Gold footballs and bragging in Amarillo Lubbock hype
The piece riffs on editor Charley Guy of The Lubbock Journal praising Amarillo to beat Lubbock in a big game with prize incentives including gold footballs, a house and lot, and a car. It notes Lubbock’s strong team and local tension as fans beg others to buy a football, while oddly overlapping with society bits about Miss Garden and courtship economics.
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Lubbock
Charley Guy
Amarillo
Guy
Sandies
Texas
Old Tack
News-Globe
Jerry Malin
The
Southwest
Aggies
Oklahoma Panhandle
Goodwell
Oklahoma
Capain Bob Cox
Mark
Toby Wagner
Claude Harrison
Bob Clark
Emil Hutto
Baggett
Badgers
Oil imports from Venezuela spark national concern in Oklahoma City
The piece notes a surge in Venezuelan gasoline imports, with a hundred percent rise this year, sold in Oklahoma City to thousands of oil and refinery workers. It singles out Standard Oil of New Jersey and Gulf Oil, owned by Andrew Mellon, as major producers and criticizes Mellon and the Republican administration for unemployment and economic issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venzuela
Oklahoma City
Standard of New Jersey
Pampa Couple Given 18 Month Federal Liquor Sentences
Murf Smith and his wife of Pampa were convicted in federal court last week for liquor law violations. They returned to Potter County jail Monday night as ordered by Judge James C. Wilson and asked for time to arrange affairs. Each received 18 months in separate institutions.
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Murf Smith
Pampa
Potter County
James C. Wilson
Smiths
Rhode Island Man Is Sent Out of City
Joseph Durand of Rhode Island, accused by Amarillo police of pulling a sympathy plea, was loaded into a police car and dumped on Highway No. 66 with orders to head away from Amarillo. Police say he habitually reported hijacking and car theft by hitchhikers he had given a lift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Durand
Rhode Island
Amarillo
Durand
Dear Tack Letters Report Misheard Work Request
An early-morning note describes a man seeking work who relayed a message to Dear Tack letters. The fragment hints at a page 13 item discussing miscommunication or a daily inquiry column in the newspaper.
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Tack
Democrats Debate Dry Law And Referendum In Congress
Democratic chairman Raskob questions strict enforcement of Prohibition and asks if any dry forces would oppose a nationwide referendum on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. He labels ministers and citizens aiding bootleggers as hindering voters from deciding the social experiment after ten years.
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Congress
Raskob
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
United States
Wilbur urges GOP victory in radio appeal
Secretary Wilbur urged a Republican victory to back President Hoover in a radio address. He framed the election as choosing a board of directors to join the president and back the captain navigating the nation’s ship of state, warning against a mutinous crew.
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Wilbur
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Hoover
Final Week of Illinois Senate Campaign in Chicago
United Press reports Ruth Hanna McCormick, James Hamilton Lewis, and Lottie Holman O'Neil entering the final seven days of campaigning in Chicago with noonday rallies and band appearances. McCormick seeks to become the first woman elected to the Senate, Lewis denounces prohibition and economic ills, while O'Neil runs as an independent dry backed by the Anti-Siloon League endorsement.
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United Press
Chicago
Charles S. Deneen
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Senate
Rockford
James Hamilton Lewis
Lottie Holman O'Neil
Dry
Anti-Siloon League
Al Smith Charges Misrepresentation in Election Verdict
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York accused the Republican administration of winning the last national election through deliberate misrepresentation. Speaking at a Democratic rally before about 16 000 people in Providence, his remarks were broadcast nationally on CBS. He said responsibility for unemployment and hard times did not lie with Hoover, but with GOP promises that could not be kept.
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AL Smith
United Press Providence
R. L
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Smith
Columbia Broadcasting System
Hoover
Former N. Y. Governor Returns to Boston Politics
Former New York governor Al Smith returns to Boston to help his party as Calvin Coolidge ally Marcus A. Coolidge seeks the Senate seat and Joseph B. Ely runs for governor. Coolidge planned a radio address for the Republicans, while Smith spoke after a street parade supporting the Democratic ticket.
