Survey Shows Farmers Using More Motors on Farms
United Press reports a 127 percent rise in horsepower hours from trucks and tractors on American farms over five years, 1924 to 1929, while work by horses and mules dropped 18 percent. Power equipment other than trucks and tractors also fell, reflecting a shift toward automotive farming methods.
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United Press
New York
American Research Foundation
England
United States
Pacific Coast
Washington
Oregon
California
Middle Atlantic
Better Rural Schools in the Panhandle
Andrew J. Crow of River Road reports in Texas Outlook on rural school gains in Potter County images. He notes parent teacher and child study groups expanding from cities to country schools with athletic training vocational subjects dairy farming and good playgrounds, while he serves as River Road ISD trustee north of Amarillo.
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Panhandle
Andrew J. Crow
River Road
Texas Outlook
Potter County
Mr. Crow
Crbwe
Amarillo
Christenings Sky Baby motive problems on farm equipment
Farmers learn lubrication differs by vehicle type as trucks and tractors require heavier oil sooner than passenger cars. Trucks need heavier oil after 7,000 to 9,000 miles, tractors after 200 hours, and passenger cars after 2,000 miles for initial switch. East North Central states lead in farm horsepower from trucks and tractors.
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North Central States
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
City paving progress resumes with 114.5 blocks involved
The Amarillo paving schedule shows 114.5 blocks either under construction or contracted after recent weather delays. Work restarts this week on streets including East and West Third Avenues and Adams Street with several blocks already underway and 69 more contracted but not started.
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Amarillo
City Engineering Department
Cnap
Hayden
McMasters Street
Johnson Street
Third
Eighth Avenues
Adams Street
Tenth
Seventh
Twenty Second Avenue
Lips ‘Comb
Lipscomb
Fifteenth Avenue
Hillcrest
Arthur
Cleveland
Houston
Street layout list and historic freight train comparison
The text catalogs numerous street segments in a city grid from Polk to Lincoln and Taylor to Fillmore, detailing avenues and cross streets. It also notes a 1928 finding that two average freight trains did nearly the same work in one hour as three average trains did in 1922.
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Center Street
Tyler
Third
Polk and
Taylor
Buchanan and
Pierce
Taylor and Fillmore
Lincoln Street
Fifth
Eighth
Twenty-Third Avenue
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Research Foundation
AJ. Crow
Metzcers Vinx
WELCH
Mr. Quick
Rada
RTH
J.R Welch Phowe
Georgia
South Atlantic States
Robert
Robert James” Althouse
Holmes Airport
Deandi Foust
Geaven
James Hall
A Publix Theatre
Tom Tyler
Red Gulch
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Mary Brian
Wallace Beery
June Collyer
Nee Bros
AlJe Olson
Movietone News
Mie
Paramount
Pictur
Helen Kane
la Paramount
Christie
Paramount Paramount Talking Act Sound News
Tenth Avenues
Polk Streets
Fifteenth
Polk, Tyler and
Harrison
Thirty-fourth
van Buren Street
Madison Street
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Bellview Street
Fillmore
Pierce Streets
Buchanan Street
Twenty-fourth
Twenty-sixth
South Johnson Street
Nineteenth Avenues
Bell Tailors
America
Polk
Amarillo, Tex
Coma
Dimity
Creton
Sateene
Gas
Tor
S Dept
4Th and P
Kwitcherkikkin
Aee
Amarillo Laundry
Diione
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