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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1925
Page
5
A new Texas session begins with the legislature to study the governor’s message. Committees classify incoming bills while a flood of new measures is expected after the message delivery. Lawmakers face a busy start with numerous proposed laws and early actions anticipated.
Austin January 21 The Ferguson administration began clearing vacancies in state personnel awaiting the first session as a message to the legislature followed.
Chicago January 21 United Press reports Patrolman Tomas Babbington was shot as another officer was fatally wounded in a gunfight. Margaret Daly, a cabaret entertainer, was arrested and her companion is being hunted. Daly refused to reveal his identity.
The Senate adopted the Johnson resolution directed to Secretary Hughes asking for full information on the Paris reparations agreement. Senator Johnson of California led the move after foreign relations committee action and death sentence amendments were approved.
Defense lawyers for ten policemen and two civilians on trial challenged testimony by Lionel Wilson a federal prohibition agent who named Senator Edward J Edwards as chief liquor trafficker. Court records show Wilson was guilty of petty larceny in 1913 and later testimony was unsubstantiated. Wilson and partner Charles Hurlbut claim Edwards accepted 3800 for 100 cases whiskey but the money was returned as no liquor was received.
The Census Bureau estimates end of December 1922 national wealth at 320.8 billion dollars up 72.2 percent since 1912. Real estate tops value, followed by personal goods, manufactured products, and other assets including railroads and utilities.
John Rucker, 23, telling police he killed Chester Harley, an eight year old negro boy, a year ago and buried the body on a Texas farm near Flam, led officers to the grave. He said his motive was that he did not want the boy to live with his family.
The Interstate Commerce Commission cited the Rocky Island and the El Paso and Southwestern with the New Mexico Central Railways over permission to raise rates on freight shipments between New Mexico Oklahoma Texas and Nebraska from one half to one cent per 100 pounds.
United Press reports that chlorine use for respiratory issues is spreading nationwide. Erig. Con. Fries, chief of the Army Chemical Warfare service, said trials show cures and improvements in 6 to 80 percent of cases. early treatment could cure whooping cough. Of 1,203 cases treated locally, 447 improved, 391 cured, 138 failed to respond, 230 not heard from.
An editor sits in a worn chair worrying about filling space with filler copy. The piece laments old columns and urges reporting true news readers will revisit, praising substance over padded filler.
Dr Roy James Rinehart of Kansas City told the Chicago dental society that dentistry emerged as a profession in America and began to specialize within the last century The piece notes early forms of care including ivory teeth and tools from ancient times and mentions forceps and itinerant barbers once performing dental work now contrasted with formal dental education beginning around 1830.
United Press reports from London on January 21 discuss whether Britain should declare the pound sterling exchangeable at 4.86 dollars. The piece surveys potential global and domestic reactions, risks to Churchill, and the uncertain timing of any official move amid wide attention from financial circles.
Tierbert Votaw superintendent of Federal prisons and brother in law of the late President Harding resigns effective March 1. He is ill in a Washington hospital and will be unable to work for six months after an appendicitis operation.
In Geneva the British representative Vicount Cecil criticizes American idealistic demands at the League of Nations anti drug conference calling them impractical and unacceptable. The remark signals potential withdrawal of the American delegation and a rupture in the conference as the British insist the American stance is irrevocable.
Chicago police pursued six pharmacy robberies across the city as two bystander high school boys were wounded in an attempted hold-up. The bandits tied up three pharmacies and escaped during the chaotic crime spree.
United Press report from Philadelphia dated January 21 notes bootleggers earned about 100000 dollars in the area. Authorities warn that if bootlegging continues these operations could not be stopped and that enforcement will intensify in the region amid efforts to curb the illegal whiskey trade.
Austin dispatch reports the pardon list of former Governor Neff becoming known. clerks classify the first items as pardons pending final issuance later today. The list touches pending clemency actions and related offices.
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