East Side Booster Club Sponsors Song Program
The East Side Booster Club will sponsor a program of sacred sentimental and comic song and instrumental music and readings this evening at 8 o clock at Sanborn School. The Shelton Brothers Quartette from KRLD Dallas will present the program. A small admission charge will be made. The public is invited.
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East Side Booster Club
Sanborn School
Shelton Brothers Quartette
KRLD
Dallas
Redding Completes Purchase of Daniel Grocery
O M Redding announced the acquisition of the H A Daniel grocery at 401 North Buchanan Street. Vernon Simpson becomes manager and the store is renamed Reddings Live and Let Live Market with the same policy as the others.
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O. M. Redding
East Tenth Avenue
West Sixth Avenue
H. A. Daniel
North Buchanan Street
Vernon Simpson
Daniel Grocery
Redding
Live & Let
Simpson
Tenth Avenue
Daniel
Mr. Redding
Ida Delaney Dumas Pioneer Dies at 66
Ida Delaney, 66, a longtime Dumas resident and member of the First Christian Church, died today at a local hospital after months of illness. Survived by three sons Ralph Delaney Pete Delaney and Raleigh Delaney and two daughters Lollie Bennett and Mrs John Bullen, all of Dumas and Tucson. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors have the body pending funeral arrangements.
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Ida Delaney
Dumas
First Christian Church of
Ralph Delaney
Pete Delaney
Tucson
Ariz
Raleigh Delaney
Lollie Bennett
John Bullen
Grasshoppers and Dandelions Parade Before Commissioner
County Commissioner Lon Sellars says he has heard much about grasshoppers and dandelions, waking at night to see them. WPA plans for dandelion removal near the courthouse failed. officials pursue other methods. A WPA project would start too late for summer fallowing and next planting. The commission had not decided on a course of action.
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Lon Sellars
Commission
Racing Autos from Sparks Thorne Arrive in Amarillo
Amarillo hosts $84,000 in racing equipment as four Sparks Thorne Specials head toward the Indianapolis speed classic on Memorial Day. Three cars cost $22,000 each, the fourth is valued at $18,000. Drivers Rex Mays Joe Thorne Mel Hansen and Jimmy Snider from the 500 mile race prepare to field vehicles with one lap and 25 mile records. Built entirely by hand in Los Angeles the cars will be transported by trucks.
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Amarillo
Sparks-Thorne
Rex Mays
Joe Thorne
Mel Hansen
Jimmy Snider
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Boys Playing Starts Riot In Algiers
Two boys tossing firecrackers under Senegalese soldiers sparked a chase and riot in Algiers. Irate townsmen wounded soldiers, 200 Senegalese reinforced, a general brawl broke out with damaged property and 100 people injured, 12 serious, order restored by troops near midnight.
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Algiers
Man Charged in Purse Snatching in Ellwood Park
R. E. Stubblefield, an itinerant man, was charged in county court with aggravated assault related to an attack on Mrs. Ollie Alexander in Ellwood Park Saturday night. He allegedly grabbed her purse. another man picked up and filed the purse, which had not been recovered. Bond set at $300 by Judge J. N. Riggs.
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R. E. Stubblefield
Ollie Alexander
Earthquakes Shock Akita Residents in 25 Year Peak
Sixty thousand residents of Akita in northern Japan fled their homes during a series of earthquakes described as the most severe in 25 years. The tremors struck in May 1949 causing widespread fear and disruption across the coastal city.
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Akita
Japan
Divorces Highlight April and May District Court Filings
In April and May district courts the dominant filings were divorce petitions. Early April saw Lois Walls Sullivan vs Weldon Sullivan and others, with subsequent petitions including Dwight Ss against Mabel Odell Baird and Jay Sanders against Bessie Pauline Sanders. In April Magdalena Brooks was granted a divorce from Cloyce H. Brooks in the 108th district court and Jewell Sneed was granted a divorce from Faye E. Sneed in the 47th district court.
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108Th District Court
47Th District Court
Lois Walls Sullivan
Weldon Sullivan
Dwight Ss. Baird
Mabel Odell Baird
Jay
Daniel Roper Named Minister to Canada
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Daniel C. Roper to be minister to Canada. Roper, former secretary of commerce, has been out of office since December and has served in government roles since 1894. Norman Armour was the last minister to Canada, appointed in 1938.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Daniel C. Roper
Canada
Roper
Commerce Department
Harry Hopkins
Norman Armour
Chile
Confession continues as college faits divers noted
The article reports five seldom attending students were seen at the morning assembly, prompting a critical tone toward West Texas State College authorities. Civil authorities sought in vain to explain the darkest blot on the college's record.
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West Texas State College
Confessed May Day Flagpole Vandalism by Students
A student confession reveals a planned May Day prank that damaged a patriotic flag. The group bought cloth in a distant city and used cheap gloves to avoid fingerprints. wind erased footprints and guards still monitor the pole. The speaker, now graduated, expresses remorse and notes others would suffer if named.
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Fast Side Booster Club
Chance
Shaw-Graves
W. Tenth
Dumas Pioneer
Ostly Racing Autos
Man
Perfection Stove Company
Union Avenue
Kansas City, Ma
Johnson Price Co
Fillmore Sr
Daniel Roper
Bivins
Gus Watson
Globe-News
Goodrich Silvertown
Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory
America
Silvertowns
Goodrich
Silvertown
Cal Farley
Fillmore San Jacinto
Alabama
Arthur Borger
Main
Levine
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