Benefits From Good Roads
A report notes the last concrete pour on Highway No. 21 from Madisonville to the Trinity River. The improved route will become a direct link from East Texas to the state capital, boosting traffic through Brazos county and Bryan and highlighting local institutions and attractions. Bryan boosters should support further highway ties to Burleson Grimes and distant links feeding regional traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madisonville
Trinity River
East Texas
Brazos County
Bryan
Burleson
Grimes County
New Uses for Cotton Proposed by Cotton Textile Institute
California orange growers adopt open mesh cotton bags for packing fruit after Florida success, with shipments from San Pedro to destinations in seven pound bags. The plan could boost cotton demand, aid Texas and national mills, and influence future production policy amid 1934 acreage controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton Textile Institute
California
Florida
New York
San Pedro
Texas
Wallace
South
United States
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Textile Institute
Austria asks allies to boost military strength
The article notes Austria seeking permission from Great Britain France and Italy to increase its military might. It questions whether Franz Joseph would have acted differently. A Chicago surgeon repairs a gash on a youth’s heart and predicts recovery, noting the need for a patching material to mend the broken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Great Britain
France
Italy
Franz Joseph
Chicago
Prohibition Pact With Mexican Station Sparks Media Clash
The report notes United forces negotiating a contract with a Mexican broadcasting outlet to air anti repeat talks for weeks. The piece questions the move as a setback for fortune tellers and specialists, while contrasting other headlines on Nazi restrictions and Nebraska Masons under prohibition rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Forces For Prohibition
Federal police role grows as kidnaping crisis prompts talk
Editorial notes mounting pressure for a federal police force modeled after Scotland Yard as Roosevelt meets with officials and governors push for stronger federal action. It outlines current federal powers, past acts, and arguments for expanding nationwide crime enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland Yard
England
Roosevelt
Cummings
Department of Justice
San Francisco
Moley
Bureau of Investigation
Lindbergh
Congress
Fort Worth
Capitol Whirligig by R. W. Barry
In Texas Governor Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson returns to favor clemency power after prior administrations varied between strict paring and liberal paroles. Lee Simmons reports first six months show 161 general paroles 115 conditional pardons and 81 pardons versus 636 general paroles in Sterling's final year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Pat M. Neff
Board of Pardons
Miriam A. Ferguson
Neff
Texas
Ferguson
Dan Moody
Pat Neff
R. S. Sterling
Moody
Lee Simmons
Sterling
Failures Record Compares Well To Normal Periods
The 1933 commercial failure record through July shows seven fewer July liabilities than in many prior years. Dun and Bradstreet reports 41 failures over five weeks in July, with total liabilities of 732000. Average liability per failure was 17844, and creditors recover 53 cents on the dollar. Seven groceries and meat markets led the total, followed by six drug stores and five women’s specialty shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Bureau
Bureau of Business Research
Dun and Bradstreet
Texas Federal Taxes Show Texas Economic Strength
Federal tax figures from the last fiscal year show Texas faring better than most regions. Texas receipts rose from 18,302,288 to 34,051,845, a gain of 25 percent and about 85 percent of the national increase of 58,494,366 despite higher income levies and new excise taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
United States
Forty Second Street Country Club Tales From New York’s Past
Reminiscences recall the once famed Forty Second Street Country Club at the old fire plug headquarters near Times Square. Members including Morgan Robertson and Irvin Cobb filled bars and salons at Knickerbocker and Churchill’s, with vivid anecdotes of theater, cartoons, and the era’s city life before prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aug
Times
Forty Second Street Country Club
Broadway
O. O. McIntyre
Maxfield Parrish
Forty Second Street
Frank Ward O'Malley
Irvin Cobb
Wilson Mizner
Hugh Chilvers
Della Fox
Paul Armstrong
Fred Thompson
Drury Underwood
Glenmore (Stuffy) Davis
Eddie Pidgeon
James Pooten
Tom Riley
Mason Peters
Morgan Robertson
Cobb
Churchill's
Macauley
The
World
Rogers
Herald
Homer Davenport
Evening Mail
T. E. Powers
Powers
Armada Destroyed in 1588 Battle on August Eighth
Today in history notes the destruction of the Spanish Armada on August 8 1588. The historic clash marks a turning point in naval power and opened the way for English seaborn dominance.
