Texas News Highlights From Alvin to Upshur County
The ledger of Texas events reports haying underway in Alvin and car shipments daily. A Alto sewer project failed in last week’s election. Canton High gains eight and a half units from the state education department. Van Zandt County property value fell by 250000 from 1924 to 1925. Liano post office promotion to second class again July 1 after bank failures. Galveston district customs revenue topped 10000000 for year ending June 30. Mineral Wells ISD bonds of 100000 approved bearing 5 percent. Culberson highway work begins Gilmer to Harrison County line. Upshur County road project moving toward completion. Fort Elliot site marker planned by Panhandle Plains Historical Society. Lutcher estate taxes approx 176000, net estate 3578744. Intracoastal Canal survey funds 40000 to be turned over. work to start within sixty days. School site regulations urge drainage sewerage playgrounds safe routes. Hogg Reagan statues slated for Austin district memorial to the Southern Confederacy. Fire insurance rates revised for five Texas towns and increases for several others. Jefferson County shows farm rise but land values fall since 1920. Texas game law revised to protect doves with open season shortened by region.
Violin Study Echoes In A Shop Window Tale
A brief dialogue recalls a person who once studied a violin in a shop window and believed repeated testing would enable playing. The exchange ends with the admission of inability to play. The vignette centers on perception versus skill and nostalgia.
Rich Old Party and Lulu Clash Over Wealth
A terse exchange features an old party figure boasting wealth and Lulu noting heirs number fourteen and a vow not to part with even a single heir for a million. The dialogue hints at social tensions around wealth and lineage.
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Lulu
Public Directory Inquiry Causes Street Benign Exchange
A man at the door asks for a name for the city directory while claiming no public speaking experience. The exchange reveals a polite approach and a household response about compiling addresses.
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Kir
Inventory Gaffe Sparks Lighthearted Exchange
A weary store clerk asks a shopper if she is shopping there. She affirms, and the clerk quips that he mistook her for taking an inventory, turning a mundane moment into a humorous exchange.
Perfume and Motorcycles Echo Past Ride Imagery
The text evokes scent of perfume and motorcycles as riders recall hills and departures. It mentions forty seven kinds of amella and a sense of leaving behind memories. The fragment hints at longing, travel, and varied scents as symbolic motifs.
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Della
A White Hope Father Envisions a Sports Item
Fragmentary dialogue hints at a potential sport page feature about a youth with boxing potential. A father promises to provide material, while an artistic youth suggests Fea may contribute, creating anticipation for a future item.
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Fea
Market Report Covers Fruits Dairy and Cotton Price Movements
The market summary notes Georgia Hiley peaches and North Carolina Hileys with price shifts, California salmon and New York City markets, and Virginia and Arkansas produce movements. Butter and cheese futures are mixed amid ample supplies, with steady cheese boards and slow disposer markets. Cotton prices rose, with New York July futures up and spot middling advancing.
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State buildings cannot be repaired with insurance
Austin Texas The State of Texas cannot repair any buildings destroyed by fire even when insurance has been collected The adjutant general’s department found 6000 of insurance was collected on the Camp Mabry warehouse but refused to accept insurance on other damaged but not destroyed buildings finding the insurance must go to the general fund and be used only for existing appropriations The department negotiated with insurance companies to perform repairs themselves instead of paying cash from insurance
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New Orleans Rice Market Steady Demand on Friday
Light but steady demand in New Orleans for fancy and choice rice grades. Spot prices held. Fancy Blue Rose quoted 7 1 40 to 7 3 80 cents per pound, choice 7 60 to 7 80, Fancy Horturas 7 4 to 8. Broken grades in moderate demand with Fancy second heads 4 3 4 cents and screenings 3 3 4 to 8 7 80 cents. Porto Rico also present in moderate market activity.
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Porto Rico
Shepherd Free of Charges in McClintock Case
William Darling Shepherd of Chicago is acquitted of murdering his minor ward William Nelson McClintock by typhoid inoculation. The grand jury returned a no bill on the accusation he killed Mrs Emma Nelson McClintock. Exhumation found poison but attending doctors saw no poison traces.
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William Darling Shepherd
Wiliam Nelson McClintock
Emma Nelson McClintock
Young McClintock
Mra. McClintock
Polson
Fort Worth Stock Market Shows Gains in Friday Trade
Fort Worth Texas Hoga market advances with top prices near 14.00 for 206-pound butchers and good pigs selling up to 11.75. Receipts estimated at 800 head. several cattle around 13.50 to 13.85. Rates generally 36 cents above Wednesday high.
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Fort Worth
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Hoga
Germans sentenced to death in Bolshevik plot case
The supreme court on Friday condemned Dr Karl Kinderlmann Max Von Ditmar and Theodore Volacht to death for their alleged plot against Bolshevik leaders Leon Trotzky M Bialin and others.
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Theodore Volacht
Leon Trotzky
M. Bialin
Anderson Guilty of Murder in March Death
Palestine Winnie Anderson, an Interstate Great Northern Railway engineer, was found guilty of murder for the death of his wife on March 4 and received a 25 year to life sentence.
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Palestine
Winnie Anderson
Great Northern Railway
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