New England Roads and Patriot Reflections in 1920s Travel Echo
Arthur Brisbane notes in The Globe on a 1000 mile r oad trip through Connecticut Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont. He contrasts New England charm and slower pace with elsewhere groaning under urban rush and gangland imagery while warning about speculative land sales and the persisting reach of America prospering through war and aid to Europe.
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Keene, N. H
Connecticu
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
M’ions
New England
Fall Bribery Sentence Amended to Allow Southwest Jail
Former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall with an amended sentence of one year and a day will be imprisoned in a Southwest penitentiary. Judge Jennings Bailey granted the change on motion by Fall's counsel, directing DOJ custody and confinement at a state prison with warden consent.
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Washington
U.P
Albert B. Fall
Southwest
Frank J. Hogan
Fall
Jennings Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Department of Justice
New Mexico State Prison
Edward L. Doheny
Los Angeles
Elk Hills California Naval Oil Reserve
French Fliers Parachute After Plane Crash in Siberia
Joseph Lebrix Marcel Doret and mechanic of the Hyphen bailed out over the West Sayan Mountains after their non stop flight from Paris toward Tokyo ended in a wreck. They landed in a remote area and await rescue with one flyer reportedly injured.
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Moscow
Joseph Lebrix
Paris
Tokyo
Siberia
Lebrix
Marcel Doret
Rene Mesnin
West Sayan Mountains
Commission to Consider New Tax Rate in Potter County
Potter County Commissioners meet after a one day recess to fix the new tax rate. Claims and accounts were allowed Monday and tax renditions totals prepared by H. E. Kinkead and Mark Hardin. The court hopes the rate will not exceed last year.
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Potter County
H. E. Kinkead
Mark Hardin
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity may see thundershowers this afternoon or tonight with Wednesday partly cloudy. West Texas mostly partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers in the south. New Mexico unsettled tonight and Wednesday with local thunderstorms possible this afternoon or tonight. Temperatures at 1 PM ranged from 70 to 91 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
South Portion
New Mexico
Louisiana preacher aims for 48 hour sermon marathon
Rev. Sandifer in Cotton Valley La began a continuous preaching event at 11 AM Sunday, seeking a 48 hour record after breaking a 16 hour mark set by a Los Angeles minister. He read from Ephesians as hundreds of congregants listened, with attendance ranging from 60 to 600.
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E. A
Cotton Valley
Sandifer
Los Angeles
Calif
Cotton Valley First Baptist Church
Abilene Lake Tragedy Claims Mother and Two Daughters
Mrs. Kade B. Legett of Abilene and her girls Ruth five and Lora three drowned in Hereford Lake on the Legett Country Place seven miles east of Abilene. Search began Monday evening and the bodies were recovered overnight and early Tuesday.
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Abilene
Tex
Kade B. Legett
Ruth
Lora
Hereford Lake
Legett
Ake
Moratorium Proposed to Help Farmers Hold Wheat
A 30 day moratorium on wheat marketings in Oklahoma is to be proposed at a meeting of grain, machinery and bankers groups in Enid. Bankers and farm machinery firms would be urged not to press farmers for loans due after harvest for 30 days or longer to allow grain to wait for better prices. The proposal was urged by E. N. Puckett and John Manley after consulting industry officials. In national notes, U S exports of grain for the week ending July 11 totaled 2 165 000 bushels with wheat exports at 2 163 000.
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Enid
Okla
Oklahoma
Grain, Machinery and Bankers’ Organizations
Oklahoma Grain Dealers, Co-operative Grain Dealers
Co-operative Grain Organization
Northwest Oklahoma
Oklahoma Bankers Association
E. N. Puckett
Union Equity Co-operative Exchange
John Manley
Oklahoma Wheat Growers
Manley
Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Self defense plea indicated in Texas slaying case
Lloyd Hill, 10, was thrown from a horse near Amarillo and remained unconscious at noon. In Wheeler, Clarence Pryor, 29, charged with murdering his father in law near Shamrock, claims self defense after a shooting at a Shamrock filling station amid a family quarrel and his divorce filing.
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Lloyd Hill
Jesse Hill
Amarillo
Lloyd
The
Globe
Wheeler
Clarence Pryor
W. W. Guyton
Shamrock
Pryor
Clyde Fillmore
Guyton
Frank Smith
Biggest Bargain Day in Amarillo Thursday
Amarillo merchants invite shoppers to a Down Town Day with extensive bargains and specials. Free transportation to stores includes half-price bus round trips to the shopping district, as plans emphasize pass-through deals to customers.
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Amarillo
Downtown Day Offers Free Bus Rides in Amarillo
An Amarillo woman exclaimed that the event is cheap enough as bus riders can travel downtown Thursday without fare from 9 to 11 A M. Downtown Day, described as a major merchandising and bargain event by local merchants, will feature ads in tomorrow's News and Globe.
