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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1936
Page
6
Collingsworth County residents are urged to attend the upcoming Dodsonville singing convention on Saturday and Sunday. The annual event promises an elaborate song feast, community fellowship, rest, and inspiration, highlighting benefits of shared music and cooperative spirit across the county.
An eccentric will leaves 18 farm workers 10000 francs each plus a year wearing a costume. A highway piece argues for permanent concrete roads over cheaper asphalt to save funds and support motorists, citing West Texas taxes and Collingsworth Gap.
A report describes participants in a yearly contest wearing varied outfits from a Hawaiian grass skirt to Spanish full fighter attire and Chinese mandarin garb, with a Scottish kilts helper. All are ill at ease yet determined to persevere for the 10,000 franc prize at year’s end.
The article argues that the eighteen minutes of battle at San Jacinto changed the map of the United States by securing Texas independence from Mexico, ending Spanish and Mexican influence, and influencing U.S. politics and Civil War dynamics. It honors Sam Houston as a national hero and frames the victory as pivotal in world history.
Netty Murphy of Norris Tennessee was elected Miss Auburn at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Dallas reports over 600 cattle in corrals for the Texas Centennial Exposition world championship rodeo with cowboys and ranches from US Canada and Mexico.
June teaching overview covers nine lessons from Jesus meeting needs to Easter victory and the Prodigal Son to Zacchaeus. Emphasizes grace, forgiveness, humility, prayer, honesty, temperance, and the call to spread love, righteousness, and truth after the Resurrection.
A collection of short notes covers diverse topics: Sal Soda sought for housework due to cleaning skill. yawning linked to ear pressure balance. odors affecting memory. theatre critics’ expressions. Johnny facing Black Legion cases. Marion Buck crowned world woodchopper champion with winter carnival title. Corinne Griffith’s talking-picture success and voice insurance. Alice Bethune marks 25 years at Grady hospital. Ruth St Denis performs a sacred dance with painted lips. Frances Hall leads Judson College athletics and student clubs. Bergamot oil cited as destroying tuberculosis bacilli with a new disinfectant in development. An English inventor touts a new ray machine claimed to kill for several hands, refused for war use.
A crowded Saturday shows residents cooling off at pools and shade while chatting with neighbors and noting the heat’s impact on crops. Local figures including J N Harrison and W F Lindley are seen among shoppers, post office stops, and street conversations in a lively town scene.
Bert Connor, a 17 year old Houaton boy, saved two girls from drowning and faces a Carnegie Foundation bravery citation. The report notes a related note about coal dust affecting Runatan ton fields by absorbing more heat, increasing crop yield.
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