Bryan City Considers Taking Over Country Club for Golf and Pool
A Bryan city committee plans talks with the Bryan Country Club owners about a proposal to run the facility as a municipal golf course and swimming pool with net earnings used to liquidate the property debt. If profitable, the city would take title after debt payoff. otherwise the plan would be dropped.
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Bryan
Bryan Country Club
City of
Bryan and College
Country Club
Pay Your Poll Tax Emphasized Ahead of Elections
An editorial urges citizens to pay poll tax within age limits to vote in upcoming state and national elections. It frames tax payment as civic duty amid calls for efficient government and notes rising local costs and the risk of government waste. Citizens are urged to pay now and keep receipts for election days.
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Texas
United States Senate
United States
Reflectors Not Lights After Fatal Highway Crash
Following last Friday night’s highway tragedy on Highway No 6 three people died including a valued community member. The crash occurred when a car struck an unlit rear wagon. State justice of the peace across many counties have ignored highway patrols charging horse drawn carts with no lights. Early days of the highway patrol era.
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Highway No. 6
Growth and Cooperation for a City’s Future Development
A state of mutual faith and friendly cooperation links city and surrounding country. Strengthening present industries and expanding resources ensures long term growth, with industrial promotion as a key factor. Shared effort supports population, institutions, and overall city progress.
What small town stuff means and its value
The piece argues that small towns foster democratic equality, neighborly aid, and broad opportunity for leaders, while acknowledging downsides like stagnation and local rivalries. It urges cherishing and nurturing small towns and promoting industry to keep national prosperity broad-based.
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Ener
Editorial on railroads funding and receiverships gains support
Washington favors sinking funds to redeem bonds over refunding with new bonds and IMF like allowances in ICC rate cases. The piece notes that during 1930s crises several Class 1 railroads faced receivership, outlines funded debt versus stock, and cites high costs of past receiverships and new reorganization avenues under ICC supervision.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Central of Georgia
St. Louis-San Francisco
Seaboard
Wabash
RFC
Raods
Western Pacific
Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Act of Congress
Missouri Pacific
Chicago
Eastern Illinois
Rock Island
St. Louis
San Francisco
Fort Worth
Proposal for reflective devices on horse drawn wagons
The author notes thousands of cases with few convictions and urges inexpensive reflectors on horse drawn wagons to improve night visibility. He argues it would be better than nothing despite possible objections and cites lack of highway patrol cooperation with enforcing lights on horse drawn vehicles.
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Justice Courts
Highway Patrol
County Wide Stock Law Vote Feasible This July
The county considers a July primary to decide on a county wide stock law to keep highways clear of livestock. Earlier petitions failed due to precinct representation, but organizers plan improved circulation before the election. Safety concerns rise after recent accidents from animals on roads.
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County Commissioners Court
Justice
Kindergarten Work Moves Forward with Kurten Teachers
Miss Marguerite Buchanan and Miss Christine Lichte head the new kindergarten project under the CWA housed in the former Methodist Mission building on North Bryan Avenue. Buchanan and her cousin Miss Pansy Odom reside with Miss Carolyn Kern on West 24th Street while Mrs. W. E. Astin of Mumford visits Bryan before heading to Houston to see her daughter Ford Tyler. Mildred Eden returns from Houston after a visit with Miss Jane Keighley and Mrs. J. F. Pressley of Hearne drives to Bryan for a brief social visit.
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Marguerite Buchanan
Kurten
CWA
Pansy Odom
Carolyn Kern
West 24Th Street
Christine Lichte
North Bryan Avenue
W. E. Astin
Mumford
Bryan
Houston
Mrs
Ford Tyler
Mildred Eden
C. L. Eden
Jane Keighley
New York by Day Portraits of Mike Romanoff and Big City Life
A vivid New York diary notes Prince Mike Romanoff’s barroom charm at venues No 21 and Moriarty’s with crowds inviting drinks and witty banter. It also surveys Ben H Atwell’s Broadway lair, Miriam Hopkins’s rise, Dunhill’s shop style, and the gleam of New York fires and worn puppies windowed on East 47th Street.
