak Secee
Commonwealth & South
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del Curtis Wright
Douglas Aircraft
Fastman Kodak
F — Firestone Tire
Freeport Texas
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Gillette Razor
Goodrich Tire
Goodyear Tire
Great Northern Bra
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Hupp Motor
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Meres Copper Caletete
Lyeve Cesare M Mid
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Humble
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Swift & Co .R
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Jack DeShong
Crystal Ballroom
la Vada Isbell
Marcel
Georgiana + Waghorn
George Waghorn
Adams Street
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Joe Kennett
Kennett
Vincent Lopez
NBC
Bayer Manufacture
Bayer
N. R.A
Dallas, Texas
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