Amarillo Rain Prompts Weather Talk and Local Plans
A Plains region weather note reports scattered showers with more forecast. The writer cites Amarillo rainfall totals for the year 16.07 inches and a yearly average of 20.99 inches, notes political talk around Lou Stogner who ran for sheriff, and jokes about funding a catfish pond to support weather prophecying equipment.
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Plains
Amarillo
Lou Stogner
Lou
Texas
Oklahoma
State Fish Hatchery
New Ointment Kills Itch Quick
Advertises Blue Star Ointment to cure tetter rash ringworm foot itch eczema and skin troubles by melting at body heat and delivering medicines into pores. Claims soothing healing of inflamed skin with a pleasant odor and offers money back if it fails. Sold by all drug stores.
Protests over Christian Science reference in personal column
Ralph W. Still of the Christian Science Committee protests a publication that mocked Mary Baker Eddy in a personal column. He argues the gibe offends good taste and misrepresents the founder whose work aided many. The letter seeks respectful treatment and is submitted to The Amarillo Globe.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
Mrs. Eddy
Amarillo Globe
Erasmus Tack
Ralph W. Still
Christian Science Committee
Texas
Mills Bldg
Paso
Weather Prophet Seeks Subscriptions For Catfish Pond Fund
An editor urges readers to donate small sums to fund a catfish pond to aid weather forecasting. He vows the money will stay for forecasting use and offers cash preferred over checks. Side notes report local chatter about saloons, churches, and a humorous New York tie-in.
Mine Strikers in Bread Raid at Clarksville
Arkansas miners strike over non union workers at Clarksville coal fields. Guardsmen stand by as merchants fear looting and union miners from Montana Arkansas Oklahoma Kansas reinforce locals amid a large camp of unemployed workers.
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Clarksville
Ark
U.P
Harvey Parnell
Arkansas National Guardsmen
Montana
Here
Letters spark debate on religion and Westerners at Chicago convention
A reader defends Western attendees and condemns The Lima News for criticizing them while apologizing for offense. The letter touches on Beecher, various faiths, and a claim of misrepresented views, then shifts to horned toads and a New York contact seeking 100 toads for two cents each.
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Ohio
Lima
West
Chicago
New York
B. Garner
Louisiana Street
Tax rate details and county valuation estimates
Tax figures show estimated taxes of 16 468 417 and a levy of 21 714 264 with a 35 cent tax expected to produce 13 720 900. Per capita apportionment may be 16. Potter County valuations are not yet reported to the state tax board. H E Kinkead says the valuation report is being completed and will be sent to the county commissioners within a week for rate setting. He predicts valuations will be considerably lower than last year.
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Potter County
State Tax Board
H. E. Kinkead
Kinkead
School Tax Values Adjusted by Equalization Board
The equalization board and school trustees opened at noon to finalize values for school taxes. They report protests were heard yesterday and today. No citywide increases. some areas unchanged due to the new zoning ordinance. Overall reductions of about 16 to 23 percent were made.
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Equalization Board
T. W. Cotten
W. N. Cooper
T. M. Bruner
Deaths at log cabin home in Mill Creek
A coroner's jury returned an open verdict on Noble Colbert aged 33 and his wife Grace aged 28 found dead in their cabin three miles south of here. Bullets pierced their bodies in what authorities treat as a death by own action.
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Mill Creek
Oklo
Noble Colbert
Grace
Here
Bank suspect Cisco robber? Newton bank heist tale unfolds
In Beaumont on July 26 a suspect claimed to be Danny Leach, the 1930 Huntsville penitentiary killer, after two men were captured in Leesville, La. for a Newton State Bank robbery. Police say about $1,700 of the $2,000 stolen was recovered. the younger man is 16, the older about 21.
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Beaumont
Newton
Danny Leach
State
Huntsville
Cisco
Leach
Eastland
Tom Green
James Leach
Alton
Leesville
Murdered in Mountain View Couple Attacked in Sleep
Mrs Lillian Babcock 44 was stabbed to death and her husband Rider Babcock 45, importer and exporter of copra and hemp from the Philippines, was critically wounded when they were attacked as they slept at Mountainview near San Jose California early today.