First bale of the season fetches premium in Bryan
John Weiser of Madison county delivered his first bale of cotton weighing 595 pounds described as good middling. Local merchants paid a $10 cash premium in recognition of the season’s first bale. The bale sold to D. S. Mart for 10 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Morning Eagle
John Weiser
Madison County
Bryan
D. S. Mart
F. A. Bunting
A. J. Buchanan
Puetts
Main Street
Shelburne
Speed as the urge of virile humanity
General George S. Gibbs of the Postal Telegraph Cable Co remarks that the present mania for speed reflects a universal urge. He notes innovations in land lines, cables, and radio that clip seconds in message handling and enable any station to be reached from the nearest phone, advancing rapid communication overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George S. Gibbs
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Mackay
Europe
Rail rate changes ease Texas cotton outlook
Uncompressed cotton carloads will move at reduced rates starting today under new tariffs by the Southern Pacific Burlington Rock Island Fort Worth and Denver Wichita Valley. The cuts faced opposition from interior compress interests and other lines, but the Interstate Commerce Commission approved the changes Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Porta
Southern Pacific
Burlington Rock Island
Fort Worth & Denver
Wichita Valley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Local society notes from Bryan and area residents
Mrs. W B Harris returns from Waco visit. Mrs Erin Blatherwick travels to Dallas and Dalhart to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Tyler Haswell visit Huntsville then Bryan. Mrs Haswell plans California trip to see daughter Ava Haswell and grandson Haswell Giraud in Hollywood. New brick cottage on west 24th nearly ready. Various visits and travels by local families to Huntsville Dallas Waco San Antonio Groves Green ville and other places.
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W. B. Harris
Waco
Erin Blatherwick
Dallas
Dalhart
Ray Blatherwick
Tyler Haswell
Huntsville
Haswell
Charley Barrett
Mamie Wynne Cox
Bryan
A. B. McSwain
Rock Prairie
N. A. Stewart
Webb Buchanan
Burnett
Vada Mae Smith
San Antonio
Marjorie Smith
J. Tom Smith
East 26Th Street
Polly Jordan
Margaret Higgs
Higgs
South College Avenue
William Minkert
Mr. Minkert
J. G. Minkert
Lorraine Smith
Goose Creek
Arch Cloud
Edgar Buchanan
Amos and
Sallie
Greenville
A. W. Buchanan
Harvey Caddis
Jackson
Miss
College Station
W. A. Wood
Lillie Martin
W. H. Maxwell
H. F. Seward
Old Independence
Wood
Brazos County
Lynn
Jamison Can
Thomas Lunding
California
Los
B. C. Jane
de Octavia
Billy Adairar
Dorris Moehlmar
Galveston
L. Hen
Houston
Ellness
Dorothy Covington
Nor
C Ton
Katherine Felker
Charle Ker
Meridian
Louise Dyer
Lillian
East 30Th Street
Port. Worth
J. W. Ridgewa
Fort Worth
Wallace Mathis
Joe Kaplan
Willis Edge
Yeager Hardware Company
FE. M
Milton
Bet Smithville
Withing
Ed Roy Hudspeth
School For the
Carpenter of
van Zandt
E. R. Bryant
Kingsville
Mary Alice Plumb
Ylumb
Mis
E. J. Fountain
Doane
Dorothy Doan
Jack Doane
Mia
Fow
Lower cotton rates may boost Texas port traffic and curb truck hauling
Railroads that join the new rate could profit by pooling shipper lots and routing uncompressed cotton to ports like Galveston and Houston. The change eliminates compression in transit charges and may reallocate cargo from inland to coastwise and export flows, while sparking competition with New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Railroad Commission
Burlington- Rock Island
Texas
New Orleans
Galveston
Houston
Galveston News
Drouth Fate Declines Prairie Chick Population in Panhandle
Canadian dispatch notes drought slash in upper Panhandle plains, buck Harris reports scarce young prairie chickens after dry June. Deputy game warden covers vast area, old timers remark on low chick counts. Oklahoma openers set for early September with several western counties closed last season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Buck Harris
Governorray
Oklahoma
Hemphill and Lips Coubties
U. Taps Five Faculty For Junior College Startup
Five named to form the 1935 34 faculty of the Junior College at the university campus in Austin. Four previously served on the college staff, with the fifth returning to campus this year for the first time.
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Austin
University of
Lege
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