Great Britain prepares for first postwar general election
London May 29 Great Britain goes to the polls tomorrow to elect members of the House of Commons in its first general election since October 1924 with about 27 000 000 eligible voters including 5 000 000 new female electors Young women vote for the first time The Conservatives Labour and Liberals vie for control under King George to appoint a cabinet after results are known
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London
Great Britain
House of Commons
George
England
Scotland
Wales
Conservatives
Stanley Baldwin
Labor Party
Ramsay MacDonald
Labor Commons
David Lloyd George
Liberals
New India Air Mail Delay Causes Bank Interest Claim
Aberdeen business man bought a Calcutta draft for a large sum on March 28 drawn on P. and O. Banking Corp. The London air mail left March 30 and the Calcutta presentation occurred April 10, ten days early. Indian bank lacked funds and seeks interest for the interim, with the Aberdeen sender potentially responsible.
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International News Service
Aberdeen
Scotland
India
Calcutta
P. and O. Banking Corporation
First Air Mail
London
Local Socials Roundup Move Across Towns
Mrs James Gardner travels to Hereford to visit her mother Mrs George Dennis. Gladys and Glenyce Young of Canyon stayed with Miss Loretta Irwin near East Ninth Avenue. E L Boyett of Hollis and Dan Cornell with wife return from California and plan to make their home here.
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James Gardner
West Eighth Avenue
Hereford
George Dennis
Gladys
Glenyce Young
Canyon
Loretta Irwin
East Ninth Avenue
E. L. Boyett
Hollis
Oklahoma
Geneva Spence
Dan Cornell
California
Cornell
Amarillo Woman Credits Orgatone for Quick Health Boost
Mrs. J. W. Jones of Amarillo Texas testifies that Orgatone cured her stomach trouble indigestion gas and kidney issues. She reports regained appetite better color and renewed strength after using the medicine sold exclusively by City Drug Store 517 Polk St under official Orgatone supervision.
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J. W. Jones
Florida Ave
Amarillo
Texas
Tam
City Drug Store
Polk St
Pervena
Orgatone
Memorial Day observances honor local veterans
Bishop EF C Seaman will deliver the Memorial fee and Ralph Formby will lay a wreath on the Doughboy monument in memory of the Buddies. A firing squad from Headquarters Company 142nd Infantry will salute with taps, as American Legion auxiliary members decorate veterans’ graves and flowers are invited to be placed near the monument Thursday afternoon.
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EF. C. Seaman
Episcopal Church
Ralph Formby
142Nd Infantry
Legionnaires
Mike Ecker
Auditorium
American Legion Auxiliary
Doughboy
Electric wire cable for park arrives
City forester T M Robinson announced the electric wire cable for Sanborn park has arrived. He noted a hard fight to exterminate red ant colonies in the park with counts about even so far and said a new solution should yield results within days as work on the cable begins imminently.
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Sanborn Park
T. M. Robinson
Robinson
Mr. Robinson
Two Drown In Frio River Near Leakey Texas
At Leakey area on the Frio River floodwaters swept away Russell Cadwell 18 and his uncle Alex Scott 43 as they pushed a car across a bridge. The party escaped but the two were carried away by a sudden wall of water and later recovered two miles downstream. J R Scott and Ernest Cadwell survived.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Alex Scott
Industrial Leaders Plan Safety Drive
Twenty three New York City industrial leaders join a special committee for an Accident Prevention campaign under the Merchants' Association of New York. The broader drive follows a successful metal manufacturers campaign that ended January 1 and will include all 2500 industrial members.
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International News Service
New York
New York City
Merchants’ Association of New York
Floods cause widespread damage across Texas region
Reports detail bridges washed away near Austin and San Marcos, high river rises on Blanco, San Gabriel, Colorado, and Guadalupe rivers, with extensive inundation of lowlands near Greenville. Colorado River declines after record crest, while roads reopen in Temple as flood recedes and crop damage grows.
