New Texas Laws Take Effect June 11
Austin reports ninety nine laws become effective June 11 from the recent session. A summary lists major changes including delayed delinquent tax lists, guardians for the mentally unfit, county tax assessor tweaks, and expanded city charters. Other provisions cover sanitation rules, probate and court costs, school tax amendments, and oil and gas permit extensions.
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Lloyd's Plan
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Texas items highlight varied state affairs and projects
The report notes a mail route between San Marcos and Lockhart, a Hempstead bond vote with 106 yeas 33 nays, a surge in marriage licenses in Houston, and a WWI history by Captain Gambrell. Also listed are railroad and highway actions, grain exports, a Brazos County road bond defeat, a Giddings warehouse plan, plans for a Galveston-Houston branch in a scenic highway, deer crop damage concerns, melon louse control, 1921 Federal Reserve resources, and a dairy livestock promotional train from College Station through the Midwest.
Aspirin Directions Warned for Bayer Tablets Use
Take Aspirin only as told in each package of genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin. Follow physicians dosage for 21 years of proven safety and efficacy. If you see the Bayer Cross, trust it for Colds Headache Neuralgia Rheumatism Earache Toothache Lumbago and general pain. Tin boxes of twelve cost a few cents. larger packages sold.
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Auntie’s kisses unsettle Paul over age for aunts
A curious exchange between Paul and his mother raises the question of when an aunt’s kisses should stop. Paul asks how old a boy must be before his aunts stop kissing him, prompting a playful family moment about boundaries and affection.
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Ignorance of the new rich in art noted in city dinner
Philadelphia art critic Harvey Maitland Watts recalls a Rit tenhouse Square dinner where a new rich profiteer’s wife buys pictures and seeks a cheaper chrome for the back hall. He quips that Chromo is a struggling artist who cannot command prices until a hit. A closing line remarks a long life without accomplishment counts as calendar numbers.
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Philadelphia
Rittenhouse Square
Walnut Street
Chromo
Ancient and Modern Rome An overview of historic sights
Rome rests on hill country south of the Tiber with the Palatine as Romulus’s site and the Capitoline as political heart. Hadrian’s mausoleum and the Circus of Caligula stand near St. Peter’s, the Vatican complex spans 18 acres with over 1 000 rooms, and the Pantheon dates to Agrippa's 2780 rebuilding.
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Postum Cereal Co.Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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