Veteran parade marshal stays retired after 87 years of service
Maj. Gen. E. M. Stayton, 73, Kansas City parade marshal, steps back from duties after a lifelong career in marching bands and parades dating to 1891. He recalls four key parades, including Sherman funeral and 1921 Legion parade, while leaving open the possibility of return if urged by friends.
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Kansas City
E. M. Stayton
St. Louis
William Tecumseh Sherman
Stayton
Missouri Infantry
Sherman
110Th Engineers
American Legion
Horse and Buggy Charities
Union Station
Argonne
Legion
Christmas Spirit Takes Roots Sooner Each Year
Amarillo churches and civic groups accelerate Christmas preparations this year. Trees arrive by Armistice Day from New Mexico and Colorado. Decorations span Polk Street and Taylor with caroling at Third to Tenth on Polk. The Messiah performance returns December 12 with singers from multiple Panhandle communities.
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Pauline Robertson
Papa
St. Nicholas
Amarillo
New Mexico
Colorado
Earth Bellett
Chamber of Commerce
Polk Street
Polk
Taylor
Amrillo
Fellowship Hall
Jerry B. Briscoe
Potter County Tuberculosis Association
JL. Scott
Emil F. Myers
Municipal Auditorium
Pam- Plainview
Borger
Phillips
Hereford
Hereford and’ Smaller “Panhandle Communities Join Those From Ama~ Fillo
Pam- PA
Plainview
High I Q Driver Seen as Most Careful in Study
Evanston November report quotes Northwestern University Traffic Institute director James Stannard Baker. He argues both very high and very low IQ drivers pose risks, while the "not too bright" driver with good training and keen eyesight may be the safest and most reliable on the road.
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Evanston, TI
Northwestern University Traffic Institute
James Stannard Baker
Baker
College Sells Adams Library to Unidentified Purchaser
The Adams Library collection of 18th century literature, once at the University of Rochester, has been bought by an unidentified purchaser. The 3,000+ rare volumes, including Samuel Johnson items and Boswell manuscripts, will move to the new owner within weeks.
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Johnson
James Boswell
Boswell
Charlie Lamb
William Lowper
Triplet Dogs Born In Air Over Atlantic Flight
A Seaboard & Western Airlines flight crew delivered three German shepherd pups during a night transatlantic journey from Frankfurt to the United States. The mother Sally remained aboard, while the family including Butch the father and two other dogs flew on to Idlewild and then to Buffalo to rejoin US Army Sgt. Henry Coleman.
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New York
Seaboard & Western Airlines
Sally
Frankfurt
Germany
United States Seaboard
Idlewild
Butch
Buffalo
US Army
Henry Coleman
Still Seek Lost Pacific Airmen
United States Army personnel conduct a Queensland search for American airmen lost in the war. Capt. E. L. Harrison reports the mission yields gratifying results with occasional wreck discoveries. A cattle stockman near Branendenburg found an American plane lost five years ago. Burial follows the next of kin’s wishes. Mr and Mrs Dan Jones bought the Pullman Cafe at Wellington from Jim Martin and Joe Barnett.
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Eax Franniows Wr
United States Army
Radio Australia
Queensland
Pacific
E. L. Harrison
Harrison
Brandenberg
United States
Dan Jones
Wellington
Jim Martin
Joe Barnett
Sales Manager Switches to Calvert Reserve
Ray L. Lindsay of 1188 South Clarkson Jt., Denver, Colorado, a sales manager for a Denver beverage company, endorses Calvert Reserve blended whiskey citing mellowness and taste. Calvert Reserve is 86.8 proof with 65 percent grain neutral spirits from Salvert Distillers Corp., New York City.
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Calvert
Ray L. Lindsay
South
Clarkson Jt
Denver, Colo
Denver Beverage Company
Calvert Reserve
Salvert Distillers Corp
New York City
Voice of Two Worlds Claims Sleep Grants Powers
A Los Angeles figure known as The Voice of Two Worlds promotes a sleep based system said to unlock mind power, health gains, strength, courage, and success. An explorer recounts Tibet learned methods guarded for 3000 years, claiming latent powers in all and ease of use for ordinary people. The offer includes a free 1000 word treatise from the Institute of Mental Physics, Los Angeles, Dept. 343-H, with limited copies available. prompt letters urged.
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Los Angeles
Tibet
Ordi
Institute of Mental Physics
South Hobart Blvd
Dept
Los Angeles 4
Calif
Parade leadership spans Pershing to Beatty in wartime era
The piece notes General Pershing, Marshal Foch, Admiral Beatty among Allied leaders in World War I. It recalls an 85 band World War I parade that required hours to pass the reviewing stand. It highlights a later parade director who staged many parades including a notable horse and buggy WWII charity drive and then returned to the parade line.
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John J. Pershing
Ferdinand Foch
Earl Beatty
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College
Adams Library
Globe
Folger
Folger’s
Folger's Coffee
EVER
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Fillmore
Teyler
Whiteway
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