New Orleans Tales and Southern Vignettes from a Tangled Page
A collage of notes blends New Orleans writings with reflections on kindness schools and old Southern characters. Alberta the maid from Americus Georgia rivals Prissy while stories of Samson and Roark Bradford’s world mingle with a mystery around the Hammond salvage tale and Mom Cherub on Mobile’s Dog River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Alberta
Samson
Dan
Mom Cherub
Mister
Dallas
Rio Grande
Prissy
Americus
Georgia
Lessee
Mildred Done
Grantland Rice
Yassum
Kee
Sousa
Mister Brad
Lyle Saxon
Andrew Jackson
Lyle
Cherub
Dog River
Mobile
Gamble onSonora location nets Mallory offer from Forbes
Eric Forbes arrives to discuss Jim Mallory and Lois Hammond's salvage plan. Forbes questions feasibility and warns of risks while proposing $2000 for the Sonora location and a possible later salvage through another company. The scene shows tension as Hammond defers to his GM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Social Center For Girls
Jim Mallory
Hammond Mansion
Jeffery Hammond
Miami
Lois
Jim
Lois Hammond
Mary Larsen
Mr. Hammond
Mary
Hammond
Mallory
Mackey Radio
Sonora
Caribbean
New York
Coast Guard
Eric Forbes
Jimm Mallory
Mr. Mallory
Forbes
Robert
Nick
Miklos Soltesz
Carpathian Mountains
Czecho-Slovakia
Red Army
Slovakia
Hungary
Wea
Biltmore
Bard School
Resistencia
Nit
Bilmore
Scribner's
Roosevelt
Governors Island
Herb Hoover
Mters Military
New Route to Siberia Sketched for War Supplies
Washington weighs a Arctic alternative to Vladivostok for delivering arms airplanes and fuel to the Soviet Union without crossing Japanese waters. The plan centers on the Okhotsk Sea ports Nikolaevsk and Komsomolsk but both are icebound outside May to September and lack rail links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Siberia
United States
Soviet Russia
Vladivostok
Japan Sea
Sova
la Perouse Strait
Sakhalin
Japan
Hokkaido
Tsugaru Strait
Honshu
Sea of Okhotsk
Russia
Kuriles
Okhotsk
Nikolaevsk
Amur
Komsomolsk
Kurile Islands
U.S
Public Lands Victory Ends Long U S Railway Case
The United States won a protracted dispute with Northern Pacific over land grants dating to 1864 and 1870. The suit, filed July 31, 1930, led to a 1940 Supreme Court ruling and a settlement returning 363000 acres and a $300000 cash payment to the government. The final decree will be filed in Spokane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Bronner
Washington
Sam
Rhode Island
Oregon
Idaho
North Dakota
Montana
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Additioon
U. S
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Young Railroad Company
Ashland
Wis
Tacoma
Wash
Portland
Ore
New England
Coolidge
Congress
Spokane
U. S. Supreme Court
Public Lands Committee
U. S. Attorney General
U. S. District Court
Sherman SAYS Picnic season and olive market notes
Sherman notes olive supplies from Spain tighten as prices rise from 69 cents to 1.19 per pint. Cod liver oil remains scarce while fish from the New England coast offers substitutes. Castor oil abundance is highlighted as plentiful and unappetizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Praca
Spain
New England
Your Ideas Editor: Amarillo needs a bigger, friendlier city
A collection of reader ideas on improving Amarillo includes boosting friendliness to newcomers, expanding services like home delivery and sand pits, and urging city officials to adopt practical growth measures. The letters praise the city’s welcoming spirit and call for coordinated efforts by businesses and government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free China
Middle Kingdom
China National Aviation Corporation
Pan-American Airways
Chungking
Mme
Chiang Kai-shek
Chengtu
Hugh L. Woods
Woods
Suifu
Hong Kong
Saifu
Amarillo
A. L. Ratheal
Prospect Street
Ellwood
Carol Rowlas
Washington
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John
London
America
East
Britain
National Geographical Society
Chapter
Sister
Blister
Roark Bradford
Tennessee
Green
Gulf of Mexico
Joseph L. Chadwick
trans-Siberian Railway
Valentina Khetagurova
Komsomol
Town Department
New Yorker
Nicholas Snowden
No. 10
Nick the Spy
Downing Street
Erika Mann
Thomas Mann
Calif
Nev
Utah
Mont
Canada
N. di
Colo
Owa
Uncle Sam
Northern Pacific Railroad
Alas Kh
Tes SR
Sherman
C. R. Compton
O.K
Globe-News
Western Avenue
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