St Louis Horse and Mule Commission Dissolves After 72 Years
The St Louis Horse and Mule Commission, which sold over two million raft animals in 72 years, dissolves due to declining demand from mechanization, autos, and a shift to cotton-farming regions. President J. J. Searcy cites profitability decline and local auctions reducing trade. During World War I the commission supplied many horses for Europe’s artillery.
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National Stock Yards
St. Louis
The
Commission
Europe
Camp Cook Proves He Can Take Anything in Canyon
Santa Fe New Mexico reports Sam Moore, camp cook for a surveying party in White Rock canyon, survived a rattlesnake bite, a beating by would-be robbers, and a second rattler near a bread box, while losing his teeth but continuing to serve flapjacks and biscuits to the workers. The unit earned only a single order of 6,000 animals for the French government.
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Santa FE
N. M
Sam ‘Moore
White Rock Canyon
Moore
Rio Grande
Dove hunting limits mixup leads to 12 per day rule
In Austin the Game Fish and Oyster Commission warns that a printing error stated 15 dove bag and possession limits on licenses. The actual limit is 12 per day and 12 in possession, with North zone hunting opening September 1 and South zone starting September 16. Shooting hours run 7 am to sunset.
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Austin
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Texas
South Texas
What is Vocational Agriculture in Alpine Schools
An explainer on the Smith Hughes 1917 act and the Vocational Agriculture program in public high schools. It covers goals of home projects for boys, the Future Farmers of America as a national student body, and activities like judging teams and livestock shows. It also notes the local contact Mr. Mitchell and a small student cost for dues and materials. It ends with a radio licensing aside about American citizenship.
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United States
Smith-Hughes
V. A
FFA
The
Future
Mitchell
V.A
M. A
Old Masonic Relic Found In Navarro Cotton Patch
Fort Worth reports a brass seal from Spring Hill Lodge No. 185 later Dawson Lodge No. 155 found in a Navarro county cotton field. The artifact dates to 1854 1859 and was preserved in the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas museum in Waco. Mrs G D Long discovered it and handed it to H N Hale who sent it to W S Cooke and then to Cantley Jr the Grand Master.
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Fort Worth
Navarro County
Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas
Waco
Spring Hill
Dawson Lodge No
Dawson
Texas
Cantley Jr
Grand Lodge
G. D. Long
Tiler
Dawson Lodge
HN. Hale
Fort, Worth
Hale
W. S. Cooke
Cantey
Lightning Strikes Man In Blytheville Home
A bolt of lightning knocked Jim Owen's pipe from his mouth in his Blytheville Arkansas home and threw him across the room.
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Jim Owen
Blytheville
Ark
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Catton
Ray Williams
United States Savings
America
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M. L. Hopson
Alpine, Texas
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Rece Sexmer
Colorado
Ginger
Jack Sprat
Swift
Campbell's
Spaghe
Peets
Alpine
Masonic Building
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