Races Nears With Forty Fast Cars At Amarillo Fair
Roy Barton, head of auto racing for the Amarillo Tri State exposition, reports twelve drivers have sent contracts and about twenty more expected. Fifty cars are planned for the start on fair week Friday and Saturday. Notable entries include John Lindsey in the Fronty Ford with a 79 second track record on July 4, and drivers such as J K Strickland, H F Williams, J W Cater, Mat Ward, H J Schalk, Henry Sanders, J E Currie, L W Alexander, Frank Hoge, and Dick Hogan. Motorcyclists include J A McGee, Albert Jones, Levitt, H A Hagerman, Jimmie Ray, Hiram Thompson, and George D Shaw. Barton promises some of the fastest auto and motorcycle races yet seen in the region.
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Roy Barton
Amarillo Tri State Exposition
John Lindsey
Ford
J. KE. Strickland
H. F. Williams
Chevrolet
J. W. Cater
Hudson
Mat Ward
Essex
H. J. Schalk
Oakland
Henry Sanders
Rolf Ford
H. J. Bogus
Fronty Ford
J. £. Currie
Commodore
L. W Alexander
Franty Ford
Frank Hoge
Dick Hogan
J. A.,mcgee
Albert Jones
Harley- Davidson
Gleaners Bell Signals Harvest Time in English Countryside
In England the gleaners bell marks the start and end of gleaning hours. The church in Farnham Essex rings at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during early harvest, echoing Ruth era traditions amid modern machinery.
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Associated Press
London
Ruth
United States
England
Miller
Louvre
Farnham
Essex
New Road From San Jacinto To Bushland Is Completed
The six mile graveled route linking San Jacinto paving to Bushland is finished. County commissioners call it among Potter county’s finest traveled roads. Cost ran about six thousand dollars per mile. A crude crossing was removed by routing the road under the Rock Island tracks.
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San Jacinto
Potter County
Rock Island
Enforced Centristry in New York Schools Shows Excellent Results
New York's dental program in public schools reports strong gains after four years. 10,088 cleanings by college students reduced extractions from 40.3 to 22 percent and fillings from 85.4 to 46.4 percent, with diplomas for clean mouths rising from 14 to 5 percent per year.
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New York
Associated Press
New York Association
Bailey B. Barret
Association
John C. Gebhart
Department of Social Welfare
School of Oral Hygiene
Columbia University
Oklahoma Klans Opponents Organize for Vote Fight
Oklahoma City Sept 16 Opponents of the Ku Klux Klan from across the state met to organize against Klan candidates. They endorsed J C Walton as the anti Klan Democratic senatorial candidate, while other endorsements were dropped after a protest by Judge A S Wells that the group educate voters rather than dictate who to vote for. M M Alexander of Okmulgee was elected permanent chairman and authorized to appoint an executive committee.
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Oklahoma City
J. C. Walton
United State Senate
Walton
A. 8
Wells
Lawton
M. M. Alexander
Okmulgee
Promanent
Amarilloans to Testify in El Paso Murder Trial
Several Amarillo men travel to El Paso as character witnesses in the murder case of Thomas Mitchell once of Amarillo. Mitchell, a property holder with El Paso interests, is charged with killing tenant Williams after a dispute over vacating a house.
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EL Paso
Amarillo
Thomas Mitchell
Williams
Mitchell
Telegraph official awakened after long illness by wire call
J J Phelan superintendent of Dominion Telegraph in Vancouver British Columbia regained consciousness from a week long coma after a private Morse code ticker beside his bed signaled him. The device instructed him to drink milk and he took nourishment for the first time in six days. He had been ill for weeks after his wife's death.
Motlow and Pittman Head to El Paso Judges Meet
Judge Sam Motlow and EF. M. Pittman departed for El Paso to attend the county commissioners and judges convention. Pittman attends as a Board of City Development rep and the pair hope Amarillo will host next year’s gathering.
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Sam Motlow
EF. M. Pittman
Il Paso
Mr. Pittman
Board of City Development
Judge Motlow
Amarillo
Bokhara Gift Elephant Arrives at Moscow Zoo
In Moscow the Bokhara Council of Commissars presented a seven ton elephant named Beautiful Lady to the Moscow Soviet Zoological Gardens. Mounted guards and caretakers escorted the animal from the station to the menagerie while crowds of awake children watched. An entire ton of American peanuts was ordered to feed the new guest amid a rare sight in Russia. The piece notes a heavy Rock Island Lines stock and grain movement cited by agent C B Davis.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Bokhara Council of Commissars
Moscow Soviet
Russia
Rock Island
C. B. Davis
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J. A. Sparks
McLean
Texas
Williams Department Store
Williams—Bank
Oklahoma
Motlow
Pittman
Bokhara
Soviet
Meer
Taylor Street
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