Abilene Opens Downtown Blight Fight With Huge Project
Abilene undertakes a $1.309 million downtown revitalization to tear up streets, widen underpasses, and unify business districts across the railroad tracks. Property owners pay $350,000 front-foot assessments. rest funded by bonds. Merchants adapt with back alley sales and home delivery to sustain business amid construction.
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Destitute Blues Singer Billie Holiday Fights for Life
Blues singer Billie Holiday 49 entered Metropolitan Hospital unconscious with hepatitis and severe liver inflammation plus heart failure. Her attorney Earl Vaidins said her doctors report encouraging response to treatment and no current addiction treatment, while friends note she is penniless and recently barred from city clubs. She is listed as Elanore McKay, wife of Louis McKay.
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