Amarillo to Host Ninth Annual Water Works Convention
The Southwest Water Works Journal promotes Amarillo Texas as the host city for the nineteenth annual convention September 15 to 18. More than 500 association members and tradesmen are expected with events including a dance, barbecue and social functions at the city lake and a closing dance September 18.
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Amarillo
Southwest Water Works Journal
Temple
Texas
Southwest Water Works Association
Missouri
Kansas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Polk Street
Association
Burt B. Hodgman
S. Helium Plant
U. S. Zinc Smelter
Franklin Blackley Serum Company
St. Anthony’s Hospital
English Field
New
Word
City water works reception committee listed for convention
Committees in charge of reception and entertainment for water works visitors are named. Men include Col. E. O. Thompson, J. N. Vernon, W. N. Durham, E. N. Stanley, Will E. Herring. women include Mrs. F. C. Thompson, Mrs. J. N. Vernon and others. Also notes a family trip. Lou Stogner and daughter Virginia Grey returned from South Texas vacation.
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Municipal Auditorium
Tri-State Fair Grounds
Southwest Service Company Electric
Gem Lake
Water Works
Col. E. 0. Thompson
J. N. Vernon
W. N. Durham
E. N. Stanley
Will E. Herring
Chamber of Commerce
F. C
Lou Stogner
Virginia Grey
South
Texas
Santa Fe payroll tops 100000 with 900 workers
A weekly payroll of 25000 or more than 100000 monthly is paid to 900 men now at work on the Amarillo Boise City line of the Santa Fe railroad, with 100 more to be hired as track laying starts about October 1. Depots are planned at six locations along the route.
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Amarillo
Boise City
Santa Fe
W. H. Rochester
Dumas
Stratford
Flashes of Life From Around the World
Pot stand shows eight horse carriage for Wilhelm Hohenzollern to carry Ras Tafari at Abyssinia coronation on Nov 2. It sold for 6000 dollars crated and shipped. A battered war veteran heads to American Legion convention in Boston from Havre, having a box car label “40 Hommes 8 Chevaux” presented by Fidne. Girls of 26 nations wear dresses in Rio beauty contest with no bathing suits. New York reports fashion for gay dogs including laced boots and yellow slickers. Dmitro Guly, six foot ditch digger in Saskatoon, loves apples, eating eighty one big ones in a row.
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Associated Press
Potsdam
Germany
Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Ras Tafari
Abyssinia
Havre
France
American Legion
Boston
Legion
Fidne
International Veterans’ Organization
Rio DE Janeiro
Saskatoon
Sask
Dmitro Guly
Portrait of Nicholas Roosevelt to become Philippine vice governor
The article reports Nicholas Roosevelt, newly appointed vice governor of the Philippine Islands, a bearer of a famous American name, preparing to confer with War Secretary Hurley in Washington and sail for Manila in August to assist Governor General Davis.
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Nicholas Roosevelt
New York
Philippine Islands
Hurley
Washington
Roosevelt
Manila
Davis
Philippines
The Flying Princes Travel and Estate Hangar Plans
The item notes the flying princes of Wales and George use Sandringham travel now with a hangar on the estate to accommodate four planes. It mentions the princes alighting several miles away when flying to Sandringham.
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Princes
Wales
George
Sandringham
Emily Ludlow Killed by Lightning in Field
Emily Sophie Ludlow age 47 died in a field when lightning struck a metal corset support. In Preston England the Empire theater ends its era as it becomes a movie house for the first time in over a century.
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Preston
Lancashire
Eng
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van Buren Drug Store
Hugh Whitcomb
Polk St
Ate Ensemble
Wefhawken, N. J
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Magnesia
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Ocean
Sheaffer's
SERIP
W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company
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Iowa
Wm. Crationery
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