Long Political Career Highlights From Early 20th Century Figures
The article surveys U S politicians and leaders from 1920s America and Europe including Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington a Ways and Means candidate and inflationist senator Elmer Thomas. It notes Gore Pryor and Pryor Gore, Oklahoma politicians, and German church leader Dr Ludwig Mueller amid Nazi era church matters. It also profiles Puerto Rico governor appoints and scholar Dean Inge of St Pauls with career milestones and honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Thomas
Manhattan
George LeBlanc
Oklahoma
LeBlanc
Cheaper Money
Thomas
DePauw
Bryan
Indiana
Indian Territory
Lawton
Thomas Pryor Gore
U. S Senate
U. S. Senate
Gore
Congress
Washington
Organization of corn hog control groups outlined
The plan assigns contract signups and local administration to county corn hog control associations. Signers gain voting membership in their association, with county boards elected by contracting producers and each community electing a 3 to 5 member permanent committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Corn-Hog Control Association
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
New Book on Texas Indian Compact by Claudia W Norvell
An autographed edition of Texas by Claudia W Norvell arrives at The Eagle via editor Mrs Lee J Rountree. The book, previously copyrighted in 1938 and published by Southwest Press Dallas, chronicles the Hosainas Confederacy of Indians and their “Vanished People” who gave Texas its name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Claudia W. Norvell
Lee J. Rountree
the Eagle
George W. Smith
Southwest Press
Dallas
Held for Attack on Nita Rooks
Jimmie Burden a young Black man was jailed Friday night by Sheriff J H Reed on a charge of criminally attacking Nita Rooks a young Black girl in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Burden
J. H. Reed
Nita Rooks
Early Bryan Advertisements Provide 1870 Snapshot
A yellowed 1870 issue of The Weekly Bryan Appeal preserved by A J Buchanan offers a vivid glimpse of Bryan Texas and Brazos county. Ads name Parker Flippen Bank on Main and East 26th, Morse’s Five and Ten on the corner later housing First State Bank, and W B Morse as local pioneer merchant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Brazos County
Anya
the Eagle
Albert Buchanan
Bryan Appeal
A. J. Buchanan
Bryan Folk
William Lamdin
Waco
Texas
M. B. Parker
Mary
Parker Carr
M. L
G. S. Parker
Allen
John Carr
W. H. Flippen
J. A. McQueen
Marion Foot
Parker and Flippen Bank
East 26Th
Main Street
McQueen Pharmacy
McQueen
United States
Calvert
W. B. Morse
Morse
First State Bank and Trust Company
Morse’s
Tyler Haskvell
Relia
Haswell
Tyler Haswell
Funeral Service Set Thursday for Bedias Man Carroll McAdams
Bryan reports the death of Carroll McAdams at his Bedias home after a brief pneumonia. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday from the Bedias residence with interment in Bedias cemetery. Survived by widow Lois Rollo, his parents Mr. and Mrs. Roger McAdams, grandmother Mrs. R. S. McAdams, and relatives in Madison, Grimes and Brazos counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Carroll McAdams
Roger McAdams
Bedias
W. H. Holzman
College
Claude McAdams
Lois Rollo
Huntsville
R. S. McAdams
Madison
Grimes
Brazos Counties
Texas Centenary Halves to Feature Alamo Design
Texas plans silver half dollars minted for the 1936 centennial with an Alamo image and other Texas emblems. Coins, 1.5 million minted at $1 each, proceeds funded for a Texas museum on UT grounds, coordinated by Senator Tom Connally, Rep. Wright Patman, and the American Legion state centennial committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jacinto
Texas Independence
Texas Museum
University of Texas Regents
Texas
H. L. Darwin of
Austin
The
American Legion
Washington
Brazos county directors reshuffle as Weddington resigns
At a morning meeting D L Weddington resigned his post as agricultural adjustment duties conflicted with his director role. John M Lawrence Jr was elected to succeed him. Directors urged citizens to pay poll taxes for Brazos county to function in the coming elections and discussed Texas highway funding and continued federal aid. A committee was formed to attend the Interstate Commerce Commission meeting in Dallas on cotton freight rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Weddington
