City buys Amarillo airport bonds to save money
Acting on a city commission directive, LaVerne Calhoun bought $7,000 in Amarillo airport bonds from GC WW McNear & Company of Chicago. Mayor Ernest O Thompson says the deal will save about $9,000 by maturity while yielding about 4.7 percent. The bonds were purchased at 100.75 with a $7,071.90 payment, funded from the airport fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaVerne Calhoun
Amarillo
Ernest O. Thompson
GC. WW. McNear & Company of
Chicago
United States
Dallas Union Trust Company
Dallas
Texas
McNear & Company
Connecticut
I .Vor Thompson
Commission
H. Ernest Smith
J. N. Vernon
Gas Convention Signed by 27 Nations Amid Calls for Ban
United Press reports in Geneva that 27 states including Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Canada, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Liberia, Holland, Persia, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, Jugoslavia, Australia, and Venezuela have signed the League of Nations pact to abolish gas chemical and biological warfare. The United States has not yet signed. The agreement gains near universal European support amid ongoing wars.
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United Press
Geneva
Irish Free State
League of Nations
League
United States
Ireland
Germany
Austria
Belgium
China
Denmark
Egypt
England
Canada
India
South Africa
New Zealand
Spain
Finland
France
Italy
Liberia
Holland
Persia
Poland
Rumania
Sweden
Turkey
Jugoslavia
Australia
Venezuela
Europe
Ancient Greeks Used Steam Heat in 500 B.C.
Chicago heating researchers report Greeks utilized steam heat as early as 500 B C. They cite ruins of a palace on Foundion Island, Cyprus where archaeologists found a room with three water conduits feeding a boiler to supply steam heat to second floor bedrooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Chicago Heating Research Bureau
Founi
Cyprus
Mediterranean Sea
Western Airplane Co installs radios on planes
Installation of radio equipment costing nearly 70000 is underway in National Parks Airways air mail planes across a route between Great Falls, Butte and Salt Lake City. XE. J. Seely, radio engineer, says work should finish within a month with intermediate wavelength receivers in each of seven planes to receive weather reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Butte
Mont
National Parks Airways
XE. J. Seely
Great Falls
Salt Lake City
Men lead in personal crisis reports
United Press reports from Blackburn Lancashire show that of 22 people who died by their own action this year nineteen were men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Blackburn
Lancashire
Eng
Heart Current To Ring A Bell On Radio Relay
Cambridge England October eight United Press reports heart produced currents will be amplified to ring a bell via radio relay. Bryan H C Matthews Best Memorial Fellow for Medical Research at Cambridge University will present six radio talks on electricity in the human body starting November fourteen. He says heart currents are about one thousandth of a volt and last a few hundredths of a second, too faint to hear without amplification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Cambridge
Eng
Bryan H. C. Matthews
University of Cambridge
Matthews
Ancient gods offered babes as sacrifices in Kish
Field Museum and Oxford University researchers report evidence from Kish in Mesopotamia showing child sacrifices in Babylonian era tombs. Excavations reveal female infants buried along walls, plus dog burials beside children and near a Babylonian library, suggesting animal companionship in the afterlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Oct
Kish
Field Museum
Oxford University
Mesopotamia
Henry Field
Field Museum of Natural History
Field Museum News
Field
Brighton judge fines 81 year old driver for dangerous driving
A Brighton court fined George Cole 2.5 dollars after he was congratulated for driving at age 81. The judge noted the danger of such driving despite the elderly motorist’s long tenure behind the wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press Brighton
Eng
George Cole
Well known photographer praises Pape's Diapepsin for digestion
Samuel C. Rothwell, Dallas photographer, reports relief from stomach distress after using Pape's Diapepsin. He says the tablets ease heaviness, gas, belching, and sour tastes and he now eats freely. The ad notes rapid relief, pleasant chewing, and availability at drugstores with a free sample offer by mail from Wheeling WV.
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Samuel C. Rothwell
Lm Street
Dallas
Texas
Pape
Wheeling
W. Va
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OPT
Winchester
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