Judge Kelso Urged to Save Local Utility Trust
Amarillo readers rally around Judge I R Kelso as a plan to protect Amarillo 250 holders of first preferred stock in the local electric light company and to shield West Texas from a looming receivership. The appeal targets New York bankers who control the holding company and threaten the Texas Utilities Company and Southwestern Public Service Company with bank ruin.
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Amarillo
Local Electric Light Company
New York
Anna
Electric Light
Plains Country
Canyon
Claude
Pampa
Panhandle
Hereford
Plainview
Littlefield
Floydada
Roswell
Carlsbad
West Texas
I. R. Kelso
St. Louis
Texas Utilities Company
Judge Kelso
Southwestern Public Service Company
Kelso
Missouri
Plains
United States
Southwest
Makeig
Texas
Holcombe to Speak on Radio Before Sterling Rally
Ex mayor Oscar Holcombe of Houston, candidate for congressman at large place No 2, will speak on radio station KGRS from 7 20 to 7 30 tonight. He was in Amarillo Friday in the interest of his candidacy and the Sterling rally opens soon.
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Oscar Holcombe
Houston
KGRS
Holcombe
Amarillo
Young Negro Evangelist Holds Revival Service
Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church in North Heights hosts a revival led by Rev. Paul I. Perkins a 19 year old boy evangelist recently nationally known who began preaching at age three. White attendees invited. Mass meeting Sunday at 3 30 pm on The Negro s Viewpoint of Christian Religion and 8 30 pm on The Pale Horse and His Rider. Rev Miles W Jenkins is pastor.
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Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church
Colored
North Heights
Paul I. Perkins
Perkins
Miles W. Jenkins
Ex-Hubby Denies Bethrothal Plans Amid Flight Detour
Harry Bannister, former husband of Ann Harding, denied engagement rumors with 18 year old Nanci Lyon of Los Angeles. He spoke while en route from Hollywood to New York, then news of a two hour lost flight over New Mexico. He landed in Hobbs refueled, continued to Lubbock, and planned to Indianapolis via Amarillo.
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Harry Bannister
Ann Harding
Nanci Lyon
Los Angeles
Bous
Hollywood
New York
England
England, Does It?” Bannister Said Uncharted Airlanes In New Mexico
Hobbs
N. M
Indianapolis
Amarillo
Train trip highlights return by special to Pampa
Delegations from Fort Worth Wichita Falls and Amarillo rode a special No 2 train for the return trip to Pampa with railroad officials. Inspectors from the railroad commission praised the new line's high standard. The route runs north from Childress to Shamrock then northwest via Lefors to Pampa.
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Pampa
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
Amarillo
Railroad Company
Railroad Commission
Childress
Shamrock
Lefors
Amarillo Celebrates Fort Worth and Denver Northern Opening
Amarillo joins Pampa and Childress in opening the Fort Worth and Denver Northern railroad. Twenty leading Amarillo businessmen rode the new line on a special train from Childress to Pampa with a second large delegation. Gov. Ross Sterling spoke at Pampa alongside Ralph Budd and railroad commissioners.
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Amarillo
Pampa
Childress
New
Ice Cream Social at North Pierce Street Church Draws 300
Approximately three hundred persons attended the ice cream social hosted by the Women’s Missionary Society of the North Pierce Street Baptist Church. Candidates Clint Small, Oscar F. Holcombe, and a Mrs. Phebe K. Warner representative spoke briefly. The event occurred on the church lawn with Mrs. D. T. Pearce in charge and N. B. Crump chairing.
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Women's Missionary Society
North Pierce Street Baptist Church
Clint Small
Oscar F. Holcombe
Phebe K. Warner
D. T. Pearce
N. B. Crump
Texas cotton acreage smallest in ten years
The federal state crop and livestock reporting service said Texas cotton acreage on July 1 was 14,192,000 acres, down from 15,769,000 a year earlier, marking the smallest area in a decade and a 10 percent decrease from last year.
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Austin
Texas
Federal
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Roosevelt and Garner retooled politics and free trade talk
The piece canvasses British welfare talks with dominion reps and comments on Roosevelt’s Chicago nomination gesture. It notes Garner’s casual notification idea, contrasts Democratic and Republican prohibition stances, and hints at hotel versus speakeasy voting motives.
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Baldwin
Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
Canada
Roosevelt
Chicago
Garner
Andrew Jackson
Association of
Hotel Men
Youth Crushed by Truck Backing Up
Roy Oakley, 23, was injured when a truck backed over him at the Rainbow Truck Lines garage on North Fillmore Street. He lives on North Pierce Street and is in critical condition at St. Anthony's Hospital. An X-ray was planned for today.
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Roy Oakley
St. Anthony's Hospital
Rainbow Truck Lines
North Fillmore Street
Oakley
North Pierce Street
Negro shot in both legs as suspect is arrested
George Lusk, a black man, was shot in both legs at Third Avenue and Jackson Street around noon. Al Givens, also black, surrendered at the sheriff's office in connection with the shooting. Police reported three shots fired with two bullets causing flesh wounds in each leg.
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George Lusk
Third Avenue
Jackson Street
al Givens
Opening Cotton Inches Higher On Weathered Belt Caution
New Orleans cotton opened irregularly with October down early and December up amid lower cables. By midmorning October reached 5.73 and December 5.86 as weather concerns and firmer stocks lent support despite a bearish undertone from belt heat.
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New Orleans
Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest
A poem in which a man laments losing everything while the speaker notes the green trees and the sun above. The piece urges perspective, reminding him that wealth and family remain and that July roses may return.
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Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Goodye
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