Dexter News Item Highlights Local Social and Travel Updates
Dexter residents share news of vacations and visits across Michigan Texas and New Mexico. Nelsons travel with Miss Martin to San Marcus and San Antonio while local gatherings honor Mrs Jack Hubbard and note birthday gifts and a tea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Nelson
Juanita Nelson
Elephant Butte Dam
L. Martin
Rosemary Martin
Nelsons
San Marcus
San Antonio
Texas
Jack Hubbard
O. B. Berry
A Late Summer Revival in Business
New York reports a renewed summer business upswing with higher industrial activity. The AP index climbed for a fifth week while steel production rose to 62.1 percent capacity, offsetting auto assembly declines as dealers prepare for 1940 car production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press Weekly
Poland
Associated Press
Dun & Bradstreet
Mercantile Agency
Gov Loren Dickinson and Senator Vandenberg at Detroit congress
Gov Loren Dickinson of Michigan and Senator Arthur H Vandenberg are pictured at the National Fraternal Congress in Detroit. The event drew over 5,000 delegates to the state fair grounds, spotlighting Dickinsons crusade against drink, vice, and night life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren Dickinson
Michigan
Arthur H.vandenberg
Detroit
State Fair Grounds
Family chain letter links far flung kin in Texas
Round N Round Austin Texas reports Rev J A Schmidt’s family of 13 keeping a chain letter alive. Since Mary, a missionary in China, started it 23 years ago, the letter travels from China to California Oregon Canada Montana Minnesota South Dakota Kentucky and back to China. Also a lamp sale ad notes a Goose Neck Lamp free with five dollar lighting purchase at L F Woodhead 317 North Main St.
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Austin
Tex
J. A. Schmidt
Mary
China
California
Oregon
Canada
Montana
Minnesota
South Dakota
Kentucky
L. F. Woodhead
North Main St
Mortuary Notified Of Dead Man In Car Outside Station
Omaha clear up after mortuary reports a dead man in a car in front of a downtown service station. Police and ambulance found no body. Station attendant explains the car’s battery was dead and a mistaken call to the mortuary was made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Matt Jaap
Jaan
Tit
Westchester Girl’s Trip to Los Angeles Ends in Law Stop
A 14 year old from Westchester Pennsylvania traveled to Los Angeles to marry Charles Briggs a 30 year old navy cook who had previously married and divorced her sister. The law ruled she was too young to wed and she was sent home Briggs agreed to finance her return journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chis
Westchester, Pa
Los Angeles
Charles Briggs
Briggs
Lepke Aide Seized In Garment Racket Case
Joseph Amoruso aged 45 known as Strawberry, ex convict tied to Louis Buchalter’s garment racketeering syndicate. He pleaded innocent and is held in default of $50,000 bail after authorities seized him amid the public enemy case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
New York
Joseph “Strawberry
Amoruso
Buchalter
Dr Hoyle Laughs At American Corn Roast
London scientist Dr R Birch Hoyle visits Pedford Pennsylvania observes Americans eating corn on the cob at a corn roast and remarks that the people of America play funny games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyle Pedford
R. Birch Hoyle
London
England
America
Union label on 3 1/2 pound flounder caught in Wildwood
In Wildwood New Jersey Harry Lloyd of Philadelphia caught a 3 1/2 pound flounder that bore the label of the International Tobacco Workers Union AFL stuck to its scales. This odd find ties a local fishing stop with a national labor affiliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wildwood
N. J
Harry Lloyd
Philadelphia
International Tobacco Workers Union
AFL
Prober Goes Deep In Colorado Springs Burglary
A burglar who stole $4 from the Charles Cimino home triggered a trap door path. Patrolman W R Gourley fell through the opening, dislocating a shoulder during the investigation and pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prober
Colorado Springs
Charles Cimino
W. R. Gourley
Reunion of Squirrels Sparks Hope in Kansas City Yard
Three baby squirrels and their mother fell from a tree in Kansas City. The injured mother carried one baby to an abandoned nest while Harold Allison took the other two home and placed them in a box. Days later the third baby joined his brothers in the box as authorities speculate the mother died.
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Thomas
Margaret Lee O'Brian
Portales
Eastern
Sadie Simpson
Monte Goodin
Chicago
Virgil Jones
Dallas
Texas
Virgil Lewis
Eva Fay Barnett
Roswell
H. C. Garrison
Dexter
Jim Caffell
Jeann
Hobbs
Little Joe Lewis
P. P. Clark
Minnie Campbell
A. C. Jones Jr
Fasty
Peggie
Lloyd McNabb
Fearl O’prian
A. Cc. Jones Jr
McNabb
Margaret Lee O' Brian
Mary E. Marshall
Pearl McMains
Roeswell
Phyllis
Elizabeth Wilcox
Earleen Durand
Artesia
Joe Carier
Kansas City
Cazier
Joe Cazier
C. L. McMains
Carpenter
Buellesfeld
Aswell
Smith
Mary Marshall
Raymond Durand
R. B. Sherrill
Belle Hurst
Harold Allison
Allison
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
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Franklin D. Jr
Ethel duPont
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Federal Fish Hatchery
A. Durand
Tom Hubbard
Hurley
N. M
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T. E. Devenport
Hagerman
E. J. Hubbard
Rose Hubbard
W. Anderson
Thomas Donnelly
Albuquerque
Wanda Preston
John Bible
Elmer Bible
P. E. Jarnigan
George Weaver
Frank Reinecke
Fay Kerr
Ella Yeager
Norma Jean Wertman
Phillip Monical
John Wier
John Reid
Harry Porter
Ray West
Fred Lewis
Mehlhop
Hal Bogle
Tom Bogle
J. T. McNeal
Bob McNeal
George Wilcox
W. C. Sterrett
Charles Sterrett
George Sterrett
Mary Thmpson
H. O. Hood
Wanda Freston
Clyde Lively
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rodswell
Hardin
San Francisco
West Coast
Pampa
Weavers
Roy Pier
Roy Pier and Sons of Holbs, Are the House Guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Garrison
Cecil Johnson
J. V
F. A. Thomas
Vermont
Lake van Rod and Gun Club
Miss Earleen
Phil Kingsley
Tom Harrison
Denver
Clarence Lathrop
Stillwater College
E. G. Lathrop
Greenfield
Las Cruces
Lathrop
103Rd Ammunition Train
Pennsylvania National Guard
Manassas
United States
Plattsburg, N. Y
Mr. Governor
Gov
Senator Vandenberg
Law
Edith Anna Fowler
Lepke
Joseph Amoruso
The
Delaine Rams
J. E. Smith Livestock Company
U. S
Pilot Rock, Oregon
Squalus
U. S. S. Tuscaloosa
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