Progress in Anton Unparalleled Brightens Plains Town
The small town of Anton grows rapidly after a brick block opening with a 1500 person ball game crowd and 800 at three dances. Hartley beat Anton 15 to 1 and Spring Lake 7 to 3 in athletics. a new post office is planned and 60 business concerns operate. About 60,000 acres around Anton have sold to farmers at 85 dollars per acre, with 30,000 acres expected to yield crops this year. A $75,000 school bond is planned after town status on June 9.
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Anton
Hartley
Spring Lake
Littlefield
Gerald Chapman Faces Hartford Jury in Murder Case
Noted FBI fugitive Gerald Chapman serving 25 years for a $2.5 million New York mall robbery faces a Hartford jury on the murder of Policeman James Skelly. Skelly was killed after Chapman escaped from Atlanta prison. one of two men caught blowing a New Britain department store safe implicated in the crime.
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Gerald Chapman
Atlanta Ga
New York
Hartford
Conn
James Skelly
Skelly
New Britain
Nitroglycerine Planned to Extinguish Masterson Gas Well Fire
Plans are under way to extinguish the Masterson A-1 well fire with a shot of nitroglycerine. The Moore county well in Section 46 Block B M 3 is owned by the Amarillo oil company and produced an estimated twenty five million feet of gas. Flames were visible for miles after the Thursday night ignition.
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Masterson A-1
Block B.&m. 3
Moore County
Amarillo Oil Company
Lindsay Drug Co Opens New Store With Compliments
Horace Lindsay, manager of Lindsay Drug, praises the new Fifth and Polk corner store in the Levy building. He notes immediate business improvement and says a formal opening with orchestra drinks cigars and full stock transfer is planned within the next month.
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Horace Lindsay
Lindsay Drug Company
Fifth and
Polk Streets
Levy
Mr. Lindsay
Chicago market men find a new home
Chicago reports a major move as hundreds of firms relocate to a new central west site for the Produce Market. The plan calls for 166 concrete, three story buildings on six blocks on the near west side, expected to be ready later this year.
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Chicago
Central West
All grades Mobdtloil Amalie Sinclair at Tenth and Grant
Amalie Sinclair reports all grades for Mobdtloil at the intersection of Tenth and Grant. Officials tally results and publish in a local update.
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Mobdtloil
Amalie Sinclair
Grant
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N. M
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M. E. Speer
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J. H. Rankin
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