Texas Centennial Funds Fast-Tracked for 1935 Fete
Texas Centennial Commission approves $1,250,000 in building and monument plans for Gonzales Goliad and San Jacinto battlegrounds with $675,000 remaining for apportionment. Allocations include $200,000 for state building furnishings in Dallas and $50,000 for Gonzales and Gollad monuments, plus $10,000 for markers. The session includes debate and a notable digression on Standard Oil and foreign policy.
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Austin
Texas Centennial Commission of Control
United States Centennial Commission
Garner
Board of Control
Dallas
Gonzales
Gollad
Gonzales Battlegrounds
Goliad
Goliad Battlefield
San Jacinto Battlegrounds
Houston
Gonzales and
Wallace Peery
Fl Paso
Journey Through Rugged Skies and Global Reflections
A reflective travelogue contrasts American democratic ideals with global scenes from mountains to deserts. It laments wealth concentration, calls for workers’ protections, and notes King Haile Selassie and Ethiopian ethnonyms amid geopolitics, industry, and exploration.
Without Regret at Paramount headlines stellar cast
Three performers deliver standout turns in Without Regret a gallant romance at the Paramount Kent Taylor Frances Drake and Paul Cavanagh star Landi is praised as European patrician writer The Mission presents Bright Lights Joe Brown offers high energy comedy with song and dance Ann Dvorak shines with Patricia Ellis and William Gargan in support
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Paramount
Elissa Landi
Kent ‘Taylor
Mission
Joel Brown
Fileneten
Neese O'Hara
Jean Chester Morrie
SXAS
Our Daily Bread
Karen Morley
Tom Keene
FUL Rialto
Paul Muot
George Ratt
Roseland
Sonny Southe
Thelma Mitchell
Jimmy Paton
Kent Taylor
Frances Drake
Paul Cavanagh Fussa Landi
Taylor
Miss Drake
Cavanagh
Joe FE
Brown
Ann Dvorak
Patricia Ellis
William Gargan
Memorial Day 1866记 of Columbus women and war memories
In Columbus Georgia the Ladies Aid Society set Memorial Day for April 26 1866 to honor Confederate and Union dead. A New York paragraph praised their impartiality in decoratin gr graves, inspiring Francis Miles Finch to write The Blue and the Gray later printed in Atlantic Monthly. The poem helped reconciliation in America and memory of the Civil War lives on.
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Columbus
Ladies Aid Society
New York
Francis Miles Finch
Ithaca
N. Y
Yale
Atlantic Monthly
America
Lorene Moore Claimed by Death
Death yesterday claimed Lorene Moore a S year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Pat V Moore of Tacum can She died in a local hospital The body was sent last night to Tacumcan by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home Funeral services probably will be held today Besides her father and mother the girl is survived by two brothers and two sisters David Kenneth Liede and Dorothy all of Tacum Cn
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Lorene Moore
Pat V Moore
Ticumcan
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
David
Kenneth Liede
Dorothy
Tacum- Cn
Courthouse records notes real estate transfers and car registrations
Rupert W Andrews and wife transfer lot 7 in Odom Cotten sub block 10 Roberts to Long Bell Lumber Sales Corp for 4250 dollars. G W Williams and wife transfer lots 1 and 2 in block 202 Plemons to C V Clinkscales. E C Beck and wife transfer lot 10 block 6 Lakeview for 2200 dollars. Chas E Collins Jr and wife transfer lot 1 block 231 Holland to J M Roe. Russell Middleton and wife transfer lot 9 block 66 SJH to L V Fogle for 3076 dollars. Car registrations list Art Young 1935 Ford Tudor, C J Lcheifer 1935 Ford Tudor, Chas B Thompson 1935 Pontiac.
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Rupert W. Andrews
Long- Bell Lbr. Sales Corp
Odom- Cotten Sub
Roberts
G. W. Williams
Et al
C. V. Clinkscales
Plemons
E. C. Beck
B. B. Beck
Lakeview
Chas E. Collins Jr
J. M. Roe
Holland
Russell Middleton
L. V. Fogle
Army Favors Brazos River Flood Control Project
Army engineers formally clear a $30 million Brazos River flood control scheme in Texas for Works Progress Administration funding. The plan proposes 13 dams along the river’s middle 450 miles at about $600 per man-year, with a WPA allotment cap of $1,140 and a final decision pending.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Works Progress Administration
Texas
WPA
Harry Drought
Morris Sheppard
Local Auto Listings and Marriage Licenses Noted
Coaches and drivers from 1935 Ford Tudor and Chevy models listed with names such as A L Hudson John Dees Jr Blutcher Tharp and D E Kinsey. Marriage licenses issued to Eugene Stockton Helen Ivins and Lester Goodwin Arlene Cline.
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A.L. Hudson
John Dees, Jr
LeRoy Smith
Pete Selman
Roy Beard
J. K. Thaxton
Blutcher Tharp
F. M. Pollard
Wyatt Covington
M. & L Tfr. Co
D. E. Kinsey
A. Ll, Burgdorf
F. F. Kendall
C. F. Carroll
Chrysler
Stuart W. Browning
C. B. Adams
G. V. Harris
Bronco
Eugene Stockton
Helen Ivins
Lester Goodwin
Arlene Cline
Grand Ball for Vets and Ladies Recalls Old South Night
Veterans and their ladies gather at The Nat for a reunion ball with a Grand March led by the Marine Band at 9. Old-time waltzes and a Virginia Reel evoke memories of the Confederacy era as officers and guests reminisce before younger dancers take over later.
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Marine Band
Confederacy
Federal Aid For Highway Approved in Texas
National authorities approved the regular federal aid highway program for Texas. Between 11 million and 12 million dollars in construction is involved. The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in Fort Worth awaits project submissions from the state highway department.
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Fort Worth
Texas
C. F. Swain
United States Bureau of Public Roads
Federal Bureau
State Highway Department
Is Epilepsy Inherited and Cured
A free booklet from the Educational Division, Dept. S-430, 545 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, gathers opinions of famous doctors on whether epilepsy is inherited and if it can be cured. Request by mail.
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Dept
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
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