West Texas Chamber plans second chuck wagon motorcade
In 1928 the West Texas Chamber of Commerce announces a motorcade starting at Carlsbad caverns. The caravan will stop at Southwest Texas resorts including Menard Fredericksburg and Kerrville with camping style events. Tentative plans to be refined early next year. Also Scurry County expects over 8000 acres of peanuts harvested this year as part of a Chamber campaign. Wellington hosts talks to form a new North Plains Panhandle division seeking full value for highway spending.
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West Texas
Scurry County
Wellington
North Plains- Panhandle
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Regional Economic Highlights From County News Briefs
The weekly notes detail Electra distributing 1700 pounds of Electra calcium arsenate to farmers to curb cotton leaf worm with cost-backed by the chamber of commerce. Coleman precincts receive road building machinery to maintain highways under a commissioners court deal. Palo Pinto allocates 3600 dollars with federal and state additions for twelve months of wolf trapping. Cleburne boosts a Poultry and Marketing Association with chamber speeches and musical programs.
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Electra
Chamber of Commerce
Coleman
Coleman County
Commissioners’ Court
Palo Pinto
Palo Pinto County
Cleburne
Cleburn Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
West Texas towns plan fairs and conferences across the region
Brady moves ahead with a turkey show to be filmed by national interests while Ranger hosts a Homecoming Oil Jubilee on October 21 22 marking ten years since Eastland county oil. Officials in Abilene San Saba and Sweetwater outline committees conferences and land deals for poultry dairy water rights and livestock expansion with speakers from Kemp Haynie French and others. Eat more fruit and pay less doctor bills.
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Brady
Cuero
Ranger
Eastland County
Wichita Falls
J. A. Kemp
Texas Conservation Association
R. W. Haynie
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Stamiford
San Saba
Lon A. Smith
Col
C. C. French
Fort Worth
Ford Orders Open at Nance-Brown Motor Co
Congressman Fess asserts Congress will demand a navy as large as Great Britain. The message hints at defense policy while readers are urged to place orders for a new Ford with Nance-Brown Motor Co.
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Fess
Fesses
Congress
Great Britain
Lindbergh Compared to Columbus of 1927 Sparks Banter
Exchange notes Lindbergh as the Columbus of 1927 to praise the daring aviator. Ha says it will not be long. Mentions Place Nance Brown Motor Co as a reference point in the garbled text.
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