23 Dec 1940
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Newspaper
Del Rio News Herald
Location
Del Rio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
1
Walter Lee Dyer won a bicycle in a Libby labels promotion for saving labels from Libby goods. The bike was displayed at the News- Meald office window across from the post office and will be presented to Walter Jée Tucstey at a Burdict Brothers ceremony.
The column lists UT Austin and Texas State Teachers College students and families home for holidays. J D Harris, a UT student, visits Rio with his mother, and Max Btoal plans Welded Weld family time. Several names appear with kinship ties and locations in Denton, McGregor, and Dallas area, detailing holiday gatherings and travels.
Sir Harry Johnston reported natives in the Semliki forest wearing curiously marked skins and in time traced them to the source, hinting at the existence of the okapi, a discovery that surprised science about 38 years ago.
New passenger car sales in September 1640 reached 157,418 units despite the month being rated as the poorest selling period of the year. The figure reflects market demand during a low season for automakers and dealers.
Mrs W G Deason returns from Brownsville to Bracketville for Christmas visiting son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Charles Stucky. Several residents, including Ralph Coker D W Hicks and Mary Kay Nipper, travel to Houston Austin Lockhart Georgetown and San Antonio for Christmas holidays with relatives and friends.
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