Storm Sewer Award To Be Made At City Session
The city commission will award the storm sewer contract at a special session tomorrow morning after seventeen bids were opened last night, with total bids exceeding 300000 dollars. Wilimering and Mullen won a contract for 399.14 dollars for a concrete culvert on Western avenue.
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City Commission
Commission
Santa Fe Railroad
Western Avenue
Wilimering
Mullen
City Health Department
R. M. Walker
Local man eyes Cold Cash transcontinental race
Amarillo resident Claude Ciary seeks entry in the Cold Cash race to win $25,000. Ciary, famed for a Pikes Peak ascent without training, claims speed and endurance, noting a 38 mile walk to Wragge’s Park and back in under six hours.
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Amarillo
Pyle
Claude Ciary
North True Street
Claude
Pikes Peak
Panhandle
Wragge'’s Park
Canyon
Father Is a Risk as Daughters Seek Insurance
In London two young society women divorced from their father take a freak policy at Lloyds to protect against his potential second marriage during their mother’s lifetime. They fear future remarriage and possible children would cut into their financial prospects.
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London
Lloyds
Zgei
Alluring golden yellow taffeta ballroom gown described
A Spanish fashion long tight dance frock features black Chantilly lace sleeves and a front panel on the de collette bodice. The garment combines rich golden yellow silk with intricate lace to create an elegant evening look.
Sly Mix Up Overton Quinine Strychnine Charge
A London customer accuses a shop of giving him strychnine instead of quinine and is told the error would cost four pence more. The snappy exchange appears in Tit-Bits with a sharp tease on superstition and price.
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London
Humorous London quips on manners and golf crowds
In this light paragraph, a Dutiful Daughter tells her Father to leave the party at a reasonable hour, while a wit notes a golfer worth watching. A sly aside suggests the crowds follow the player and that the loss of balls is a seller’s business, as seen in London papers.
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Row
London
M. L. Housted
East Thirteenth Street
Deandi Theater
Betty Jane
Betty
Mrs Newman Tells Police of Slaying Scene in Birger Gang Probe
Mrs Art Newman, wife of a man indicted with nine others for the murder of state highway patrolman Larry Price and his wife in Bloody Williamson County ML, is pictured above. She gave police details of the slaying and pointed to the scene where Mrs Price was killed. Charles Birger is identified as gang leader now under indictment.
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Art Newman
Larry Price
Williamson” County
Amarillo News Boy Curfew Sparks City Debate
In a lively letter column a reader urges Amarillo officials to allow newsboys to hawk the 11 oclock edition until midnight and start at 7 am. The piece also jokes about city life, water quality rumors, and local gossip including a theater theft and a village blacksmith offering free crankcase service.
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City Commission
Amarillo
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Folke
Notable Letter Defends Home Against Slanted Claims
A reader rebukes a prior column and insists the home advertised as the W. W. A. offers rooms for girls, arguing the piece spread slander and misled readers about the establishment and its purpose. The letter defends the home’s openness and counters accusations of masking a scandal.
Samuel Insull the man nobody knows
Roy J. Gibbons reports on Samuel Insull Chicago magnate of public utilities. Though controlling billions in gas electricity and transit his public profile stays low. Born near London and rising to power in Chicago the recondite figure built a vast empire while avoiding publicity.
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Roy J. Gibbons
Chicago
Samuel Insull
London
America
Ford
Illinois
Bhees
Senate Committee
Insull
Frank L. Smith
Regan
Edison Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Commonwealth Edison Co
Chicago Gas Co
Defending Mrs Scott by Working Girls Letter
A group of workers denounces a Globe article about Mrs Scott and the women at the club. They claim the piece harms their reputation and call for the writer to prove his claims. Signature from Gladys Water Joyce Kuehl Gladys Bosworth Freda Slover Velma Freeman and Mrs M A Keller.
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Tack
Crank
Globe
Mrs. Scott
Gladys
Four Kentucky Localities Struck by Flood
Four Kentucky localities near Whitesburg were hit by a second flood in two months with no lives reported yet but hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. Colly Millstone Thornton and Sergeant saw water five feet deep in businesses. Coal mining at Sergeant will halt for weeks. rail and communication lines were down and crops swept away.
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United Press
Whitesburg
Colly
Millstone
Thornton
Sergeant
Grain and livestock markets across Kansas City and Chicago
Kansas City livestock report shows cattle 6000 head with steady to higher trends for bulls and vealers, hogs up 10 to 15 cents, sheep higher on lambs. Chicago hogs up 10 to 15 cents, cattle mixed with beef steers steady, vealers up, sheep gains noted. Grain prices slip on cool weather and weaker wheat, corn down early, oats weak. Kansas City cash grain lists corn and wheat prices. Chicago cash grain shows mixed bids. Butter and eggs unchanged. cotton futures open and close around 17.15 to 17.56.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Chicago
James E. Bennett & Co
Rt. Aes
Seave
New York
Rio
Santos
Ducks Long Island
Maine
Jersey
Poultry and commodities market notes from Chicago and New York
The report covers July poultry prices in Chicago with fowls and broilers quoted, potato prices by region, and foreign exchange rates. It also notes New York produce prices, stock market openings with gains for several equities, and mixed movements in bonds and commodities.
