Southwest Intercollegiate Association proposed for football
The article urges forming a nine to eleven school Southwest Intercollegiate Athletic Association with Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi teams. It argues reduced travel, stable schedules, and a common freshman rule, prioritizing Texas A and M and the University of Texas for an annual clash and a shared championship pathway.
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Southwestern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tulane
Mississippi University
Mississippi A. & M
Oklahoma University
Oklahoma A. & M
Texas University
Texas A. & M
Southwest
Missouri Valley Conference
Dallas
Houston
University
University of Texas
Foster's Weather Bulletin Forecasts Major January Disturbance
The bulletin notes a continent wide disturbance January 14 to 18 with a warm spell January 18 to 17 and a cool spell January 16 to 20. It warns of high temperatures followed by a cold wave, snow in the Rockies and Northeast, and broad impact on winter wheat and bread supplies. It emphasizes frost risk to standing crops and a danger period January 1 to 4.
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Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Great Central Valleys
Nature
Earth
W. T. Foster
Washington
Rockies
Weather Talk on Providence and Rain
A folksy poem by James Whitcomb Riley on weather and fate. It compares grumbling about rain to trusting Providence, noting farmers face cycles of too much or too little sun and wind. The speaker urges acceptance and humor, ending with a playful nod to the poet.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Still Quiet at Ojinaga
Rebels have not appeared to renew the attack on Ojinaga today as reports from Presidio Texas note no fighting and no new actions by the insurgents this day.
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Ojinaga
Presidio
Tex
Volunteer Conventions Unite Students Across Nations at Kansas City
The world wide Student Volunteer movement held its largest convention yet in Kansas City Missouri with about 4500 students from 800 colleges in the United States and Canada. Leaders like John R Mott and William Jennings Bryan spoke on spreading Christ teachings and promoting world peace. Texas sent over 100 delegates by special train from Dallas Fort Worth to join the event and support future missionary efforts.
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America
United States
Kansas City
Mississippi River
Mott
Europe
Japan
China
India
Canada
Jesus
John R. Mott
George Sherwood Eddy
William Jennings Bryan
Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
A. L. Hodgson
Ten Commandments Of The Mail Order House
The American Fair Trade League of New York publishes a satirical Ten Commandments list for catalog house patrons. It mocks cash sales, advance payments, and geographic bias while urging reliance on the vendor’s practices and local church appeals. The text critiques preferred customer behavior and hints at anti rural road and church fund dynamics.
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American Fair Trade League
New York
School House a Social Center for Community Welfare
Mrs. F. O. McKinsey argues in Farm and Ranch that schools should serve as social hubs where families, teachers, and neighbors gather to improve democracy and community life. She warns against distractions from efficiency and urges active participation in schooling, farming discussions, and local issues to build a better world for future generations.
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F. O. McKinsey
Coal Mine Disaster Traps Ten in Alabama Shaft
An explosion at the Davis Creek coal mines in Birmingham entombed ten or twelve men including the foreman. All are believed dead while forty others were rescued. The incident occurred today as rescuers worked at the pit.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Davis Creek
Installation of Church Officers At First Methodist
At the 11 oclock service tomorrow all church officers for the new year will be installed, and a quartet will render special music. All stewards and officers in the Sunday school and the Woman s and Young Ladies Missionary Societies are urged to attend. The public is invited.
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First Methodist Church
Woman's and
Young Ladies’ Missionary Societies
Catskill Aqueduct Blast Opens New Water Link
New York January 10 a dynamite blast four hundred feet underground broke the last barrier to the Catskill Aqueduct. The tube will supply New York with five hundred million gallons of water daily after nine years of work costing one hundred sixty million dollars and ranked second only to the Panama Canal by engineers.
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New York
Catskill Aqueduct
Celebrated 80th Birthday of Uncle Abe Hensarling
Uncle Abe Hensarling marked his eightieth birthday at the Steep Hollow home of Mr. and Mrs. R L Buchanan. Family members and many guests, including old settlers from the first celebration, joined in a grand dinner and fellowship as Abe appeared cheerful with children and grandchildren surrounding him.
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Abe Hensarling
R.L. Buchanan
Steep Hollow
Abe
T. A. Hensarling
George Hensarling
Philip Hensarling
J. L. Hensarling
R. L. Buchanan
Miss Lou Ware Fund Appeals for Aid After Fall Injury
The Eagle reports donations to the Miss Lou Ware Fund from readers including a Dallas woman now living in the city and an accompanying note that Miss Lou was badly injured by a fall last August and has since been hospitalized on crutches. Readers are urged to send contributions.
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Miss Lou Ware
Ccc
Phee Keke Tress
Navasota
the Eagle
Dallas
Miss Lou
Steel mills to resume operation Monday
Orders posted at independent steel mills place plants in full operation Monday, affecting about four thousand idle workers in Pittsburg Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
Independent Steel Mills
Democratic prohibition group sets county basis for state slate
In Dallas on January 10 the executive committee of the state Prohibition party met in secret to decide representation rules for the upcoming state convention. Sixteen of thirty-one members attended, and a later session aimed to establish how each county votes will determine its share of delegates based on the last election.
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Dallas
Tex
State Gemocratic Prohibitionist Organization
Associated Press
Death of Mrs Marietta Worley
Mrs Marietta Worley widow of Arthur Worley died at her Bryan home Friday January 9 at 6 55 am after a brief illness. Born Apr 19 1849 in Pickens County Alabama she lived in Texas since 1868 and in Bryan since. She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church and survived by three children a sister and a brother. Funeral conducted by Dr M E Weaver at the family home this morning.
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Marietta Worley
Arthur Worley
Alabama
Texas
Bryan
F. M. Law
Law
Worley
I. G. McGee
Anson
Albert Worley
Daisy Worley
E. J. Lynch
T. J. Prestridge
Long Beach
Cal
M. E. Weaver
Cardui Woman's Tonic Offers Hope for Mrs Vincent
Pleasant Hill North Carolina resident Mrs Walter Vincent describes three summers of worsening headaches and weakness then credits Cardui the woman’s tonic with full relief after three months. The ad touts Cardui as plant based gentle and claims over a million women helped in fifty years and invites readers to request instructions and a 64 page booklet from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
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Pleasant Hill
N. C
Walter Vincent
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Les’visory Dept
Chattanooga
Tern
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