Bars Open To Texas Prison Sports Program In Future
Texas prison system manager Dave Nelson announced a plan to lift the football ban next season and start a full sports program. A fast basketball team will lead the winter schedule with boxing and wrestling matches at prison farms across South and East Texas. He noted many inmates are coed athletes and said athletic activity should boost morale. last season the Texas Prison Tigers, a convict baseball team, swept South Texas semi pro teams, including a doubleheader win over Brenham Sun Oilers.
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Huntsville
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Dave Nelson
Orange
Second Infantry
Nelson
Texas Prison Tigers
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South Texas
Brenham Sun Oilers
Houston Post
Buffalo Stadium
Houston
Chamber of Commerce Manager Resigns for New Post
William Harwell, manager of the Palestine Chamber of Commerce for two years, announced his resignation effective December 1 to become manager of the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce. He had previously served as manager of the …
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Palestine
William Harwell
Palestine Chamber of Commerce
Kerrville Chamber of Commerce
Engines of Death: World War I to the Next War in Pictures
A study by Stanley A. Tullsen contrasts signaling methods from the old to the modern U S military motorization. It shows the T 4 signal truck and a mule pack, then notes the shift from semaphores heliograph and lamp signaling to telephone and radio for faster, more secure communications. The piece mentions the Corsicana Chamber of Commerce and cites national income figures for 1929 and 1933.
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Signal Corps
U. S
Signal Service
PVA
Haile Selassie Front Plans and World News Sketches
The column surveys global events from voter name changes in Harlem to Paderewski’s 75th birthday and Guy Fawkes Day lore. It reports on Ethiopia’s front lines, Italian bombing claims, Haile Selassie rallying stoic defenses, and Rome’s casualty tallies, with mentions of Hitler’s regime and British concerns. It closes with notes on Germany’s currency smuggling case and WPA era theater plans.
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Rome
Italy
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Tai Tai
Menelik
Aduwa
Hitler
Anna Schroers
Libera
Germany
Phillips Milk of Magnesia for Children Ad
Parents urged to consult doctors before giving unknown remedies to children and to prefer Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Doctors for over 60 years have recommended Phillips for kids. Available in liquid and peppermint flavored tablets, 25 cents for a large box.
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Phillips
Magnesia
Cleans Apparel. Leaves No Ring. No Oper 30 Cents.
Fragmentary notice appears to describe cleaning apparel or items with low prices 30 cents and 68 cents for bottles and druggists. The text is garbled and lacks clear context or names.
Roosevelt returns to White House after Kentucky vote
President Roosevelt travels from New York to the White House after a week at home noting broad support in Kentucky for the state enabling act of the new Federal Social Security program. He plans a Texas trip for a Dallas centennial and will refrain from commenting on budget plans until January.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Hyde Park
WN. Y
Roosevelt
White House
New York City
Kentucky
Grand Lodge of Masons
New York
James
Franklin, Jr
Congress
Texas
Dallas
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Paderewski
Copernicus
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Richard the Lion Hearted
Charles Sherman
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Dutch Schultz
Flegenheimer
Palo Duro Apartments
16Th and
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Phillips’ Milk
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Good House
Keeping Institute
Lever Brothers CO
America
Philco
Builtin
Philcos
Nunn Electric CO
RADIO
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