World unity talk sparks Buck Creek letter and court notice
A Buck Creek reader jokes that Churchill and debt relief could unite the world while a Texas divorce suit proceeds. The letter notes sealing down debts as a path to harmony, and a Collingsworth County court summons for divorce in a 1947 case, Melba Dean Glasgow vs Henry G Glasgow, filed May 27.
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Buck Creek
Johnson Grass
Winston Churchill
Churcill
Britain
England
Greece
Turkey
Washington
Germany
Italy
United Nations Organization
Louisiana
Russia
J. A
District Court
Collingsworth County
Wellington
Texas
Henry G. Glasgow
Melba Dean Glasgow
George Keller
Contractors' Notice of Texas Highway Construction Sealed Proposals
Sealed proposals to construct 12 806 miles of bituminous stabilized base and surface treatment from Wellington to Dodson on FM 388 in Collingsworth County will be received at the Highway Department Austin until 9:00 A.M. June 24, 1947 and publicly opened and read.
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Wellington
Dodson
Collingsworth
Highway Department
Austin
Wallace Beery to Star in Ritz Feature
Wallace Beery will headline The Mighty McGurk at the Ritz Theatre Sunday. Beery discussed flying on set with a studio pilot who had returned from Tokyo, noting his twenty years as a pilot and a $10,000 open cockpit purchase last year.
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Wallace Beery
Beery
Ritz Theatre
Tokyo
Public Works Wage Order Details for Texas Highway Project
The document cites House Bills 54 and 115 defining the project as a Public Works venture. It requires a prevailing wage for Group 8 crafts and lists laborer workman and mechanic as covered. Plans are available at Clyde Drake’s Wellington office and the Texas Highway Department in Austin.
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State of
Texas
State Highway Commission
Clyde Drake
Wellington
Texas Highway Department
Austin
Veteran aviator warns against stunting and endangering flyers
The star, owner of twelve ships and a Benny-Howard monoplane, turned to Federal authorities at the war’s start for training new pilots. With over 14,000 flying hours, he says he is a careful grandpa in the air and condemns unnecessary stunts as dangerous and licensees unworthy.
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Benny-Howard
Star
Fashion History Handdress and Hair Styles Timeline
A historical note describes early concerns with handdress and hair fashion. It notes men first wore short hair in the fifth century and lists popular styles prior to that era such as loose ringlets and two braided plaits wound around the head.
Columbus Finds Natives Inhaling Tobacco In Vision State
The account states that upon reaching America Columbus observed natives inhaling tobacco to enter a trance. In this trance they purportedly experienced visions regarded as divine revelations by those present.
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Columbus
America
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Jess Young
East Side Square
Palace Drug
Cochran Drug
Panhandle
Cochran
Parsons Drug
Franklin Life Insurance
Don Wyatt
West Siath
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
Ily
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