Texas campaign showmanship outdoes circus acts
In Dallas July 8 193? Texas gubernatorial campaign spreads with hillbilly bands mind readers and gaudy sounds. W Lee O Daniel leads with biscuit songs as rivals McCraw Brooks and Sessions rely on theatrics and personal stunts to sway voters amid a circuslike race across East Texas and South Texas.
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Felix R. McKnight
Dallas
Texas
Mr. W. Lee
O'Daniel
Mr. O'Daniel
William McCraw
O’daniel
McCraw
Tom F. Hunter
Solomi
KE. O. Thompson
Charley
South Texas
Texas will buy supplies if you have them to sell
Austin July 8 state of Texas markets for about 3 million dollars in supplies covering groceries dry goods and items for human labor and existence The board of control will open nearly 300 bids on more than 1000 items over six weeks preparing awards for numerous departments eleemosynary and educational institutions for the fiscal year starting September 1 Purchases include 5000 dollars of cosmetics for insane asylums two pianos for inmate morale dynamite totaling about 65000 annually road materials school and lab supplies stock feed and seed for Texas A M College extension work and vehicles for aging fleets Bulls priced 250 to 500 for breeding doctors scientific books and treats education equipment for physical ed and juvenile facilities also."
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Austin
State of
Texas
Board of Control
Highway Department
Texas A. & M. College
Dear Tack Letters and Classified Requests for Work
A collage of small personal ads and notices addressed to Tack asking for work room and board, including requests from students and young women seeking employment and references. Several listings mention family needs, care duties, and caregiving, with contact phone numbers and addresses.
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West Eighteenth Ave
13 Year Old Elk Needing Clothes After Return From Preventorium
The elk has returned home from the Preventorium and is in dire need of clothing. Her mother is a widow and cannot afford garments, with the child weighing 125 pounds at age 13.
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Tack
Help Needed for Shoes Size 5.5 and 6 at Monroe Street
A call for assistance asks for size 5 1 2 and size 6 shoes. Please bring the items to 413 Monroe Street, Apartment 8, to help this person.
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Monroe Street
Fence Carpenter Seeks Work By Hour Or Job
Build fences to construct and paint yards to work on. Available by the hour or by the job. Furnishes references upon request. Dial 9019.
Widow seeks hourly or daily housework work
Tam a widow with two children offers to do house work by the hour day or week. formerly a hotel cook and can furnish references. Mrs 8 T Couch 305 A Lincoln Street
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Dora Wilson
Jackson Street
Tam
T. Couch
Lincoln Street
L Z Ranch Boys Camp Goodwill Tour Reaches Panhandle
The L Z Ranch summer camp for boys stops in Amarillo at 12 30 on a goodwill tour visiting Miami Pampa White Deer Panhandle Amarillo Dumas and continues to Sunray Hartley Channing Dalhart Stratford Texhoma Goodwell Guyman Optimo Hooker Hardesty Perryton with a rodeo planned July 22 featuring speakers Congressman Marvin Jones and Congressman Phil Ferguson and a cow milking contest. camp is 20 miles southeast of Perryton on Wolf Creek.
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L-Z Ranch
Amarillo
Panhandle
Miami
Pampa
White Deer
Dumas
Sunray
Hartley
Channing
Dalhart
Stratford
Texhoma
Goodwell
Guyman
Optimo
Hooker
Hardesty
Perryton
Marvin Jones
Phil Ferguson
Oklahoma
Wolf Creek
Life Insurance Agents Meet Here in Amarillo
Agents of Southwestern Life Insurance Company from the Panhandle gathered at a luncheon in Amarillo Hotel. Principal speakers included Richard R. Lee vice president and W J Allison medical director. G W Mills Amarillo agent led the meeting.
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Southwestern Life Insurance Company
Firemen’s Net Saves Girl In Dramatic Accident
New York July 8 A girl dangled from a sixth floor window ledge at the Belmont Plaza Hotel as crowds watched. Firemen raced to erect a life net on the roof, pulled by Lieut. Charles J. McKenna. The woman, Muriel Strong 24, fell head first into the net and was hospitalized with a broken leg. police called it an accident.
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New York
Lexington Avenue
Belmont Plaza Hotel
William Stewart
Charles J. McKenna
McKenna
Muriel Strong
Investments Put in Jeopardy He Says
Maj. T. R. Armstrong of Standard Oil told the Virginia Institute of Public Affairs that U.S. tolerance of Mexico's expropriation of oil properties jeopardizes $5,000,000,000 in Latin America. He cited the March 18 decree, urging a new agreement to settle differences and warning that if Mexico prevails, American property has no safety.
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Charlottsville
U.P
T. R. Armstrong
Standard Oil Company of
New York
Virginia Institute of Public Affairs Today
United States
Mexico
Latin America
Lazaro Cardenas
Armstrong
Indiana killers executed in electric chair
Hugh Marshall Jr. and Curtis Neal, both from Indianapolis, were executed in the Indiana State Prison electric chair for the hold up killing of William H Bright, an Indianapolis druggist, in Michigan City. The pair, dubbed $1.25 killers by police, were aged 22 and 19.
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Michigan City
Ind
Hugh Marshall, Jr
Curtis Neal
Indianapolis
Indiana
State Prison
William H. Bright
District Court Adjourned For One Summer Recess
District Judge W E Gee adjourned the 108th district court this morning until August 15. The recess is the only one this year with other terms ending Friday and the next opening Monday. He may take a short trip later and joked about President Roosevelt. He noted his father died 50 years ago in Kentucky and never lived under a president he voted for.
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W. E. Gee
Gee
United States
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Toledo Free Public Library Sees Rise in Nonfiction Reads
Ohio's oldest free public library in Toledo marks its centennial this year amid rising demand for serious reading. Last year 42.2 percent of withdrawals were non fiction works.
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Toledo
U.P
Ohio
Austin Labor Man Will Speak Here
Harry W. Acreman of Austin executive secretary of the State Federation of Labor will address the State County and Municipal Employes and city firemen at Carpenters Hall at 8 oclock this evening. His address will cover the Proposed Civil Service. Betsy Ross received a contract to make all American flags and her daughter Mrs Clarisse Wilson continued the business after her death.
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Harry W. Acreman
Austin
State Federation of Labor
Carpenters Hall
Betsy Ross
Clarisse Wilson
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