Texas News Roundup on Roads Rationed Grains and Grants
Brownsville radiocasting towers arrive for setup. Edna to host a fig preserving plant for this year’s crop. Bluffton area damged by dynamited dipping vat. Dallas county fights invasion of grasshoppers. Lin ton completes a 100000 gallon water reservoir. Alvin strawberry crop largely failed due to dry weather. Killeen bonds approved for sewer and waterworks. San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway sale to Southern Pacific to take effect May 1. Road bond votes planned for Rosenberg and Tavener May 30. Mexican quail restocking at Longview with two-year hunting ban on 100 acres. Airplane raids planned from Fort Sam Houston toward Fredericksburg. Teacher pay averages released. Lamesa to spend 35000 on water sewer upgrades. Ellington Field removal to Texas National Guard camp at Palacios planned. State wards’ per capita cost 21.28 in March. highest at Gainesville Girls Training School, lowest at San Antonio South western insane asylum. Total institutional expenditure 231012.46.
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Eleemmy Pary
State Board of Control
Girls’ Training School
Gainesville
Southwestern Insane Asylum
San Antonio
Fragmentary note hints fashion trends and gender roles
A garbled snippet suggests discussion of dress duration and fashion norms with mentions of Paris and marriage. The text is fragmented and lacks clear events or names to establish a full item.
Elopement Tale and Stock Tips Highlight Gould Exchange
The dialogue recalls a cautious reply on military aims and a wish to return, then shifts to a stock tip from Dobbins that sparked fascination with sudden swings. The thread ends with Bertie and Gertie discussing a failed elopement and its aftermath.
Poor Jack and Jill Your Father Must Settle Up
A fragment poem recalling Jack and Jill and a plea for settlement. The speaker envies a town flat but fears delay if a father figure does not provide funds. Musical imagery contrasts organ thunder with a lute. The verse hints at winter coal deliveries and a wish for stable home life.
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Jack
Jill
Rough on Betty Beard Sparks Offensive Mood
A speaker recalls visiting Betty last night and noticing a three day beard on his face. He wonders if she was annoyed and notes that she stated she felt it very much, highlighting a terse social exchange.
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Betty
Betting his Shirt Wife
A humorous caption shows a husband, a devoted gambler, asking about odds while his wife places his clean shirt on the clothes-horse, clarifying the before outing moment with a playful exchange.
How Far to Civilization
A terse dialogue fragment shows a character denying kinship and challenging the other to describe a distant civilization. The line hints at cultural clash and a quest or journey motif within a rough, humorous exchange. The fragment preserves a dialectal tone and frontier mood.
Late Market News Intents Report From Agriculture Dept
Markets wrap from April week ending noted declines in Florida Spaulding rose potatoes to 5.50 7.26 per barrel and mixed shifts in onions cabbage and tomatoes across New York Philadelphia and Eastern cities. Beef, hog, lamb prices moved lower while cattle and veal markets showed mixed strength. wholesale meat and dairy prices remained unsettled but near steady amid supply factors. Cotton spot prices rose slightly with futures up.
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Washington, D. C
Florida
New York
Philadelphia
B. Hastings
Uth
Carolina Wakefield
Alabama
Mobile
Texas
Bermuda
F. O. B. Laredo
Pittsburgh
Enstern
Chicago
Sanford
South Carolina
California
Louisiana
Klondike Strawerries
F. O. B. Hammond
Stecker
Beenaboo
Boston
Wisconsin
Square
York
State Board Rejects $1,500,000 Textbook Contracts
The Texas State Board of Education repudiated contracts totaling about 1.5 million dollars for textbooks. The decision, affecting forty basal texts and eight supplementary readers, sets aside the deals and sends the issue back to courts as the board says the commission exceeded the legal limit of changes. The board will proceed for the 1935–36 school year with existing contracts and on-hand books.
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Austin
Tex
State Board of Education
Textbook Commission
Board of Education
Houston Tops Texas Cities in 1923 Valuation and Costs
Washington report shows $41,010,108 to run 10 major Texas cities in 1923 with Houston leading in assessed property valuation. State government cost was $48,451,602. Wichita Falls has the highest per capita city cost at $64.03, while San Antonio records the lowest at $29.63.
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Washington
Texas
Department of Commerce
Dallas
Houston
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Beaumont
el Paso
Austin
Waco
Galveston
Wicichita Falls
Wichita Falls
Poison Found In Organs In McClintock Case
Direct evidence from Dr. William D. McNally coroner chemist shows mercurial poisoning as the cause of death for Emma N. McClintock mother of William N. MacClintock. William D. Shepherd foster-father and principal heir faces murder indictment over the youth's typhoid fever death last December allegedly caused by typhoid germs injected by Shepherd.
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Chicago
Emma N. McClintock
Willam N. MacClintock
William D. McNally
William D. Shepherd
Young McClintock
Shepherd
McCintock
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Brownsville
Edna
Bluffton
Liang County
Dallas County
Linton
Alvin
City of
San Antonio and
Arangas Pass
Southern Pacific System
Interstate Commerce Comminsion
Groesbeck
Hunt County
Commissioners Court
Rosenberg
Tavener
Beanley
Longview
Tally
3D Division
Fort Sam Houston
Fredericksburg
Kelly Field
Lamesa
Board of Health
Ellington Field
Texas National Guard
Palacios
W. A. Danielson
Quartermaster Corps
Fort Sam
John A. Hulen
Mickie
Quien
Naan Stinnes
Yoo Warldly
Pracasin
PANOS
Don
OUR
Tae
Paris
Dobbins
Bertie
Gertie
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