Jno
M. Lawrence Jr
Brazos County
Col
Ike
Ashburn
Texas Good Roads Association
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dallas
Gulf Ports
J. Webb Howell
M. L. Parker
J. E. Stanford
Wilson Bradley
Travis B. Bryan
J. S. Caldwell
J. F. Casey
Charles H. Edge
Tyler Haswell
I. Maniloff
W. R. McCullough
Daniel Russell
James Sullivan
C. C. Todd
D. L. Wilson
D. W. Williams
Spur Experiment Station Records Big Cotton Crop
Spur Experiment Station reports a 7.57 acre tract yielded 410.10 dollars from cotton with 14 inch rainfall, an average 55.21 dollars per acre, on land bought in 1928 for 50 per acre. The water conservation plots show high yields, totaling 166 acres and 130 bales of 500 pounds each with harvest continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
The
Agricultural Experiment Station
Spur Experiment Station
Spur Station
Wanted clean cotton rags by Eagle Printing Company
The Eagle Printing Company seeks clean cotton rags that are not in ribbons for solvent processing and paper making needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Printing Company
Texas Grants Veteran Medal For Spanish American War Vets
A joint resolution of the 43rd Texas legislature honors veterans who served in wartime. The new medal benefits residents who served in the army navy or Marine Corps during Spanish American war Mexican border Mexican expedition or World War I. Applications available from The Adjutant General Austin Texas.
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Robert H. Gore
Puerto Rico
Roosevelt
Blanton Winship
Enoch Crowder
Cuba
Coolidge
Philippines
Liberia
General Winship
U. S. Army
Texas
United States Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Adjutant General
Austin
Route Beautification District appoints county chairs
Mrs. Frank W. Sorell of San Antonio, district chairman, outlines a plan for women to lead highway beautification in 25 divisions. She assigns county seats chairs, reports to the state head, with Brazos County naming Mrs. W. B. Cline as county chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank W. Sorell
San Antonio
State Highway Department
Lee J. Rountree
The
Eagle
State Highway Commission
Madison
Milam, Robertson
Washington
Walker
W. B. Cline
Brazos County
Negro teachers enroll in extension course at Kemp School
Twenty five negro school teachers from Bryan and Brazos county join the Samuel Huston College extension program at Kemp high school in Bryan. Enrollment closes Saturday January 27. prospective students should contact Principal R C Neal at the Kemp school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Brazos County
Kemp High School
Samuel Huston College
Austin
R. C. Neal
Kemp
Neal
Kemp School
Typewriter Paper-Box 506 Sheets 8x11 Bond Paper
Box of typewriter paper containing 506 sheets of 8 by 11 inch bond paper. Priced at 80 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bond
Eagle Printing Company
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Samuel Billingsley Hill
House
Ways and Means
Hill
Charles J. Myers
Wall Street
Federal Reserve Board
Ways and Means Committee
Franklin
Ark
University of Arkansas
Waterville
Douglas County
Superior Court of
Douglas
Grant Counties
Thomas Pryor
Walthall
Miss
Cumberland University
Mississippi
St. Louis
People’s Party
Democratic Party
Illinois
Ohio
New York
Territorial Council
U. S S
Democratic National Committee
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Reichsbishopric
Ludwig Mueller
Reichsbischof
Mueller
Hitler
Reichsbishohof
Evangelical Church
Reinhold Krause
Dr. Krause
Halle
Sir William Ralph Inge
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Dean Inge
England
George Bernard Shaw
Eton
Cambridge
Oxford
All Saints
Jesus College
St. Paul’s
Inge
George
British Academy
Aberdeen
Durham
Sheffield
Edinburgh
St. Andrews
Gen
William Ralph Inge
Texas Indian Compact
Spur
Veteran’s Medal
Times
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