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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1940
Page
3
A fragmented piece covers a wedding in Waukon with odd details, plus legal notes on community property and wills. It weaves genealogical lines, attire descriptions, and commentary on animal leaps with a tangent on standard time and travel patterns. The tone resembles a local column mixing family, law, science, and trivia.
Cowboy star Tom Mix died in a highway wreck near Florence Arizona when his green speedster overturned at eighty miles an hour. He was dead at the scene with a broken neck as construction workers freed the car and his wife rushed to the Florence mortuary. Mix, famed for Hollywood horse opera, had retired from films in the previous decade.
California defendant faces slander charge involving a woman's hat as precedent for future cases. Chicago youth turned to theft amid broader coverage of misdeeds. Corpan Christi Caller notes the pursuit of red tape experience and training themes in shifting roles.
East Texas towns show dramatic growth after oil discovery with Kilgore up over 1000 percent in eight years. Nine other East Texas cities average about 180 percent rise as iron, gas, and oil finds drive regional development amid expected coal competition.
An ad notes a renewal service for old mattresses priced at 295 dollars including a new cover at Clifton Mattress Factory. The text also references regulation by the Texas Railroad Commission funded by the oil industry through a per barrel tax, citing 1989 collections of 860000 dollars.
Austin Texas residents witness a vast fossil display at the Texas Memorial Museum on UT campus. Highlights include a 60 million year old 12 foot sea fish, a 7 million year old mosasaur skull, a 25 foot mosasaur replica, a giant sabre toothed animal, and the largest saber tooth wolf skull. Also noted are a mastodon and a shovel jawed mammal under study, alongside about 12 800 fires in National Forests.
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