End of Texas Legislature Third Called Session
Final adjournment came with few members present as the governor praised the session. It enacted the pink boll worm law, provided 4 million dollars for schools and 1 million for university salaries, and approved a tick eradication measure. Total net appropriation reached 6.533 million with 50 thousand for prison rail work and 110 thousand for a Confederate Home building upgrade.
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Kansas Seeks 50000 Harvest Hands This Year
Topeka Kansas officials announce the Kansas wheat harvest has begun and the state needs 50 000 harvest hands this season as stated by J C Mobler secretary of the state board of agriculture.
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Carload of Undesirable Aliens Deported by Outgoing Vessels
A carload of aliens described as undesirables and anarchists, recently received from Oregon California Idaho and Illinois, were deported on outgoing vessels Saturday.
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Texas Items Plus Local Crop and Weather News
Texas reports include reunions for Hood's Texas Brigade in Bryan on June 29. Beaumont waterworks has first electric pump in operation. Cattle shipments to Fort Worth and hogs, roasters, and hay stocks feature market gains. Weather favors crops in Victoria and Bay City canals support rice, while boll weevils decline in Harrison County. A new electric plant lights Bellville. a war memorial tablet in Cuero honors DeWitt County men. Roads improve on Douglass-Nacogdoches highway. Orange warns on rat control during plagues. Texas banks join the federal reserve system. Grain harvests begin in Bell County with oats and corn, cotton later. Crosby County hail causes widespread crop losses including 10,000 acres of wheat and all cotton.
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Water Power Bill Signed to Spark Industrial Growth
Washington reports that the water power development bill, ten years in the making, was signed after adjournment with the attorney general noting Congress had ten constitutionally allowed days for consideration. The act authorizes leasing water power rights on public lands to spur industrial growth, mainly in the West, with potential power estimates far exceeding current national capacity.
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Federal suffrage killed in Louisiana legislature
Baton Rouge, La. The Louisiana House rejected the Shattuck resolution to ratify the Anthony amendment by 67 to 44 and then defeated federal suffrage in any form 39 to 0 after a heated debate led by Rep. Ford Claiborne. Senate action on L. L. Upton’s state rights amendment awaits.
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Ford ©. Claiborne
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Collapse of Polish Offensive Reported by Berlin Dispatch
Berlin Breslau dispatch to the Tanglische Rundechau says a Polish communique signed by General Pilsudski declares the Polish offensive collapsed and the Bolshivek i influence in Poland grows as the Polish army collapses under Bolshevik pressure.
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Goose Creek Ice Plant Burns In Devastating Fire
Goose Creek ice plant in Houston, Texas, was totally destroyed by a Thursday fire. Losses were estimated at 75 000 dollars.
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Beranger the Generous Poet and His Couch of Beggars
Anecdotes recount the French poet Beranger who died in 1857. He gave all he had and welcomed beggars with patience on his staircase while Lisette rationed what he could spare. Friends chided him, but Lisette teased that he would write another song.
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Perata
Perrin
Beranger
Lisette
Matrimony Drives Man to Club Says Exchange
A brief theatrical quip shows a gentleman noting matrimony pushed him to a club, while another character counters that matrimony itself led him there. The exchange highlights witty social commentary on marriage and leisure.
How Ships Get Late Mail by Air Plane Pickup
Experiments show belated mail can be delivered to moving ships by flying boats. A pilot drops a grapple line to snag a waterproof mail bag from the sea, then hauls the bag aboard while the steamer keeps its course.
Stray Stories Dialogue Exchange
Bess and Jess trade barbs and compliments about Mr. Cutting. Jess recalls he said Bess would have been charming as a girl, hinting at hidden warmth in a teasing conversation.
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