Hoover for Ex-President sign spurs mixed 1930s campaigns
A political sign reading Hoover for Ex-President appears on a car as critics and supporters debate the presidential race. The column notes polls showing Hill ahead in New York and Roosevelt leading in Pennsylvania, while forecasts weather and local events like the Tri-State Fair amid rain and drought concerns.
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Roosevelt
Literary Digest
Hill
New York State
Pennsylvania
Day Law Challenge to Eighteenth Amendment Heads to Court
In Baltimore on Sept 23 local attorneys prepared to file an argument challenging the Eighteenth Amendment as invalid since it was not submitted to states for ratification. The motion targets an alleged dry law violator in a district court proceeding.
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Baltimore
United States District Court
Roosevelt Campaign Seeks New Leadership Theme
Roosevelt presses for a "new leadership" to mark a change of principle not party, midway through an extensive 8 900 mile swing near Hoover’s Palo Alto home. He speaks at the Commonwealth Club and Civic Auditorium while Tammany Hall weighs fundraising for his New York campaign.
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Roosevelt
Palo Alto
Hoover
Commonwealth Club
Civic Auditorium
Amarillo hunt yields no sign of missing banker
Officers swept underpasses and weeded areas from the south side to the north but found no clues in Amarillo about H. C. Doherty the Burlington bank president. Relatives said Doherty was last heard in Shamrock and planned to reach Duncan via Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Oklahoma Highway Department
H. C. Doherty
Burlington
Okla
Doherty
Shamrock
Dumas
Maps to Record Amarillo Water Distribution System
The city plans to prepare about 125 large maps showing the water distribution network in Amarillo. City engineer H. R. Smith notes five to six months are needed to collect data and draw the charts. Maps will mark mains valves and fire hydrants with reference to property lines.
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Amarillo
H. R. Smith
Smith
Bob Andrews
City Water Department
Khiva Clinic Opens Fall Social Season With Vaudeville
The Khiva Clinic at the Shrine opens the fall social season Friday at 8 o clock with physicians and dentists hosting nobles of the order. Visiting nobles expected, six vaudeville acts precede the dance, climaxing Khiva Day at the Tri-State Fair. Dr Roy Vineyard and Dr Bert Stevenson in charge.
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Tri-State
Roy Vineyard
Bert Stevenson
Flood Currents Kill Kerrville Couple on Guadalupe River
Flood waters swept a car off a bridge seven miles west of Kerrville. Fred Tullos aged 36 died, and Cleo McCallum aged 33 is missing after his body was found. The river incident occurred last night on Johnson Fork of the Guadalupe River.
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Kerrville
Texas
Johnson Fork
Guadalupe River
Fred Tullos
Cleo McCallum
Tullos
Burglar Strikes Beasley Carlton Clothing Firm
Police investigated a burglary at the Beasley Carlton Clothing Company located at 112 East Sixth Avenue. Amount stolen could not be determined from the remaining stock as of Friday.
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Beasley-Carlton Clothing Company
East Sixth Avenue
Tack Job Ad Seeks Two Energetic Workers
A brief employment notice offers two positions to unencumbered individuals. The ad calls for energetic applicants willing to work and is labeled as a page three Sea Tack Letters item.
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Sea Tack
Just Folks by Edgar A Guest
Ordinary golfer asks for brief tribute at death not praise or long speeches. He valued simple golf and few tees over wealth or fans and hopes to be remembered that he died and left no stock of tees.
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Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Edgar A, Guest
Panhandle Civic Music Association Defends Concert Plans
The Panhandle Civic Music Association board states it can hire any artists within funds raised and that Columbia Concerts artists are already engaged for the coming season. They dispute Emil F. Myers claims and say Civic Concert Service handles promoter fees, with prices set by artists and option to deal directly. The board emphasizes a permanent music program and artist assurance, signed by President Dr. R. L. Rogers.
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Emil F. Myers
Civic Music Association
Civic Concerts
Columbia Concerts Corporation
Civic Music
Civic Music of
Amarillo
Myers
Civic Concert Service, Inc
Panhandle
Amarillo letter defends Mr Myers against Civic Music push
Walter J Loftus defends Emil F Myers against Chicago promoter Mr Cost promoting Civic Music in Amarillo. He accuses Cost of causing distrust, notes Myers's consistent support, and questions the meeting at the Herring Hotel, February 13, 1932, with key names cited.
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MR. Myers
Amarillo
Tex
The
Globe
Chicago
Cost
Civic Music Association
Emil F. Myers
Myers
H. E. Fuqua
R. L. Rogers
Reeder
W. A. McIntosh
Thomson
Seaman
Herring Hotel
Walter J, Loftus
Insull Investment Shares Sold to 205 Employees
A 1929 agreement by Samuel Insull and 205 associates allowed purchase of 250000 Insull Utility Investments shares at 12 dollars each. The stock rose to 27 on the exchange and later peaked at 147 before a collapse. Purchasers were bound to hold for 2.5 years or offer to the company at market price. Many buyers were Insull employees.
