Panhandle cattlemen launch bid to host 1936 convention
A Panhandle meeting led by Ed Mayer drew 40 cattlemen and boosters. They raised 8950 in five minutes to fund a campaign for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association 1936 convention to be held in Houston March 12 13 and 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Panhandle
Ainner
Ed Mayer
Capitol Hotel
Elvic
Union Finance Committee
Luke Jim Whittenburg
Malcolm Shelton
Houston
Sii
Kennamer Case Courtroom Echoes and Family Tales
Defense attorney Flint Moss painted Kennamer as a loving yet lavish suitor while recounting Miss Virginia Wilcox's scorn. Judge Wallace praised Kennamer's father and rejected claims of insanity, noting Kennamer hired Moss to defend him after the fatal shooting of Gorrell. The testimony tied in extortion, Al Capone, and dangers of prison life.
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al Capone
Machine Gun Kelly
Alcatraz
Hult
Moss
Gorrell
Kennamer
Virginia Wilcox
Otto Kramer
Miss Wilcox
Wallace
Tulsa
Solomon
Flint Moss
Othe
Canary chorus misfires in humorous veterinary tale
A quirky column describes Miss Hayes with forty canaries performing odd acts including whistles to Yankee Doodle and backward flight. One canary named Toughy struggles to reach bass notes, while a Smithsonian scientist and observers debate voice ranges and costs of canary singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Haves
Junior
Witnesses Testify Of Beatings In Doris Yarborough Case
In Waxahachie Ad ditional evidence was prepared for the murder trial jury as testimony recounted earlier beatings of Doris Yarborough by G Yarborough. The 16 year old died after being burned by a blow torch on an automobile. A neighbor recalled hearing the cries of beating and another said he saw the man strike with a stick.
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Waxahachie
G. Yarbcough
Doris
Carothers
Yar=brough
Tony Carpenter
Noah P. Taylor Claimed by Death at Pleasant Valley Home
Noah P. Taylor 48, stockman and farmer, died at 1045 last night at his Pleasant Valley home. Resident 25 years. Body at N S Griggs & Sons Chapel pending arrangements. World War veteran. Survived by widow and seven brothers and two sisters.
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Noah P. Taylor
Pleasant Valley
Taylor
N S
Griggs & Sons
Toy
Tavinor
Okla
J P. Wasahachie
Lex
Midlothian
NA. Gshedip Ovialla
Tale Sinult
Farwell
Race Wager Hearing Validity of Debt Is Set for Tuesday
In New Orleans a federal suit challenges the debt adjustment act allowing municipalities to seek refinancing in federal court. Attorney General Gaston L. Portort and assistants filed the petition arguing the act, passed under the emergency relief program, is unconstitutional interference by the federal government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaston L. Portorte
Huey Tong
O K. Allen Shire
Roosevel
National
Pubreice of Rivers
United Boyes
Shooting ties remain murky in Allison case across Texas towns
Police said Allison would not be questioned further about the affair as doctors evaluate his condition. He cites a hitchhiker forced driving from Sudan to Miami Oklahoma and an assailant who stole his purse then shot him and set the car ablaze. He was later said to have been alone in Hereford and Amarillo. Family members traveled to Amarillo while a witness rests in Pampa, with officials indicating potential recall.
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Allison
W. R. McDowell
Sudan
Miami
Oklo
Amarillo
Hereford
C. F E. Allison
Rush Springs
Okla
Floyd Allison
J. Tidwell
Longview
Texas
Walter Lilley
Hastings
Pampa
Services for 11 year old John Corr Held at Boxwell Brothers Chapel
Services for John Ponty Corr, 11, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas R Corr, were held at 7 30 pm at Boxwell Brothers Chapel with Dr G L Yates officiating. The body was sent to Oklahoma City for burial. He is survived by his parents and a brother Thomas Corr Jr. The Corrs reside at 411 East Thirteenth Avenue.
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John Ponty Corr
Thomas R. Corr
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
G. L. Yates
First Baptist Church
Oklahoma City
Thomas Corr
Corrs
East Thirteenth Avenue
Beauty Culturists Dance Tonight At Theatre Show
Multiple oblique lines describe a dance event by beauty culturists and a theater show. The text references a location near Herring Hotel and mentions a crowd and performances with unclear proper nouns. The fragmentary OCR hints at a dance program in a hotel venue with a variety of acts.
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Texss
New Mexico
Ae Net
Polk Reeset
States Plan Tax Meeting On Interstate Tax Distribution
Governors and delegates from state legislatures will meet in February to review a report by the Interstate Commission on Conflicting Taxation. The commission, formed two years ago by the Interstate Legislative Assembly, studies how to distribute tax resources between states and the federal government. The gathering aims to prepare proposals for a fairer tax load across government levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commission On
Council of State Governments
American Legislators’ Association
Interstate Legislative Assembly
Two Experts Busy With Cheese Study
Monroe Wisconsin February twenty two experts Robert Hardell and Charles A Buck run the state federal cheese laboratory They study cheese specimens with microscopes to isolate bacteria to determine their impact on cheese manufacture Their work reduces defects like misslers presslers and stinkers in makes for cheesemakers.