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Associated Press
Boston
al Smith
Calvin Coolidge
New York
Coolidge
Smith
Marcus A. Coolidge
Fitchburg
Joseph B. Ely
Firemen Find Oil Cans In House Attic In Arson Probe
Firemen investigating a Monday fire at 733 North Van Buren Street uncovered two coal oil cans amid waste paper behind beaver board in the attic of a small frame house. No reason for arson is known and no further inquiry is planned. The vacant house, recently sold and uninsured, prompted the update. Separately, at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday a car fire in front of J C Penney Store at 718 Polk Street caused only minor damage.
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van Buren Street
J. C. Penney & Co
Polk Street
Oklahoma Sheriff Traces Suspect Across States
Bert Hobbs alias R M Harmon, described as young and well dressed, is jailed in Amarillo awaiting transfer to Clinton after a trail of worthless checks. Sheriff J R Greer reports Harmon's partner Jess Ratcliff was captured Saturday at Pampa on forged check charges and is also wanted in Clinton. Harmon was arrested Monday night by Amarillo police at the sheriff's request.
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Clinton
Okla
Amarillo
Bert Hobbs
R. M. Harmon
J. R. Greer
Harmon
Jess Ratcliff
Pampa
Ratcliff
Greer
Ship Grounds in Sand at Astoria Mevis Sands
In Astoria Oregon on October 28 the McCormick line steamer Nunnystic ran aground on Mevis Sands amid dense fog. Four tugs from the city aided by day and night efforts have failed to free the vessel from the sandy bed since it grounded Monday evening.
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Sandastoria
Ore
Oregon-Washington
McCormick Line
Mevis Sands
Adams Clothier Marks Seventh Anniversary in Polk Street
Celebrates proprietor of the Adams Clothing Store at 408 Polk Street as he marks seven years in business here. Former oil man he shifts to volume buying and small margins to aid customers amid national economic caution. Store bears the name The Victory Wilson Clothier of Amarillo.
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Adams Clothing
Polk Street
Adams
Victory- Wilson Clothier
Amarillo
Black Mask Players Present Out of the Night at High School
The Black Mask Players open the season with the mystery comedy Out of the Night at the High School Auditorium. Harold Hutchinson and Margery Williams wrote the play. Dr. R. P. Parcells directs with Ridgeway Zelley and Annabelle Allen leading a cast that includes Grace Rye Cecil Eaton and others. Admission is 50 cents, proceeds go to the Sandies Pep Squad treasury.
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Black Mask
Sandies
High School Auditorium
Harold Hutchinson
Margery Williams
R. P. Parcells
Amarillo
Ridgeway Zelley
Annabelle Allen
Dr. Parcells
Grace Rye
Cecil Eaton
T. M. Montgomery
Earl Strandberg
Lloyd Fletcher
Verlin Twaddell
Christine Dyche
Silent Mine Tragedy Draws Crowds as Rescue Efforts Continue
A gas filled coal mine disaster leaves four men dead at the 16th level while Johnny Moore, a rescue worker, is treated for gas exposure. Ambulan ces stand by the crater and a field kitchen serves weary workers as families wait. The crowd mourns and remembers loved ones.
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Johnny Moore
American Legion
Benedict Giga
John
Augustus Husted
Harry Lehman
Earth slide kills miner in Illinois near Rushville
United Press reports a mine accident near Rushville Illinois where Roy Pribbett age 44 was buried under eight feet of earth and killed. Two other miners were seriously injured and removed from the site. The slide occurred yesterday at a strip mine nearby.
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Illinois
United Press
Rushville, II
Here
Roy Pribbett
McAdoo flies coast to coast to prove air travel time
In a column noting political and world affairs, the piece highlights W G McAdoo’s 16 hour flight from California to New York and back, arguing eight hours coast to coast will come soon, as he pushes business leaders to embrace rapid air travel while surveying U S foreign policy shifts and Brazil’s revolution.