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Texas and
New Orleans
Woodville
Blanco River
San Marcos
Austin-San
Guadalupe River
Seguin
Rockland
Neches River
Tyler County
General Motors Acceptance to Open Amarillo City Office
General Motors Acceptance Corporation plans a district office in Amarillo to handle automobile paper for a large West Texas and Eastern New Mexico district. A representative surveyed buildings for 50 to 60 employees, visiting Amarillo Monday and Tuesday before returning to Oklahoma City.
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General Motors Acceptance Corporation
General Motors Company
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Texas
New Mexico
Nicholson Case Affirmed by High Court
The court of criminal appeals in Austin affirmed the sentence of BR. H. (Pee Wee) Nicholson who was convicted last fall for possessing high grade liquor. He received one year in prison and was a bell hop at the Herring hotel at the time. Amarillo carpenter C. J. Phipps, convicted for liquor violation, had a rehearing motion overruled and faces two years.
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BR. H
Pee Wee) Nicholson
Court of Criminal Appeals
Austin
Nicholson
Herring Hotel
C. J. Phipps
Amarillo Carpenter
Phipps
Exercises for St. Mary's graduates tonight
Simple exercises will be held for the graduates of St. Mary's Academy tonight in the Women's Club rooms of the Municipal auditorium. The Right Rev. R. A. Gerken, D. D., will present the diplomas to the seven girls who are being graduated. A short play and some musical numbers will complete the program.
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St. Mary’s Academy
Municipal Auditorium
R. A. Gerken
D. D
Auto Casings and Rims Found. Ownership Unidentified
Police report that two automobile casings, inner tubes and rims were left for identification. The items were found several days ago and their ownership cannot be established at this time.
Red Easum Faces Trial for Car Theft
Orville Red Easum went on trial in district criminal court this morning on a charge of car theft. The jury heard that the automobile belonging to Frank French, assistant city engineer, was recovered shortly after the theft and was not damaged according to the owner’s testimony.
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Orville
Red) Easum
District Criminal Court
Easum
Frank French
Slaughter to be buried at Palo Pinto
Following his funeral in San Antonio the ranchman W B Slaughter will be sent to Palo Pinto for burial. He was 76 and died yesterday at his home as relatives announced. He belonged to one of Texas wealthiest families.
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United Press
San Antonio
Texas
W. B. Slaughter
Palo Pinto
Slaughter
Fishing Launch Catches Fire Sinks Off Bolivar Point
Bolivar Roads Galveston Tex May 29 Seafaring men report a small fishing launch anchored off Bolivar Point caught fire and sank with no one aboard as far as could be learned.
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Associated Press
Galveston
Tex
Bolivar Roads
Bolivar Point
Funeral for Woman 101 Held in Floresville
Funeral services were conducted here for Martha Elizabeth Lawrance 101 oldest Wilson County resident who died at her daughter’s home in Floresville Texas. She was a Mississippi native. Bill Hutson of Hereford visited Amarillo Monday.
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Floresville
Texas
Martha Elizabeth Lawrance
Wilson County
Mississippi
Bill Hutson
Hereford
Amarillo
Castoria Identity and Universal Trust for Children
An advertising pitch extols Castoria as a staple in five million homes for infants and children. It claims rapid relief from colic constipation and diarrhea with a vegetable remedy, warns against stronger medicines, and urges mothers to remember the brand as safe and always available.
Global past echoes clash with modern farm relief calls
The column surveys world figures from Tamerlane to Genghis Khan, notes wheat price lows and needed farm modernization, and criticizes stalled U S building amid union disputes. It cites Sir Esme Howard on alcohol import rights and Irish temperance policy raising whiskey taxes to curb illicit distilling.
Church Strife in Mexico May Be Settled
A report claimed the pope approved plans to end Mexico’s religious strife. Mexican Catholic prelates in the United States reportedly voted to negotiate with President Portes Gil to reconstruct the church after 25 years of dispute and outbreaks.
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Globe
Washington
Mexico
United States
Portes Gil
Scott Found Not Guilty on Liquor Charge
W. H. Scott, a local dairyman, was found not guilty by a district jury on a driving while intoxicated charge. He had previously paid a fine in justice court for drunkenness and was not advised that a felony charge would be filed.
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W. H. Scott
Scott
Justice Court
Wise the man who separates his traits to choose what’s good
Edgar A. Guest urges self reflection to identify friends and foes within. He urges separating temper and envy from virtues, noting patience endures trials while anger and malice threaten well being, and calls the strong to battle inner foes.
