Strange Parts What Big Blaze Did To Boston Waterfront
Amarillo and Canyon Chambers plan an all day tour of forbidden Palo Duro Canyons and open the Panhandle Plains Historical Society museum next Sunday. J A Hill and West Texas State Teacher's College faculty will supervise Canyon museum files and show XIT ranch, JA ranch Baxter Dowden Goodnight items. Lighthouse canyon open 10 to 4, Marshall and Elkins ranches noon to 6.
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Palo Duro Canyons
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Canyon
Highway group ends four day convention in Oklahoma City
The eighteenth annual Good Roads Association and Bankhead Highway Association gathering closed after a four day session in Oklahoma City with 500 delegates. They pledged full attendance for the 1931 Charlotte convention and a Bankhead plan resolution urged federal takeover of the Bankhead highway as a military road.
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United Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
United States Good Roads Association
Bankhead National Highway Association
Charlotte
N. C
Good Roads Association
Bankhead Group
Bankhead National Highway
Too Much Talk Gets Bragger in U S Court
Clinton Indiana July 11 Braggi Docio of Cecil Harper Cayuga was arrested for driving an automobile without a license and appeared before U S Commissioner Randall for a hearing, as reported from the local court scene.
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U. S. Court
Clinton
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Cecil Harper
Cayuga
United States
Randall
Autos per mile of road report shocks motor world
United Press reports American Research Foundation findings that there are about 4.1 automobiles per mile of road worldwide. The United States could driver 8,016,281 miles on inland highways, explaining why America owns more than three quarters of the world’s motor vehicles. Gasoline and oil supplies aid U.S. motoring, while Africa and Asia have far fewer miles of roads.
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United Press
Chicago
American Research Foundation
Sam
United States
America
Africa
Asia
Charity Loses $50,000 for Discourtesy
In Sydney on July 11, Charles McNess of Western Australia visited a charitable institution and, after being barred for not stating business, tore up a $50,000 check in protest. The incident followed a rude exchange with a secretary who refused entry without stated purpose. The loss was reported as $50,000.
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Associated Press
Sydney
Australia
Charles McNess
Western Australia
McNess
Violation of federal prohibition laws leads to fined court action
Terre Haute man was detained in Vigo County jail after facing federal prohibition charges. He pleaded guilty on a license charge, paid a $1 fine plus costs, and spoke briefly with Police Chief Everett Helms after court adjourned, describing his prior activities.
Lookout man held after farm still discovery near Cayuga
The confession ties a man known as the loan man to a farm still near Cayuga. Deputy Prohibition Administrator John Wilkey arrives at police headquarters as Helms reveals the chain of events and turns the suspect over for arraignment in Terre Haute.
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Cayuga
Harper
John Wilkey
Helms
Wilkey
Terre Haute
Fear Vesuvius Threatens Naples Farm Areas
Naples July 11 lava from Mount Vesuvius threatens inhabited centers on the mountain slopes. Backed-up lava overflowed craters and moved toward Hell Valley as spring activity, begun Monday, likely to push a flow down the southeastern slope where many families live.
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United Press
Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Hell Valley
Road mileage figures from a historic comparison
The excerpt compares national road networks, noting Australia has a small road length and Europe including Russia totals 2,450,439 miles. It presents a concise, numeric contrast without broader context or dates. The fragment highlights scale differences in infrastructure between continents.
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Australia
Europe
Russia
Neighbor John D Has Neighbors Too
Tarrytown New York July 11 When this suburban community needs something and can't find it anywhere else it calls on Neighbor John. Thursday it was a suction pump to drain a marsh along the Hudson River and curb mosquitoes.
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Associated Press
Tarrytown
N. Y
John
Hudson River
Hatching in stagnant water stirs local concerns
In a fragmented notice a pump controversy and a drained marsh appear near an estate linked to John D. Rockefeller. Residents of Tarrytown hear of a lawn party at the White House for wounded veterans while President Hoover’s era context leaks through.
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John D. Rockefeller
White House
Washington
Hoover
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