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Associated Press
Chicago
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Tokyo
Montreal
American Water Works
Eastman Kodak
Chesapeake and Ohio
Illinois
Atchison, Gulf, Mobile and Northern
Atlantic Coast Line
Wabash
General Electric
Weatinghouse Manufacturing
Colorado Fuel
American Radiator
Union Carbide
Just Tales 4 Edgar A Guest Moral on life as umpire
A poem compares life to an umpire whose judgments seem cruel yet are final. The speaker asks who among us could claim flawless judgment, urging quiet acceptance of divine decrees and obedience to God’s will despite doubt or crowd opinion. The piece closes with a call to trust the greater judge.
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Edgar A. Guest
Tack’s Amarillo Program for a Better City
A political platform calling for lower water gas and electric rates and rents. It promises a cleaner city more parks flowers and trees and grass for parks. It seeks Bivins lake open to the public a municipal golf course and viaducts near Move through throughfares to San Jacinto. It urges regulation of police fire and ambulance driving through signals and extending bus routes. It supports attracting new industries with more energy and money to improve livability and curb crude oil price gaps.
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Bivins Lake
Amarillo
San Jacinto
C. E. King Sale Postponed to Open Saturday
The long awaited sale at King Dry Goods in Amarillo is rescheduled to start Saturday. W. E. Cooper, who arrived in January to host the event, delayed it previously due to a smallpox scare and city officials urging against crowding. Cooper has returned and organizers say the sale will proceed with standard lines attracting local shoppers.
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C. FE
King’s Dry Goods Company
W. E. Cooper
Amarillo
King
Cooper
King Dry Goods Company
City Drug Stores Open New Stock Room in Amarillo
City Drug stores announce a new stock room and central buying office at 610 Taylor Street to serve five stores including four in Amarillo and one in Pampa. F. W. Rendle will oversee the facility used for reserve supplies.
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Taylor Street
City Drug Stores
F. W. Rendle
Amarillo
Pampa
Courthouse records list multiple town deed transfers and marriages
Deeds show K Wilkins to L B Nobles for 8800 and Burgess to Garrison for 3500 plus other transfers in Wolflin and Ind City. Marriage licenses include Jack J Brewer with Mrs H L Johnson and several other couples.
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L. B. Nobles
Wolflin
Wm. H. Bush
B. B. Karger
A.B
M. E. S. Burgess
J. L. Garrison
O.T. F
Burgess
J. L. Garison
O.T. L.e.davis
Frank Hoge
Ind
Chas. Ethridge
W. E. Wirtz
F. Kinkead
H. Arthur Clark
Martin Creek
Morningside
Arthur Clark
J. MH. Odom
Jack J. Brewer
H. L. Johnson
Bristol Hackbush
May Bell Arnin
Leon Taylor
Lynette Davis
Jack Lockerd
Ruth Stewart
Rusbon McCoy
Henry Lee Pettyway
J. W. Mobley
Nina Powelson
Randall L. Thompson
Evelyn Y. Barker
W. B. Davis
Grace Edgecomb
Hert Darland
Elzie Carroll
Car Registrations List for Local Car Dealers and Owners
A compiled roster of individual names and addresses linked to car makes and dealers. Entries include W F Barkadale 708 Cleveland Winkler-Olds, J W Mitchell city Propst Nash, H L Smith 511 1 2 W Sixth Harman-Gault Pontiac, Randall Davis Plains Chevrolet and others tied to Harman-Gault Propst Motor and local dealers.
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W. F. Barkadale
Cleveland
Winkler-Olds
Olds
J. W. Mitchell
City
Propet
Nash
B. C. Taylor
Canyon
Propst
H. L. Smith
W. Sixth
Harman-Gault
Pontiac
G. G. Taylor
Ballew-Satterfield
Springfield Tire
M.ins.co
Frost
Buick
Geo
M. Cultra
North Carolina
Toney Chisum
Essex
G. H. Carlan
Buchanan
P.H. Motor
Chrysler
Randall Davis
South Pierce
Plains
Chevrolet
Empire Gas and Fuel Co
T. J. Brissler
Whitenberg
Dyke Cullum
Dodge
F. H. Galle
West Seventh
Ford
W. E. Koch
Borger
Cornelius B. Marsh
Washington
R. W. Reece
Harrison
Ferrin Harmon
Polk
Harman- Gault
F. C. Mothershead
Propst Motor
Building Permits Issued For Edgefield and S J H Areas
G P Williams at 3500 South Taylor lot 1 block 10 Edgefield files a brick dwelling permit with contractor Y S Shepard valued at 4950 dollars. J H Brizendine 906 Maryland lot 9 block 115 S J H receives a frame dwelling permit by the owner for 5250 dollars.
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G. P. Williams
South
Taylor
Edgefield
Y. S. Shepard
J. H. Brizendine
Maryland
S.J
A W Chesbro 83 Dies at Family Home Mississippi
A W Chesbro aged 83 died at 10 PM last night at the family residence 403 Mississippi avenue. The body is held at N S Griggs and Sons pending arrival of relatives from Chicago.
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A. W. Chesbro
Mississippi Avenue
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Chicago
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