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Edgar A. Guest
Markets and Livestock Prices Across Cities May 29
Kansas City livestock shows hogs at 10 60 top on 190 230 lb cattle 950 1600 lb calves steady with good and choice steers cows vealers 8 50 18 50 lambs 11 00 12 25 ewes 4 25 76 New York cotton opened steady dipped then firmed with July near 18 64 December 18 85 New Orleans cotton firming on rains Liverpool cotton steady to higher Chicago grain whipsaw Poultry butter and eggs steady American stock market rose with utilities leading gains and high marks for American Water Works and Case Threshing Corp futures quiet in afternoon
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Associated Press
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The
New York
Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Liverpool
A. M. Byers
Mathieson Alkali
St. Louis Southwestern
Erie Common
Fleischmann
Commonwealth Power
American Water Works
Atchison
Chicago
Lady Heath backs women as flyers at Illinois airport
Lady Mary Heath, famed solo flyer London to Cape Town, visited Parks Airport in East St Louis and challenged Clyde Brayton’s remark that women cannot learn to fly. She warned that athletic women with trained eye and hand excel as pilots, while those without background are poorer material.
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International News Service
East ST. Louis
Ill
Lady Mary Heath
London
Cape Town
Africa
Parks Airport
Clyde E. Brayton
Parks Air College
Brayton
Rotoscope to Record Slow Motion Motion Pictures in London
A London invention called the rotoscope will film objects rotating at 500 revolutions per second and slow them to one revolution per minute. Test footage shows water drops are spherical, a single intense light spot from lightning, and that a gas jet flame fluctuates rather than staying steady.
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London
Merchant brand list cites multiple firms and oils
A dense catalog reads like a newspaper page of company names and stock references including Montgomery Ward Nash Motors Superior Oil Briggs Burroughs Continen tal Calumet Houston Oil Hudson Motors Independent Oil & Gas International Harvester International Tele Teig Kennecott Copper Marland Oil Mexican Seabon Middle States Oil Missouri Pacific Packard Panhandle Phillips Petroleum Pub Ser of N J Radio Corp of America Remington Rand Shell Union Oil Simms Petroleum Standard of California Standard of New York Studebaker Texas Gulf Sulphur Transcontinental Oil Texas Pacific Land Trust Timken U S Rubber Willys Overland American Beet Sugar American Power and Light Goodyear General Motors Hup Motors International Paper Louisiana Oil and Refining Prairie Oil & Gas Pure Oil Sinclair Skelly Oil United States Steel Atlantic Columbia Graph Davidson Chemical Fox Movies Greene Cananea Johns Manville Kolster Radio Loew s National Cash North American Union Pacific White Motors and more in a long industry ledger.
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Montgomery Ward & Co
Nash Motors
Briggs Burroughs
Congoleum
Continental Car
Calumet
Houston Oil
Hudson Motors Independent Oil & Gas International Harvester International Tele
Teig
Kennecott Copper
Marland Oil
Mexican Seabon
Middle States Oil
Missouri Pacific
Packard Motor Panhandle Producers
Phillips Petroleum
Ee Pub. Ser
N. J
Radio Corp
Remington Rand
Shell Union Oil
Simms Petroleum
Standard of California
Standard of
N. Y
Studebaker
Texas Gulf Sulphur
American Power & Light
Drugs
Fish Rubber
Goodyear Tires
General Railway
Si Jordan Motors
Kelly Springfield Loose-Wiles
Moon Motors
General Motors
Great Western Sugar
Hup Motors International Paper
Louisiana Oil & Refining
Mid-Continent Petroleum
Pennsylvania
R. R
Prairie Oil & Gas
Csssees Pure Oil
Sears, Roebuck &Co
Sinclair Cons
Skelly Oil
Stewart Warner
Texas Corporation
United States Steel
Standard of N. J
Prairie Pipe Line
American Locomotive
Atlantic
Nevada enagHnates Copper
Postum Seneca Copper
Shulte Stores
Union Pacific Railroad
White Motors
Ss Sceve
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