Settlers to Flock Panhandle In Thirty Days
Prospectors and home seekers from central and eastern Texas will arrive in Amarillo in thirty days as the F. 7. Bishop Land Company promotes Panhandle development. The firm plans chartered special trains to bring buyers with intent to build homes and aid agricultural growth. An option on 4,500 acres in Dallas and Hartley counties was secured for colonization. An Idaho contact, Beresford of Nampa, is set to charter pullmans for the expedition.
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Amarillo
F. 7
Bishop Land Company
Panhandle
Bishop Co
Bishop Company
Veterans Land
O. Collins
Dalhart
The
North Texas Realty Company
Dallas
Hartley
Collins
Beresford
Nampa Idaho
Marino Territory
Bishop
Idaho
Valuable Relics Given for Society's Museum
Panhandle Plains Historical Society museum in Canyon Texas received several relics this week. Included are a 1862 era 10 cent and 3 cent paper notations used for debts except customs, a Charleston South Carolina 1858 date, donated by Felix Phillips a West Texas State Teachers College student. Sverett Dison of Happy Texas added a cap and ball pistol and a razor over 100 years old. Laura V Hamner Potter County Texas supplied a copy of the Secession Ordinance of Alabama for history study.
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Caanyon
Tex
Panhandle Plains
Sverett Dison
Happy
Mies Laura V. Hamner
Potter Country
Texas
Alabama
Tooth Pull Fear Brings Nods Of Sympathy
A seven year old boy in the Ray Bynum building nervously anticipates a dental extraction. The scene draws smiles from men who recall their own childhood fear of losing a tooth while a clerk reassures him that the procedure will be brief and painless.
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Ray-Bynum
Wild Turkeys Released In Palo Duro Canyon Panhandle
Dr. Do Garman deputy game commissioner released six wild turkeys at sundown on the Harding ranch in Palo Duro Canyon. The birds are the first wild turkeys in the Panhandle in twenty five years after trapping in the Davis mountains near Kerrville. The Texas Game Commission will enforce severe fines for offenses and will have officers guarding the new stock with aid from Col. W A Miller and conservation groups Isaac Walton League and Texas Fish and Game Conservation Association members.
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Panhandle
DO. Garman
Texas
Palo Duro
Canyon
Harding Ranch
Davis Mountains
Kerryilie
Game Commission of Texas
Garmon
Col
W. A. Miller
Texas Fish and Game Conservation Association
Isaac Walton League
State Commission
Canyon to be Tulip Town next spring
Canyon expects to be tulip town next spring as the City Federation has taken orders and collected money to plant 6,000 tulip bulbs. The effort by local women's civic organizations aims to beautify the town for the District Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in Canyon in May.
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Canyon
Tex
City Federation of
District Federation of Women’s Clubs
Dallas Cop Puzzled By Taking Of Prescription
A Dallas officer witnessed a well fed man take medicine on a street corner. The bottle labeled one tablespoon every four hours was swallowed. The man calmly stated he had taken his first dose at 6 a m and that it was time for another. The officer walked away dizzy and puzzled.
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Dallas
Record reporter changes roles at local paper and land company
M. L. Vaughan leaves the Kori Worth Record to join the Bishop Land Co as publicity director. He will start about October 25 and will cover the Dallas State Fair with articles on future growth and prospects for the Panhandle of Texas.
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M. L. Vaughan
Kori Worth Record
Pishop Land Co
Dallas State
Vaughan
Panhandle
Texas
Texas Has 22 Cotton Mills
Texas now has twenty two cotton mills with an aggregate of 201,876 spindles. Ruby Copeland, vice president of Fort Worth Mills, announced the count on Oct 3. North Carolina leads the South with 427 mills and 5,656,082 spindles, South Carolina has 198 mills, and overall the South operates 16,720,629 spindles across 952 mills.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Ruby Copeland
Theort Worth Mills
North Carolina
South
South Carolina
Copeland
Walton Sued for Slander Over Sulphur Speech
Former governor Jack Walton, Democratic candidate for the U S senate, is sued for 50000 by Rev Gregory, Baptist preacher of Sulphur Oklahoma. The suit stems from Walton remarks about Gregory in a Sulphur speech claiming Gregory would steal nickels from St Peter and the Virgin Mary. Walton faced summons on return from a state speaking tour as ministers denounced him.
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Unitd
States Senate
Gregory
Sulphur
Okla
Walton
St. Peter's
Governo Hus
Gregor
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