Barron's bill seeks active state tax board role in Austin
Rep. Elbert Barron presses a measure to consolidate all state tax functions under a single department, transforming the state tax board from advisory to an active enforcing agency. He cites potential eight million dollars extra revenue and cites Mississippi as a model for centralized enforcement.
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Austin
House
Elbert Barron
State Tax Board
Barron
Tax Board
Treasury
Comitee
Rate Tax Board Or Commission
Metrolier
Pon
Conscience Drives Negro to death by own action
ASPERMONT Texas Jan 27 Officers say remorse and dread of meeting kind people led Fred Jones a 50 year old prisoner to hang himself in Stonewall County jail after being jailed for hijacking Paul Hughes. A note in his shirt pocket asked his mother be told where to find him.
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Aspermont
Texas
Fred Jones
Stonewall
Jones
E. B. Bitterton
Bailey Bingham
Two Vicious Alley Felines To Furnish A Real Lion Hunt
Five Poplar Bluff youths plan to imitate Denver M. Wright the St. Louis lion hunter by staging a hunt with two vicious alley cats. They intend to establish a veldt on Snake Island in the St. Francis River release the animals at night and hunt them the following day they believe two alley cats will provide more excitement than lions likely confined in cages.
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Poplar Bluff
Denver M. Wright
St. Louis
Frank Giambelluca
Snake Island
St. Francis River
Prowlers in Neighborhood Claim Lives
Obituary notes a man died after a confrontation with prowlers in the neighborhood. He is survived by his widow, his mother Mrs. Hannah Williams, a brother, two sisters here, and a sister in California.
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Hannah Williams
California
Courthouse Records Transfers and Vehicle Registrations
Miles G Bivins and spouse sell sections 35 and 38 block 1 B S F for 100 dollars to Lee Truscott Bivins. C M Humphrys transfers lots in Humphreys Highland Addition for 10 dollars. E E Breeding sells lots 9 10 block 25 in Humphreys Highland Addition. E B Gishet and spouse transfer lots 1 6 block 3 in Humphreys Highlands Addition for 10 dollars. Thelma Brummett of Canyon registers a Plymouth coupe while H L Puryear in 810 Tyler Street registers an Olds coupe.
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Miles G. Bivins
Et Ux
Lee Truscott Bivins
C. M. Humphrys
R. L. Humprys
Humphreys Highland Addition
E. E. Breeding
R. L. Humphreys
E. B. Gishet Ux
Humphreys Highlands Add
Thelma Brummett
Canyon
H. L. Puryear
Tyler Street
Olds
Motorist Is Found Dead in Garage
Texarkana Arkansas January 27 United Press Clay Williams bookkeeper for Ben F Smith Dry Goods Company was found shot to death in his garage by his wife and her mother shortly before midnight Thursday a pistol lay at his feet police do not term it suicide.txt
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Texarkana
Ark
U.P
Clay Williams
Ben F. Smith Dry Goods Company
Motive sought in Texas woman's death
Paris Texas January 27 A motive for the slaying of Mrs Prudie Reed seventy found in bed with her skull crushed was sought by officers. A coroner verdict of death from wounds inflicted by a blunt instrument in the hands of an unknown person was returned. A L Reed seventy four told officers he was aroused by a noise in the adjoining room and found his wife unconscious in a pool of blood.
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Paris
Tex
Prudie Reed
A. L. Reed
Tigertown
Rescue ship docks in New York after Exeter City rescue
The liner American Merchant docked in New York amid cheers after saving 22 men from the sinking British freighter Exeter City. Captain Giles S. Stedman credited radio direction finding and 85 tons of oil for aiding the rescue while deflecting praise.
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New York
Exeter City
Giles
Stedman
Solons debate pardons board move and highway bill actions
The Texas House acted on several items including moving the board of pardons and paroles headquarters from Austin to Huntsville. A favorable vote was given to repealing testing headlights for vehicle registration and relaxing truck driver licensing for farmers. A measure to require public works contractors to pay local prevailing wages was advanced.
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Bexar County
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Austin
Huntsville
House Highways and Motor Traffic Committee
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Revenue and Taxation Committee
House
Appropriations Committee
Senate Hears Debates On Appointments And Tax Proposals
House and Senate panels advanced debates on education board appointments Ben Tisinger H Chernosky and Tom Garrard with possible votes Monday. House revenue panel reported against reducing the poll tax while favoring a tax receipt proof for vehicle registration. Deficit figures floated around 12 million with a $4 million loan from highway funds to the Confederate pension fund noted as nondeficit.
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House Labor Committee
Senate
R. 8
Sterling
Senate Committee On
Ben Tisinger
Garland
H. Chernosky
Houston
Tom Garrard
Lubbock
Board of Education
J. C. Duvall
Comptroller
C. E B. Nicholson
Port Neches
Highway Department
Confederate Pension Fund
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advert
A Minnesota reader credits a nurse for recommending Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to help with run-down nerves and irregularities. She reports feeling strong and grateful, and recommends the medicine to friends and women in need.
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Lydia
Pinkham
la Verne Hunt
Robbinsdale
Minnesota
Moffett Denies Urgent Need to Cut Deficit
Representative George Moffett of Chillicothe argues the deficit in general revenue and school funds is not much larger than in better years and that now is not the time to erase a long standing deficit that barely troubled anyone before.
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George Moffett
Chillicothe
Farm Mortgage Relief and Texas Income Tax Proposals
A Texas Senate bill would stop forced foreclosure of mortgaged farms by allowing two years before sale if lenders refuse full payment. Separate plans explore a state income tax replacing ad valorem tax, with a sliding scale from one to seven percent based on income, including higher rates for corporations.
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Austin
U.P
Senate
W. R. Poage
Waco
Sarah Hughes
Dallas
Tax on corporate income over six thousand dollars
The article notes a rate of percent applied to all corporation income over six thousand dollars, outlining how the excess income is taxed under a new policy.
Don’t Let Constipation Dull the Joy of Living
An old Kellogg’s Att-Bran advertisement urges relief from constipation through diet rather than patent medicines. It praises Att-Bran’s bulk and iron content, compares it to leafy vegetables, and recommends two tablespoonfuls daily with meals, noting relief or medical consultation if needed.
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