Texas News Roundup from State and Local Notices
A compilation of Texas developments includes Wolliday incorporation vote in Archer County with 60 for. oil men's association convention in Houston October 23. Galveston convention for hotel keepers November 16-17. El Campo sewer bond carries 157 to 47. Longview tax rate reduced 26 cents per $100. Bastrop County road bond election October 24. Victoria district attorney named state insurance commissioner succeeding Judge Scott. Houston to host 1926 American Institute of Park Executives. Hay City rice sales about $1,600,000YTD. Alpine designated Big Bend game district HQ with deputy commissioner Ridgway. Lavaca County tax rolls exceed $18 million, up from 1924. Freight rate revision hearing set October 12. Nacogdoches tax roll shows $12,993,880. poll taxes 9,668. El Campo–Edna pole setting for transmission line to cost about $40,000. W W Shirley’s Wood County peaches yield a second crop. Cushing truck growers association formed with Pitman and Carnes. Lufkin city water samples found satisfactory. Texas fire insurance business tops $2.1 billion for 1924. North Texas Petroleum Traffic Bureau seeks in-state blending rules. hearing October 13. State treasurer Hatcher notes reserve deposits rate rise December 1. board keeps 4 percent minimum for state deposits. Automobile registrations rise 14,748 in six months of 1925 versus 1924. over a million expected.
Home Sweet Home Bee-Just Look at Honey Drip
A playful note describes a homey scene with a buzzing hive and honey dripping from a front door. The refrain Home, Sweet Home frames the domestic moment in a light, quirky tone.
Right Wig That’s One of Those Horrid Things
Fragmentary lines reference a weird object described as a wig and a horrid thing used to knock out flies with Joys as wings and sorrows linked to Epura. The text reads like stray notes or poetry with unclear context and entities.
Mars Telescope Prompt Sparks Patriotic Exchange
A fragment quotes American Legion rhetoric about a street taker urging a view of Mars through a telescope. A passerby rejects the prompt, affirming belief in seeing America first.
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Mars
America
American Legion. Weekly
Misunderstanding at the Floorwalker Scene
Dialogue shows Mina asking if someone is taking care of her while Liva from the backwoods declines saying it is none of their concern.
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Mina
Liva
Basher prompts coinage muse with transmutation talk
Mr Dustin Stax, a realtor, dismisses alchemy and baser metal transmutation while stressing reliance on communication. The excerpt portrays a belief in practical avenues over speculative chemistry.
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Dustin Stax
All in the Family Capitains Interest in Society
Thomson Does Wilson take any interest in society Johnsona No he supplies the capital and his wife and daughters take all the interest.
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Thomson
Wilson
Johnsona
Report of Markets Washington D C Latent USDA fruits and vegetables
The report notes irregular potato markets with Maine sacked Irish Cobblers at 2.15 to 2.35 per 100 pounds in Eastern cities and f o b Presque Isle. Northern sacked Round Whites 1.90 to 2.196 on Chicago car rot market and f o b points. sweet potatoes weaker in consuming centers Virginia yellows 8.00 to 4.50 per barrel. Onions unget tied. dairy prices firm with scarce fancy butter grades due to heat. United States total butter holdings 128 449 000 pounds. Cotton price gains noted with New York October futures up to 24.80 cents.
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Washington
D. C
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Maine
F.o.b. Presque Vale
Northern
Chicago
f.O.b
Virginia
East Shore
New Jersey
New York City
Tennessee
Nancy Halls
New York
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Rochester
Iberia Pisches
Michigan
Ono Albertan
Wasker
Keastern
Middle West
Utter
United States
Philadelphia
Boston
Wisconsin
Texas Cotton Crop Prospects Reach 3.675 Million Bales
Texas expects a 3,675,000 bale cotton crop this season based on reports from state correspondents. About 1,000,000 bales ginned and 850,000 sold so far, with 20 percent held by cooperatives and farmers for better prices. Prices may rise if U S production stays under 13,000,000 bales and demand remains strong.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
George B. Terrell
Mr. Terrell
United States
Commissioner of Agriculture of
Memphis
Tenn
Texas highway mileage reaches twenty thousand
Austin reports that the Texas highway commission has designated over a thousand miles of new state highways, bringing total Texas road mileage to 20,000. The 1026 program includes 25 million dollars in spending on surfacing, bridges, and ferry replacements under state commission direction.
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Austin
Tex
State Highway Commission
Texas
Mississippi Patson Ban Quarantines Texas Exports
Jackson Mississippi issued a Friday quarantine against Texas prohibiting movement into Mississippi of all animals and animal products farm garden orchard products immigrant movables circus and carnival equipment and any product that may spread foot and mouth disease by contact.
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Missiasippi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Texas News
Wolliday
Archer Couny
Texas Independent Oil Men's Association
Houston
Orange
Texas Hotel Keepers’ Association
Galveston
el Campo
Longview
Commissioners Court of
Bastrop County
R. L. Daniel
Victoria
J. M. Scott
American Institute of Park Executives
Rockford
Ill
Hay City
Alpine
Big Bend
State Game Commission
R. B. Ridgway
Lavaca County
Texas Railroad Commission
Forrest Fuller
Nacogdoches County
Edna
W. W. Shirley
Wood County
Shirley
Cushing
F. J. Pitman
W. EK. Carnes
Lufkin
State Health Department
Texang
State Fire Insourance Commission
The
Railroad Commission
North Texas Petroleum Traffic Bureau of
Fort Worth
W. Gregory Hatcher
State Highway Department
OUR Comic
Little
DR. Anderson
Doc
Rei
Home, Sweet Home
Epura
Fellows
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