Hoe del seeks speed record flight from Wichita
Wichita April 2 1929 Capt Frack Hawkes aims to recapture the east to west transcontinental speed record now held by Col Arthur Goebel. Goebel backs Hawkes with a planned May or June flight in a new Lockheed low wing monoplane powered by a 700 horsepower rasp motor. Goebel set 1928 time of 18 hours 58 minutes then Hawkes cut it to 47 35 59 and also holds the east west record at 10 10 2.
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Wichita
Kaus
Frack Hawkes
Arthur Goebel
Dole
Goebel
Hawks
Alco
Dandruff Goes Itching Ends with Zemo on Scalp
An advertisement touts Zemo as a safe dependable antiseptic liquid for dandruff and itching scalp irritation. It claims quick relief for the abim and scalp with three sizes priced at 3d, 6d, and £1.00, and urges keeping Zemo handy.
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Dandruff
Zemo
Poultry talk and farm news cross Gonzales and Smiley
Gonzales chamber of commerce leader Bub Spooner drives a caravan of about 50 Gonzalesans to Smiley to tour poultry progress and dairy development. The piece highlights Waldo Suffel of Bee County praised by a specialist, a Diller livestock show, and notes calves and pigs being prepared for shipment to San Antonio. It also mentions black eyed peas in Wilson County and the capture of the Old Wolf with the Small Track by trapper Frank Short.
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Bub Spooner
Ove Beer
Bub
Bob
Smiley
Sponge
Gonzales
Huh Spooner
Gonzales Chamber of Commerce
Waldo Suffel
A. End M. College
Waldo
Divot
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
W. B. Cook
Lacey Shuulert
F. J. Avant
G. W. Rogera
W. T. McLean
San Antonio
George W.anders
Chamber of Commerce
Lions of
Seguin
Guy
Silver Whitsett
Silver
Wilson County
H. G. Wells
Chamber of Commene
Floresville
Little Theater to Stage Davis Play at Park Playhouse
The Little Theater presents J. Frank Davis's Gold in the Hill at Park Playhouse in San Pedro with three performances including Thursday and Friday nights. Under the supervision of Darix and Carl Glick rehearsals have run weeks, and local manager Jean Wildenstein says first-night tickets are sold out.
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San Pedro
San Antonio
O's
Lofter
Darix
Carl Glick
Little Theater
Jean Wildenstein
Playhouse
Second Division Yet Given Citation for War Heroism
A Second Division soldier, Frank Kowarek, received a gallantry in action citation from the War Department announced at Fort Sam Houston. Enlisted at Colgate Okla and now residing in Binghamton N Y, he served with Battery F Fifteenth Field Artillery and, near Villemontaire France on July 21 1914, preserved a 7 millimeter gun by disabling it to prevent capture and by repairing a limber wheel to move the gun to safety.
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War Department
Fort Sam Houston
Frank Kowarek
Colgate
Oklo
Binghampton
Citalian
Villemontaire
France
Fifteenth Field Artillers
Kowarek
Texas Natural Gas for Chicago Looms in 1940s Offer
Preliminary negotiations completed for delivery of natural gas from Tex Panhandle to Chicago. Project announced by Ingull Son and Company with associates Cities Services Texas Phillips Petroleum Skelly Columbian Carbon and Peseta Oil of New Jersey.
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Texas Natural Gas
Chicago
Tex
Funeral Held for Mrs Annie Sugg
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon for Mrs Annie Elizabeth Boge 58 who died Tuesday morning at the family home 518 West Cypress Street Rev Paul B Kern pastor of Travis Park Methodist church conducted the services Mrs Bugs was a native of Mississippi but had lived in San Antonio nine years She is survived by four daughters Mr John M Smith of New Orleans and Misses Anabel Fenn and Celeste Sugg all of San Antonio She also leaves three sisters and three brothers.
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Annie Elizabeth Boge
West
Cypress Street
Paul B. Kern
Nator
Travis Park Methodist Church
Bugs
Missisippi
Antonia
Slaughters
John M. Smith
New Orleans
Anabel
Fenn
Celeste Sugg
Sll
San Antonio
ROTC Officer to Inspect Outfits
Rel Wimnam A. Castle officer of Eighth Corps Area HQ has been ordered to report to Reepheorille Fort Worth. He will visit Dalla Arlington Norman Stillwater Okija Amarillo Lubbock to inspect A. GO. T. units in colleges and high schools. He leaves San Antonio in April.
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Rel. Wimnam A. Castle
O. T
Eighth Corps
Reepheorille
Fort Worth
Dalla Arlington
Norman
Stillwater
Okija
Amarillo
Lubbock
A. GO. T
Callerey
Towen
San Antonio
Cere Mae
Calcutta Quiet After Riots and Cartel Campaign
Calcutta was quiet today after yesterday's rioting. Police and picket patrols were withdrawn. Buffalo carts, plied about the streets, appeared unusual. The death toll was not definite, with yesterday's trouble growing from a passive resistance campaign by the cartels against a government ban on buffalo use during the hottest part of the day.
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Calcutta
India
Beeiz
Yesterdas
County Orders Interest Paid on Bonds by Commissioners Court
The commissioners court authorized payment of 3137.51.25 dollars interest on county bonds to the Equitable Trust Company of New York and authorized a separate payment of 6640 dollars interest on bonds held in a sinking fund. The orders were issued Tuesday.
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Bera County
Equitable ‘Trust Company of New York Acon
Commissioners’ Court
Berar County
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Hoedel
iThe Gladstone
Broadway
Hamiltons
Hamilton
Hertzbercy
Harry Williams
Diller
The
Vocational
Sonora
Frank Short
Texas Theater
GHOF
Call Crockett
Orlounter
Alamo Tent & Awning CO
East Commerce Crockett
Davis
Park Playhouse
Annie Sugg
Ericen
Gulf Refining Company
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