Day Nursery Children Receive Gifts From Club Shower
The Business and Professional Women’s Club hosted a shower for Amarillo Day Nursery children, gifting phonograph records clothing treats and cash. Donations came from many locals including Mrs Radcliffe Mrs Taylor and Mrs Landers with support from Palo Duro Masonic Lodge and Upton Jones Paint company. A daily average of forty children attended the nursery in October with net expenditures of 240.86 dollars.
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Amarillo Day Nursery
Charles Radcliffe
R. J. Taylor
Edward McBride
J. B. Landers
Ruth Byrd
Britton
Palo Duro Masonic Lodge
J. H. Allard
Lowry
W. W. Flenniken
Alice Landergin
Upton Jones Paint Company
Reese Allen
D. M. Young
Rowley
Johnson
Mellin
Paris Movies Show Clemenceau in Film
Paris cinemas present a short film series on Georges Clemenceau, the 87 year old French statesman, shot during his vacation in the Vendee. The scenes show him in tea with friends, tending his garden, walking by the sea near his home with his dog, reflecting a light portrait behind the public figure.
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Paris
Monsieur Georges Memenceau
France
Vendee
German veterans urge action over skull souvenirs for tourists
The Kyffhaeuser veterans group in Berlin asked the German foreign office to stop American tourists in France from taking skulls and bones of fallen soldiers as souvenirs. They condemned the practice as shameless and impious, offending families of the dead.
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International News Service
Berlin
German War “‘Veterans’ Organization
Kyffhaeuser
German Foreign Office
France
Thanksgiving Toll Of Feathered Folk To Be Heavy
Washington reports that Thanksgiving will bring a heavy toll of fowl with several million chickens and four to five million turkeys. Federal poultry experts note no precise counts but suggest the 1920 chicken total of about 300 million is likely exceeded, while turkey numbers have also risen since 1920, with Texas contributing a large share.
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International News Service
Washington
United States
Poultry Bureau of the
Agricultural Department
Houston Mayor and oil man in altercation
Houston on November 7 Mayor Oscar F Holcombe seeking re election Chief of Police T C Goodson and Frank Sterling vice president Humble Oil and Refining were involved in a dispute in Sterling s office after a report about the mayor sparked conflicting versions No charges were filed
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Houston
Oscar F. Holcombe
T. C. Goodson
Frank Sterling
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Holcombe
Goodson
Sterling
R. S. Sterling
State Highway Commission
The
Houston Post Dispatch
Old Roman Cemetery Found Near Budapest
Budapest officials uncover a Roman cemetery near the city after railway workers strike a marble sarcophagus. Excavation reveals eighty two graves of wealthy Romans from Aquincum with jewels relics and instruments. A silver mirror is found in a female skeleton’s hand with hollow eye sockets gazing into it.
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Budapest
Aquincum
Welfare Body Seeks Supplies for Amarillo Needy
Amarillo Welfare association under Mrs. Martha M. Nelson appeals for blankets quilts bedding and clothing for school children as 176 families about 500 people are aided. Many widows struggle with small earnings while the Day Nursery helps mothers with school age children. October activities include 24 transient singles 14 transient families contacted and seven families donating clothing. Net expenditures for the month reached 534.07.
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Amarillo
Ilies
Welfare Society
Tennis Racquets With Varnish Preserve Strings
Before storing tennis racquets for winter, rub the strings with varnish thinned with alcohol to extend their life and prevent drying or cracking.
Five Are Arrested in Voting Conspiracy
Five men were arrested in Newbern North Carolina on November 7 amid warrants for conspiracy to prevent free exercise of the franchise. Those named include D. Cherry and L. C. Newman Ghent pollholders A A Kafer county election board chairman and A Ryman and Winfield Gaskins poll holders in Bridgeton across the river. The poll holders allegedly prevented voters from casting ballots taken from their pockets.
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Newbern
N. C
D. Cherry
L. C. Newman
Ghent
A. A. Kafer
County Election Board
A. Ryman
Winfield Gaskins
Bridgeton
Waggoner Trust Valued At 98 Million In Court
Fort Worth report states the present fair value of the W T Waggoner trust is 98 million dollars. Auditor F L Lawshe, appointed by the district court, testified regarding the property evaluation.
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Fort Worth
W. T. Waggoner Trust
F. L. Lawshe
Waggoner Estate Settlement Battle Continues
Miss Anne Burnett pursues a one sixth share of the estate in a settlement action against her divorced husband, Guy L. Waggoner, detailing ongoing legal proceedings and claims to the division of assets.
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Anne Burnett
Guy L. Waggoner
Sells Money Machine Fraud Scouted By United Press
James Chapman, 42, sold cheap miracle charms in St Louis claiming a money making device would print tax free legal tender. He charged a hundred dollars, displayed two wood pieces with five dollar bills, and faces a mail fraud warrant. A Nagoya radio station cost nearly three thousand dollars.
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United Press
ST. Louis
Tee James Chapman
U.S
Chapman
Massachusetts to get De Haviland factory near Springfield
Massachusetts awaits a definite site for a Moth Aircraft Corporation De Haviland plant to build planes in the United States. Minton M. Warren, president, says a Springfield location is likely, with the venture tied to the De Havilland Aircraft Co. of England. In other news, P. Blackwell, 35, was fatally burned in a gas explosion at her Ross City home in Howard County.
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International News Service
Boston
Springfield
Massachusetts
Moth
de Haviland
Moth Aircraft Corporation
United States
de Haviland Aircraft Co., Ltd
England
Minton M. Warren
Big Spring
Associated Press
P. Blackwell
Ross City
Howard County
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