Owner of Big Shows Visits Fair Offices
D Lackman owner of the Lackman Carson shows, forming mid way attractions for the Amarillo Tri State exposition, arrived this morning. He planned extensive advertising and said his shows would bring thirty carloads of equipment including eight riding devices and fifteen shows with concessions. The lineup includes Hey Dey Caterpillar Butterfly Merry Mixup Whip Ferris Wheel Merry-go-Around and three kiddie rides plus a water circus and girls band. The show from North Platte Nebraska opens early Monday morning, the second day of the fair.
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D. Lackman
Lackman
North Platte
Nebraska
Too Excited Ostrich Swallows Hazardous Menu
An ostrich in London swallowed a long list of items including gloves film spool string coins a key a nail and more. A four inch nail caused internal injury and the bird died after a second nail was swallowed in an attempt to eat again.
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London Zee
Mary Juanita Gilbert
Fort Worth
Texas
Atlantic City
Miss Gilbert
Man Still Teaching at 92 in Whitton Knighton Ireland
David Rees Davies, headmaster of Dame Anna Childs Endowed School at Whitton Knighton, Ireland, recently celebrated his 92nd birthday at his desk. Believed oldest working UK schoolmaster, he has taught 69 years, still robust despite spring illness. Parasol ants are named for cutting large leaf pieces and marching with them overhead like umbrellas.
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David Rees Davies
Anna Childs
Whitton-Knighton
Ireland
United Kingdom
Policeman Turned Night Coach Guides Women Athletes
Paterson New Jersey September report profiles policeman Harry B. Gourley who trains four girls Eleanor Egg Ellen Brough Mabel Holmes Pauline Hascup and Boonton’s Margaret Ritchie for the national women’s track and field championships in Eureka California The four represent the New York Metropolitan district and have set national marks under Gourley’s guidance while he works days as a policeman and stays behind in Paterson in victory or defeat he remains proud of their efforts
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Paterson
N. J
Harry B. Gourley
Eureka
Calif
Gourley
Gourney
New York Metropolitan District
Metropolitan
Eleanor Egg
Ellen Brough
Mabel Holmes
Pauline Hascup
Margaret Ritchie
Boonton
Eleanor
America
Amateur Athletic Unions
California
New York
Miss Ritchie
Development company opens new offices in Amarillo
The Amarillo Panhandle Development Corporation led by W A Gamble moves from Suite 814 Rule Building to Suite 4 Fuqua Building. A M Adams oversees the office. The firm plans large Panhandle projects in Wheeler county including oil and gas property drilling.
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Amarillo-Panhandle Development Corporation
W. A. Gamble
Rule Building
Fuqua
A. M. Adams
Panhandle
Texas
Wheeler County
Japanese Priest to Be Named Catholic Bishop in Nagasaki
The Catholic Church plans to appoint Japanese Bishop in Nagasaki to lead the diocese after 300 years since Catholicism was wiped out there. Dr. Januario Hayasaka, a Sendai priest, departs for Rome in September to be ordained by the Pope and upon return will head the Nagasaki diocese, now controlled entirely by Japanese.
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International News Service
Tokio
Saint Francis Xavier
Japan
Nagasaki
Januario Hayasaka
Sendai
Rome
Barbecue and Rodeo in Dumas on Labor Day
Citizens of Dumas and Moore county plan a Labor Day celebration with a free barbecue from 11 30 a m to 1 p m, followed by a rodeo led by Mills brothers and A A Stewart, a 4 p m ball game, and a dance at the new Moore County News building honoring A O Duggan and his townsite oil well.
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Dumas
Moore County
Panhandle
Mills Brothers
A. A. Stewart
Moore County News
A. O. Duggan
Dupgan
Amarillo
Copper Palace Fire Ends Japanese Coal King Romance
Tokyo Sept 2 Fukuoka’s Copper Palace a famed symbol of a love story collapsed in flames. Millionaire coal magnate Den Emon Ito had built the copper-roofed mansion for poetess wife Byakuren Joshi, including a worship room and ivory writing cell. The blaze ends the romance and destroys a famed residence.
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International
Tokyo
Fukuoka
Japan
den Emon Ito
Byakuren Joshi
Kyoto
Ito
Dr. Yates Returns From California
Dr. G. L. Yates pastor of the First Baptist church has returned from California after a month away for health. He has led the church here for three years and his health suffered from heavy work. Services both morning and evening Sunday will be led by the pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Yates
First Baptist Church
California
Yates
Sensation as Wife Leaves Rich Husband for Labor Leader
The woman fled with Ryusuke Miyazaki, a poor labor leader, and remains Mrs. Miyazaki. Their love story inspired many poems and stories in Japan. Friends say the coal king still loves her and hoped to win her back, keeping the copper palace ready, but it burned to ashes in the destruction.
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Ryusuke Miyazaki
Miyazaki
Copper Palace
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