Weather Prophet Praised As Plains Recover From Drouth
Dalhart and wider Plains report heavy rain with relief after years of drought. The column credits Judge C. B. Reeder and W. H. Fuqua amid local brigades backing Old Tack’s forecast. It declares the drought ended and urges continued caution to avoid a relapse while noting parlor and agricultural impacts across Dalhart, Guymon, Texhoma, and Boise City.
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Dalhart
Guymon
Boise City
Mr. Behrendt
Bowie City
Old Tack
Panhandle
C. B. Reeder
W. H. Fuqua
Mr. Fuqua
Jury Appeals for 11 Year Old in Hatchet Slaying
In Jersey City 11 year old Gladys MacKnight faced a murder charge in the hatchet slaying of her mother. Counsel urged acquittal and urged sending her home to her father. Co defendant Donald Wightman, 19, claimed diverging stories of the fatal blows.
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Jersey City
N. J
Gladve MacKnight
R. Lewis Kennedy
Donald Wightman
Gladys
Donald
Lumber man L B Newby confined to home in Amarillo
L B Newby prominent Amarillo lumber man is confined to his home at 1118 Taylor Street after suffering a stroke on Wednesday. Family members said today his condition is much better though the stroke’s severity remains undetermined.
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L. RB. Newby
Amarillo
Taylor Street
Farmer Held on Murder Charge After Wife’s Death
John W. Davis a 65 year old farmer was jailed on a murder charge after a coroner’s jury found Mrs Davis died from blood poisoning following an alleged illegal operation. Officials dismissed a plow horse accident theory.
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Woodbury
Tenn
John W. Davis
John T. Smith
Al Smith Hailed by Italian Village as U.S. President
In Castel Gandolfo near Rome villagers cheer Alfred F. Smith of New York as the presumed president. They shout Long live the President and refuse to be convinced he is not the chief executive.
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al Smith
U.S
Rome
Castel Gandolfo
Pe Pius
United States
Alfred F. Smith
New York
Smith
President
Fort Worth Gas Office Closed By Striking Workers
For the second time in six weeks the Lone Star Gas Company on South Main Street and its downtown office were closed today by striking maintenance and service employees in Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
Oklahoma Farm Wife Delivers Child, Mother 18
In Lookeba Oklahoma on May 27 a baby girl was born to 18 year old Mrs. R. L. Beach, delivered by Dr A B Berry. The father’s name is listed as 1A in the report. The item notes the event as a legal birth in a rural setting.
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Oklahoma
Lookeba
Okla
U.P
A. BE. Berry
R. L. Beach
Notable first earnings of writers and wartime phrases
The passage recounts Roberta Rinehart and Edna Ferber receiving early pay from Munsey's and Everybody's, notes on death euphemisms and the term going west, remarks on bulb filament temperature, and critiques of military and bureaucratic diction. It also touches on Harvard Club mince pies, bridge card odds, honorary degrees, senses interaction, and Windsor lineage.
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Roberta Rinehart
Munsey
Edna Ferber
London
Tyburn
Foreign Office
Harvard Club of
Boston
Palm Beach
Air Mall Express
Finetein
Wien
Wael seeks a caregiver for a boy headline
A notice requests a woman to care for a boy within the next few days. The message is brief and calls for a suitable applicant to contact the letter page for details. The source lacks clear names or locations.
Spanish Loyalists accuse Italy of scandalous breach
In Geneva on May 27 the Spanish government charged Italy with the most scandalous violation of international principles since World War I. The League of Nations White Book includes a document claimed to be a secret order from the Italian war office to the general staff.
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Geneva
Italy
Spain
Catholic Printing Plant in Germany Closed Indefinitely
In Berlin on May 27, a printing plant at Fxsen that published over 200 Roman Catholic church papers was closed and its papers banned indefinitely. The action by Nazi authorities coincided with news that Joseph Goebbels would address a mass Nazi meeting at the Sports Palace to respond to Cardinal Mundelein’s criticism of Hitler.
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Berlin
Fxsen
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Germany
Sports Palace
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Mundelein
Chicago
Golden Gate Bridge Opens After Five-Year Build
San Francisco marked the opening of the $35,000,000 Golden Gate Bridge linking the city with Marin County. Pedestrians crossed the span on opening day as engineers celebrated one of the era’s greatest feats in concrete and suspension construction.
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San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Marin County
California
Redwood Empire
British Armistice Plan in Spain Civil War Abandoned
London on May 27 reports that a British plan for an armistice in the Spanish civil conflict was virtually abandoned. The move followed a proposal to urge both sides to humanize the war and to seek a truce for withdrawing all foreign fighters from Spain.
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London
Spain
European Non-Intervention Committee
Thomas Elder Held on Bail in Assault With Intent to Murder
Thomas Elder, 60, former dean of Mount Hermon School for Boys, was held on $10,000 bail in Greenfield Massachusetts for a June 3 hearing on charges of assault with intent to murder while armed with a shotgun. Norton, a former Mount Hermon official, says Elder threatened him as he stepped from his garage Tuesday night.
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Greenfield
Mass
Thomas
Elder
Mount Hermon
Bove
Educator and Poultry Authority
F. Allan Norton
Norton
Every Woman's Hour To Honor Poppy Day and Memorial Day
Every Woman's Hour at KGNC will honor Poppy Day and Memorial Day this afternoon from 4 to 4 30. Mrs James O Cade chairing the Americanism Committee says the program will be assisted by Mrs M H Drake and Mrs J Francis Brown.
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KGNC
James O. Cade
Firestone dealers hear Panhandle sales up in 1937 outlook
Gordon Jersig of Oklahoma City told Firestone dealers in the Herring Hotel that conditions in the Panhandle have improved. About 50 dealers from the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico attended the annual meeting with A T Shearer F M Thaggard and Louis H Bussey leading policy discussions and a tire manufacturing film shown afterward.
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Panhandle
Gordon Jersig
Oklahoma City
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Firestone
Herring Hotel
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Mr. Jersig
A. T. Shearer
F. M. Thaggard
Louis H. Bussey
Amarillo
Territory
Louis H. Smith
Secretary Wallace backs new Farm Adjustment Act of 1937
Secretary Wallace publicly endorsed the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1937, stressing its aims to safeguard the nation’s food supply and protect farm income. He praised the bill’s principles and purposes and highlighted support from major farm organizations.
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Washington
Wallace
Farley Addresses Postmasters at Oklahoma City Convention
Postmaster General Farley spoke to the Oklahoma City postmasters convention and a banquet in his honor. He criticized Republican leaders as blind to their responsibilities and warned there is no threat to the Democratic party if proper administration continues. Farley also made a brief stop in Pampa and KGNC planned to broadcast his Amarillo address.
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Oklahoma City
Farley
Democratic Party
Pampa
KGNC
Amarilla
Rain totals report across northern Texas towns
The crop report notes reseeded fields after rain. Spearman, Booker, and Perryton exceeded an inch. Carrouzette reached 0.75 inches. Hitchland and Hardesty measured an inch, Mallett 0.75, Follett 0.25, with Amarillo tallying a Wednesday night total.
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Spearman, Booker
Perryton
Carrouzette
Hitchland
Hardesty
Mallett
Follett
Amarillo
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Chamber of Commerce
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Charles Ware
Phafed
Cockrell-Lakey, Inc
Second and Fillmore
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Tim
Harry E. Wilken
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Wilheam Family, Incorporated
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