Rock Island to start Amarillo Oil City train service
Rock Island announces regular train service from Amarillo to Oil City starting August 2 as part of a new route to Liberal Kansas. The schedule shows departures from Amarillo at 8 15 A M and arrivals Oil City after about 3 a hours with return service at 12 15 P M from Oil City to Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Oil City
Rock Island
Liberal
Kansas
MEER
Durr Redce
Willton
Greenough
Wilhelm
Bowue Tac
Tee
LE We Gees
Sanford
Teese
Mayer
Cold Check Costs Life of Gang Leader
Frank Hitchcock, former associate of Scarface Al Capone, was found shot in Burnham near his Arrowhead Inn site after a worthless $500 check to West Side gang members. Police see the payment for stock as a motive in the thirteenth gambling war killing in seven ten days.
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Associated Press
Chicago
West Side
Frank Hitchcock
Burnham
Scarface al” Capone
Hitchcock
Arrowhead Inn
Rangers Use Old Brush Tactics Along Texas Border
A ranger company and mounted customs officers patrol the Rio Grande by brush in Mission Texas to curb border smuggling. Led by Ranger Captain Bill Sterling, the expedition carries pack mules with food and ammunition and recalls 1921 actions that halted marauders. The customs addition handles federal charges.
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Associated Press
Mission
Texas
Rio Grande
Bill Sterling
Neff
Bill Wright
Brush
Anita Davis Freed on Bail After Near Death Illness
Anita Davis a film extra once convicted of manslaughter in the Kerrick death was released on five thousand dollars bail as doctors said she was near death from tuberculosis. Kerrick a film cowboy was shot at a drunken wild party with no one certain shooter. The five guests were convicted as joint slayers and Davis appealed prompting the release on medical grounds.
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Los Angeles
Anita Davis
Tom Kerrick
Kerrick
Miss Davis
Hardy
Hail Storms Kill Five in Chechen District
Hailstones the size of baseballs struck a 50 square mile area in Grozny region killing five people and devastating livestock. Reports cite 6000 sheep and significant cattle losses along with $2 million in property damage. The storm struck at 4 am and damaged fields and housing across the stricken district.
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Grozny
Russia
Commissariat of Agriculture
Chechen
Very Girlish Birthday Candles Question
Dialogue snippet features BILL asking if she was shy on her birthday and BOB replying she was shy about ten candles. It reads as a playful anecdote with minimal context and no clear event or人物 beyond the dialogue.
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Bill
Bob
Recreation 10 Be Featured At Guard Meeting
National Guard encampment for the 36th division at Palacious runs August 6 to 21 with free nightly motion pictures planned. Capt. Ernest C. Cox recreation officer reports films include Tell It to the Marines Subway Sadie The Sea Tiger Slide Kelly Slide Tillie the Toiler Rookies Callahans and Murphys The Fire Brigade One Minute to Play Tin Hats McFadden Flats The Better Ole. Boxing and wrestling platforms are planned.
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National Guard
Palacious
Ernest C. Cox
Cox
Subway Sadie
Sea Tiger
Kelly
Tillie the Toiler
Palacios camp adds sports facilities for regimental units
In Palacios a training camp expands with seven regimental areas and four new baseball diamonds. Division boxing wrestling track and swimming will be contested. A new timetable reserves afternoons for sport and a daily camp newspaper will publish. Families can rent rooms in Palacios at moderate prices per Captain Cox. Local units present include Headquarters 142nd Infantry Battery B 181st Field Artillery and the Medical Department Detachment 131st Field Artillery. Each plans to bring a full quota of men.
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Palacios
Cox
142Nd Infantry
181St Field Artillery
131St Field Artillery
Sleep Walker Injured at Fort Missoula
Corporal George Young of the Fourth Infantry and recipient of the D C and Croix de Guerre for bravery in overseas hostilities is hospitalized at Fort Missoula after sleepwalking caused him to leap from a window to the parade ground 30 feet below. Mrs Rodney Neathery of Austin visits Mr and Mrs Howard Trigg and their sisters.
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FT. Missoula
Mont
George Young
Fourth Infantry
Fort Hospital
Young
Rodney Neathery
Austin
Howard Trigg
Taylor
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Ome
Ummers JW
Clifton Sarereta
Devel
Polk
Bell Tailoring Co. A
Jack” Clark, Mer
Seidlitz
S&h
City Drug Stores
Polk Street
Oliver Earle
Fifth
Carolina
Mahan Drug CO
Pampa, Texas
Sleep Walker
ULOVA
Bulova
Panhandle
Polk ST
Maxwell House
Griggs Ambulance Service
N. S. Griggs and Sons
Fillmore
Eighth Street
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