Birthdays mark great Swiss rail tunnels
Switzerland celebrates 50 years of the St Gothard tunnel and 25 years of the Simplon tunnel. The St Gothard links Zurich and Milan, tripling goods traffic in 25 years and doubling with electrification to a daily 28 000 tons. The Simplon, length 20 kilometers, serves western Europe to the Near East with through trains from London and Paris to Constantinople, Baghdad and Cairo. A parallel second tunnel has been added along its full length.
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United Press
Geneva
Switzerland
St. Gothard
Simplon
Zurich
Milan
Europe
Near East
London
Paris
Constantinople
Bagdad
Cairo
Napoleon
Alps
Italy
Ita
Scout Camp Opens June 4 at Ceta Canyon
Preparations for Boy Scouts summer camp begin June 4 at the Baptist Encampment Grounds in Ceta Canyon, 32 miles southeast of Amarillo. Volunteers and workers clean up the site as a dirt and sandbag dam is erected to manage water.
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Boy Scouts
Baptist
Ceta Canyon
Amarillo
Camp facilities prepared for early June campers
The site is stocked with water sport gear and boats for a planned swimming hole and boating lake. Tents will be removed later this week, with heavier equipment remaining on site for the first campers arriving June 4.
Bond Issue Authorized for Chicago Rock Island Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Chicago Rock Island Gulf Railway to issue 5.622 million dollars of extension first mortgage gold bonds. The bonds will be delivered to the Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railway at par to settle construction advances, covering the cost of the extension project.
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Globe
Washington
Interstate Commission Today
Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Local Society Notes and Land Transfers Near Amarillo
Ina Davis of West Texas State Teachers College spent a week end with Miss Felice Stanley in Canyon. J W Kennerly bought two sections of land north of English Airport from Cotten Bruner and Atwood. Pearson and Stanfield moved into enlarged offices at 1017 15 and 19 Oliver Eakle Building. A B Lowley estate sold to Lyles Young three miles south of Washburn. Miss Gladys Cook of General Motors Acceptance entertained W K Green in Clovis New Mexico. Jack Neely arrived from San Diego to visit his mother and sisters for ten days. Amarillo has changed remarkably.
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Ina Davis
West Texas State Teachers’ College
Felice Stanley
Kentucky Street
Miss Stanley
Miss Davis
Canyon
A. B. Lowley
Lyles Young
Washburn
Mr. Young
Amarillo
Cotten-Bruner- Atwood
Gladys Cook
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
W. K. Green
Clovis
New Mexico
Jack Neely
San Diego
California
P. Neely
Tyler
Mr. Neely
Railroad Line Across Panhandle Near Texas-Oklahoma Border
The projected railroad route spans about 108 miles through Potter Carson Hutchinson and Hansford counties from Amarillo toward the Texas Oklahoma line.
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Amarillo
Potter, Carson, Hutchinson
Hansford
Lux Toilet Soap Promoted by Hollywood Stars
Evelyn Brent and Agnes Ayres tout Lux Toilet Soap as the secret to flawless skin. The appeal centers on smooth complexions used by 511 of 521 Hollywood actresses, with the soap described as official in studios and favored by Broadway and European stage stars.
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Evelyn Brent
Hollywood
Lux
Broadway
Oll Star
Lila Rayeune
Notable Amarillo Residents Gain Health and Travel Updates
Roy Britain, once a local surveyor, improves at home after a typhoid confinement at 1900 Monroe Street. Mrs. Howard Pearson and daughter Margaret Dru visit in Amarillo from Lubbock, staying with Mrs. Pearson’s sister at 2008 Polk Street. Kathleen McCabe of General Motors Acceptance Corp returns from vacation in Kansas. H. L. Patterson, also of GMAC, recovers from an operation at St. Anthony's and plans to resume work next week. W. E. Oliver compares the 1890s to today by recalling a mill worker who saved to become a dentist, now one of Texas’s best.
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Roy Britain
Monroe Street
Oliver
Texas
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Roy Walls
Cotten, Bruner and
Atwood
Mr. Kennerly
Milady
Sth Avenue
Styles
New York
Agnes Ayres
Otto Dyar
Hollyw
Mrs. Howard Pearson
Margaret Dru
Lubbock
T. J. Fletcher
Polk Street
Kathleen McCabe
Kansas
H. L. Patterson
St. Anthony's Hospital
W. E. Oliver
Fox Drug Company
Yolan Qo
Rajah Shantung
VOLAN
Polk
Fifth Avenue
Canadian Rockies
Kirby Ridg
Dallas, Texas
Canadian Pacific
Orid
Blumenthel
Wimpfheimer
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