Oil Magnate’s Boast Spurs Westward Oil Pioneer Exhibit
Tulsa June 18. John D. Archibald once boasted he would drink all oil west of the Mississippi. His prophecy stories accompany the Neodasha Kansas well that sparked the Mid-Continent field. Thomas M. Gailey, nephew of Gailey, still lives at Neodasha and preserves relics from the first west of the Mississippi well. A historic oil exhibit in Tulsa October 8 will display these artifacts and other industry relics.
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Tulsa
Okla
John D. Archibald
Standard Oil Company
Mississippi River
Neodasha
Kansas
Guffey and
Gailey
Mid-Continent
Bakersfield
Corsicana
Thomas M. Gailey
John Gailey
A Law Unto Itself in New York Prohibition Reform
A strong New York movement seeks to repeal state prohibition to permit liquor trade and drinking. The piece labels the effort as futile insolence, notes the movement centers in New York City and aims to form a separate state, and argues constitutional supremacy will prevail despite local repeal attempts.
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New York
New York City
Buffalo
Elmira
Podunk
Observance Planned for Adobe Walls Battle Anniversary
Today and tomorrow at Miami Texas on the old battlefield residents mark the forty ninth anniversary of the Adobe Walls clash of 1874 between Indians and buffalo hunters. An act will be delivered and arrangements made to erect a monument commemorating the battle.
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Miami
Texas
Adobe Walls
Texas University World’s Richest School
San Angelo June 9 The University of Texas could become the richest educational institution globally as oil scouts from Oklahoma Kansas Louisiana Arkansas and Texas foresee profits if Little Texan Oil & Land Co flows oil from 72 sections. The Santa Rita well near Reagan County produced a strong showing with a 43 minute flow since May 28. Reacting to the oil strike are operators and investors from regional firms while a special Orient Railway train is slated to depart tomorrow morning.
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San Angelo
University of Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Little Texan Oil & Land Co
Santa Rita
W. F. Worley
el Dorado
Kans
Wildom
Carol Cromwell
Reagan County
Texon Company
Orient Railway
Trail of the Lonesome Pine at Rex Theatre
The Paramount film The Trail of the Lonesome Pine stars Mary Miles Minter as June Tolliver with John Hale played by Antonio Moreno. A Kentucky feud tale of love and law, the drama features Ernest Torrence and others and screens next Monday and Tuesday at the Rex Theatre.
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June Tolliver
Cumberland Mountains
Kentucky
John Hale
Falins
Tollivers
Kentucky-Tennessee
Hale
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Paramount
Mary Mines Minter
Rex Theatre
Miss Minter
Law
The
Cumberlands
Antonio Moreno
Ernest Torrence
South
Charles Maigne
Southland
Cullen Tate
Edwin Brady
WANTED-INFORMATION Riddling verse on body parts and habits
A curious verse questions where to buy a knee cap or hair lock key and ponders body parts as rooms and tools. It playfully asks who uses eyes as an academy and who travels the bridge of the nose, ending with a playful challenge to readers.
Death of J. M. Hunt Sr. Pioneer of Cedar Creek
J M Hunt Sr of Cedar Creek dies at his son Quilla Hunt's home on June 8. Aged about eighty, he lived in the area over forty six years, leaves six children and many grandchildren, was an ex Confederate soldier and Primitive Baptist. Funeral held the next day at Cotton Plant cemetery. Weather notes mention abundant rains, grasshoppers harming cotton, and decent small grain yields. Visitors include Mrs J H Wesley of Anson and Jim Lawrence of Banger. Becket Lisle of Newcastle.
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J. M. Hunt
Quilla Hunt
Cotton Plant
Stephens County
Brother Hunt
Primitive Baptist Church
I. W. Steele
Hunt
J. M. Hunt, Jr
Ivan
B. P., Gann
Pickwick
J. H. Wesley
Anson
Texas
Tom Hodges
Kansas
John Burson
New Mexico
Jim Lawrence
Banger
Becket Lisle
Newcastle
You Cant Fool Your Wife at Rex Theatre
Review of Paramount film You Cant Fool Your Wife projecting at Rex Theatre. Leatrice Joy Nita Naldi Pauline Garon headlining as Edith McBride the siren and the flapper alongside Lewis Stone Paul McAllister and John Daly Murphy in a domestic drama set around a troubled modern wife and a wife of a surgeon seeking social conquest.
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George Melford
Paramount
Leatrice Joy
Nita Naldi
Pauline Garon
Miss Joy
Edith McBride
Miss Naldi
Constable Sale in Young County Texas 1923
An order of sale issued by Justice Court Precinct 1 in Young County on May 30 1923 directs Constable to sell on June 26 1923 at the court. The case J H Spencer vs W W Good No 2741 outlines the execution. The sale occurs within legal hours at the court.
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State of Texas
Young
Justice Court of
Young County
Justice of the Peace
J. H. Spencer
W. W. Good
Seizure of 2 1 2 ton Spencer trailer in Graham
A mobile property levies the Spencer trailer No. 410 with bolster stakes king pin and hitch pin as the property of W. W. Good to satisfy a judgment of 166.03 plus costs. The notice is dated June 14 1923 and signed by J. D. Dawson Constable Precinct No 1 Yor n county Texas.
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Graham
W. W. Good
J. H. Spencer
J. D. Dawson
Yorn County
Texas
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Texas University
Rex
Lonesome Pine
Cedar Creek
Rock Creek
Mineral Wells Road
Ammie Gatlin
South Elm St
East First Street
Cherry St
Corley Apartments
Oak and Brazos
Loving Road
J. Harlan
Mgr. Rounds and Porter Ler. CO
J. C. Birdsong
Constable’s Sale
Lewis Stone
Franklyn Farnum
H. M. Taylor
Ind
Mary Miles Minter
Christian Church
J. W. Sanders
Henry Cohen
W. J. Colegrove
Extension Oil & Gas Co
J. W. Sanders, Henry Cohen
Clara Kimball Young
Nara
Bebe Daniels
First National Bank
Graham, Texas
the Bank OF Steady Service
E, Lynch
the Street
P, Deats
Graham Stewart
Co. C, Bloodworth
Otto Deats
B, Street
Martin
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