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Amarillo
News and Globe
Cities Service Wins Skirmish in Kansas
In Topeka Kansas Cities Service Company secured an initial victory in a court battle over the Kansas banking department action. A Shawnee County district court ruled the 1931 law used to withdraw stock approvals void and unconstitutional. The judges overrode a motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order against enforcement of the banking department's order.
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Topeka
Kans
the Cities Service Company
Kansas Banking Department
Shawnee County
Roland Boynton
Claremore Welcomes Rogers Post and Gatty Fliers
Claremore Oklahoma greets Will Rogers Wiley Post and Harold Gatty during a July 14 ceremony. About 5000 people welcome the three fliers as Post lands the Winnie Mae at Claremore's new airport and the group heads to a speaker platform amid cheers. Rogers travels by air from California to attend the aviation field dedication and shares playful reluctance about interrupting the heroes' celebration.
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Claremore
Okla
Will Rogers
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Rogers
Post
F. ©. Hall
Gatty
Oklahoma
Tulsa
California
Will Rogers Visits Amarillo Ahead of Tri-State Coliseum
Will Rogers, in Amarillo en route from Los Angeles to Tulsa, comments on the proposed International Coliseum at the Tri-State Fair Grounds. He jokes about size, vows to support the dedicatory program, notes 25-cent wheat, and praises a polo win with his son. He lands in a Lockheed Orion plane and chats with pilot R. B. Lee.
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Will Rogers
Amarillo
Los Angeles
Tulsa
International Coliseum
Tri-State Fair Grounds
Wilbur Hawk
Rogers
Western Air Express
R. 8
Fort Worth & Denver Lin es Authorized to Build Gray County Branches
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Fort Worth and Denver Northern Railway to construct two Gray County Texas branch lines. One seven miles southwest from near Lefors, and a 3.5 mile southward line, as part of a 110 mile Panhandle line from Childress to Pampa. The Colorado and Southern Railway plans the Panhandle extension, serving gas and oil producing areas.
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Washington
U.P
Fort Worth & Denver Northern Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gray County
Texas
LeFors
Texas Panhandle
Childress
Pampa
Wellington
Shamrock
Colorado & Southern Railway Company
Fort Worth
Alliss Takes Early Lead in Canadian Open Playoff
Percy Alliss, British born pro of a Berlin club, led after 18 holes in the 36 hole playoff for the Canadian Open champion title. He posted 73 while Walter Hagen of New York shot 74, Hagen close behind at Toronto golf event.
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Mississauga Golf Club
Toronto
Percy Alliss
Berlin
Walter Hagen
New York
Alliss
Hagen
Oil Output Hire Is Added To Problems
Tulsa July 14 A sharp rise in U S crude output is reported by the Oil and Gas Journal as industry leaders seek stabilizing measures through legislation and a proposed production strike. National daily average climbs to 2 538 980 barrels with gains in Oklahoma City East Texas and California.
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Tulsa
U.P
United States
The
Oil & Gas Journal
Oil and Gas Journal
Oklahoma City
East Texas
California
Oklahoma
Mid-continent
Willam H. Murray
Murray
Ross Sterling
Texas
Texas fliers plan Tokyo nonstop refuel flight again
Fort Worth monoplane, piloted by Reg Robbins and Harold Jones, landed at Boeing Field Seattle after a 19 hour 12 minute flight from Fairbanks. They report weather hindered the first leg to Japan and aim to refuel midway within two weeks for a $25,000 prize.
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Seattle
Fort Worth
Here
Tokyo
Fairbanks
Alaska
Reg L. Robbins
Harold
Solomon
Japan
Texas Solons Go To Work On Oil Problems
The Texas legislature convened a special session in Austin to address oil overproduction in East Texas. Gov. Sterling urged strengthen proration laws and natural resource conservation with possible redistricting later. The oil emergency committee prepared a bill granting regulators power to limit production and storage.
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Austin
Texas
East Texas
Ross S. Sterling
Sterling
Texas Oil Emergency Committee
Reguatory Commission
Railroad Commission
Senate
Wil N. Martin
Hillsboro
Walter F. Woodul
Houston
House
Shriners Parade Opens Cleveland Convention
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine gathered in Cleveland for the convention with a daylong spectacle. A 10 000 strong parade led by bands and drum corps featured camels elephants zebras and horses from 33 temples across North America with about fifty bands joining the procession.
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Cleveland
Mystic Shrine
North America
Soldier Dies After Teeth Lodged In Throat
Private Olaf Nelson of Fort Bliss Texas died at Walter Reed hospital after swallowing two false teeth at breakfast three days earlier. The bridgework lodged in his throat and pierced the esophagus. Medical attempts to remove the obstruction failed. he died just before 7 A.M.
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Washington
U.P
Olaf Nelson
Fort Bliss
Tex
Nelson
Walter Reid Hospital
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C. C. Julian Oil and Royalties Company
Cargill
George J. Eacock
H. A. Penn
Burbank
C. C. Appleborn
Oakland
L. J. Pickard
Millard A. Jenkens
First Baptist Church
K. K. Legett
Annie Maude Aycock
B. N. Aycock
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Berry’s Rug Cleaning
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Denver Lines
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