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San Jose
Cal
Lillian Babcock
Rider Babcock
Philippines
Mountainview
Here
Bob Doubleday Dies in Arizona
Bob Doubleday, formerly of Amarillo, died Thursday in Phoenix, Arizona. The 30 year old, unmarried man had worked at Amarillo National Bank where his father George B. Doubleday once served as assistant cashier. The family, now in Amarillo, received the news.
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Bob Doubleday
Amarillo
Phoenix
Ariz
H. A. Nobles
Bob
George B. Doubleday
Amario National Bank
Watson Baby Dies. Rites Pending
Elsie Joan Watson age 13 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Watson of 3703 Polk Street, died last night after a brief illness in a local hospital. She is survived by her parents and one brother Earl J. Jr. Funeral arrangements are to be announced by Blackburn Funeral Home.
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Elsie Joan Watson
B. J. Watson
Polk Street
Earl J, Jr
Puneral
Blackburn Funeral Home
Funeral for Infant Hendricks at 5 PM
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hendricks of 309 North Rusk Street died at 4 AM in a local hospital. Funeral services are set for 5 PM at Blackburn Funeral Home with burial in Llano Cemetery.
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C. W. Hendricks
N. Rusk Street
Blackburn Funeral Home
Llano Cemetery
Liberal currency issuance and railroad merger plans discussed
The article notes Glass Borah act effects allowing banks to issue notes backed by government bonds, outlines plans to merge eastern railroads into four lines reducing duplication but harming workers, and observes government loans being readily floated, challenging deflation pessimism. A stock exchange seat fetched around 90 thousand dollars as a sign of market vigor.
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Stock Exchange
Steel stock dividend and sale price noted
The article states a $90,000 figure, $10,000 above the last sale and about one fifth the price seen in the great bull market. It mentions United States Steel’s dividend likely paid from the corp’s surplus if not omitted, with common stock now on a non-dividend basis and the second quarter report expected to be very unfavorable.
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United States Steel
Consolidated Oil Reports First-Half 1932 Profit
Tulsa World reports Consolidated Oil shows profit for the first six months of 1932 aided by economies, contrasting with last year’s about 20 million dollar loss by Sinclair and Prairie, now merged into the Consolidated concern. Williamson Dickie Mfg adds 150 night-shift workers in Fort Worth. Illinois Highway Dept says 8,400 construction workers active. Florence Stove Co recalls 175 employees to full-time. Northwest Shipppers board foresees tripled grain transport needs this fall.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Consolidated Oil Company
Sinclair and Prairie Companies
Consolidated Concern
Fort Worth
Williamson- Dickie Manufacturing Company
Illinois Highway Department
Florence Stove Company
Garner
Mass
Superior
Wisconsin
Grain Committee
Northwest Shippers Advisory Board
Near-Northwest
Kansas City and New Orleans Livestock Markets Report
Kansas City hogs and cattle traded unevenly with declines for most grades. hogs 4,500 head mostly 5 to 10 cents lower led by 180 to 220 pounders, top $4.60. Cattle and calves 7,000 and 1,000 respectively, killing classes steady to 25 cents lower, steers 600-1500 Ibs $7.00-$9.25, cows $2.25-$5.00, vealers $2.50-$5.00. Sheep 4,000 with lambs 25-86 cents higher, top Arizona lambs $85.25 per hundredweight and natives $5.75. Washington and New Orleans markets show similar softer trends. New Orleans cotton opened quiet, December futures down a point on sparse buying amid good weather.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Arizona
Surinao Livestos
Washington Range
New Orleans
Liverpool
Market steady after morning lull as traders eye steel meeting
Speculators maintain control amid profit taking and caution before the U S Steel directors meeting. Stocks rally briefly on firmer wheat and oil, with October and December futures rising from early lows before easing mid session.
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New York
U. S. Steel
American Phone
Sante Fe
Standard
N. J
General Electric
Consolidated Oil
Richfield
Consolidated
Tobaccos
Reynolds B
McKeesport
United Fruit
Case
Endicott Johnson
International Nickel
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Pow & Tt
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al Stand
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