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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1938
Page
6
A reception at Carlton, Holand Bontdles featured Mim Bayley’s birth celebration with guests Vermalon, J. E. Ra, Si Mise Bhirione, King of Hi, FH Howell, and Mixa Iesence assisting. Delicacies included a special sand served dish and a delicious dinner.
The Leviathan, a steamship built for 30,000,000, was recently sold to junk dealers in Glasgow. After 800 trips across the sea, newer ships like the Normandie and Queen Mary made her operation unprofitable, ending her service.
Womack School sent its tennis squads to Clifton last Friday for a tournament. Junior girls doubles and singles performances varied with mixed results. senior girls singles claimed second place. First-year players faced strong competition as teams split wins and losses.
Reports by Dr. P. W. Brigman to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers describe high pressure experiments at Harvard where squeezing water to 30 000 pounds per square inch makes ice float. If ice sank Arctic life and fish food chains would be disrupted.
At Bomue Tavern Clifton Texas on Monday night the Wanderers performed with April and Movie ty Deie Brockand Papa Calhoun from TAT Port Worth as Serip Bae ladies paid 20 cents admission.
The article traces baseball’s rise from its infancy when players were unpaid to a massive enterprise paying salaries like Babe Ruth’s and players earning millions over decades. It notes Abner Doubleday’s debated role, the Knickerbocker Club origins, Civil War spread, and the game’s global popularity while contrasting back-alley play with organized leagues and touring nines.
Principal's News notes preparations for examinations at week’s end and announces the play Jimmie Youson's Job. PLLA meeting set for Thursday night April 17. Sport Flashes report a tennis trip to Clifton with strong results: multiple first places in junior and senior divisions, two doubles titles, and growing optimism for upcoming baseball play.
Civic Improvement Society of Clifton Texas is invited to the Waco Garden Club Flower Show at the Municipal Club House in Cameron Park. The event on Tuesday April 5 runs from four to nine p m and invites members to attend as guests and participants.
Two Clifton area farms offered with details. One 26 acres well improved located five miles southeast of Clifton. The second farm spans 282 acres with 168 cultivated, two sets of improvements, about three miles north of Clifton. Also good residence lots. For prices and particulars see S H Olson or H C Dahlen Clifton Texas.
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