Woman Sues Western Lumber Over Polk Street Crash
Mrs. A N Wilkinson of Amarillo sues Western Lumber Co and others for $10,000 claiming injuries from a July 1930 collision on Polk Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. She alleges the car driven by M C Hancock and Joe Hancock, owned by Western Lumber, caused a broken leg and other injuries requiring hospital care.
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Ce Ts
Polk Street
Third
Fourth Avenues
A N. Wilkinson
Amarillo
Potter County
Western Lumber Company
American Automobile Insurance Company
Wiliams-Boyce Agency
M. C. Hancock
Joe Hancock
Wilkinson
Judging Contests Conclude at Texas A M Short Course
At College Station July 30 officials expect the judging contests for grain beef cattle poultry dairying swine sheep and terracing to close with winners announced tomorrow More than 250 boys and girls compete and about 1 600 attend the short course including roughly 1 000 women J E McDonald urged legislative action to regulate cotton production.
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College Station
Tex
Texas A. & M
J. E. McDonald
Texas
Mancey Firm Sues McClung for 2000 Dollars
A suit for 2000 dollars was filed in Potter County civil district court against the McClung Construction Company by D. J. Mancey & Sons sub contracting firm of Amarillo. The action claims violation of contractual agreements in the construction of a bridge in Childress County in August 1929.
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Potter County
McClung Construction Company
Bank Rate Raised Again by Bank of England
London July 30 The Bank of England increased the bank rate from 3 1 2 percent to four and one half percent to prevent withdrawal of foreign balances in case of gold and to strengthen exchanges in London. The previous rise to 3 1 2 percent had steadied foreign exchanges and led to cancellation of some gold engagements.
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London
Bank of England
Briand Missing From Cabinet Meeting
Aristide Briand, veteran French foreign minister, is slightly indisposed and could not attend a cabinet meeting. The illness remains undisclosed. In England, magistrate Hansbury fined two men for illegal bird shooting, calling the dole the main driver of poaching.
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Paris
Aristide Briand
France
England
Hansbury
Abergavenny
Radox Foot Bath Promises Easy Corn Removal
The ad touts Radox as a pleasant foot bath that loosens corn roots after a few nights, claims it dissolves callouses and hard skin, and lets feet feel vigorous for walking, running, or dancing. Available at Fox Drug Company and modern drug stores.
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Great Britain
America
Radox
Little Isles
Fox Drug Company
Henry Ford at 68 in robust health and high spirits
Ford, in excellent health on his 68th birthday, spent the day at Fair Lane Dearborn with friends noting his fit, lined face and energetic step. He remains focused on wealth as a symbol and on an ambitious farming industrial project aimed at coordinating agriculture and industry. The piece recalls his birth on a nearby farm and his well-kept ancestral home.
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Fairlane
Dearborn
Henry Ford
Ford
Garage Apartments Grow in Longview Amid Oil Boom
Longview Texas reports a housing surge as oil development spawns more than 30 garage apartments and at least 450 other units. New large complexes push total apartment spending since January to about 125565 dollars amid a citywide housing shortage. Lonnie Clark, 30, of Dallas was found dead near the Texas and Pacific track five miles west of Grand Saline, likely from a fall from a train. A Manchester plan calls for a seventeen story skyscraper, nearly twice the height of existing structures.
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Longview
Tex
Grand Saline
Lonnie Clark
Dallas
Texas and Pacific
Manchester
City
England
Three Damage Suits Filed in District Court
Three damage suits totaling about 50 000 were docketed by Potter County District Clerk Ben Smith. A 35000 alienation of affections case against G W Rockwell of Amarillo was filed by L A Kennedy of Fort Worth, a 2000 claim by D J Muncey & Sons against McClung Construction of Fort Worth over a Childress County bridge, and a 10000 suit by Mrs A N Wilkinson of Amarillo against Western Lumber Co and others for injuries from a car wreck. Also listed were five divorce suits and five suits for debt and trespass to try title.
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Potter County
Ben Smith
G. W. Rockwell
Amarillo
L. A. Kennedy
Fort Worth
D. J. Muncey & Sons
McClung Construction Company
Waggoner Estate Expands with 117000 Acres in New Mexico
The Three D brand shifts to Eastern New Mexico as 117000 acres, once Blair Ranch, near 50 miles south of Tucumcari, NM, become grazing lands for Three 10 steer herds. Wilbarger and nearby counties will host breeding projects with Zacaquiesta HQ 12 miles south of Vernon remaining central. After a 24 hour strike, Paris railway raises wages and fares to cover the increase.
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W. T. Waggoner
Wilbarger
Zacaquiesta
Vernon
Paris
Publisher William L. McLean Dies in Philadelphia
William L. McLean publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and former AP director died at his Germantown home after a year of illness. He was 179, and his son Robert McLean had succeeded him on the AP board seven years earlier.
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Philadelphia
William L. McLean
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Associated Press
McLean
Robert McLean
Germantown
Purification of the System Promotes Health
Physicians endorse Purification of the system as the basis of health. Calotabs purify the blood by stimulating the liver kidneys stomach and bowels. Trial package ten cents family package thirty five cents. All dealers.
City Briefs: Madden Chi Return from Colorado Trip
Wales H Madden and Toney Chi sum returned this week from a week's fishing trip in Colorado. R D Spencer spent Wednesday in Lubbock on business.
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Wales H. Madden
Toney Chisum
Colorado
R. D. Spencer
Lubbock
Dallas lumber dealer shot by prowler on sleeping porch
M. E. Prichard, a Tyler lumber dealer, was shot in the shoulder by a black man who entered his sleeping porch early this morning. Police found the suspect hiding near J. M. Davis’s residence, where Prichard was visiting.
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Dallas
Texas
M. E. Prichard Tyler
J. M. Davis
Prichard
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Eczema
Ned
Ella Moakley
Mt. Auburn St
Watertown
Mass
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Pamplona
Detroit
Fortune
New Mexico
Tasha Ngdkingon
Cates
Polk Sts
Amarillo, Texas
Palais Royal
Polk
Regulator
Rifice
Polk ST
Prowler
T Company
Hershey's
Cotys D'Orsay
Renauds
Onc
Gillette Blades
Rubinstein
Muriel Astor
Barbara Gould
Dubarry
Constauts
Assi
Frostilla
Fox Drug
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