Blue Montana Skies and Flight at Midnight at Palace Theatre
The Palace presents Blue Montana Skies with Autry and Burnette. Gene helps catch fox fur smugglers at the Canadian border while feuding ranchers and a unaware partner girl complicate the plot. Flight at Midnight adds Phil Regan and Roscoe Turner in an aviation rescue of an old airport.
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Man Autry
Palace Theatre
Champion
Montana
Gene
LA. S
H-H
Smiley Burnete
Simely
Phil Regan
Roscoe Turner
Ginger Rogers stars in Fifth Avenue Girl comedy
The film pairs Ginger Rogers with Walter Connolly in a humorous plot about a rich but neglectful family. Rogers poses as a gold digger and guest in a palatial Fifth Avenue mansion, triggering the family to courtlyly cater to him while uproarious situations unfold. Two romances and a second honeymoon wrap up the story.
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Ginger Rogers
Fifth Avenue
Comedienne
Walter Connally
Miss Rogers
Witness Vanishes Crime Club Play Adaptation
The eighth Crime Club mystery features a strong cast led by Edmund Lowes and Wendy Barre in the stage adaptation of James Ronald's novel.
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James Ronald
Edmund Lowes
Wendy Barre
Our Leading Citizen at the London Sun amid a newsroom intrigue
In a London setting the Lon don Sun’s former publisher escapes from an asylum after four plotters steal the paper. Bob Burns stars as a lawyer who resolves a city strike through compromise. The drama includes Susan Hayward’s romance with Joseph Allen Jr and features Gene Lockhart and Charles Bickford.
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London
The
London Sun
Bob Burns
America
Bob
Susan Hayward
Joseph Allen, Jr
Gene Lockhart
Charles Bickford
S. L. Brodie a Pioneer of Fredericksburg Texas
Dr. S. L. Brodie, veteran of the Revolutionary era, settled in Texas after a long migratory life from Virginia to Kentucky to Arkansas. Born in 1849, he moved via Nashville and Austin to Brenham and Fredericksburg, where he concluded his long career in sewing machines. He died November 12, 1939 at age 90, survived by children T. K. Carr Louis E Laura Alfred Wallace Archie, and a brood of grandchildren. His wife Mary Neal Davis died in 1934. Funeral services were held at Beckmann's with interment in the city cemetery.
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George Washington
Dr. Brodie
Hampton
Yorktown
John Lodowich Brodie
Kentucky
North Carolina
Stephen Louis Brodie
Feyetteville
Ark
California
Stephen Louis
Jimmy
Louis
Nashville
Tenn
Brodies
Texas
Weatherford
Austin
Brenham
Mary Neal Davis
Virginia
S. L. Brodie
Sewing Machine Company
Fredericksburg
Fredercksburg
T. K. Carr
Louis E
Laura
Alfred
Temple
Wallace
Corpus Christi
Archie Brodie
Young Aviatrix Jackie Cochran Rises To Flight Fame
Jacqueline Cochran, orphan raised by unrelated family, learned to fly in three weeks in 1982 and earned a private license. By today she is hailed as the outstanding woman flier, Cosmopolitan’s Cosmopolite of the Month, reflecting a life of hardship and rapid ascent.
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Jacqueline Cochran
Percy Waxman
Circus
Jackie
Continent
Rock Springs
Salt Lake City
Female aviator breaks jinx with Bendix Derby win
The sole woman in the Bendix Derby completes the race from California to Cleveland in eight hours ten minutes, earning twelve thousand five hundred dollars. She then sets a new transcontinental record for women in Bendix, New Jersey, at ten hours seven minutes, marking a hard won conquest of the air after early forced landings and repeated disappointments.
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Rockies
California
Cleveland
Bendix
N. J
Vanderbilts Long Sought Prestige, Says Writer
A 19th century will details Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt’s death on January 4 1877 and a $105000000 fortune. Most funds went to William Henry Vanderbilt to keep the trust intact and uphold New York Central. Cornelius Vanderbilt III received $5000000 while the widow and seven daughters shared the rest. Cornelius Jeremiah contested the will but was deemed a wastrel. The family arranged settlements, William Henry married Maria Kissam and built a social foundation, with relatives listed and a funeral held November 12 1989.