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W. G. McAdoo
McAdoo
California
New York
Newark
Pacific Coast
Air Lines Seek New Rate Basis Cuts Proposal
Wadsworth stated the new rate basis would reduce rate pay from 1.53 to 1.20 per word, cutting monthly mail income from about 344000 to 269755 dollars. National Air Transport, operating New York to Chicago, would lose about 6000 per month as contracts fall from roughly 122000 to 116000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth
National Air Transport
New York
Chicago
Shriners Dance Tonight at the Panhandle Temple
Khiva Shrine Temple hosts a Shriners only dance in the Panhandle Plains area with admission by card. Party aims to host a future dance inviting all Master Masons, according to the entertainment committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Khiva Shrine
Panhandle-Plaina
School Man Faces Narcotics Charges in Lubbock
Milton Collins Dyer, 31, former Bailey County assistant county superintendent, is jailed in Lubbock County on six federal narcotics counts after being arrested Monday by narcotics agents and Sheriff Hardy. He said he began handling narcotics five weeks ago to raise money. his mother and sister live in Lubbock, with a wife and three children in California. Dyer studied at Texas Tech and West Texas State Teachers College in Canyon.
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The
Globe
Lubbock
Milton Collins Dyer
Bailey County
Lubbock County
Dyer
Hardy
California
Texas Technological College
West Texas State Teachers College
Canyon
Road Conditions From Amarillo To Nearby Cities
Amarillo to Fort Worth via Wichita Falls and U S 370 shows good roads. Amarillo to Oklahoma City via U S 66 shows good roads. Amarillo to Roswell via U S 8 366 shows good roads. Amarillo to Tucumcari via U S 66 8 shows good roads. Amarillo to Higgins via U S 60 shows good roads. Amarillo to Clayton via N M 8 885 shows good roads. Amarillo to Borger oilfield highway paved. Amarillo to Lubbock via U S 885 is noted by Panhandle Auto Club with Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
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Amarillo
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
U. S
Oklahoma City
U. 5
Roswell
Amarill
Tucumcari
Higgins
Clayton
N. M
Borger
Kans City and Chicago Livestock Prices Report
Market report from Kansas City, Chicago and Fort Worth noting hogs and cattle volumes, price ranges for multiple classes, including top hogs at 9.25 in Kansas City and 9.60 in Chicago, with shifts in sows, calves, steers and lambs across districts. Stronger beef prices seen for certain weight classes and regions.
Old-World Vanity Turns Through Ten Thousand Years
Edgar A. Guest writes that though customs change money will still drive life. Lawsuits over wills and relatives seeking more endure as gold and silver smooth the path to death. Men will steal and eyes will linger on pretty girls across ages.
St Louis Livestock Market Reports Hogs Cattle and COTTON
Hogs 18 000 steady to 10c lower top 9.50 sows 8.00 8.50. Cattle 4 500 calves 2 000 fed light weight steers and yearlings steady to strong mixed yearlings and heifers steady to 26c higher vealers 50c lower natives 12.00 13.00 fat heifers 9.25 up cows and medium bulls 4 355.25 low cutters 2.75 3.25 vealers 13.25. New York cotton opened steady up 12 19 points new December to 11.80 May 11.92. Reports of weather unfavorable for picking in the south and demand from trade and covering pressured market. Prices later held near 11.40 for December and 12.00 for May.
