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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1935
Page
4
A roundup of visitors and travels across Brookshire, Sealy, Katy, Houston, Hempstead, Pattison, Calvert, Simonton, and Jasper. Highlights include Mrs. M E Howard and family visiting in Fort Worth, multiple Houston trips, a Brookshire baseball win 9 to 6, new Ford delivery for Joe Stasney, and various visits by residents to Austin, Austin, and Calvert.
Receding Nueces River waters reveal about 2,000,000 in damage across Crystal City area farms sheds and railroads, turning the region into the world’s largest spinach shipping point. Many farms lose top soil crops and livestock with houses wrecked.
The piece notes South African diamonds found by Farmer Van itkern's offspring and recounts John O'Reilly's role in taking a 22 percent carat stone to Cape Town for value. It describes Arkansas Pike County as a small producer and outlines diamond mining and sorting methods. It cites rising U.S. business starts and the reach of wage earners in stocks, life insurance, and savings, implying broad financial participation.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first printed in the Youth's Companion of Boston in 1892 and written by Francis Bellamy, a staff member. Notes mention several Brookshire and Houston visitors and attendees, including Mesdames Hugo Seidel and W. R. McCauley, J. F. Taylor, F. J. Wells, Adam Bijie, and Max Wander visiting or attending events in Houston and Hempstead.
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