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Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Commodore
Cholly Knickerbocker
William Henry Vanderbilt
New York Central
Vanderbilt
William Henry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Jeremiah
Seven
Maria Kissam
William
Upper Fifth Avenue
Fane
Pioneer Stalwart Herman Grobe Dead at 81 Near Fredericksburg
Herman Grobe born May 3 1858 in Guadalupe county died November 12 1938 at his Fredericksburg area home aged 81 years 6 months 9 days. He moved with his widowed mother during Civil War hardships and later worked in Fort Clark New Mexico and Arizona. He returned to Gillespie county in 1866 bought a homestead with sons Cornelius 2nd and William. He married Bertha Ellebracht June 5 1888 and they had six children. One son Felix served in Fort Worth 1918. a son-in law Otto Nagel predeceased him. The golden wedding anniversary June 5 last year was a rare life highlight.
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Herman Grobe
Guadalupe County
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Fort Clark
New Mexico
Arizona
Bertha Ellebracht
Alvin
Felix
Fort Worth
Texas
Otto Nagel
Bertha Grobe
Mildew Remedies And Home Paint Tips From 1930s Advice Column
The article provides home remedies to prevent mildew on painted surfaces, including oil and turpentine adjustments, calomel additions, and mercuric chloride cautions. It also covers stain removal with carbon tetrachloride or alternatives, drawer maintenance with paraffin, and notes on wartime oil and meat markets affecting prices and demand.
Aging resident August Alberthal dies at 86
August Alberthal died Tuesday night at age 86 years and 29 days. He was born October 15, 1853 in Gillespie County. Surviving children include Anna Ebert and Olga Wahrmund of Los Angeles. Funeral held Thursday at Schachter Funeral Home with interment in the city cemetery.
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August Alberthal
Gillespie County
Peter Alberthal
Mary Fahrnhorst
Rosa Maier
Anna
Galen Ebert
Olga
Hugo Wahrmund
Los Angeles
Cal
John C. Barkier
Henry
Herman Alberthal
John Durst
QO. Lindenberg
Schachter Funeral Home
War and The Hog Business
Economists from the U S Department of Agriculture expect the hog price downward trend since 1934 to pause amid a war driven rise in demand. The swine industry may see more hogs and higher prices as United States exports of bacon and hams increase while pork and lard supplies grow with drought era production.
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Germany
Far East
United States
Chicago
Regenbrecht
College Station
U. S. Department of Agriculture
E. M. Regenbrecht
Texas A. and
M. Extension Service
Great Britain
Europe
Poland
Baltic Countries
Denmark
Smallpox vaccination push urged in Texas
In Austin on November 13 The State Health Officer Dr Geo W Cox notes that from 1930 to 1988 Texas recorded 10764 smallpox cases and many more likely unreported. He urges parents to vaccinate early in the school term to prevent epidemics and protect communities.
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Austin
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
State Health Department
Former Red Leader Exposes Communist Ties in U S History
Ben Gitlow former secretary of the Communist party in the United States details the party’s U S operations Moscow funding and influence campaigns. He cites names dates places and sums tied to party activities including donations and election expenditures. He warns the American public about a feared Soviet influence network inside the country.
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Red
U. S
Russia
Soviet Russia
Ben Gitlow
Communit Party
United States
Wea
Gitlow
Moscow
Uuu
New York
Browder
Deracits
Alec Templeton to Appear in San Antonio Opening Concert
British blind pianist Alec Templeton arrives in San Antonio to headline the opening concert of the newly formed Symphony Orchestra. Critics call him one of the era’s great musical prodigies and marvels, with sellout performances in Detroit and standing room only crowds at multiple showings. Tickets are available at the Municipal Auditorium.
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Ales Templeton
San Antone
Symphony Orchetra
Chicago Tribune
Edward Barry
Alec Templeton
Detroit Evening Times
Ralph Hehees
Tempelro
Actua
Symphony Society
San Antonio
Temperton
The
Municipal Auditorium
Texas
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Elsa Maxwell
Ary
Margaret McBride
Miss McBride
Paris
Missouri
Harper Herald
STH Avenue
Schreiner Wool & Mohair
Kerrville, Texas
Texaco
Bill’s Lunch Room
Vanderbilts
Ren
Olga Nagel
Selma Hahne
Arthur Grobe
Annie Oehler
Fritz
William Grobe
Minna Clark
Beckmann Funeral Home
City Cemetery
O. F. Kattner
Edison Street Methodist Church
Wm. K. Vanderbilt
Cornelius
Knickerbaber
Lechte Storage & Commission Co
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