Oil Magnate’s Boast Sparked Mid-Continent Field Origin
Tulsa reports recount a 30 year old Standard Oil official John D. Archibald who boasted he would drink all oil west of the Mississippi. Drillers Guffey and Gailey tapped a Kansas well that began the Mid-Continent field, later fueling major oil booms and autos. Thomas M. Gailey keeps relics from Neodasha’s first well to be shown at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa starting October 8.
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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 Against Prohibition in New York
The piece denounces a New YorkCity movement to repeal local prohibition arguing it defies the constitutional amendment and would ignore the will of the people. It warns that attempts to bypass the constitution show contempt for law and invites citizen obedience to constitutional principles.
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New York
New York City
Buffalo
Elmira
Podunk
Commemoration of Adobe Walls Battle in Miami Texas
Today and tomorrow at Miami Texas observers will mark the forty ninth anniversary of the 1874 Adobe Walls clash between Indians and buffalo hunters. An act will be read and plans laid to erect a monument at the old battlefield.
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Miami
Texas
Adobe Walls
Texas University World’s Richest School
San Angelo June 9 The University of Texas is poised to become the richest educational institution if the Little Texan Oil and Land Co wells near Reagan County flow. Santa Rita gushed oil for 43 minutes, signaling a lucrative lease of 72 sections adjacent to the university land. About 100 scouts watched the event as W. F. Worley of El Dorado led oil men noting high quality oil. A special Orient railway train departs tomorrow at 9 for Santa Rita.
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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
Texon
Orient Railway
Trail of the Lonesome Pine at Rex Theatre
Paramount picture starring Mary Mines Minter as June Tolliver and Antonio Moreno as John Hale shows Monday and Tuesday. The Kentucky mountain feud tale features romance suspense and strong supporting roles by Ernest Torrence Cullen Tate Edwin Brady and others.
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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
Rhetorical verse asks where to buy parts of the body
The passage questions where to find a cap for the knee a key for the hair lock and gems on the crown and asks who travels the bridge of the nose and what the mouth can roof. It playfully wonders about body parts as if they were items to trade or fit in a shop.
Death of J M Hunt Sr Pioneer Citizen of Cedar Creek
J M Hunt Sr aged about eighty died at his son Quilla Hunt's home on June 3 and was buried June 4 in Cotton Plant Cemetery, coterminous with his wife's grave. An ex Confederate soldier, he leaves six children and many grandchildren. Funeral led by I W Steele. he valued the Primitive Baptist faith. The community notes recent rains and grasshopper damage to cotton, with good small grain yields elsewhere. Mrs J H Wesley and family of Anson Texas visited, as did Jim Lawrence of Banger and 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
E. 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
Film review praises Paramount release You Cant Fool Your Wife starring Leatrice Joy Nita Naldi and Pauline Garon. It highlights Joy as a trusting wife Naldi as a siren and Garon as a chic flapper with Masonry tension among Lewis Stone Paul McAllister and John Daly Murphy in a domestic drama.
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George Melford
Paramount
Leatrice Joy
Nita Naldi
Pauline Garon
Miss Joy
Edith McBride
Miss Naldi
Lewis Stone
Paul McAllister
John Daly Murphy
Constable's Sale Ordered in Young County Case 2741
The State of Texas Young County orders a constable sale by the Justice Court Precinct No 1 on June 26 1923 in the J H Spencer versus W W Good case No 2741. The sale follows an May 30 1923 order of sale. Public notice lists court hours and sale location.
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State of Texas
Young
Justice Court of
Young County
Justice of the Peace
J. H. Spencer
W. W. Good
Local Garnishment Notice on Spencer Judgment
A Graham Texas property seizure describes a 2 1/2 ton Spencer trailer No 410 with bolster stakes king pin hitch pin levied on W W Good to satisfy a $3166.03 judgment for J H Spencer plus costs. Dated June 14 1923 by Constable J D Dawson Precinct No 1 Yorn County.
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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
Ments
S. Oak and Brazos
Constable’s Sale
Franklyn Farnum
Mary Miles Minter
Loving Road
C. J. Harlan
Mgr. Rounds and Porter Ler. CO
J. C. Birdsong
H. M. Taylor
Ind
Christian Church
Clara Kimball Young
Nara
J. W. Sanders
Henry Cohen
W. J. Colegrove
Extension Oil & Gas Co
J. W. Sanders, Henry Cohen
Bebe Daniels
First National Bank
Graham, Texas
Bank OF Steady Service
R. E. Lynch
E. S. Graham
Boyd Street
K. Deats
Graham Stewart
Co. Bloodworth
Otto Deats
H. B, Street
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