Texas as a Sea Floor to Nine Thousand Feet Up
A compact Texas trivia card highlights geological history, topography, and landmarks. Facts include Brady area center, Frijole peak at 5650 feet, Guadalupe Peak, 9000 feet top, 1945 vote count, A and M as a major military college, Galveston to Houston telephony, Domingo Teran de Los Rios as early governor, Texas holidays, Sam Bass at Round Rock, 22500 miles of highways, West Texas wool industry, 125 universities, 125 daily publications, Rockwall as smallest county, and the first Texas newspaper El Mexican o in 1813.
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Texas
Brady
McCullough County
Pep
Hockley
Frijole
Culbertson County
J. Pickney Henderson
Guadalupe Peak
Florida
Amichael
Panuco
New Philippines
Cibola
Quivera
Tejas
Santa Fe
Teran de Los Rios
O'Daniel
E. M. Pease
Panhandle
Brewster
Presidio
Massachusetts
King and Kennedy
Rio Grande
Round Rock
Rockwall
el Mexicano
Nacogdoches
A Professional Takes Note by William Allen White
William Allen White of Emporia Kansas critiques college culture and public demonstrations mocking higher education. He contrasts a goldfish swallowing undergraduate with a stadium football hero, praising the athlete while denouncing tomfoolery and modern collegiate excess.
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William Allen White
Emporia
Kansas
Mr. White
Kansas University
United States
K. U
Harvard
Montgomery Advertiser
Two-Dollar Bills Unpopular and Feared as Unlucky
The two-dollar bill is seen as unlucky and unpopular with theories tracing the superstition to confusion with larger bills and past uses in bribery or counterfeit splits. Congress attempted to popularize them in 1925 but postal laws blocked prize campaigns. The piece notes milk remains the staple among foods despite many new options.
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Indianapolis News
Post Office Department
Gambling tricks exposed by expert card detective
Cosmo politan Magazine features J C Furnas and Michael MacDougall in a dramatic exposé of gambling tricks. MacDougall recounts how he began in Philadelphia at fourteen with Horace Goldin and rose to become a renowned card detective. He details the routine tricks used to fleece amateurs and explains how he identifies crooks across clubs, trains, and ships where gambling thrives.
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J. C. Furnas
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Michael MacDougall
MacDougall
Mr. Furnas
Philadelphia
Globe Vaudeville Theater
Horace Goldin
Goldin
Ecard
Odds of death in fatal motor vehicle crashes rise high
A Department of Public Safety report says if your car is involved in a fatal motor vehicle collision the odds are two to three that you will be killed. Pedestrian deaths occur at one to five if your car strikes them. Train collisions carry two to seven odds of a fatality, and overturns kill one in seven. Vehicle collisions account for about 32.6 percent of all fatal accidents.
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Department of Public Safety
Orangeville News Notes Illnesses And Local Play
Joyce Savage daughter of Mr and Mrs John Savage is ill with pneumonia. The Orangeville community will present a play next Tuesday night titled Under Western Skies with admission 5e and 10c. Bill Haywood has been ill. Mrs Clint Jones, Mrs Haywood and her daughter visited Mrs John Savage Monday. Lonnie Wilder of Shady Grove spent Monday night with John D and Billie Reneau.
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Joyce
John Savage
Orangeville
Bill Haywood
Clint Jones
Haywood
Lonnie Wilder
Shady Grove
John D
Billie Reneau
Electrical fence shocks man and kills dog in Illinois
In New Lenox Illinois Charles Ellis 32 wired an electrical fence around evergreen trees to deter dogs. A shock left him unconscious while a second shock killed his dog. Neighbors rescued him from the yard as authorities intervene.
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New Lenox
Ill
Charles Ellis
Ellis
Game Wardens Guard Pike Run In Central New York
Twelve wardens under Edward H. Gammon and Jefferson County sports clubs kept a 24 hour watch over wall eyed pike crowding tributaries to Indian River and Black Lake near Theresa New York. The annual spawning run sees fish journey up to 20 miles against currents jump two 15 foot dams and stay two weeks in shallow water before returning to deep water. Crowd pressures jam streams and wardens and locals work to free fish and ensure passage during the centuries old migration.
Avon Products for Sale and Apartment for Rent
Auction style classified note from Mrs. Crawford Montgomery offering AVON products for sale and an apartment for rent. Also advertises AUTO FINANCE COMPANY F. W. Creager manager offering auto loans to refinance payments with quick processing, inviting to bring license receipt and car for inspection at 117% S. Travis St Sherman.
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Avon Products
Crawford Montgomery
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Readers urged to report address changes for Sun mailing
A notice explains that misaddressed Sun newspapers are returned at 2c each. Readers are asked to inform the paper of any address change promptly, preferably a week in advance, to prevent misdelivery and save the publisher postage costs.
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The
Sun
Uncle Sam
University Man to Win Diploma at High School
Irving Kuklin of Lincoln Nebraska will graduate this June from both the University of Nebraska and Lincoln High School. He left high school eleven years ago to travel with a vaudeville circuit and later earned money to complete his education. He will receive two diplomas after four years of college while also completing a high school course. Six counties in Texas remain under federal and state tick quarantine as the blanket area shrinks to 9504 square miles.
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Lincoln, Neb
Irving Kuklin
University of Nebraska
Lincoln High School
Kuklin
United States
Texas
Dirigible and corset the same inventor Sarah Gossard
Los Angeles reports that Mrs. Sarah Gossard, 66, a noted American inventor, created the improved corset 26 years ago and has since designed a dirigible. Her 12 patents include a body shaping bathing suit, a hospital mattress, a sleeping bag for trains, a scooter with postmen compartments, a rubber anatomy mannequin, a coffee sifter, a permanent wave device and more.
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Los Angeles
Sarah Gossard
America
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T. .W. Ayres & Son
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Carter
Orangeville News
Philco
Johnson Jewelry
East Whitewright
K. B. Simmons
Tom Barbee
Call Haile
Whitewright
Stephens & Bryant
Whitewright Hatchery
G. W. Ford
Rawleigh
Grayson County
Dept
Memphis
Tenn
Gregg Howard
E. Broadway
Gainesville
Grand
Chenille
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Georgia
Plains
Cannon
Knolens
Department Stores
Denison, Texas
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