Borger Marks Ninth Birthday With Parade and Festivities
Borger celebrates its ninth birthday on Friday with a 14 block parade featuring 60 floats led by parade marshal J Gordon Burch. Local bands join, contests prize $50, and events include concerts, boxing, basketball, a carnival, and a fireworks show drawing crowds from Amarillo.
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Borger
Panhandle
Hutchinson County
American Legion
Black Hotel
Main Street
J. Gordon Burch
Chamber of Commerce Organization
Rev
L. O. Byerly
Borger High
Borger Chamber of Commerce
Maverick Club
Legion Home
Ancient myths and modern war merge in today’s foreign scene
The page blends historical myths with current conflict notes. Venizelos appears amid Greek civil war mentions, Crete and the Minotaur surface in a reflective aside. Ramsay MacDonald’s Commons address hints Britain widening imperial air protection along the Rhine as German military activity rises.
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Ramsay MacDonald
The
Commons
Germany
Britain
Rhine
Big Air Plans and Sunlit Fashion in 20s Style
The piece notes Britain will build a large air fleet after lessons from Europe and Asia. It mocks revealing Miami beach fashion, citing two coconut shell costumes and a Greek temple motto about moderation. Amarillo celebrates Mother-in-Law Day with sweet peas and a governor’s relative amid a mile long parade. Crime costs Americans about $120 per person annually, totaling over fifteen billion dollars nationwide.
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Paris
Miami
Alfred
Parole turmoil in Oklahoma and new attack plane talk
The piece argues for prison reform by shipping nonviolent criminals to a shared island to self govern, cites Oklahoma Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray, and notes the high costs of imprisonment. It also reports on a new type of armored attack plane with steel coating for low altitude fire, and mentions the Duke of Gloucester inspecting the Panama Canal from an airplane, noting Britain’s interest in the canal.
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Oklahoma
North Pole
Equator
Duke of Gloucester
King George
Panama Canal
Panama City
Shipping policy and defense fears in a wartime context
The excerpt debates canal access for foreign ships versus domestic use, warning that allowing cheap passage could invite retaliation. It also cites a hypothetical air fleet threat to cripple naval movement, and notes a statistic claiming seven percent of drivers cause most automobile accidents per the Automobile Club of Southern California.
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South America
White House
The
Automobile Club of
Southern California
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Borger Birth
Venizelos
Crete
Athens
Thrace
Bulgaria
Protomon
Themistocles
Lord Rothermere
Lord Northcliffe
Europe
Asia
Amarillo
Tex
Claude Miller
Texas
James V. Alfred
Fach
Roosevelt
Finkler
Debrers
Finklea
E. E. Finkler, Inc
Polk St
Schilling
Os E
Apple
LUX
Perry Vermillion Plumbing
the Gas Co
Duncan Paige
Kuppenheimer
ANCE
Polk
Batiste
KOTEX
Levine
Big Asguntamert
Rockford
SOX
New
New Spring
SILK
Levines
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