Texas Centennial publicity boosts Panhandle via media push
The Globe 1936 editorial notes Texas Centennial promotion across newspapers, radio, magazines, and stamps. It highlights West Texas exposure and publicity stunts at the Panhandle livestock exhibit and Pioneer Woman statue, plus recalls invitations to Haile Selassie and Mr. Zioncheck. It also discusses a new corporation court policy on traffic tickets and enforcement.
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Texas
Centennial Boys
Panhandle
West Texas
Lone Star
Great
Telegraph
Texas Girls
Haile Selassie
Zioncheck
Centennial Speedway
Vast Shifting Army Reflects Growing Government Workload
The Civil Service Reform League notes one in ten jobs is government related, with expanding public administration from local to federal levels. The piece criticizes spoils-era practices, urges merit-based appointments, and highlights turnover and inefficiency across administrations. References to tax policy and public figures appear in a satirical, vignette style.
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Civil Service Reform League
Hoover Seeks Tightening Grip Over Federal Investigations
Washington debates consolidating federal investigative agencies under J. Edgar Hoover. Senate debates funding for the Bureau of Investigation rise to 6.025 million as crime powers expand from interstate kidnapping to extortion and bank robbery. The era notes Kidnapping and high‑profile captures fueling calls for stronger centralized enforcement.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Pennsylvania Avenue
Hoover
Secret Service
Internal Revenue and Treasury
Postal Inspection Service
Coast Guard
Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Senate
Moorer
McKellar
Tennemee
House
Ayat Ivay
Karpis
Mahan Campbel
Midnight romance ends in fatal hit and run at Avon Home
Caroline Jay wed Garret Cas sidy despite her mother's ban. They kill Pop Whistler fleeing the scene and leave him by the roadside. Jim Hennessey later reports the body, leading Mrs. Jay to identify the victim as Pop Whistler. Caroline plans to meet Garret at the Home Chapel at midnight as CHAPTER XXVI unfolds.
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Caroline Jay
Garret Cassidy
Garret
Caroline
Mrs. Jay
Avon Home For the
Henry Avon
Pop Whistler
Jim Hennessey
Mr. Hennessey
Sky Club
Royal Exile Haile Selassie Stamp Featured Mystery
Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, fleeing Addis Ababa, is depicted in a stamp image as regent. The piece notes his 1930 coronation, birth in 1891, and reforms, while recounting exile as Italian advances push him from power. The narrative shifts to a separate fiction scene of Caroline and Henry Avon at a lakeside dinner, hinting at secrets and a forthcoming moral dilemma.
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PHE
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Negus
Solomon
Sheba
Zauditu
God
Townsend and Town send influence unsettles political front
On the political front Dr PF E Townsend and his followers loom as unknowns in elections this year. The Townsend old age pension plan gained momentum with a Michigan congressman advocate elected and a Townsend bloc forming. A congressional investigation followed causing dissension and the resignation of co founder R E Clements. Investigators promise further disclosures as candidates weigh the impact on the race.
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Fr. E. Townsend
Associated Press
PF. E. Townsend
Michigan
Congress
Townsend
R. E. Clements
Barkers Quit the Main Stem
A 1936 McNaught Syndicate column notes the vanishing of sidewalk pitchmen along 42nd Street and the Lower East Side as hard times push many to relief or other work. It sketches their nomadic culture, colorful nicknames, and ties to New York’s fading street life and entertainment districts.
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O. O. McIntyre
New York
42Nd Street Library
Lower East Side
Red Sparks
Denver Pete
Silent Harry
Frisco Ned
Mills
Skimmer the Swallow Sees Jenny Wren Move Nearby
In Thornton Burgess style a worried Skimmer and his wife fear Jenny Wren may claim a new nest under their maple tree while Farmer Brown's Boy has placed a house nearby. Mrs Skimmer reassures him but unease lingers about neighborhood nest swapping and gossip.
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Skimmer the Swallow
Jenny Wren
Farmer Brown
Skimmer
Drummer the Woodpecker
Jenny
Mrs. Skimmer
Johnny
T. W. Burgess
Pie a La Mode Discoverer Dies
CAMBRIDGE N Y May 216 Charles Watson Townsend 87 a one time concert pianist who was reputed to have originated the American dessert apple pie a la mode died today Local tradition has it Townsend amazed waiters in a hotel dining room by asking for ice cream on his apple pie He liked it so well that Delmonico s of New York City later added the dish to the menu
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Cambridge
N. Y
Charles Watson Townsend
Townsend
Delmonico’s
New York City
Word Builder Riddle Echoes Strength of a Truckman
A riddle links a Indian war dance beat to a life of a truckman who lifts wine barrels and heavy boxes. It hints that strength prevails and the sinews bear witness to the body’s power in labor and effort.
Airship clues and nautical terms in a cryptic puzzle
A historical puzzle list matching clues to definitions for airship, nautical terms, and common words. Includes entries about dirigibles, wings, sails, streams, and body parts, with cross references to nautical and meteorological terms.
Deed Transfers and Vehicle Registrations Reported
courthouse records show J R Lawrence et al selling Lot 18 Phillips subdivision blocks 7 8 28 to H N Porter for 2000 with related car registrations for Ford and Chevrolet sedans by various buyers and licenses issued to Carl B Gray Elise Brown. A building insulation maker tests its products in its own lab against cold.
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J. R. Lawrence
H. N. Porter
Phillips Subdivision
Ford
L. H. Chance
Chevrolet
Plains Chevrolet Company
B. W. Little
Dodge
H. H. Barnes
D. M. Cotten
Packard
Anderson
Carl B. Gray
Elise Brown
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo Daily News
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Globe
News-Globe
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MAIL
Teras
Oklahoma
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Larest
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Lake Erie
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Barkers
James Cagney
Faith Baldwin
Colony
Broadway
14Th Street
Tony Pastor
Maggie Cline
Harrigan and Hart
Pat Rooney
Lottie Gilson
Four Cohans
Luchow
Straus
Roach
Jersey
Thinguambobs
Gabrielle Chanel
Paris
Ethel Barrymore
Harry Evans
McNaught Syndicate
Bedtime
By Thornton W. Burgess
Wren
Johnny Wren
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
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Word Builder
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