Rio Grande in New Rampage as Waters Cut City
Three hundred families homeless in El Paso as flood waters inundate 47 blocks along the riverfront. A refuge camp set up in Washington Park with Red Cross and Salvation Army feeding refugees. Damaged rail lines and damaged districts threaten transportation and relief efforts.
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New
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International News Service
EL Paso
Dareage
Washington Park
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Aiong Rer
Dan Ami Case Update in Groesbeck Court
A legal notice from Groesbeck reports plaintiff Jamil ies seeks £50 total against a party over land issues. Rennolds and Rennolds, attorneys for the plaintiff, state the cases did not go to trial together and were set for a later date.
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Tetum
Jamilies
Groesbeck
Rennolds
Mexia Weather Warm Days Ease Into September
Mexia reports a high of 87 degrees in the shade and 73 as Thursday’s low. The West Texas forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with East Texas showing interior fair weather and coastal showers. Upcoming events include The Striking of America's Hour pageant at First Presbyterian Church and a De Molay initiation with a Shrine dance at the country club. Cotton market note: New York Oct closed around 22.54 to 22.57.
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Mexia
West Texas
East Texas
First Presbyterian Church
de Molay
Country Club
New York
Typhon Sinks Junks and Wrecks Steamer on China Coast
Reports from Shanghai say a typhon caused heavy loss of life along the China coast. Many Chinese junks went to the bottom and a steamer was wrecked, with numerous fatalities confirmed.
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Typhon
China Coast
Shanghai
Hotel Orchestra to Play at Paco Club House Dance
The Adolphus Hotel orchestra of Dallas with eleven Negro musicians will perform a script dance at the Paco club house on Thursday night September 10. The group, newly finished a year at the Adolphus, will do a few out of town engagements before another season. L F Meistr will arrange. Also notes the birth of a ten pound boy to Mr and Mrs Sam Shumate of Iola Texas, wife and child doing well and to return to Mexia soon.
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Dallas
Paco Club
Hotel Adolphus
L. F. Meistr
Sam Shumate
Iola
Texas
Mexia
Submarine Found at Bottom of Sea Takes 55 Men Down
London reports confirm the Italian submarine Sebastano Veniro, missing since August 25, lies 300 feet beneath the sea with a crew of 55. Separate dispatches note an Oklahoma guard shooting probe amid coal strike tension near Carbon.
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London
Sebastano Veniro
Lost Pacific Flight from San Francisco to Hawaii
The Navy seaplane PN-81 carrying Lieut Commander John Rodgers and four men disappeared after fuel ran out during a San Francisco to Hawaii attempt. Destroyers and planes combed hundreds of square miles of the Pacific. hope remains, but no sign found after 26 hours.
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International News Service
San Francisco
Pacific
Hawaii
United Press
Honolulu
T. H
John 8. Rodgers
Navy
Hawaiian Islands
Merchant Marine
Coolidge Cotton Market Totals 2122 Bales Sold
Coolidge reports 2122 bales of cotton marketed by Sept. 3 with 1700 bales weighed at the yard and 626 round bales counted two for one. 110 bales shipped to the Farm Bureau. Street price 21.26. Farmers selling as ginning completes.
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Cooolidge
Coolidge
Wales
Farm Bureau
Detail Report of Wreck Near Ava Ohio
Dayton dispatch reports army air service officers from Cook and Wright Fields flew to Ava to prepare a detailed wreck report for the Shenandoah crash near Ava Ohio. R E Bartlett an oil driller from Mexia Texas returns home after five months in Arkansas expressing preference for Mexia as a home.
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Ava
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Wreck of Shenandoah Kills Crew in Ohio Storm
The Shenandoah dirigible of the U S Navy broke in two near Ava Ohio during a fierce wind storm around 5 30 am. Thirteen killed and fifteen injured including Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdown and navigator Lieutenant Commander Charles Rosendahl of Cleburne Texas. The ship departed Lakehurst New Jersey for Scott Field Illinois yesterday afternoon with 36 on board.
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Ohio
United States Navy
Ava
Shared
Zachary Lansdown
Charles Rosendahl
Cleburne
Texas
Lake Hurst
N. J
Scott Field
Ill
St. Louis
Middle West
Louis Hancock
Austin
J. B. Lawrence
Mayfield Urges Legion to Fight Reds at Fort Worth
Senator Earle B. Mayfield addressed the American Legion convention urging action against Bolshevism as veterans paraded down Main Street with regimental bands and floats. Mardi Gras pageant drew large crowds before a banquet and ball. James A. Crain to deliver the national commander’s address tomorrow.
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Earle B. Mayfield
Ameran Legion
Legion
Twentieth Regiment Infantry
American Legion Convention
Main Street
Houston
Tenth Street
Texas
Crystal Room
James A. Crain
The
Pence Sells to Cubs for 15000 in Trade
Russell Pence star pitcher for the Dallas Steers was sold to the Chicago Cubs for 15000. One Steers player is also sent to Dallas. Pence will report only when Morris approves. Cubs scout Pat Flaharty had followed Pence after a 1-0 loss to Houston. Pence previously pitched a no hit no run game for Tulsa in 1924.
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Russell Pence
Dallas
Chicago Cubs
Walter Morris
Pence
Morris
Pat Flaharty
Cubs
Steers
Flaharty
Tulsa
Omaha
Pride of Navy in Service Two Years
Washington report notes the Shenandoah a two year all American navy product. It had one Pacific coast voyage, a planned fourth pole trip, cost 1.5 million dollars. At 608 feet it was deemed as safe as possible and capable of 60 to 70 miles per hour.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Mother of Chief of Ship Prostrate with Grief Today
Greensville Ohio September 3 Torn by fear that her son Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Nav Dirigible Shenandoah was killed when the ship crashed near Ava Ohio this morning Mrs Betsy Ross Lansdowne was prostrated at her home here today She had anticipated seeing her son today for the first time in several months Qathary was making his last overland trip she told the United Press He was scheduled to return to sea duty September 15 I pray to God he has not been killed or injured.
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Ava
Cambridge
Shenandoah
Earth
Wood
Tom Davis
Charles Neiswonder
Davis
Sarahville-Ava
Helle Valley Moraue
Greensville
Ohio
Zachary Lansdowne
Nav
Betsy Ross Lansdowne
Hospital Bulletin on Freckles McGoosey’s Leg Injury
Doctors report rising temperature after a truck accident threatens amputation for Freckles McGoosey. The comic strip Freckles and His Friends continues daily, offering light relief to friends amid worries.
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Freckles
Pee
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