4 H club food prep contest draws farm girl entries
F G Laux announces a national 4 H food preparation contest for girls ages 15 to 21. Sponsored by Servel Electrolux, the event offers a $400 national scholarship, four state winners with Electrolux kerosene refrigerators, a Chicago trip for state delegates, and gold medals for parish winners.
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F. G. Laux
National Committee On Boys and Girls
Servel, Inc
United States
Chicago
Grayson Shipping Sheds Shipments of Tomatoes and Potatoes
Seventeen cars of tomatoes and one car of potatoes have been shipped to foreign markets from Grayson shipping sheds. It is estimated that three more cars of tomatoes will be shipped.
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Grayson
Local Man Recounts Wild Oklahoma Border Days
J C Williams, 75, living on a Ouachita river houseboat, recalls a fearless career as a police chief, marshal and federal officer in pre statehood Oklahoma known as Hell on the Border. He describes tracking outlaws, riding with a posse, using a .45-90, and key incidents including a dramatic arrest near Salisaw and his lone unshot escape from a prisoner.
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Ouachita River
Trenton Street
J. C. Williams
Oklahoma
Hell On the Border
Williams
Salisaw
Williams and Weatherford Encounter Vaughan Gang Agents
Williams and Weatherford sleep at the Bashaw home to watch for Vaughan gang activity. They peered through holes in the walls and moved horses for a quick departure when attackers approached. Vaughan was later tracked to the Illinois River area and captured by a marshal and posseman after Williams endured years of restlessness and eventual move to Monroe.
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Williams
Dave Vaughan
Calisaw
Vaughan
Bill Reese
Reese
Salisaw
Pawpaw Bottoms
Bill Weatherford
Weatherford
Bashaw
Ed Bashaw
Illinois River
John Brown
Smith
William
Mexico
Monroe
Columbia
Boeuf River Bridge Opens to Traffic in Winnsboro Area
The Boeuf river bridge on route 17 between Winnsboro and Columbia is now used by traffic prior to an official opening. The bridge ends ferry service on major routes, reducing local ferry operations and possibly prompting an opening celebration later.
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Winnsboro
Boeuf River
Columbia
Bayou Macon
Tensas
Winnsboro- St. Joseph
Harrisonburg
Boeufriver
Jailer Injured as Transient Bites Ear in San Antonio
Rudolph Englehardt city jailer required multiple stitches after a six and a half foot tall transient weighing 215 pounds attacked him in San Antonio. Part of Englehardt's ear was bitten off and later reattached.
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San Antonio
Tex
Rudolph Englehardt
Englehardt
Uneasiness Over Flood Declared Unnecessary in Monroe Area
John Summerlin president of the Tensas Basin Levee board returned from a flood inspection to say there is no need for worry about Arkansas river flood conditions in Monroe. He noted the Mississippi river level decline offsets inflow and Arkansas river level should stay as is at Arkansas City.
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Monroe
Arkansas
John Summerlin
Tensas Basin
United States
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Issaquah
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Salt Lake City
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Missouri
Fort Smith
Indian Territory
Paris
Texas
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Smith Paul Valley
Chickasaw Nation
Muskogee
Claremore
Wagner
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H. R. Hayes Lumber Company
Fox
FOX Family
Ouachita National Bank
The
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Franklin Parish
Jailer
Prof
van Zan
Maryse Hiltze
Villacoublay
France
R. T. Harberson
DeSiard
R.T. Harberson
Edward Ownen
State of
St. Louis
Bakers’ Research Corporation
Ownen
Gladya Erna Stamm
Health Loaf
City Bakery Wholesale Distributors
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