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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1936
Page
8
The report lists numerous attendees and families visiting during the week from the community. Mr and Mrs A B Poston delivered a talk. Misses Mario and Mire Mayfield and Grace were guests of Mr Millie Franklin. Joe Bearden and families visited during the week as did Casper and Guyton from Wa.
Sunday update from Meridian covers kin connections and family visits across local households. It notes weddings, engagements, and travel as relatives gathered, plus funeral attendance for J. H. Young. Also lists marriage licenses and civil court actions including Mobena Williams vs Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Co. and a distribution of funds among children.
A late 1920s style cinema page describes Parole featuring Henry Hunter and Ann Breston with additional acts Buck Jones in The Phantom Rider and Orwald cartoons. It promotes early seating for a long bill including The Maidened Herd and Western thrills, with reviews of actors and locale from Clifton, urging readers to come early for seats.
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research notes a decline in commercial failures across Texas in September, with Dun and Bradstreet reporting nine failures. August had 47.1 percent more fails than September, and the third quarter totaled 38.0 failures, down 44 percent from last year. Average liability per failure stood at 15,000, with shifts from prior months and year constants. Hill Ginnings shows significant cotton output growth in Hill County, reaching 89,081 bales by October 1, far above last year. Bosque County Census records 6,102 bales ginned from the 1926 crop by October 1, with prior-year comparisons noted.
California voters register 1.849 million Democrats and 1.282 million Republicans for the November election, with 21,000 from other parties and 101,000 declines. Total 3.205 million, the largest registration to date, surpassing 1934 levels as Roosevelt and Landon contest the state’s 22 electoral votes.
Mr and Mrs Jones recently announced their marriage last Christmas and the bride, a popular teacher at South Basque, will continue teaching this term before joining her husband in Wichita Kansas where he works as a chemist for an oil company. Punch was served to guests as gifts were presented to the honoree during a school event themed afternoon.
A statement from Texas Democratic campaign headquarters urges active personal support for the Roosevelt Garner ticket. Signed by Roy Miller and including United States Senators Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally plus 21 Texas Democratic congressional nominees, the message will be mailed statewide. Four hundred bankers marched in Spokane but there is no report of easier money in Yakima.
In Salt Lake City Bishop Ralph Guahman of Denver urged Protestant pastors on Monday to move away from the idea that only one church can be right. He said he would be willing for the Methodist Church to work with others if the Kingdom of God is furthered.
Residents of St Joseph Manitoba with tiny short wave radio receivers began to pick up police calls, prompting city council to draft a resolution to license short wave sets and curb trouble spots.
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