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Kansas City
Asociated Press
Chicago
Assciated Press
U. 8
D. A
Fort Worth
Asesciated Press
Pierce Pet
Columbia Gas & Light
Saeeenee Prairie O. & G . Weer Rr
Congoleum
Prairie
Seeeenee
Columbia Grapho
Commonwealth & Southern
Continental
Consolidated Film Ind
Royal Dutch
Sss
Ty Consolidated Gas
Continental Baking
Shell Union Pd
Gentines Ane Motors
Simms
Coty, Wee Ry
Sinclair
Crucible “Se Eel Skelly Thane
Wee Ah Cutler Oe
Cuba
So Penn Oil
Curtiss Wright + Ltd
Kansas
Curtiss Wright Roy St
N. Je
Wee
BAX
Davison Chemical
Calif
Delaware & Hudson Ce
N.Y
Delaware, Saca & West RR
den & Rio Grande West
Indiana
Detroit Edison
Texas Corp
Dupont
Endicott Johnson
Warner-Quinlan
Erie Railroad
Marshall Field & Co
Fisk Rubber
Foster Wheeler, Inc. Oe
Freeport
Texas Tree
Fox Film
Frisco
General Electric Oe
General Food
General Mills Awnee
General Motors
General Railway
Gillette Safety Razor
Glidden Co
Eescene O
Granby Consolidated
Great Northern Ry
Great Western Sugar
Bys Hahn Dept Stores
Csese
Houdaille Hershey
Hudson Motors
Sly Hupp Motors
Illinois Central RR
Sly
Inspiration Copper
International Nickel
International Harvester
International Tel & Teleg
Johns Mansville
Kansas City Southern RR
Julius Kayser
Cseseees
Kelvinator Corporation Kolster Radio
Ary Tee
Kennecott Copper
One
Kresge & Company
Kroger Grocery & Beebe
Krueger
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery War
Murray Corporation
National Dairy Products
National Biscuit C
BO National Pow & Light
New York Central RR
National Cash Register
NH & H RR
Nevada
Northern Pac’ Sutitet RR
North America
Oliver Farm Implement
Wee Paramount Publix
Pathe Exchange
Packard
Penney Co
Tees
Pennsylvania RR
Us Vt
Pillsbury Flour Mills
Jno
F. Clark Brokerness of Public Service of
Neee
Radio Corporation
Keith Orpheum
Remington Rand
Reo Motor Car
Republic Iron ‘& Sipe A. Eeekee
Ae Reynolds Tobacco Oae
St. Joseph
Standard Gas & Electric Fee
I Dee
Stone & Webster
Stewart Warner
Southern Pacific
United Fruit
Allied Chemical
United Carbon
Allegheny
Allis Chalmers
Amerada Corporation
American & Foreign Powe
Union Carbide
US Pipe & Fourny
American Ar & Foundry
US Steel Wees
Universal Pipe & Rad
American Locomotive Vanadium Corporation
American International
Warner Bros Pictures
American Power & Light
Warren Bros Company
American Rolling It
Western Maryland
Aes
American Smelting & Ref
Western Pacific RR
W.eceese
Nm Steel Ecuner Rs
Western Union
American Tel & Telez
Westinghouse
American Tobacco
American Winks & Electric White Motor Co
Willys Overland
Close Best & Company
Seeee
Bethlehem Steel
Seeeeene
Ceeeeeesees
Bohn Aluminum & Brass
Atlantic Reign
Borden Company
Veeesereser
Barnsdall
Borgetuer
Seenees
Cosden Oil
Brunswick Balke
Gulf of Penn
Oday
Burroughs
Humble
California
Canada
Case Co
Louisiana
Celotex Company
Mexican Seaboard
Cerro del Pasco
Calumet & Hecla
Chesapeake
Sean 'Cri&p
Chrysler Corporation
Panhandle P. & R
Icorn Products
Petroleum
Wees i Coca Cola Company
Ereree
Phillips
Colorado Fuel & Iron
ST. Louis
Associated Press
East
New York
Liverpool
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin claims a gentle bowel cleanse
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe mild laxative that cleanses the bowels overnight without griping. It emphasizes poisons in the system from clogged bowels and notes Caldwell's forty seven years of study backing the formulation and its popularity in drugstores.
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Dr. Caldwell
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