Mystery at Miss Cordwainer's Select School
Columbine suspects chef Lester Duchesne is a rascal and plans a 10 percent lesser payment test to provoke a response. Barbara Green and Columbine arrange a covert disposal of a suspicious bulky article, while staffer Simpkins reports a shady visitor. The scene ends with Barbara and Columbine driving away in a car.
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Columbine
Lester Duchesne
Brocklyn
Barbara Green
Barbara
George Simpkins
Artemus Thumb
Arizona
Simpkins
George
Drugech
Christmas on the XIT Ranch remembered in Dalhart memory
Mrs. R L Duke, 86, from Dalhart, recalls the XIT Ranch once the world’s largest under fence. Her diary covers the 1909 Christmas with guests including an English lord, the Farwells and the cowboy dances, amid a harsh 1911 1912 winter that ended the era.
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UPI
Texas
R. L. Duke
Dalhart
XIT
Duke
Walter Farwell
Chicago
Fred
Farwells
Channing
Tex
Telstar and steady progress mark Southwestern Bell in 1962
The 1962 recap highlights Telstar the first active communications satellite as a world leadership milestone. It notes ongoing improvements in service through stormproofing the long distance network with underground cables and microwave relay, and a cable pressurization program to keep moisture out and speed fault detection.
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Southwestern Bell
Telstar
Southwestern Bell Hails 1963 With Customer Promise
A Southwestern Bell message, aimed at customers, promises ongoing improvements to telephone service and greater value as the year 1963 begins, extending seasonal greetings from the company’s staff.
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Southwestern Bell
Red China embraces US and Western classics in translated books
Tokyo dispatch says China has translated and sold about 6 000 foreign volumes since 1949, with Mark Twain Henry Longfellow Whitman and Dickens Thackeray Hardy Balzac Flaubert Zola Maupassant Shakespeare favored. Tolstoy Pushkin and Gogol works also sold well. royalties not disclosed.
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Tokyo
UPI
China
America
Mark Twain
Henry Longfellow
Winlt Whitman
Britain
Charles Dickens
W. M. Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
France
Honore de Balzac
Gustave Flaubert
Emile Zola
Guy de Maupassant
New China
Red China
Peking
Moscow
Heo Tolstoy
Pushkin
Evegent Onegin
The Lighter Side on Kennedy State of the Union
United Press International comic column notes reporters split into dress noters and clapping counters at Kennedy’s State of the Union. The piece jokes that despite a brighter outlook the speech drew fewer cheers, with boos possible if the trend continues. It mentions Mrs. Kennedy’s dress and cites Los Angeles area housing figures from the Chamber of Commerce.
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Dick West
United Press International
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Jackie Kennedy
S.C.T.U
U.S
Cuba
South Korea
Viet Nam
Farwell family loses XIT holdings after cattle freeze
Old timers recalled cattle losses that emptied the XIT ranch. The Farwells faced a financial blow and leased portions of the expansive XIT, then began selling parcels of land until the great ranch disappeared.
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Farwells
Texas boat show and river races herald 1963 craft era
A Houston boat show opening Friday features a Waco to Brazos River run and a 300 mile saltwater trail from the Houston Ship Channel to downtown Houston bayou. The event shares spotlight with a Texas water safari from San Marcos to Corpus Christi starting April 29. The contests emphasize non motor travel with prizes in the thousands and a national magazine roundup on Texas boating by Bob Brister.
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Waco
Freeport
Brazos River
Houston Ship Channel
Houston
Texas
New York
San Marcos
Corpus Christi
Corpus Bayfront
Bob Brister
Houston Chronicle
Almanac Note Jan 17 1965 Brightens With Historical Moments
January 17 1965 marks the 17th day of the year. Notable events include Thomas Jefferson’s descendant Martha Jefferson Randolph bearing a child in 1896, the 1917 Virgin Islands purchase for 25 million dollars, Eisenhower's WWII command, and the UN Security Council's first London session in 1946.
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Mars
White House
Thomas Jefferson
Martha Jefferson Randolph
United States
Virgin Islands
Denmark
Dwight Eisenhower
Allied Liberation Forces
Security Council of the United Nations
London
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