No Dancing at Neff Inauguration Declared Official
Austin reports no dancing or inaugural ball will accompany Pat M. Neff’s Texas gubernatorial inauguration set for January. Neff clarified he has not yet chosen legislative topics and will name principal officers after a Mexico trip.
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Austin
Associated Press
Pat M. Neff
Texas
Dallas
Mexico
Laredo
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Neff
Daylor University
Rat Contest Proposed for Boy Scouts Citywide
D A Huddleston of Corpus Christi challenges Boy Scouts in other cities to enter a rat contest based on each city’s human population. All city scouts may join, counting only rats killed by scouts with tails submitted to a reputable committee. Contest runs Dec 15 for ten days with encouragement from local businesses and agencies. Further details from the Extension Service at A M College.
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D. A. Huddleston
Corpus Christi
A. & M. College
Furloughs Granted by Gov Brough to Five Prisoners
Little Rock November 25 Gov Brough granted Thanksgiving day furloughs to five inmates including Dr A H Housley once Hot Springs veterinarian and Jeff Hines Texarkana both serving sentences for theft and murder respectively. The list grew to eighteen names with last night’s addition.
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Little Rock
A. H. Housley
Hot Springs
Ark
State Penitentiary
Brough
Housley
Jeff Hines
Texarkana
Secretary Colby to Visit Brazil Uruguay Argentina
Secretary of State Colby with Rear Admiral Bassett and Major General Cronkhite sails from Hampton Roads aboard the Florida to pay official visits to Brazil and Uruguay and an unofficial stop in Argentina. Walter J. Coulter, a local Aggie enthusiast, also heads to Austin to see the game.
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Frank Bassett
Adelbert Cronkhite
Hampton Roads
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South America
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
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Aggie
Austin
Morehouse College Keeps Untarnished Football Record
The 1920 season ends with Morehouse College, a historically black school in Atlanta, holding ten years without a defeat. Only one prior loss in twenty years occurred ten years ago. since then Morehouse has faced top southern black teams like Tuskegee Institute, Atlanta University, and Morris Brown without losing.
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Atlanta
South College
Morehouse College
Morehouse
South
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta University
Morris Brown
Harding Guests Attend Quiet Canal Zone Thanksgiving
Senator Harding and Mrs. Harding spend Thanksgiving in Ancon Canal Zone under tropical sun. The President-Elect dines at Colonel Chester Harding's home, governor of the Canal Zone. He will be guest of honor at a banquet and reception hosted by President Porras of Panama tonight.
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Ancon
Canal Zone
Navy
Harding
Chester Harding
Senator Harding
Porras
Panama Republic
Texas officials go to Mexico to study pink boll worm
Austin Texas November 25 George B Terrell Texas agricultural commissioner elect Dr M C Tanquary entomologist College Station and Professor R F E McDonald chief entomologist of the State department of agriculture have gone to Mexico to investigate the pink boll worm situation. They expect to return within a week.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
George B. Terrell
Texas Agricultural
M. C. Tanquary
College Station
R. FE. McDonald
State Department of Agriculture
Mexico
Texarkana Native Dies After Sudden Stroke
A. R. Johnson, sixty, of Cleburne Texas, died after a sudden heart stroke at a Texarkana Arkansas hospital this morning. He had lived in Cleburne for over thirty years.
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Associated Press
Texarkana, Ark
A. R. Johnson
Cleburne
Texas
Venizelos Despondent Over Greek Election Defeat
Paris reports Former Premier Venizelos is despondent after the November 14 defeat and may retire from politics. His son Sophocles says the elder Venizelos is disgusted, pondering his future as he awaits Allied positions on Greece.
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Paris
Venizelos
Grece
Greece
Sophocles Venizelos
Nice
Coal Miners Accept Mexican Government Terms End Strike
Eagle Pass Texas reports that eleven thousand coal miners in Coahuila Mexico ended a strike on a wage increase of twenty percent after government mediation. Workers had quit October 11 seeking a one hundred percent raise, and federal troops were deployed to reclaim seized mines in the Monclova district.
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Eagle Pass
Texas
Coahuila
Mexico
Monclova
Iowa Treasurer Heads to Mexico for Obregon Inauguration
M. H. Hoyt Iowa state treasurer with his wife and daughter departed Des Moines at noon to join party officials in San Antonio to attend the inauguration of Alvaro Obregon as president of Mexico. Hoyt represents Iowa on the invitation from the Mexican government.
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Des Moines
M. H. Hoyt
Iowa
San Antonio
Exas
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Hoyt
Grand Prairie Garage Fire Wipes Out 30 Cars
An early morning blaze in Grand Prairie destroyed a garage housing thirty automobiles. Firefighters from Dallas battled the flames for two hours before gaining control. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars. Cause undetermined.
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Grand Prairie
Dallas
Investigate the Mob Murders Rally in New Hearings
Rev M Shaw president of the National Equal Rights League asks Oswald Garison Villard and Miss Jane Adams to join the one hundred committee in Washington to extend sessions after the present inquiry. The hearings will focus on lynching of negroes and injustices of mob murders and gathering facts for recall.
