Volunteer Takes Daredevil's Place at Wall of Fire
In Port Lavaca a crowd grew restless as a daredevil stalled his flaming wall act while an assistant collected from spectators. A local man dashed through the fire wall with his family cheering, prompting the act's cancellation. H. A. Young spent Sunday and Monday with his father, J. Young in Chilton.
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Texas Weekly News Service
Port Lavaca
Audi
H. A. Young
J. Young
Chilton
College Boys Caught With Car Of Roses
Six McMurry College students came to Brady last week seeking roses for a college banquet. They helped themselves to roses from a Highway Department landscaping plot, were found by officers, jailed overnight, and fined 310 each the next morning.
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Texas Weekly News Service
Brady
McMurry College
Highway Dept
Little Texas City Hosts World Guests from UT Exchange Program
The town of 600 welcomed forty visitors from many nations as exchange students from the University of Texas enjoyed a stay in a typical small American city. The Alvin F Laughlins hosted Mr and Mrs Ralph Scott of Chilton over the weekend.
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Anderson
University of Texas
Free World
Alvin F. Laughlins
Mrs
Ralph Scott
Chilton
Uhland Gains Fifth Rural Progress Prize
For the fifth consecutive year Uhland Caldwell Hays County line community wins a prize in a farm magazine rural progress contest. Locals say further improvements grow harder after five years of steady progress.
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Uhland
Caldwell-Hays Co. Line
Workmen Eat Lunch Sing Hymns and Smoke Breaks
A Houston plant hosts a noon recreation period with Bible study and hymn singing as workers take a break from smoking and work. The idea spreads to three other plants and remains popular.
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Houston
Shrimp Dinner Delights Texas Gulf Coast Experts
A group of leading ichthyologists and herpetologists visit Rockport to study marine life along the Texas Gulf coast. State Marine Laboratory staff assist the researchers and host a shrimp dinner showcasing local shrimp species.
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Rockport
Texas Gulf Coast
State Marine Laboratory
State Honors Won By Blackshear In League Meet
Blackshear school of Hearne tied with O J Thomas of Cameron for the state interscholastic league literary meet championship at Prairie View last weekend. Blackshear, AA in state classification, placed in District NT with Bryan Corsicana Terrell Temple Hillsboro and Martin. The school was chosen by Prairie View College as a teacher training center and will serve as a lab for senior students entering teaching careers.
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Blackshear School
Hearne
O. J. Thomas School
Cameron
Prairie View
Blackshear
Bryan
Corsicana
Terrell
Temple
Hillsboro
Martin
Prairie View College
Miss Evelyn Dorsey Attends Cotton Ball With Parents
Miss Evelyn Dorsey, a student nurse at Scott and White hospital in Temple, visited over the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs C L Dorsey and attended the Cotton Ball.
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Evelyn Dorsey
Scott and White Hospital
Temple
C. L. Dorsey
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R. H. Ballinger
Waco
J. R. Collier
E. M. Boyd
Nancy
John
Louisville
Kentucky
West Virginia
Washington, D. C
Alabama
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Harry Sample
UU Eset
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Texas
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College Station
Littlejohn
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