Word: tex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Doris Garrett, Leonard, Tex., high-school girl, was crowned Queen Onion here June 2 at our Centennial Onion Festival and was featured in a parade of eleven floats and two bands and two drum and bugle corps. Eight thousand people saw her crowned by Congressman Sam Rayburn, Chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, Democratic National Committee...
Suitor In Dallas. Tex., Widow Mrs. L. Brunnett sued for $5,000 damages after Suitor Karl W. Hagedtorn hugged her, broke four ribs...
...Last May a crash killed Harry Williams. Last week, for an undisclosed price, his widow, one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, sold the business to Eastern Air Lines, which flies between New York and New Orleans. Present Wedell-Williams airline is the 338-mi. run from New Orleans to Houston, Tex. In honor of its unlucky founders. Eastern will call this important extension the Wedell-Williams Division...
...Paso, Tex. a physician boarded the train, ordered Nominee Landon to bed to save his throat for important speeches. Thereafter members of his party pinch hit before disappointed station crowds along the way, explaining that the Nominee was busy and "very tired." After a day of that. Alf Landon allowed them to reveal the real reason for his nonappearance...
...Beaumont, Tex. Trainer Lee Roberta of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus forgot to speak gently to Trilby, a one-eyed elephant, when awakening her. Trilby woke up irritably, grabbed him in her trunk, whacked him against a wall, stomped him to death. Next day circus officials reported that Trilby was in constant tears...