Traffic Signal Study urged for Highway 6 21 Intersection
The document urges careful consideration of installing a traffic signal at the Highway 6 and 21 intersection near the city limits and proposes cooperation between city and county to close the dangerous Southern Pacific grade crossing and improve safety for north south traffic at the underpass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan South
South College Avenue
College Avenue
Texas Highway Commission
Bryan
Southern Pacific
Switch to Roosevelt Draws Support From Cotton Leader Clayton
W L Clayton head of the world’s largest cotton firm switches from opposition to Roosevelt after listening to Gov Landon and cites foreign trade collapse under Republican policy. He praises Hull’s trade efforts and says a GOP return would threaten the nation’s recovery while Texas lawmakers push to restrict a famed five cent cigar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Clayton
Roosevelt
Clayton
South
United States
Gov. Landon
Deliberaion
London
Cordell Hull
Secretary Hull
Great Britain
France
Mr. Clayton
Balloon records and bell pitch explained in 1936 notes
The article discusses the Explorer II altitude of 13.17 miles by Anderson and Stevens and a later Novosibirsk balloon reaching 26 miles without crew. It notes weather balloons regularly ascend to over 20 miles using dual gas bags. It also explains how bell pitch varies with vibration frequency as a bell approaches or recedes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert W. Stevens
Orvil A. Anderson
Anderson and Stevens
Novosibirsk
Russia
Ornil B. Anderson
Albert W.stevens
Undefeated Teams Face Grim Tests This Week
Yale meets Navy in the East while Duke tangles with Georgia Tech in the South and Washington State challenges Southern California on the West Coast. Six perfect squads face crucial Saturday games as at least three chances for an unbeaten season end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albie Booth
Navy
Duke
Blue Devils
Georgia Tech
Washington State
California
Telephone builder credit to Thomas Watson
Though Alexander Bell conceived the telephone and drafted its designs, he did not construct it. His young assistant Thomas Watson built the instrument under Bell's guidance, earning the distinction. Tomorrow: War Declared In a Book.
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Alexander Bell
Thomas Watson
Bell
Texas Publisher To Make Flight Across Pacific
Amon Carter publisher of the Star Telegram Fort Worth Texas arrived in Los Angeles en route to the Orient as one of the first seven passengers in the Pan American Airways China Clipper. He traveled to honor a pact made by the late Will Rogers four years ago who asked to include Carter on the first trans Pacific flight.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Will Rogers
Amon Carter
Star-Telegram
Fort Worth
Texas
Orient
Pan-American Airways
Rogers
Wiley Post
Carter
Psycopath Plaza and Celebrity Foibles in New York
A New York City column dubs Bryant Park Psycopath Plaza for its night crowd, including veiled observations on vice and philosophy. It also notes Anna May Wong’s Shanghai reception, Marjorie Duchin’s continued work, W Harriman's Sun Valley Lodge project, Georges Sanchez’s rhumba soirées, and Quentin Reynolds’ unruly hair as local curiosities.
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New York
Mid-Town
Bryant Park
Psycopath Plaza
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Marjorie Oedrichs
Eddie Duchin
Sun Valley Lodge
W. Averell Harriman
Glittering moments and an oyster bar memory
A writer recalls glittery moments and an oyster bar with six dozen oysters at Rector's, noting the absence of the Diamond Jim Special. A New Haven campus vignette follows a sleepy unwashed student who protests daily showers, arguing sleep keeps him cleaner.
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Rector’s
New Haven
McNaught Syndicate
City council discontinues Preston water service and awards new build
A Bryan city council meeting with Mayor Ma loney absent approved stopping Preston plant water service and arranged temporary water and light supply with Mr. Lawler. Architect Green of Houston reviewed bids for a two story 50 by 100 foot business house to be built by J Allen Myers. C H Winn of Houston won the contract.
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Bryan Daily Eagle and
Pilot
Maloney
J Allen Myers
Myers
C. H. Winn
Houston
Carnegie Library
Bryan
William Rigby
Manfa
Major McInnis
Commercial Club
Walter Armstrong
Tabor
Diamond Jim Brady Memento Cafe Opens in New Victoria Site
A new Diamond Jim cafe and vast bar debuts in the Hammerstein Victoria site. The widow glyph features a golden horseshoe and diamonds and reproduces the famed Diamond Jim tie pin, honoring the bon vivant and boulevardier.
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Jim Brady
Engraved Calling Cards at Bargain Price
Engraved calling cards priced at 1.95 dollars per 100. Customer may choose any style of more full specimens before placing an order with Eagle Printing Co.
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Eagle Printing Co
Texas Cotton Crop Forecast Drops Slightly for 1936
The Texas cotton crop is forecast at 2,915,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight as of October 1, 1936, down 121,000 bales from September. Yields are projected at 118 pounds per acre, with 52 percent crop condition, amid heavy rains that damaged fields in the final weeks of September. Ginnings before October 1 reach 1,396,000 running bales, up from 1935 and 1934 totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Bureau of the Census
Mrs C C Todd Jr Leaves Home After Appendicitis Attack
Mrs C C Todd Jr is able to be out after being confined to her home by a severe attack of appendicitis.
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C. C. Todd, Jr
Cotton price crisis as U S fails to control supply
A Texas university analysis shows the first century with prices failing to rise despite a drop in U S cotton output. It notes reduced US share of world production, rising foreign supply, tariffs, and broad farm income losses even with subsidies.
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America
A. B. Cox
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
United States
New Orleans
Europe
Texas
Mrs Searcy to Speak To North Zulch PTA
Mrs C A Searcy president of the Band Mothers club will address the North Zulch Parent Teacher Association at Thursday evening’s opening meeting of the year. Mrs Hibbetts said she secured the speaker in Bryan Monday and the program theme is Community and Home Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Searcy
Band Mothers Club
North Zulch
Parent-Teacher Association
M. C. Hibbetts
Family murder suicide shocks Crystal Falls farm scene
Coroner H. J. Larson reports George Oja age 25 shot and killed his parents Mr and Mrs Henry J Ojay and sister Luba 28 at their Crystal Falls area farm home Sunday before taking his own life.
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Crystal Falls
Mich
H. J. Larson
George Oja
Henry J. Ojay
Luba
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Bryan Weekly
Congress
Lee J. Rountree
Texas Daily Dress League
Mercantile Bank
Dallas
Lexington Ave
N. Y
Association
Chicago
Minois
Marshall
John Hix
U. S. Pat
Alexander Bew- Prvilt
Pacific
Anna May Wong
Shanghai
Peiping
Chapin
Mark Twain
Bermuda
George Sanchez
Steve Hannagan
Lafayette
Ind
Sam Lee
Limehouse Quarter
Harold Ross
Dorothy Parker
Quentin Reynolds
Boo
Brooklyn
Deems Taylor
Connecticut
Humans
Gene Carr
European
Manchester
Liverpool
Band Mothers
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