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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
3
Each package of Diamond Dyes contains simple directions to diamond-dye a new fadeless color into worn garments and textiles. Buy Diamond Dyes for guaranteed results even if you have never dyed before. druggist offers color card. Salvation is free but requires obedience to the rules.
Washington confirms occupation of Mexico City by rebel forces led by Pablo Gonzales and General Jacinto Trevino on May 7. Ambassadors report no disorder. Obregon and Carranza related movements follow as Tampico falls and U.S. destroyers head to Tampico.
Road bonds pass unanimously at Faltur while Corsicana plans a hosiery mill and McKinney gains 100000 hospital bonds. Orange schools install electric fire boxes as Center and nearby towns build roads, campuses plan an auditorium, and ports, banks, fines, and taxes surface across the state.
A group of boy scouts share good deeds with their scoutmaster during a meeting for a visiting city school teacher. A young scout boasts helping an old lady across the street and bringing his teacher water when she felt unwell, prompting the teacher to question why he did not mention the other old lady. The reply, “A scout is courteous,” leaves the visiting teacher amused.
Delegates at Albany outline proposals for universal disarmament as a peace plan and lower living costs. They call for a federal living wage including women in industry, child labor amendments, night-work limits for women and children, an eight hour day or 48 hour week, and a 24 hour weekly rest. A resolution to oppose a wet plank in the national platform was not acted upon.
A public figure expresses a shift from idealized dreams to concrete, timebound actions. The statement highlights resolve and a focus on practical steps rather than fantasies.
Anna Sherbetjian, an Armenian woman at Willis Island, was ordered deported because she cannot read. She faces possible death if sent back to Turkey for an escape from a harem to an unseen prospective bridegroom in the United States.
The Railroad Commission was informed that the Lyerla gas well in Eastland County Texas had been shut in after intense effort following a massive fire. The well had been a giant gasser and burned freely before the control measures succeeded.
Brownsville Texas school board on Saturday announced a general increase of 20 dollars per month for fifty city school teachers.
A terse exchange questions trying a verse libre style. One speaker asks if the form is patented, sparking a brief, coy debate on originality and innovation in poetry.
The piece recounts two extraordinary churches on Blackhead Island Cumberland Sound. One, fashioned from sealskin over whalebone girders, suffered brutal cold and even dog destruction. the other, a snow church, used ice and snow for seat, pulpit, and interior. A society woman aims to stay current beyond birthdays.
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