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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1940
Page
5
Mr and Mrs C W Granville are authorized advertising solicitors collectors and subscription affectors for the Harper Herald authorities indicate in the notice.
The Palace presents South of the Border on Friday and Saturday May 24 with a double bill featuring Autry in a romance themed to a popular song and Smiley Burnette with Mary Lee. Sunday and Monday May 26-27 brings The Flying Deuces with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in a Paris to Morocco adventure filled with humor and a dramatic chase.
The Agricultural Experiment Station at A and M College announces the enlarged wool and mohair grading and scouring plant in the Textile Engineering Building is ready. The project, funded by the last legislature, increases daily scouring to 2500 pounds and adds a four bow train to study grades and shrinkage for Texas wools, aiding growers, warehouses, and buyers.
LCRA reports rainfall averages for the Comuntry Watershed. In Farmers Boys League standings Stonewall leads with 4 wins, Carter's Women 4 1, Willow City 6 2, Harper 60 6.000. Last Sunday's results: Stonewall 7 Carter's 2. Willow City 13 Harper 7. Next Sunday: Stonewall at Willow City. Comfort at Carter's. Harper off-day.
The Willow City team beat Harper 13 to 7 last Sunday for their second win. Rabke pitched the full game as Willow City rallied with a five run burst in the ninth after Harper led briefly in the early stages.
Free blonde and 21 stars in a lively romance at the Sherrington hotel for women. The cast includes Lynn Bari Joan Davis and Alan Baxter as the glamorous trio navigates love and drama in fresh adventures. The May 28 engagement promises unique nightly excitement.
Eddie Cantor returns to the screen after two years in The Story of Forty Little Mothers at a midweek show May 29 and 30. He broadens his act and proves himself an actor with minimal singing, delivering a lullaby to a baby.
Washington DC nearly 5000 inquiries pursued the formation of an American Red Cross reserve of medical technicians for Army and Navy. Enrollment mirrors the nursing reserve of 1911 with inclusion of male nurses and dietitians and other allied health workers.
In a Thursday game at Mrs. C J Dooley’s home, St Mary's School graduates honored Adela Marie Tarentine with corsages. Ball prizes went to Mary Ella Stehling and Miss Ersch, a guessing contest crowned Adela Turrentine and Stehling winners, and a lunch followed. Final: Stonewall 7 Carters 2 with key hits by V Deike B Luckenbach Kent and O Wuest.
Gillespie County chapter appeals for $380 quota to support the $10 million War Relief Fund. Chester Schmidt and partners lead the drive through the Fredericksburg National Bank with weekly remittances to national headquarters to aid civilians displaced in Europe. The appeal notes oil refining in Texas as a key industry backdrop to local efforts.
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