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Thanks. In Plainview, Tex., Sidney Maurice Wilburn informed Constable A. W. Patrick at the local jail: "I'm through visiting ... let me out." Woolgathering Constable Patrick promptly let Prisoner Wilburn...
...Hilton string, excluding the Stevens, Plaza, Roosevelt and Town House: the Hilton hotels in El Paso, Lubbock, Plainview, Longview and Abilene, Tex.; the Hilton in Albuquerque, N. Mex.; the Long Beach, Calif. Hilton; the Dayton Biltmore in Ohio; the Rosslyn in Los Angeles, and the Palacio Hilton in Chihuahua, Mexico...
News about a machine to fight the dreaded boll weevil is spreading fast through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...
Fish Story. In Plainview, Tex., Fisherman J. H. Webb told how he caught a bass, was doubtful about its length, tossed in his line again, pulled out a folding ruler...
...narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles of the road together with parts of Jericho Turnpike and Plainview Road for the first of the famed Vanderbilt Cup Races, the eleventh of which will take place next week at Roosevelt Raceway...