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New York
Mike Romanoff
East 47Th Street
Frame-up adviser guides discreet inquiries in New York clubs
A private contact offers magazine article disposal advice for 15 dollars a visit while posing as part of elite social circles. She pressures clients in hotel rooms with a husband present, touting a finishing-school background in Virginia and claiming multiple calls weekly from private detective agencies.
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Hussy
Virginia
Twenty Five Years Ago in Bryan Morning Eagle Jan 16 1909
Recap of A O U W lodge meeting installation by J G Minkert and G W Higgs with officers named. Afterward members dined at Holmes Bros restaurant on oysters. Local Gulf Refining agent Ben Priddy appointed. J H White of Wixon delivered 81 pounds of country sausage sold at Bullock's. Alf Wilson left for plantation near Mumford. Senator Bradfield proposal on statewide prohibition to vote Aug 3, ruled premature but to be reintroduced.
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Bryan Morning Eagle
A. O. U. W. Lodge
J. G. Minkert
G. W. Higgs
White
Bullock’s
Alf Wilson
Brazos Valley
Mumford
Bradfield
Canning Project Trials Open as Community Seeks Interest
A local chamber committee is named to plan a beef canning project under a share system. They seek county interest and aim to recreate the cannery after a prior run canned 92 beeves from districts including Brazos Robertson Grimes Washington Austin Burleson Madison Houston Leon Milam and Walker, yielding 155 215 cans averaging about one and a quarter pounds each.
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Chamber of Commerce
Brazos
Robertson
Grimes
Washington
Austin
Burleson
Madison
Houston
Leon
Milam
Walker
Revival of Whittling Draws Diverse Guild Members
Amarillo January 16 The Home Workshop Guild revives the nearly forgotten craft of whittling alongside wood carving metal work and hand forging. Members include doctors merchants engineers printers and ministers who have already donated over 100 handmade toys and furnishings to charity. Meetings occur biweekly with skilled artisans presenting lectures and critiquing each other’s work all for charitable purposes.
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Amarillo
Home Workshop Guild
Austin Police Boss Tops City Pistol Tourney At New Range
Austin police chief Raymond Thorp led newspapermen at a pistol tournament held at the new police pistol range in Zilker Park. The event showcased defense skills and featured a barbecue as a social wrap up. Bill Ni, the top shooter, claimed the annual trophy with a score 770, 7 and 760 across three years.
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Austin
Ramond
Thorp
Tin Police
Bwest 1 Capital
Zilker Park
Barton Springs
Mark&m
Park
Cit
Bill Ni
New Experiments In Curing Hams At Sub Station
At Texas state temperature station in Lubbock Don L. Jones oversees third annual ham curing and storage trials. Ten hogs were processed at College Station with Fred Hale assisting. Hams cure times range from one and a half to three days per pound with four storage methods including lime and seed oil.
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Lubbock
Texas
State Ceperature
Don L. Jones
Supe Intendent
Réy Sament
College Sta
Fred Hale
Swift
U. S. Department of Agricuture
Evans Assumes Presidency of Houston Federal Bank
S. C. Evans traveled to Houston on Monday to begin duties as president of the newly organized federal bank in the city. He will be joined there soon by another executive as the bank begins operations.
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S. C. Evans
Houston
Dutis
Federal Bank
Major Ocker Ordered to Court Martial at Kelly Field
Major William C. Ocker, noted producer of blind flying instruments at Kelly Field in San Antonio, is ordered to appear before a court martial on January 18 on charges of making improper statements about a superior officer. Associated Press photo.
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Seattle
Prince Alexis
Mdivanis
San Francisco
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth Millions
Japan
Associated Press
William C. Ocker
Kelly Field
San Antoni
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West 42Nd Street
Poverty Heights
Ben
Tom-Toms
Butte
Walla Walla
Dunhill
New Radio City
Nue
Miriam Hopkins
Tallulah Bankhead
Miss Hopkins
Miss Bankhead
Louisiana
Lou Holtz
Union Club
Union League Club
Union League
Union
Upper Park Ave
Cannery
Capitol
Charles Simons
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