Eighteen Dead in West Texas Cyclone Toll Rises
A cyclone swept across south of Colorado Texas early today leaving eighteen dead and many injured. A special train with doctors and nurses arrived from Big Springs to aid. Homes farms and stores were destroyed while 300 army tents and emergency aid arrive to shelter the homeless and treat the injured.
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Colorado
Texas
First Baptist Church
First Methodist Church
Big Springs
J. H. Sheffield
Farmer
Sheffield
Fort Bliss
Mitchell County
Chamber of Commerce
Sweetwater
Roscoe
Loraine
Snyder
Citizens of
Bible School Contest Opens at Van Alstyne
Central Christian Church announces an eight week Bible school contest with Van Alstyne to raise cooperation against the rival. After Communion the congregation adjourns for High School service at the Presbyterian Church, 7 45 PM. The Pocket Testament League will be organized after the sermon.
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van Alstyne
Van
Presbyterian Church
Pocket Testament League
A. E. Major
Two Stokes Indicted Over Liquor Purchases in Volstead Probe
Dallas on May 14 reports a federal grand jury charged C. B. Stokes and Mrs. Callie Stokes with conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act by buying liquor from Rick Lockett Bill Beavers and Jim Johnson. An additional bill accuses the three men of manufacture, possession and sale of liquor.
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Dallas
United States
C. B. Stokes
Callie Stokes
Stokes
Rick Lockett
Bill Beavers
Jim Johnson
Bill
Fifty Year Reunion as Mother and Son Meet at Church
In Groves chapel near Fort Worth a 96 year old mother Mrs. D E Echels and her 55 year old son Hughey Echels reunite after decades apart at a rural Tarrant County prayer meeting. Taken by his father at age five, Hughey had long sought his mother, who prayed nightly for his return.
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Groves’ Chapel
Tarrant County
Fort Worth
D. E. Echels
Hughey Echels
College Teaches Moonshine Craft In Texas Moonshine School
Federal agents probing an alleged moonshine school report a veteran distiller from Tennessee opened a night class "somewhere in the Trinity bottoms" to teach liquor making. The probe follows claims of expert knowledge gaining from the course, with distilling described as needing years to master. Seventy‑five sheets of good typewriter paper, 25c, on offer at the Sun office.
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Dallas
Texas
Trinity Bottoms
Tennessee
Sun Office
Mother and son separated seek each other across states
The elder Echels lived in Virginia and after their separation the mother longed for her son's return. Hughey Echels, as a child, wandered to what is now Oklahoma before statehood. He left his father at fourteen and moved often, never giving up the quest for his mother who may be somewhere in the United States. They later learned their paths had crossed multiple times in their travels. The mother once neared Texas, but one day’s delay prevented the reunion.
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Echels
Virginia
Hughey Echels
Oklahoma
United States
Texas
Fort Worth
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