Cleburne Claims Largest Proportion Entering College
Cleburne Texas reports the largest proportional number of high school students going to college in the state, citing about 200 local graduates in top American colleges this year. The 1927 high school class included 41 boys and 61 girls, the largest in school history, with a long list of graduates and names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleburne
Texas
America
Corrinne Alexander
Eva Mae Armstrong
Feraby Mae Blankenspeckler
Edna Inez Boyd
Ruth Souther Brackett
Caswell Jerrine Brewer
Betty Kate Burks
Edna Campbell
Gladys Vera Carr
Gertrude Chambless
Wilma Lee Collins
Jennie Louise Copeland
Ona Estelle Danile
Marine Daniels
Ruth Lucille Donovan
Frances Gertrude Ewell
Iris Geneva Fredrick
Winnelle Gebhard
Willie Delli Goldsmith
Edith Irene Gordon
Mary Lewis Korski
Laura Mae Haley
Wallie Marie Hayes
Mary Malora High
Bessie Bernice Habilit
Maurine Hughes
Jennie Mae Hutchenson
Charlotte Temple Jones
Ethel Virginia Joplin
Jimmie Lee Jordan
Laura Margaret Scott
Ester Marriman Smith
Dora Bun Snider
Jimmie Hinds Squyres
Sadie Elizabeth, Stiles
Nutie Squyres
Sadie Elizabeth Stiles
Nutie
Irene Jewel Walker
Mary Walker
Vera Pearl Walling
Mary Maurine Williamson
Florence Smith
Delve Deeper Into Lightning Effects
Forest Service experts study why bolts strike certain trees more. European data highlights pine oak and spruce as common targets while a US study of 76000 western trees finds 72 percent of strikes hit western yellow pine and Douglas fir. Many questions remain about killed trees, ignition sources, and species variation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
Special Dairy Food Served to Dairymen
A delegation of dairymen and dairy women was served a laboratory prepared dairy luncheon by the Federal Bureau of Dairy Industry. The menu featured four cent skim milk powder bread, butter like Navy butter, cottage cheese, waffles and cake with concentrated sour skim milk, and coffee cream sterilized and bottled in the lab. Delegates toured the Beltsville Maryland experimental dairy farm and sampled the scientifically treated products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Dairy Federation
Bureau
Navy
Beltsville
Maryland
Plow Slowly Being Ousted Out England
English and Welsh arable land shrinks year by year as 1926 statistics from the British ministry of agriculture show declines in barley oats peas turnips clover and related crops. At least 154000 acres left cultivation with only 74000 converted to permanent pasture or rough grazing as agriculture’s hard times persist and horse use drops by 12600 in 1926.
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Associated Press
London
England
Wales
British
Ministry of Agriculture
Notaries Qualify With Potter County Clerk
Four hundred ninety eight notaries out of over nine hundred authorized in Potter county qualified with County Clerk E M Pittman yesterday by filing bonds and taking the oath.
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Potter County
E. M. Pittman
Electrically Warmed Soil Hastens Crops
The report says electricity heats soil to grow crops out of season. In Sweden lettuce has been raised for March and could reach December markets. About eighty thousand lettuce plants thrive in electrified soil near Stockholm with potatoes planned. interest grows in sunny northern areas. Belgium starts a new air service by the Belgian National Aid Transport company linking Brussels Ostend and London with daily schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Sol
Sweden
Commerce Department
Stockholm
Belgium
Belgian National Aid Transport Company
Brussels
Ostend
London
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Robert Andrew Armistead
Jack Atchley
Tyler Alexander Baker
Joseph Weldon Bateson
Robert Melvin Beaver
Huber
D. Blair
Albert Lawrence Blair
Charles Bonner
Richard Nathan Bradley
Henry Amos Burns
Odie Clark
Gordon Hart Copeland
James Gordon Creed
Horace Stanley Croswell
Edmund Burke Crozier
Joseph Barrow Cyrus
Raymond Jeptha Daniel
Clement Michael Doerr
William Edward Hamilton
Edwin Roy
Jack) Hughes, Jr
Justin Hughes
Middleton Thomas Huron
Fred Jones, Jr
Mel Thomas Jones
Lucian Oscar Jones
Albert Sydney King
Dee Lloyd McCowen
Paul Marion McFadden
James Willis Mims
Pius Philip Roberts
Ralph Colvin Rodgers
Jesse Byron Self
John Fuller Shortwell
Thomas Milton Lowell
Charles Duke Taylor
William George Titt
Ruel Carlile Walker
Fred Sheppard Winsor
Tolbert Fanning Yater
Washington
Federal Bureau of Dairy Industry
Imperial Valley Cantaloupes
Associated Variety Co., Inc
Polk St
MIRRO
Panhandle Hardware Co
Amarillo
Tomers
Oliver Drug CO
Goodyear
Service
Adkisson & Gunn
Tyler
Borger
Main St
Sixteenth and van Buren Sts
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