Word: crafton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Crafton, Tex. I am 53 years old and as a boy I sold chicken sandwiches at the railroad station platform at Bowie. I might also add that I waited table at a hotel, sold soda-pop at the ball games and races on Saturdays, sold newspapers, worked for a doctor for two years taking care of his horse and buggy, sweeping out his office and, in addition, milked a cow-all for my board to enable me to go to school. I am not sensitive as to my age or ashamed of my early efforts to earn...
...Texas is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder. As is his wont, he promptly gave everybody in the party a $20 Stetson hat. Born 53 years ago at Crafton. Tex., Amon Carter used to sell sandwiches on the station platform at Bowie, newspapers on the Fort Worth streetcorner where now rises the office building of the Star-Telegram, which he bought eight years ago with money made in cattle, oil, advertising. The presses which thunder all day long...