Toyah July 1920 Jubilee Crowds And Big Barbecue
Toyah hosted a large pre 4th celebration July 1 to 3 1920 with about 8000 attendees. The town built a landing strip for aviators and prepared extensive entertainments including rodeos boxing wrestling baseball goat and calf roping and horse racing. Beeves barbecue fed 2000 feet of tables worth of meals daily while 100 army tents housed visitors. The event highlighted Toyah oil fields with a central fountain spurting oil and featured Pecos Day with 3500 attendees, a patriotic address, and Ft Bliss band. Toyah beat Pecos 5 0 in baseball and later defeated Ft Bliss 5 4. The piece notes many roping winners and invites readers to share photos for Reeves County history.
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Toyah
Toyah Chamber of Commerce
George Clements
Pecos
J.F. Ross
Fifth Cavalry
Ft. Bliss
Porter Fancher
Will Schrock
Will Kingston
Charlie Jones
W.B. Collins
Bob Reed
Oscar Carruthers
Willie Duncan
J.B. Coffey
Bill Colquitt
Elmer Jones
C. Moorhead
Milton Gillett
Bert Bristow
B. Moorhead
Jess Parish
Nick Colson
G. Jones
George Daniels
William Burchard
Frank Seay
B. Christian
C. Taylor
Jap Foster
C.P. Oates
Jim Cooksey
A.B. Cooksey
Ed Hulsey
Earl McElroy
Bill Burchard
Roy Jennings
Curtis McElroy
Bill Kingston
Ira Jackson
Reeves County
Bud Frazer
Reeves County Fair
Dolphins star in watery soap opera at Miami Seaquarium
An August birth at Miami Seaquarium led to a tangled, rivalrous display among dolphins Cha Cha April and Flippy. A heated struggle over a calf caused experts to seal off the pool as two mothers clashed before calming with their babies intact. The episode underscored human lessons in cooperation and restraint.
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Miami Seaquarium
Cha-Cha
April
Flippy
Seaquarium
Fund pools slow in market gains over decade
A Wertheim & Co survey of 92 institutions managing over 300 billion in trust assets finds that over 10 years to Aug 31, average annual equity gains were 2.6 percent for banks, insurers and mutual funds, versus the Dow at 3.3 percent. Mutual funds led at 3.7 percent, banks 2.4 and insurers 1.7. Treasury bills topped with 5.8 percent. over the year to Aug 31 indices rose: banks 23.6, insurers 22, mutual funds 27.8, vs Dow 29.8. over three years all fell, with Dow down only 0.3.
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John Cunniff
New York
Wertheim & Co
N.Y
Dow Jones
U.S. Treasury
Today in History October 15 1975
On this date in history various events are noted including Khrushchev ousted in 1964, Cortes named governor of New Spain in 1522, gold discovered in Melbourne in 1851, Mata Hari executed in 1917, Graf Zeppelin landing in 1928, Laval executed in 1945, Goering death in 1946, Vatican denouncement in 1955, Melbourne bridge collapse in 1960, Nobel prize in chemistry to Paul Flory in 1980, and notable birthdays and a thought for today.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Charles V
Spain
Hernando Cortez
New Spain
Mexico
Melbourne
Australia
Mata Hari
Paris
Graf Zepelin
Lakehurst
N.J
Atlantic
Pierre Laval
Hermann Goering
Vatican Council
Paul Flory
Stanford University
John Galbraith
Jose Quintero
Cambridge
Mass
George Washington
Michael Dowdie
York County
Pecos Yesterdays News Briefs Recall Local Fire and Appointments
Forty years ago a Pecos home owned by Mr. and Mrs. Howell Johnson suffered heavy damage from a fire believed started by a gas hot plate. The loss was estimated at 1500 dollars. Thirty years ago Robert S. Sullivan, longtime Pecos resident and former junior high principal, was named Pecos representative for Continental Oil Company after earning a BA from Rice Institute.
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Howell Johnson
Robert S. Sullivan
Pecos
Continental Oil Company
P.W. Riggins
Fort Worth
Sullivan
Rice Institute
Houston
State Insurance Board raises homeowners and auto premiums
Highlights from the Austin page show the State Insurance Board approving an 8.3 percent average rise for homeowners and a 17 percent statewide average increase for auto policies effective February 16. Specific increases vary by region and by product with notable hikes in Seacoast Central and North Northwest regions and a sample across cities like Galveston Houston Austin and Lubbock.
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Austin — Insurance
State Insurance Board
Seacoast
Central
North-Northwest
Galveston
Houston
Austin
Lubbock
VRA
House Elections Committee
Texas
U.S. Department of Justice
Elections Committee
Rep
Luthe; Jones
el Paso
The Hundred Guinea Cup and Houdini's Water Torture Cell
The America schooner won the early Hundred Guinea Cup, now known as the Americas Cup, after a race around the Isle of Wight. Houdini’s famed Chinese Water Torture Cell escape debuted in 1912 in Germany and he freed himself in two minutes and one second head down in a water tank.
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Royal Yacht Squadron of
Great Britain
Isle of Wight
New York
Harry Houdini
Houdini
Germany
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Jefferson County
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Rio Grande Valley
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University of Texas
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Ocie R. Jackson
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Elvis L. Mason
Dallas
Board of Regents
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Franklin A. Jeffers
Amarillo
Robert Clyde Jones
San Antonio
Texas Real Estate Commission
U.S
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Joe M. Kilgore
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W. Philip Gramm
Texas A&m University
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