West Texas city speeds bid for 1926 convention
Contention headquarters of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce reports San Antonio will seek 1926 convention with 300 delegates. Amarillo plans a solid trainload, Weatherford and Mineral Wells lines add yards, arena and grounds for 6000 campers while 50 brass bands compete for $3500 in cash awards. National speakers and a grand rodeo program are planned as San Antonio weighs its bid.
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Westexas Chamber of Commerce
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Chamber of ‘Commerce
San ‘Antonio
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West Texas
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Texas Woman Shot Ex Husband Jailed
Abilene reports Mrs. Hunice May Chapman murdered by gunshot. Her divorced husband Liz Chapman is in custody. Chapman ran an Abilene apartment house and arrived in town Sunday morning from Snyder.
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Abilene
Hunice May Chapman
Liz Chapman
Black Officer Attacked by Large Mob at Ball Game
Special Officer J. L. Martin of the Southern Pacific Railroad was assaulted and beaten near a Negro baseball game at the B yards. Police hunt for more than 15 Black suspects after the crowd surrounded him, disarmed him, and left him semi conscious. Martin, later recovering at home, described two likely assailants to detectives Bartholomae and Higgins.
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J. L. Martin
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Martin
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Higgins
Mara
First Carload of Vegetables Ships on Rio Grande Railroad
In Brownsville on the Gulf Coast Limes April 6 1919 the Rio Grande railroad hauled its first vegetable carload. W E McDavitt of McDavitt Brothers oversaw the loading at Swilleys station five miles from Brownsville. The cabbage came from Wiley Truss and John Hunter and marked a historic milestone. A first carrot shipment was also noted with cattle loaded at Mesquite six miles from Brownsville by Frank Rabb.
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Brownsville
Tes
W. E. McDavitt
McDavitt Brothers
Wiley Truss
John Hunter
Swilley’ Station
Broile
RicDavitt’ Brothers
Mesquite
Frank Rabb
Navy Airships Join MacMillan Arctic Expedition Wings
Navy planes will join the MacMillan Arctic expedition next summer to survey over 1,000 square miles of previously uncharted territory between Alaska and the North Pole. Two amphibious aircraft, led by Lips and Commander R. E. Byrd, will fly distances exceeding 1,000 miles and operate from land or water. The expedition aims to outperform prior Arctic explorations, with speeds over 320 miles per hour and a plan to establish bases near Kennedy Channel after departing from Portland, Maine, in June.
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Washington
Navy
Alaska
North Pole
Lips
R.E. Byrd
Bureau of Aeronautics and Manned
Swater
Donald B. Machullav
Arctic
MacMillan
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Wisset
Maine
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Sound
Hkennedy
Fate Frees Boy Wanted in Robbery Series
A 12 year old Mexican youth, linked to a robbery spree, escaped from a patrol wagon near a county jail. Detectives Fox and McDonald hunt him as clues surface from prior offenses dating to 1923. Frank X. Semmelmann, at Main Avenue High School, spotted the youth attempting to break into the building. Earlier, he faced theft under 50, bootlegging, and other arrests, marking him as San Antonio's youngest bootlegger in 1924.
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Fox
McDonald
Frank X. Semmelmann
Main’ Avenue High School
San Antonio
Jumper Wins Bet Taken to Asylum in Bergamo
In Bergamo Italy on April 6 shoemaker Felluti reportedly jumped from a height of 100 feet into water with an egg in hand without breaking it. He won the bet but officials then sent him to an asylum to assess his mental status over the hazardous act.
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Bergamo
Italy
Angelo Futtell
Felluti
Smoking in filling station fatal for Evansville man
Evansville Indiana April 6 Herbert Parsons 32 died from burns when his car fuel tank exploded after he entered a filling station with a lighted cigar. His brother Oscar Parsons was severely burned as he stepped from the car before attendants began pouring gasoline.
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Evansville
Ind
Herbert Parsons
Oscar Parsons
Ing Station
Annie McCook Dies in Baltimore Widow of Civil War General
Annie Colt McCook aged 59, widow of Major General Alexander McDowell McCook, died today in Baltimore hospital. General McCook had died 23 years earlier. he was the Civil War’s youngest major general and helped establish the officer training system at Fort Leavenworth.
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Baltimore
Annie Colt McCook
Alexander McDowell McCook
General McCook
Wort Teavenworth
Lawrence to face Tarrant County jury in murder case
Bahs Lawrence, wanted in connection with the shooting death of Deputy Sheriff Joe P. Morgan of Muskogee Oklahoma, will be taken to Fort Worth to face trial within the next few days. Deputy Sheriffs Snow and Tinton of Fort Worth arrived in Phoenix to return the alleged murderer to Texas.
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