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Monroe
Wis
U.P
Robert Hardell
Charles A. Buck
State Federal
Wisconsin
Hardell
Buck
Nisslers
Presslers
No Appeals Decided by Court of Criminals Appeals
Austin February 20 The court of criminals appeals handed down no decisions in criminal cases today and took up submissions in 48 cases with 21 briefs filed for the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
U.A
Court of Criminals Appeals
Panhandle Livestock Dance Tickets On Sale Tonight
Tickets for the Panhandle Livestock Association Dance at The Nat are available from Fox Drug Store in the Oliver Fable Building Mack Warren Man's Ware in the Amarillo Building Fred H Galle at Seventh Avenue and Van Buren Street Major Drug Store Sixteenth Avenue and Jackson Street Admittance is 50 cents a couple Half of the gate receipts go to the convention fund Lloyd Snyders orchestra will play 930 to 1230 Harvey Allen chairs the convention finance committee A sub committee of several men helps stage the event tonight.
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Panhandle Livestock Association
Nat
Fox Drug Store
Oliver Fable
Mack Warren
Amarillo
Fred H. Galle
Seventh Avenue
van Buren Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Jackson Street
Panhandle Livestock Association Convention Fund
Lloyd Snyder
Harvey Allen
Stamp Collector Solves 1866 Bushnell Sextuplet Birth Mystery
Miss Laura Gregg, a stamp collector from Silver Lake New York, identifies Dr James Edwards of Chicago as the surgeon who delivered the Bushnell sextuplets born September 15 1866. The certificate lists J P and Jennie A Bushnell as parents with nurse Priscilla Bancroft and midwife Hannah H Osborn.
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Silver Lake
N. Y
Laura Gregg
Allen Dafoe
Parker
Gregg
J. P
Jennie A. Bushnell
Priscilla Bancroft
Hannah H. Osborn
Du Pont To Market Safe Explosive Demonstrated Tough
New York Feb 20 The Du Pont Company will market a new type explosive described as safe for a baby to play with. In demonstrations experts pounded it with sledge hammers fired rifle bullets and applied blow torches all without causing detonation. It detonates only by a dynamite cap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
du Pont Company
Naval airmen killed in La Jolla training plane crash
Two naval airmen Lieut C A R Lindgren of Minneapolis and Radioman Arthur A Freeman of Silsbee Texas died when their land plane broke from formation off La Jolla during a training flight. Cause of the failure was not determined. Three destroyers searched for their bodies.
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San Diego
Calif
C. A. R. Lindgren
Minneapolis
Arthur A. Freeman
Silsbee
Texas
la Jolla
Alaska Gold Search by Air Over Nushagak Region
Anchorage reports that prospecting in the upper Nushagak River mining district will begin this year using airplanes. C. J. Dumbolton says last season's air trip found pay gravel and plans extensive next stepwork amid swampy, rolling terrain with caribou moose and abundant water. A tale among gold seekers notes two men recovered $20,000 in gold dust in 1933, but perished reworking their claims after a raft accident.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Nushagak River
C. J. Dumbolton
Dumbolton
Nushagak
Open Investigation Of Fliers Deaths Near La Jolla
Naval authorities began investigating the deaths of Lieut. C. A. R. Lindgren of Minneapolis and Radiomen Arthur Freeman of Silsbee Texas after their aircraft dived into the sea three miles off La Jolla during a routine training flight. Recovery efforts continued as observers reported loss of control before the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Calif
C. A. R. Lindgren
Minneapolis
Arthur Freeman
Silsbee
Tex
la Jolla
Verdict of death by own action in pistol death
In Houston on February 20 a verdict found Lucius C. Robertson aged 38 died by his own hand in a pistol death. Robertson, a bank teller who resigned Saturday, was found in his hotel room with a 32 calibre automatic under his hand and a bullet wound in the chest as Justice Tom Maes announced the inquest findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Lucius C. Robertson
Robertson
Tom Maes
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Frank Donegan
Grover B. Hill
Battlemen
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Mr. Hill
Hugh Exum
Sandie
Barlow
Walter Barlow
Great West Mill & Elevator Company
Carl Hinton
Mr. Berlows
Leo Peterson
Herting Hotel
Howard Jeboran
Amarillo Hotalso
J .N. Childers
Amarillo Laundry
Panhandle Laundry
Troy
Jim Whittenburg
Horace Russell
Russell's Stationery Company
C. W. Farr
Terry Thompson
John Sned
Jack Roach
Johnson & Porter
WE Bennett
Mr. Hinton
Jhor
Eidenier
Canaries
Galahad
Shia Howard Foye
Ur Hilatases
Sainthsonian
Motion Picture Academy
Gable
Norma
Grace Moore
Frank Morgan
The
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Clark Shearer
Barretts of
Wimpole Street
William Powell
Claudette Colbert
Horace M
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Tate
Odin
Roosevelt
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Laos
Navefert
Homa Guard
United States
Magey Roull
Texas House
Miltoeld
Hess
New Orleans
Mr Sotier
Abe
Mawning
Hvsngirk
Lee
Pats
Johnstown
Tipton Stream
Lincoln
Mexico City
Arroyo de Los Morales
Universal
NAVY
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Phon
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