Rotarians Leave For Meeting In Galveston
Walter B Walthall head of the local Rotary Club travels with Willem M Mcintosh and Tom Leemans to Galveston for the Thirteenth District conference. About 30 San Antonio Rotarians join other Texas delegates for the two day meeting expected to reshape district governance. Noted leaders Everett Hill Alex McFarlane John Mohrman Arthur Sapp Marvin Goodwin and others are anticipated to attend. The last district conf was at Wichita Falls.
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Walter B. Walthall
Texas
Barry
Rogers
Galveston Hosts Rotary District Conference Attendees
Galveston prepares for the Thirteenth Rotary District annual conference with about 2500 Rotarians expected. Delegates travel by train from Fort Worth Gainesville Wichita Falls Amarillo Dallas Sweetwater Brownwood Temple and more arriving Sunday and Monday over Santa Fe and Southern Pacific. Events include a parade dance vaudeville harbor boat rides and a Tuesday district governor nomination session with remarks by Orlando Hieveros president of the Houston Rotary Club.
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City Auditorium
Mondlay
Pew
Houston
Harry Hieveros
Houston Rory Club
Rotary Coun“i
Lifer Refuses New Trial in Georgia Murder Case
Thomasville, Ga. Feb. 25 W J Pearson a cotton mill operative began a life sentence in the Upson county chain gang after declining a new trial for the murder of his cousin Mrs Thomas Morgan last August Attorneys for Pearson appeared before Judge Wilf Searcy Jr and said the defendant did not approve of the judge s action in granting a few trial and wished the original verdict to stand
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Thomaston
W. J. Pearson
Upson County
Thomas Morgan
Pearson
Wilf Searcy Jr
Arnen Wil Tests New Machine Guns
The Third Attack Group at Kelly Field seeks four Thompson submachine guns to test in ground air tack aviation. Guns to be mounted on attack group ships against ground targets, to compare with Browning guns. The Thompson is smaller yet fires a larger bullet at 1300 rounds per minute versus 1200 for the Browning.
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Kelly Field
Thompson
Browning
Permanent numbers for autos adopted in Austin
March legislation sponsored by Senator T D Fairchild passed the Senate to provide for permanent license plates on automobiles. The plates will bear the registration number year and name of owner and engine number with a device for changing the rear figure.
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Austin
T.D. Fairchild
Senate
Annasliy
Dallas Residents Pay 2.78 Million for Long Distance Talks
Receipts filed with the Dallas supervisor of public utilities show the Dallas Telephone Company recorded 2 780 144 dollars in long distance conversation costs during 1924. The report was presented at a Saturday morning hearing.
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Dallas
Eross
Dallas Telephone Company
Public Utilities
Lavex Catarrh Cure Claim Three Minute Germ Kill
An ad offers Lavex, a French two scientist method, claiming to kill the catarrh germ in three minutes. It promises clear head and chest, relief in one night, and a free, postpaid trial to any reader who sends name and address to W. B. Smith in Kansas City, Missouri.
Social Ostracism Looms For Nobility In England
London reports show the Dennistoun case fueling whispers of a social upheaval among Britain’s aristocracy. The Mrs Dorothy Dennistoun suit against her ex husband, now married to the Dowager Countess Carnarvon, implicates prominent names and hints at a Mayfair purge to restore Victorian standards.
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England
Universal Service
London
Dennistoun
Harri Singh
Mayfair
Dorothy Dennistoun
Carnarvon
Empire
Ecourt
Edward Marshall Hall
Rubber Beef Avenue? Boston Eyes Rubber Paving
Beacons street in the aristocratic Boston district could be paved with rubber to muffle traffic noises after objections to a freight truck ban proposal. Favorable action is expected following the debate over the original suggestion.
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Beacon Street
Boston
Parachute Flare Stock Ordered for Flyers
Fragmentary OCR shows a wartime note about parachute flares ordered for flyers. It mentions lights used during night flying and that the flares were part of supplies left on hand for use by the department.
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Cae
Heen
Federal hearing on proposed hay grades at Fort Sam Houston
Hay producers dealers and consumers are invited to a federal hearing at Fort Sam Houston on March 4 to discuss proposed USDA grades for alfalfa hay grass hay and wild hay. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics will hold the session in the old Quartermaster Office between the main post exchange and the post exchange restaurant with a grade demonstration during the conference.
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Fort Sati Houston
Fort Sam Houston
Rockefeller Gift Boosts Tuskegee Institute Funds
New York March 7 John D Rockefeller Jr gave one million dollars to the Hampton and Tuskegee Institute for negroes. This is the third 1,000,000 gift to Tuskegee in the last fifteen years. The Rockefeller contribution was sent to newspapers and press associations for release several days ago. The New York Evening Post published the information this afternoon.
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New York
dJohn
D. Rockefeller Jr
Hampton and Tuskegee” Institute
Lavex Catarrh Cure Promises Quick Relief
A French scientist's drugless Lavex method claims to kill germs in three minutes for chronic catarrh and bronchial asthma. The ad offers free treatment samples by mail to any reader who writes with name and address, claiming harmlessness and rapid relief, attributed to W. R. Smith of 1968 Lavex Building, Kansas City.
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Kr.smith
Lavex
Kansas. City
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Arnen Wil
Caeos
Lavez
W. BR. Smith
Layex
Kansas City
Kodak Films
the Fox CO
KODAK
San Antonio, Texas
Rockefeller
Tuskegee
Rae
Usc
Beaver
Radiolas
St. Patrick’s Day
Style Shop OF the South
Miami
Myro
Suaianlee, ‘Shoe Company
Alamo Plaza
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