Innocent Letter Sparks National Chain Letter Craze
A Denver resident's 10 cent chain letter started a nationwide social craze in the 1920s, promising large returns for small investments. Post office warnings, DoJ and IRS probes followed, as millions threaded through households and shops, with notable cases across Seattle, Los Angeles, Springfield, and beyond.
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Denver
Arthur Edson Washington
J O. Stevie
Seattle
Seattle. Last Month the Post Office Department
U.S
Post Office
Department of Justice
Internal Revenue Service
Los Angeles
D. Victor Steed
University of Southern California
Steed
United States
Springfield
James Farley
Plans Slated For Annual Convention Of Posses
West Texas Association of Sheriff Posses and Riding Club will meet in Lubbock March 18 and 19 with up to 600 attending. Monte Foreman of Wichita Falls will speak at the banquet, and events include hotel headquarters, a VFW banquet, Texas Tech music, and a noon fashion show. Thirty-two posses are invited.
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West Texas Association of Sheriff Posses and Riding Club
Lubbock
Crate Snider
Ropes
Monte Foreman
Wichita Falls
Caprock
VFW Hall
34Th St
Texas Tech
Lubbock County Sheriff's Posse
Hemphil-Wells Co
Hotel Lubbock
Western States
Palmetto
Snider
West Texas
Farwell Meeting Plans Sorghum Producers Organization
Five state area sorghum producers will discuss forming a formal organization at an 8 p m Thursday meeting in the Farwell district courtroom. Palmer County Agent Joe W Jones invites all county grain sorghum producers to attend and elect a representative for Amarillo to organize the five state group. Dr Nicholas W Kramer of Texas A and M will speak on hybrid grain sorghums as breeding work is outlined. Farwell Chamber of Commerce will provide refreshments. India plans a geological survey of Sikkim.
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Farwell
Palmer County
Joe W. Jones
Amarillo
Jones
Nicholas W. Kramer
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Lubbock
Farwell Chamber of Commerce
VFW Rehearses Holiday Ahoy Comedy Show
Rehearsals start for a musical comedy titled Holiday Ahoy by VFW Post 2466 at the VFW Hall next Thursday and Friday. Betty Roy directs a 75 person cast including impersonators of celebrities and scenes on the SS Holiday with gaps of humor and dance.
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VFW Hall
Betty Roy
Fiji Islands
Okel Deekel
Samuel B. Jervis
Chris Carver
Goofy Gobs
Wenzel Franz
Kelly
Sgt
James Smalley
Singapore
Sam
Texas Tech
Nancy
VFW
34Th St
J A Linker Rites Slated Here Today
Funeral services for John Allen Linker 57 fireman Reese AFB held at 2:30 p.m. in Rix Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Tech Memorial Park. He died after a heart attack Friday at Methodist Hospital. Survivors include his wife four sons mother siblings and a grandchild. He had lived in Hurlwood since 1941 moving from Sulphur Springs.
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John Allen Linker
Hurlwood
Reese Air Force Base
Rix Funeral Home Chapel
Tech Memorial Park
Linker
Methodist Hospital
Edgar Allen
Amarillo
T. C
Fort Worth
Delmont
Lubbock Rt
John Thomas
Emory St
J. L. Linker
Saltillo
Aubrey Dennis
Sulphur Bluff
Luther Dennis
Theo Davis
Lucille Adair
Dallas
Bill Rozell
L. H. Linker
Honey Grove
Sulphur Springs
Neighbors Aid Ill G R Taylor In Land Preparation
Crosbyton March 5 Neighbors of G R Taylor who is ill in Crosbyton Hospital prepared land for him Friday performing 480 acres of plowing on 80 acres. Helpers included J D Bodgston chairman L G Wood O E Lightner Joe Priddy Orval King Chester Henry Fred Henry Johnny Nance Junior Nunley F L McEachern W C Crone Charles Green Clayton Caddell Dale Jones E O Moore Clayton Thornton Bob Cornelius and George Ledbetter.
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Crosbyton
G. R. Taylor
Crosbyton Hospital
J. D. Sbodgston
L. G. Wood
O. E. Lightner
Joe Priddy
Orval King
Chester Henry
Fred Henry
Johnny Nance
Junior Nunley
F. L
Mystery of Swiss Woman Death Pondered by Police
Police investigate the brutal death of 29 year old Swiss immigrant Sonya Mermond found in her West Philadelphia apartment. A note claimed she defended herself, but shielded the attacker. Her bruised body and signs of possible assault alarm investigators. A toy tiger rests by her head as the scene contrasts with the room.
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Philadelphia
West Philadelphia
Sonya Mermond
Miss Mermond
Arthur H. Thomas
Temcat the hero saves drowning boy in family yard
Tiny the tomcat at the Fred T Noomie home in Houston is lauded after he saved 71 month old Karen Habib from drowning in a fish pond during a family visit from Zanesville Ohio. The child was unconscious when found by his mother and Tiny prepared the life saving moment.
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Houston
Tiny
Fred T. Noomie
Karen Habib
Joseph Habib
Zanesville
Ohio
Karam
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Labbeck
Tex
Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Mer
Omia Hlorophylt UK
Colgate
Lily Pons
Chinchillas
New York
India
Sikkim
New Delhi
J. A. Linker
Rid Face
Temcat
King Nurseries
King's
Oregon
Texas
Reeve
Zabel
Pfitzer
Gilead
19Th
Brownfield Hwy
College Ave
Clovis Hwy
Shellowerter
UW. S
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