Forty Men Employed On New High School Construction
The Monahans project reports all structural steel received and trucks hauling gravel for concrete. Most corridors poured with only the north end unpoured. auditorium brickwork up to six feet. floor poured and roof girders on site. Ornamental stone arrived and was partly set. heating and plumbing progressing. about forty workers, including carpenters bricklayers tile setters plumbers stone setters concrete finishers and laborers, employed last week.
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Monahans
Visitor Peggy Harrison Hosts Rheba Lou Reins
Miss Peggy Harrison hosted Miss Rheba Lou Reins of McCamey for the weekend at the Harrison home. Reins returned to her McCamey residence on Monday.
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Peggy Harrison
Rheba Lou Reins of
McCamey
Sam Harrison
Miss Reins
Horse Marines in 1835 Texas Revolution
Twenty Texas Rangers dubbed horse marines after capturing three ships supplying Mexican forces during the 1835 Texas Revolution. Queen Elizabeth’s wardrobe held over 3000 dresses at her death.
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Mexico
Texas Rangers
Elizabeth
Daylight saving and oil field recovery described
The passage argues daylight saving does not increase daily sunshine and likens it to falsifying books to hide losses. It notes oil fields once thought exhausted revived by water injection, forcing unrecovered oil to surface.
Crack Process Doubles Gasoline Yield From Crude Oil
Cracking, the breaking of hydrocarbon molecules under high pressure and heat, has yielded nearly twice as much gasoline from the same crude oil input. The advancement highlights improvements in refinery efficiency and fuel output.
Farmers Own Millions Of Machinery In Agriculture Drive
American farmers own and operate six million motor vehicles one million tractors three million lighting plants five thousand diesel engines and large numbers of stationary engines pumps and other machinery.
Gasoline Characteristics Adjusted by Seasons
The article notes that gasoline formulations are altered with the seasons to ensure reliable engine performance in motor vehicles across varying weather conditions.
Local Classifieds Include Rentals and Land Leases
An assortment of advertised properties and services lists for sale or trade including a residence earning 70 dollars monthly, a hotel earning 500 dollars monthly, a cafe, a beer dispenser, and a root beer barrel. Also offered are a 10 year oil and gas lease on 30 acres in Winkler county at 100 dollars per acre, residence lots from 100 dollars, a tourist camp, rentals in Wickett, and taxi service. Several sellers and contact names appear with terms and down payments.
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Winkler County
Home Demonstrator Tells Benefits of Farm Wind Breaks
Mrs. Clyde Dennis, yard demonstrator in Childress County, explains windbreaks as farm assets. Her planting uses 900 trees including Chinese elms osage oranges desert willows and tamarix arranged to form an earth dam like barrier around the home and orchard.
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Childress
Clyde Dennis
Community Center Home Demonstration Club
Childress County
Osage
Dennis
Star Filled Spectacle In Under Two Flags At Palace
A star studded epic lights the Palace showing Sunday and Monday in Monahans. Ronald Colman Claude Colbert Victor McLaglen Rosalind Russell headline a large cast in a Sahara frontier romance with daring battles and a dramatic rescue led by Mrs Colbert.
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Claudette,colber
Victor McLaglen
Sahara
Burning Sands
Palace Theatre
Monahans
Claudette Colbert
Rosalind Russell
Empire
McLaglen
Miss Colbert
Colman
Mrs Colbert
Gregory Ratoff
Nigel Bruce
Cy Henry Gordon
Herbert Mundin
J. Edward Bromberg
New York Stage
Presbyterians Plan Saturday Meeting on New Church
Dr. George W. Fender of Arlington will join Mrs. Fred Matson’s home near Rehmeyer Hospital to discuss organizing a Presbyterian Church in Monahans with support from the Board of Missions in New York. M. R. Mann from Midland will also attend to explain mission work and potential backing.
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Presbyterians
Fred Matson
Rehmeyer Hospital
U. Ss. A
Monahans
M. R. Mann
Midland
Fender
Board of Missions
The
Presbyterian Church In
New York
Te National Board
Presbyterian Church
Matson
Fairfield woman Miss Lee Jones travels through Mona before El Paso trip
Miss Lee Jones of Fairfield Oklahoma visits friends in Mona on Tuesday afternoon while en route to El Paso and Carlsbad.
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Lee Jones
Fairfield
Oklahoma
Monahans
el Paso
Carlsbad
Landon Seen As Hoover Like Opponent By Republicans
The Quanah Tribune Chief argues that Kansas Governor Landon is expected to face President Roosevelt in the Republican contest. It claims Landon resembles Hoover in inaction though his main point is balancing Kansas budget. It notes Landon did not seek relief and left federal spending to Washington.
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Landon
Kansas
Pres. Roosevelt
Hoover
Quanah
Iowa University professor touts explosive from cornstarch byproduct
Prof Bartow of Iowa University announces a new inexpensive process to produce a more powerful explosive than dynamite from a waste byproduct in cornstarch manufacture.
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Bartow
Iowa University
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