Four year old Marilyn McMurtry takes a cast
In Clarendon a four year old girl named Marilyn McMurtry broke her arm after falling from a slide. Her mother rushed her to a doctor who was briefly unavailable, then an ambulance offered to rush them to Amarillo. The family has several other children and neighbors assisted at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marilyn McMurtry
Horace Westmoreland
Jackson
J. W. Collins, Jr
Fanninie
BO Vural
Marilyn
Clarendon
Alfred McMurtry
Murphy-Spicer Undertaking
Amarillo
McMurtry
McMurtrys
Connally
Marcia
Christina
J. C
McCollough
Panhandle
Northwest
James H. Clark
North Houston
John Forrest Bennett
Claude
Herbert
Franklin Freet
Polk
Northwest Texas Hospital
Thomas J. Stone
Canyon
Donald Cavanar
Hereford
Rufus Loren Bovett
St. Frances
Dale Stroud
Angelus Drive
Gene McCaffree
North West Tenth
Mary Lou McCaffree
Robert
Korea
Bobby
Austria
Western Union
Lubbock
Amarillo Quarantine and Turbulent 1900 Panic
In late 1900 Amarillo faced smallpox quarantine with guards and detentions. Reports mention pistol shots at a hobo pursued by First Lt. J W Keeton, the hobo captured on Fort Worth and Denver tracks, and detainment camps under Rangers. Notices urge disinfectant air and guard authority to shoot if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Evening News
Lorenzo Browning
North Main Street
J. W. Keeton
Rangers
Keeton
Fort Worth
Denver
Panhandle
Panhandle Herald
Tascosa
Tex
P. T. Frederick
I. H. Bowles
Willie Blackburn
Limestone Makes Lakes Disappear in Florida
Florida's limestone landscape creates sinkholes and geyser-like air holes as cavities form underground. Lakes drain through these openings, debris seals holes and lakes refill later. Gas pockets from sewage into limestone give small-scale fuel gas, while sinkholes swallow porches and fields, drawing curious locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chris Macgil
Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Orlando
L. G. Long
Plant City
Quincy
Jordan attends second national convention as postmaster
Mrs Key Farr of 2422 Hayden returns from a Dallas trip while Mr Jordan, named postmaster last year, attends his second national convention in Chicago and then travels home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Taylor
van Buren
St. Anthony’s
Sid Veazey
Georgia
Avery Jones
West Tenth
Colorado
Durango
Sid
Avery
Cortez
Cal Farley
New York
Tom Cantine
Bobby
Dicky
Portland
Ore
Mr. Cantine
Scott
E. S. Riddell
Homer Wheeler
Amarillo
Gunnison
Colo
Carroll Posey
Lackland Air Base
San Antonio
Horace Posey
Claude
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Armed Forces
Florencio Martinez
Garfield
Gordon Jordan
St. Louis
National Association of Postmasters
Mr. Jordan
Chicago
Key Farr
Hayden
Dallas
Father Is Cleared Of Son's Charges
London October 23 A divorce petition named ex army major and his 66 year old father Sir John Dixon Mayhew as co respondent. The court dismissed the petition stating the petitioner John De Perigault Mayhew gave no direct evidence of adultery between his father and the respondent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sir John Dixon Mayhew
John de Perigault Mayhew
Third Wife Frances Mayhew and Her Father in Law Mentioned
The judge noted there was very little evidence pointing to the claim. Frances Phoebe Mayhew, the defendant's third wife, stood with her elderly father-in-law, a former Conservative member of Parliament, during the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Phoebe Mayhew
Inlaw
Also Mentioned on This Page
Olive K. Dixon
Buchanan
News-Globe
San Angelo
J. A. Ragan
ST. Anthony's Hospital
Pat Balentine
Kentucky
J. E. Kerbow
Borger
Joyce Owenby
Rosemont
Myrtle Altman
North Roberts
Joe S. Farra
Westhaven Circle
W. C
W. L. McCann
Pierce
Lorene E. Bufkin
Ray Leslie Ford
North Virginia
Lelia Mae Faukner
John Frye
Bellview
Timothy McDermott
North East Twelfth
W. F. Nix
James McKee
John Morrison
Taylor
W. D. Pope
Monroe
D. H. Hatter
Cactus
J. B. Anderson
East Thirteenth
R. D. Rogers
E River Drive
Nita Chesshire
Wichita
Emily Gasaway
Clovis
Mildred Dorris
John A. Connell
Avondale
Jimmy ©. Connell
Donna Jean May
Vera Park
Ollie D. Wooten
McMasters
Mary Travis
Virgil Clay Greenhouse
Harrison
Hhe
Julian B. Barber, Jr
City Electrical Department
US Navy
Marion B. Tatum
East
Marine Corps
Tatum
Police Department
Italy
Elizabeth M. Fly
Tyler
Rome
Fly
TWA
United States
Texas Panhandle
John F. Johnston
North
Julian Boulevard
al Bainbridge
Bowie
Stina Cain
Carol
West Eighteenth
Frank Redder
Duncan
Oklo
Redder
Mrs. Cain
E. S&s. CanNostrand
Hughes
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Effa Rutherford
Loren Jones
California
Northwest Hospital
David Miller
Betty Ray Byers
Cynthia Smith
Diane Bremer
Nora Stroud
Leona Stone
Roberta Freet
Mary Anne Boyett
Beulah Bardwell
Kenneth Shepherd
Maude Palmer
Charles Jackson
Elda Johnson
Virginia Green
W. H. Newton
Eva Odom
W. H. Dergy
Biddie Gibbons
John Butcher
Annie Savage
Rose Radcliffe
Eddie Luke
Mary Baucom
Marilyn Mason
Jean Cavanar
Norma McCullough
Martha Clark
Mary Colla
Robert McDonald
McDonalds
C. L. Giles, Jr
Glenn Draper
Glenn, Jr
Houston
Eula Draper
Mississippi
Wyatt Hester
May Horne
West Texas State College
C. W. Rogers
West Eleventh
Jack Bates
Tulsa
Okla
Jay Taylor
C. R. Peters
Plainview
Mr. Peters
Robert M. Lauder
Howard Lauder
Jefferson
Ray Robertson
West Seventh
Cpl
Robert C. McCaffree
Bobby EU
Pat. Offee
General Features
Corp. TM
Mascare
IMAG
Ouch
Mulling
James Savis
Humphrey
State Dept
U.N
Lockworth
Albert
Porky
MR. Slabber
T. Holland
Lee Bivins
J. W. Donaldson
Kansas City
J. A. Whitehurst
Coats
Quality Cleaners
West
Browning Blue
B. F. Goodrich
4Th and Fillmore
Southern Equipment & Supply CO
Fillmore
Ape Vision
Broome Optical CO
Amarii
Fisk
Globe-News
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