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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1937
Page
8
A collage of film ads and community notes lists upcoming features at local theatres including Make Way for Tomorrow, Captain Courageous, and The Tinsel of Dizawa. Also mentioned are travel plans, family visits, and social events with Fort Worth and nearby towns, plus scattered historical curiosities.
Camp activities begin with tent setups for a two week encampment at Camp Hulen Texas. Captain Brout welcomes the group and inspires morale as the regiment begins rifle training and technical prep. Local officials and visiting relatives join a community scene amid mosquito concerns and notes on court business and local elections.
A barber shop is moved from a home to a building two doors west of the old First National Bank. Willard Murphree, Mr. and Mrs. George Price and daughter Virgie of Dallas visited Mrs. Price's mother, Mrs. Shara Gvinilund. G promotes Emmett, returning from St Louis after a week buying full and winter goods at Cliftwh Mercantile Co.
In a Fort Worth era feature, chemists extract bromine and other riches from seawater at a North Carolina plant near Wilmington. The piece notes a potential wealth stream as up to a billion dollars may have flowed through the process, while detailing byproducts like bromine, iodine, salt, and metals, and mentions local moves and business changes linked to this exploration.
Ms CY Lampkin and children Uettie and J Edgar depart Wednesday for El Paso after weeks visiting relatives and friends. They stayed at Mrs Clara Grimland's home, mother to Mrs Lampkin. Mr and Mrs W H Deneby and son return from a long automobile trip covering nearly three thousand miles to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and other places.
Mr and Mrs Joe Mogford and Billie were in Bryan visiting Mrs Mogfords parents Mr and Mrs W J Nockols The husband is an A and M College instructor whose work trains young men and takes him and selected youths abroad almost every year for beneficial training from observation and various angles
Senator Tow Connally leads a Texas delegation to ask James Roosevelt to establish a coast guard patrol in the Gulf of Mexico. The aim is to deter ships carrying hurricane debris and report findings to the Weather Bureau. Connally called the conference with Roosevelt, the President’s son, and Secretary **highly satisfactory**.
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