Jews Flock to Palestine Promised Land Amid Immigration Tide
Washington reports from Jos eph Cowen of London detail a flood of Jewish migrants from Europe to Palestine via Trieste and Port Said. A Palestine loan of 12.5 million dollars is planned, six percent interest, to fund water power and economic development under a British mandate supervised by the League of Nations.
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San Remo
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New Jersey
Three Hundred Legislature May Have No Homes in Austin
Preparations at the Texas captiol for the Thirty-seventh legislature session opening January 11 reveal crowded living quarters in Austin. Many lawmakers will struggle to find affordable lodging as boarding houses near capacity. R. J. Terrebonne and family are visiting from Morgan City Louisiana for the holidays. he works in oyster culture there, noting reduced output due to parasitic ravages.
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Senate
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R. J. Terrebonne
Morgan City
Insanity Adjudications In County Court
In H O Ferguson court the following were adjudged insane and sent to state institutions: Stancy Kapechinsky a Bohemian farmer Sarah Vera and Roxie Harrison two colored women. Sheriff Morehead will convey them to the asylum after the trial jury list T D Higgs M F Vitopil M B Higgs J D Dampier J J Barter R W Bullard.
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Stancy Kapechinsky
Sarah Vera
Roxie Harrison
Morehead
T. D. Higgs
M. F. Vitopil
M. B. Higgs
J. D. Dampier, J. J. Barter, and
R. W. Bullard
Extension Service Club Notice Postponed Due to Illness
The watch party announced has been postponed because of illness and absence. Miss Onan returned yesterday from McKinney where she had been visiting at the home of her aunt Mrs F D Perkins and family.
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Guy
Miss Onan
McKinney
F. D. Perkins
Eagle
Winter Garden at Bryan High School a Notable Success
A Christmas winter garden at Bryan High School West Side with lettuce radishes turnips kale cabbage and flowers thrives under 9th grade students guided by Miss Ray Montgomery. Eleven plots sustain soil work watering fertilizing planting and cultivation with vegetables sold to fund the project.
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Bryan
West Side School
Ray Montgomery
Miss Montgomery
Madison
Wisconsin
Pryan School
Montgomery
California Law Proposed To Bar Alien Land Ownership
Washington talks on United States Japan negotiations include a California proposal to replace the anti alien land law with a statute prohibiting any alien from acquiring real estate. The move aims to remove friction and curb discrimination against Japanese in property ownership.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Japan
California
House
Kahn
Burglary at Governor Elect Pat Neffs Office Recovered
A 15 year old boy was arrested in Waco for breaking into Governor elect Pat Neffs law office. He stole gold pens and a Knights of Pythias badge, but all items have been recovered and the youth was released on probation before Christmas.
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Waco
Pat Neff
Neff
Knights of Pythias
Man Shot Dead in Corsicana Street Incident
Corsicana Texas December 27 T K Lindsey was shot and instantly killed in the streets. Bud Mc Gee surrendered to officers after the shooting.
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Corsicana
Texas
T. K Lindsey
Bud McGee
Poll Taxes Issued in Brazos County for 1920
Tax Collector Roy Hudspeth and Deputy Mrs Jack T Johnson report 876 poll taxes issued this year with only three women among them. About thirty days remain to pay the taxes and roughly 5 000 still unpaid as Brazos county nears the limit.
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Roy Hudspeth
Jack T. Johnson
Brazos County
Brazos County Marriage Licenses Read In The Week
Brazos County Clerk McSwain issued numerous marriage licenses this week. Couples listed include Ira Cheatham with Sara Ann Kelly, Thomas Foster with Lucile Atkins, Johnnie Waldron with Laura Lewis, and many others across the county.
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Brazos County
Ira Cheatham
Sara Ann Kelly
Thomas Foster
Lucile Atkins
Johnnie Waldron
Laura Lewis
Gillie Collins
Sucanne Clark
Earl Lemons
Ebbie Sanders
Albert Hayes
Bamo Bell
Irvin Butler
Wilada Wells
H. McMardie Dotson
Ethyl Banks
Maurice Lee
Ethel Rhodes
George Bell
Cora Bell Hearn
Wenzel Louis Stangel
Mary Ruth Cannon
Louis C. Kluitworth
Martha E. Levy
William O. Hill
Bettie Coward
Williard Dowling
Icy Barron
W. T. Walter
Florence Whitney
Leslie Lloyd
Vivian Martin
Tom Suryard
Hattie Garner
Hisick Randle
Fannie Bell
Roscoe Bates
Ada Beard
Carl Richards
Gladys Ruth Martin
F. L. Byers
Felma Lloyd
William Richardson
Maggie Terry
Mark Dangerfield
Charlotte Robertson
Fred A Rucker
Jessie Irene Mathis
Elsie Robinson
Addie Boame
Peter Tremont
Jenny DeLuke
William Watson
Ethel Simpson
A. J. Unland
Zonette Sutton
Building permits scarce as Houston faces housing shortage
Houston reports near standstill in building operations with only one permit issued in the week ending December 28 totaling 200 dollars. Builders cite tight money, high labor and material costs, and profitDemand concerns as reasons. City engineer’s office projects a deficit of about 2000 homes.
