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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1933
Page
8
Oklahoma Governor slashes education spending citing frills in state budget. University of Oklahoma faces cuts across arts music law and physical education, with law school and athletic faculty receiving sizable reductions.
A sequence of brief vignettes shows residents and visitors in everyday moments around town. Clara Castleberry rides to a filling station, Mrs Sammie D Davis leaves the Baptist Church, Joe Hardy carries a water melon into a drug store, and others are pictured in chores, conversations, and small misadventures around the square and streets.
A fragmentary report notes a man and youths interfering with an air race event in Los Angeles. The incident disrupted timing wires near a municipal location, halting the Coast Air Races for a period. No further details on motives or outcomes are provided.
In Blair Nebraska an 18 year old mother Mrs Raymond T Keyes carried her dead baby for 30 miles after the infant died in Omaha hospital. She hitchhiked with her brother then rode in a taxi to Blair where undertaker J E Campbell buried the child without charge. The journey included many delays and a cautious public response.
The King of England marked his sixty eighth birthday Saturday but a rheumatic shoulder kept him from attending the royal pageant. The Prince of Wales stood in for His Majesty at the Trooping the Colour ceremony on Horse Guards Parade.
The text notes the ruler’s focus on daily governance with frequent visits from Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and others, reflecting steady leadership rather than public anxiety.
U S cotton spinning plants operated at 129.1 percent capacity on one shift in June, up from 112.3 percent in May and more than double June 1932. Average daily spindle hours reached 301, with 39,917,476 spindles operated and 25,540,504 active, led by cotton states with 19,076,206 spindles in place and 17,598,128 active.
Holdenville Oklahoma 110 year old Civil War veteran Pat Ryan died Friday at his small farm near Holdenville. He lived with his 64 year old son Bill Ryan who helped with crops. Born in Kentucky into a long lived family he served in the Union Army and never sought a pension. He recalled drinking whiskey as a child but said he never cared for it.
Quick relief from indigestion and upset stomach due to excessive smoking promoted by Dr Emil Adla Tablets. Advertisement at Palace Drug Store urges not stopping smoking but using Adla Tablets.
The elderly pioneer Ryatt traveled to Indian Territory with cattle in the frontier era and, despite his age, never sought government pension. He explains he could not swear he would be able to earn a living.
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