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Samuel Insull
Insull
Chicago Stock Exchange
New York
Lackawanna
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
New York Central
Reading
Atlantic Coast Line
Lehigh Valley
Gulf States
A. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown
New Jersey
United Aircraft
Case
Allied Chemical
du Pont
Air Reduction
Coca Cola
Consolidated Gas
Westinghouse
Legislature Rejects Claim Over Highway Fund Request
Texas lawmaker Sterling says he refused to sign an appropriation of 1 023 13 from the state highway sand shell and gravel fund to pay a Texas City claim and vetoed the bill after many members asked similar submissions.
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Texas City
Sterling
Bridge Reopened After Rio Grande Flood Damage
NUEVO LAREDO Sept 23 Traffic over the international bridge will resume Sunday J J Franco general superintendent of the Mexican National Railways announced The bridge collapsed in the recent Rio Grande flood and repairs are nearly complete
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Nuevo Laredo
U.P
J. J. Franco
Mexican National Railways
Rio Grande
New Mexican consul assumes duties in San Antonio
Fernando Pesqueira becomes the new Mexican consul for San Antonio taking office today. He succeeds Hernandez Chazaro who resigned after President Ortiz Rubio retired. Pesqueira is an experienced diplomat with prior posts in Buenos Aires Yokohama Philadelphia and Europe.
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San Antonio
U.P
Fernando Pesqueira
Hernandez Chazaro
Ortiz Rubio
Pesqueira
Buenos Aires
Yokohama
Philadelphia
Europe
Unidentified Man Dies in Dallas After Mishap
An unnamed man about 60, formerly from near Athens, died in a Dallas hospital after a serious head injury. Police believe the injury came from a fall off a railroad trestle on the city outskirts.
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Dallas
U.R
Athens
Miller Sisters To Provide Music For Bible Class
The Miller sisters daughters of Rock Island engineer M L Miller will furnish the special music for the Men's Bible Class at the Mission Theater Sunday at 9 45 a m Rock Island men and families are invited H A and Miss Doris Shaw will lead the opening exercises Judge W E Gee and Rev R C Snodgrass will teach the lesson.
Bride of Kaye Don Marries Greenwich Society Girl
The former Eileen Martin, 21, of Greenwich Connecticut, became the bride of Kaye Don, the British speed boat racer. She will join her husband soon in England.
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Eileen Martin
Greenwich
Chicago and Kansas City Livestock and New Orleans Cotton Markets
Hogs and cattle prices steady to weak across Chicago and Kansas City markets with hogs 14,000 head and cattle about steady. New Orleans cotton opened easier on hedge selling, later rebounding as census ginnings data boosted prices. Reports show cotton ginnings of 2,686,530 running bales by Sept 16 with state breakdowns and August consumption.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
New Orleans
Liverpool
Census Bureau
Washington
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Texas
Four Art Scholarships to Be Awarded by Amarillo Conservatory
Vernon Hunter new Amarillo Conservatory of Musical Arts faculty member announces four scholarships for artists. Applicants bring sketch, paints or drawings to 1500 Polk Street Saturday morning for judging by Miss Seewald, Miss Robinson, and Jimmie Swann. Two awards target public school students 14 plus, and two for graduates unable to attend college.
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Vernon Hunter
Amarillo Conservatory of Musical Arts
Hunter
New York
Los Angeles
Southwestern Arts Magazine
Funeral Saturday for J. L. Scott Retired Amarillo businessman
Funeral services for John L. Scott, a retired Amarillo businessman who died Thursday, will be held at 10 30 Saturday morning at his home 913 Tyler Street with Rev Ira F Key of Polk Street Methodist Church in charge assisted by Rev G Yates of First Baptist Church The body will be moved to the home Friday afternoon by Blackburn funeral directors Burial is in Llano cemetery Pallbearers include D W Owens E S Burgess Judge R Walker Hall J W Collins J E Stubblefied Chad Elliott J Ray and George Truitt of Wichita Falls Honorary pallbearers are all stewards of Polk Street Methodist Church
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John L. Scott
Amarillo
Tyler Street
Ira F. Key
Polk Street
Charity Dance at Elks Club Friday Night
The Elks Club hosts a charity ball Friday night at the Elks Home ballroom from 9 o clock. Little Bad and his Lucky Seven negro orchestra will provide music. Admission is 75 cents a couple. Proceeds go to the Elks charity fund and the public is welcome.
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Elks Club
Elks Home
Little Bad
Lucky Seven
Elks’ Charity Fund
Poison Drink Claims Thirteenth Victim in City
In Manhattan a jobless seaman died after drinking tainted liquor, the 13th death since Monday from the same poison. Police say the fatal substance has killed at least 50 people since August 1 as itinerant peddlers sold deadly liquor for nickels along Bowery hotels and flophouses.
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New York
Federal restaurant shutdown looming over government buildings
A House committee led by Representative Sharman pushes legal action to compel government run cafeterias to reveal profit and loss data. The panel fears extinction of federal building restaurants as Congress weighs competition with private vendors.
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Washington
Congress
House
Sharman
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