Locomotive Union Meet Opens In Brownwood
Floods receded in Brownwood as locals prepare for a two day Texas New Mexico Union meeting at the Herring Hotel. Registration opens tomorrow at 2 PM with Amarillo lodge presidents Merry and Bunch leading planning for addresses, drills, meetings, a memorial service, banquet, and ball.
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Texas-New Mexico Union
Brotherhood of Locomtive Firemen
Herring Hotel
Amarillo Brotherhood
Amarillo
Lewis E. Merry
Lile Bunch
Pilgrim Windmill Reopens at Ford Museum Site
In Dearborn Michigan the oldest windmill in America dating to 1633 is turning again at Ford's Greenfield Village outdoor museum. The Dutch gristmill with sails 54 feet across was moved from Cape Cod after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth and was restored to operate with power once equal to forty yoke of oxen.
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Dearborn, Mica
America
Cape Cod
Mass
Plymouth
Ford
Greenfield Village
Still Expert at 100 Revere Cribbage Player
STILL EXPERT AT 100 REVERE Mass. One of Revere s most expert cribbage players is 100 year old George Ulett, a retired shipwright who helped to build Boston s famous old clipper ships some 80 years ago.
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Revere, Mass
Revere
George Ulett
Boston
American Private Captures Chinese Soldier in Korea
Pfc. Eugene K. Kelly, Jr. of 104 West Ave., Beach Haven, NJ, captured a Chinese soldier in Korea and took his home-made pistol. The crude weapon used a rubber band firing-pin, a wooden stock bound with wire, and was described by Kelly with a quip about preferring a water pistol in a duel.
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Central Front
Korea
Eugene K. Kelly, Jr
Values Bell From Old Prize Fights
In Revere Massachusetts Archie Cotton a hardware merchant prizes a spring operated gong found in an old stable once used to signal prize rounds Rooney's Stable hosted many fights around 1900 and Jack Johnson the 1908 world heavyweight champion participated there as a stable employee the gong’s historic link to boxing endows it with significance
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Revere
Mass
U.P
Archie Cotton
Rooney
Jack Johnson
Canadian TV Service Set for Mount Royal Tower
Canadians will see first telecasts from Montreal next spring as the CBC plans a 300 foot tower atop Mount Royal. The site covers 100 by 150 feet and will house the transmitter now stored for removal to the new TV site.
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Montreal
Que
U.K
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Mount Royal
European moths blamed for ruin of American clothes
It is believed the moths responsible for ruining many American clothes are not native to the United States but were imported from Europe.
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United States
Europe
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Locomotive Union
Brownwood
Texas
Lake Brownwood
Pecan Bayou
Red Cross
State Highway Patrol
Eddie McCasland
Riverside Park
Coleman
Santa Anna
36Th Division State Park
Lake Brownwood Village
Ford Museum
Sant
Polk
Dad
Tropic
Brent
Gordons
London
Gordon's Dry Gin Co.,ltd
Linden, W
OPERA
Pop
Seersucker
OF Rayon
Gabardine
California
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