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Houston
Texas
Yates Standridge Surrenders in Arkansas Escape Case
Pine Bluff December 29 Yates Standridge once called the human wolf leader and the most notorious of twelve convicts who fled Tucker State Farm last Sunday night surrendered today. He said he could not find clothes food or shelter in river bottoms and had been starved and frozen out officials expect other prisoners to surrender soon as they are starving and cold.
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Associated Press
Pine Bluff
Yates Standridge
Tucker
Textbook bids reopened at Austin
The state text book commission reopened bids to furnish seven books for Texas public schools. Bids from the November meeting were rejected as prices were considered too high.
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Associated Press
Austin
State Text Book Commission
Texas Public Schools
Panhandle Chamber Pushes A and M Extension and New Departments
The Panhandle Plains Chamber of Commerce in Amarillo endorses state legislation to add an agricultural and mechanical department and an industrial arts department to West Texas State Normal at Canyon. The group also backs gasoline tax funding for highways and a 90 day tax payment extension. Cattlemen note January payments strain finances and favor paying by April 30.
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Amarillo
Tex
Agricultural and Mechanical Department
Department of Industrial Arts
West Texas State Normal
Canyon
Panhandle
Tallest Brazos County man remains a youth
Joe Demartier, a Brazos County native aged twenty as of last August, was weighed and measured by Dick Fain this morning. He stood 6 feet 7.5 inches tall and weighed 200 pounds, marking him as perhaps the county’s tallest man while still in his youth.
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Joe Demartier
Brazos County
Dick Fain
Joe
Eight Brazos County marriage licenses issued in one day
County Clerk A. S. McSwain and Deputy Mrs. Mary Bullock issued eight marriage licenses for Brazos County on December 28, a record for a single day. The past week has seen a surge in weddings, signaling a renewed bustle in the matrimonial market.
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A. S. McSwain
Mary Bullock
Brazos County
Mesopotamia Secrets Stir London Paris War Plans
Gray reports claim Britain uses Mesopotamia as a secret base for experiments with airplanes poison gas bombs and torpedoes as part of preparations for a potential future conflict. The article notes secrecy limits foreign access and mentions oil interests observers and the high cost of Mesopotamian garrisons amid debates in Parliament.
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Charley Jones Killed in Chicago Rail Bandit Shootout
Two youthful bandits robbed the New Orleans Chicago Flier on the Illinois Central near Aroma Park. Charley Jones was killed in a fight with police and railroad detectives. The surviving, identified as Joseph and Jacob Scott, both twenty four, surrendered. After the hold up investigators recovered several hundred dollars and jewelry valued in thousands. Chicago has seen a surge of boy bandits in the past month.
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Associated Press
Kankakee
Ill
Charley Jones
Chicago
President Harding to Receive Degrees in Scottish Rite
President Elect Harding will join the Scottish Rite Masonry in Columbus Ohio on January 5 with Columbus bodies conferring degrees starting at noon for the fourth degree and again at 7 30 p m for the thirty second degree He will be the only candidate The note mentions former presidents Garfield and McKinley as lodge members.
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Columbus
Ohio
Garfield
McKinley
Robbers Fail in Safeguard Test at New Brunswick
Robbers who entered the jewelry store of O. O. Stillman in New Brunswick tried to pick the correct safe among three but chose wrong. They opened one empty safe and abandoned the attempt, leaving the valuable safe intact. About $37,500 in diamonds and jewelry remained unharmed.
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Associated Press
New Brunswick
N. J
O. O. Stillman
Stillman
Closing in on the escaped convicts in Arkansas
In Little Rock on December 29 Major H F Fredman Adjutant General said troops will be sent from Pine Bluff to divide between Tucker state farms to aid in recapturing the remaining felons and return them to the penitentiary. The piece ends with a shop slogan urging readers to Buy it in Bryan.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
H. F. Fredman
Pine Bluff
Tucker
College Girls Challenge Hi Cost With Service Lineup
Chicago dispatch details a Northwestern Evanston campus scene where senior Kappa Kappa Gamma Miss Jessie Wall and peers offer beauty and shoe care at Shotwell boarding house. Services include shampooing 25 cents, crimping 50 cents, shoe shines 10 cents, and stocking repairs, all framed as a playful campus knock against the old man Hi Cost.
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University Place
Evanston, Ill
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Kappa Kappa Gamma
Beatrice Cook
Phi Beta
Virginia Howells
Miriam Hamilton
Kappa Kappa Gammas
Evanston
Ruth Ann Montgomery
Marjorie Baker
Sherwell House
Italian Factories Report Cessation Talks Dec 29
From Fiume AP dispatch describes a conference to arrange a final cessation of hostilities between Italian forces and D Anunzio's legionaries. All fighting suspended and no further actions underway as read in Eagle advertisements.
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Associated Press
Fiume
D’annunzio
Legionarres
Military Control Keeps Order in Williamson Coal Fields
Williamson West Virginia December 29 military occupation stabilizes the Mingo county coal field strike area. Federal troops patrol with bayonets fixed in surrounding towns while civil authorities direct a cleanup of the courthouse quarters and moral order. Deputies accompanied by soldiers seize weapons under the pistol law to ensure surrender.
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Associated Press
Williamson
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Herman Hall
Chatteray
Matewan
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Camp Sherman
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