Explorer 400 Years Early in Quivira Hunt
R H Mize reports that seven great cities of Quivira exist today in Texas and Oklahoma, not in myth but as Houston Dallas San Antonio Fort Worth Tulsa Oklahoma City and El Paso. The piece notes rapid growth since the 1920s with populations near 300,000 in Houston and Dallas and San Antonio, Fort Worth, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City approaching 200,000, plus related urban centers across the region.
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Quivira
R. H. Mize
United Press
Dallas
Tex
Coronado
Texas
Oklahoma
Houston
San Antonio
Ft. Worth
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
el Paso
Gulf of Mexico
Mras
Plains
New Mexico
Rio Grande
Panhandles
Amarillo
Abilene
Borger
Lubbock
Laredo
San Angelo
Fifteen Tons of Fireworks Planned for Ocean Dump
Fire Commissioner John J. Dorman reports fifteen tons of seized fireworks will be dumped into the ocean next week to ensure a safe Fourth of July. The raid seizure prompted the disposal plan.
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New York
John J. Dorman
Weekend trip to Bass Lake mapped by Hoosier Motor Club
The Hoosier Motor Club tours suggest a Bass Lake weekend route from Indianapolis. Travel north on Meridian to the Canal, then U S Road 31 through Broad Ripple Carmel Westfield Kokomo Peru Rochester to seven miles north of Rochester. Turn west on the HMC trail to Culver then State Road 10 to Bass Lake. Distance about 131 miles with paved roads up to Rochester and a three mile Kokomo detour.
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Indiana
Lake
The
Hoosier Motor Club
Bass Lake
Meridian Street
Canal
Bear
Broad Ripple
Carmel
Westfield
Kokomo
Peru
Rochester
HMC
Culver
Pianist Geza Ledopsky Sets World Record for Continuous Play
Vienna reports Geza Ledopsky endured seventy six hours of nonstop piano playing to claim the world record. He sat at a piano for over three days and nights, surpassing the previous seventy two hour mark.
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Vienna
Geza Ledopsky
Web bathing suit shocks French beach at Deauville
Deauville debates where bathing suit ends and indecency begins over a Parisian backless, multi-piece creation. The beach enforces one and two piece limits while luxury hotels draw crowds and a cheeky ferry to Trouville remains a penny ride.
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Princess Ali Fazil
United Press
Deauville
France
Parisienne
Paris
Indianapolis
Europe
Trouville
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Ft. Worth Cattle Center
Kansas
Galveston
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Colonial Bench
Hoosier
United States
Pettis
Coats
Hookitp Furniture Company
East Washington
Alabama
Strefi
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