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Associated Press
Boston
Rev. M. Shaw
National Equal Tights League
Oswald Garison Villard
New York
Jane Adams
Chicago
Washington
Three Men Held After Pecan Gap Shooting
Paris Texas Nov 25 Buck Merrill charged with assault to murder in the shooting of M W Thomas at Pecan Gap last Saturday night had an examining trial before Justice of the Peace R D Humphries and was committed to jail at Cooper in default of 9000 bail. Two other young men charged with alleged complicity were committed in default of 5000 bail each. The wounded man brought to a sanitarium remains in serious condition.
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Paris
Texas
Buck Merrill
M. W. Thomas
Pecan Gap
Justice of the Peace
R. D. Humphries
Cooper J
Texas Board of Control saves about 1 million dollars
The Texas Board of Control saved roughly 1,000,000 by skipping a yearly groceries and dry goods contract for state eleemosynary institutions. Instead, 90 day deals were used, with prices already dropping sharply. The board will buy in open market as needed to maximize further declines.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Texas Board of Control
A. R. Johnson
Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Mexicans on border raise tension after rebel band raid
Reports from Brownsville and Matamoros note presence of former Carranza generals Lucio Blanco and Alfredo Ricaut along the lower border. Mexican troops chased a small group thought rebels after a raid on Ramirez, with no capture by early today. Local election results in Tamatlupias remain contested with both candidates claiming victory and possible shifting loyalties. Blanco and Ricaut are said to be living near Cameron and north of Brownsville respectively, but neither actively involved in Mexican affairs.
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Brownsville
Texas
Carranza
Lucio Blanco
Alfredo Ricaut
Mexico
Matamoros
Ramirez
Tamaulpias
Luiz Cabellero
Cesar Lopez de Lera
Blanco
Cameron
Ricaut
Methodists Endorse National Sabbath Law Against Sunday Trains
North Carolina Methodist Conference votes to back a federal Sabbath law to stop Sunday trains, newspapers, mails, and post offices to secure Sunday as a rest day for federal and interstate workers. The move mirrors actions by Southern conferences amid advocacy since 1919. Rev. R L Davis presents the resolution. Noah W Cooper warns of future decline without law.
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Associated Press
Rocky Mount
N. C
North Carolina Methodist Conference
Congress
Great Southern Methodist Conferences
Tennessee
R. L. Davis
North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League
Noah W. Cooper
Nashville
Europe
Year's profits buy a pair of socks in Cumby Texas
A Cumby man, after renting a cotton farm and tending a bale of cotton, had only 50 cents left after rent and gathering expenses, investing it in a pair of hose. His profits contrasted with a Temple farmer who could buy shoes from his bale.
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Tex
Temple
Aggies Longhorns Set for Southwestern Championship Showdown
Austin reports a mammoth crowd of eighteen thousand fans awaiting the Longhorn Aggies clash for the Southwestern championship. Both camps claim fine condition as the teams prepare for kickoff and a potential attendance record.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Mammoth
Arkansas University Poised to Challenge Rice in Southwestern Showdown
Houston reports Arkansas University faces Rice Institute in a Southwestern Conference clash seen as the league’s second most important game after Texas vs Texas A&M. A win could place Arkansas on par with the Austin game winner, with a postseason game possible to decide the championship.
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Southwestern
Texas Turkeys Challenge Kentucky For Thanksgiving Honors
In Cuero Texas protests over a White House turkey fight spill into local circles. Cuero turkey lovers insist the Texas bird weighed 38 pounds and was fattened for tenderness. They mock Kentucky breeders and issue a challenge to prove fighters win on the plate.
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Cuero
Texas
White House
Kentucky
Wilson
Thanksgiving Day Observed in Bryan by Churches
Thanksgiving was celebrated in Bryan with a union service at First Methodist Church at 10:30 AM led by the Pastor's Association. Rev W N Sholl of the Presbyterian Church delivered the sermon. The piece reflects varied meanings of harvest and gratitude among locals.
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Bryan
First Methodist Church
W. N. Sholl
Presbyterian Church
Jurors Hung in Arlington Assault Case
Fort Worth November 25 The jury trying nineteen year old Robert Lowe for criminal assault on a young girl at Arlington November 1st is hopelessly hung and may be discharged Judge Mosby reports Lowe confessed then recanted. A. W. Kinnard Jno Kosarek and Brazos county farmers depart for San Antonio to attend a United Cotton Growers meeting with Farm Bureau representatives.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Robert Lowe
Arlington
Mosby
Lowe
A. W. Kinnard
Jno. Kosarek
Brazos County
San Antonio
United Cotton Growers Association
Federal Farm Bureau
Oil Boom Hits Mexia as Well Spurs Stampede of Investors
Mexia Texas November 25 oil excitement spreads as Humphreys Petroleum’s well spouts fifty feet oil rich gusher drawing craftsmen traders and farmers from Dallas Tulsa Fort Worth and Wichita Falls. Demand for leases soars with prices rising and plans for a $2 000 000 oil company.
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Dallas
Tulsa
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Wichita Falls
Humphreys Petroleum Company
Humphreys
Rodgers
Woodbine
E. A. Humphreys
Ira B. Humphreys
Denver
Colo
E. A. Humphrey
Humphrey
Freestone County
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Ranger
Humphreys Petroleum Co
John B. Means
Casper
Wyo
Mr. Means
Mexia Oil &Gas Co
Oil and Gas Corporation
Bank Cashier Shot Then Kills Himself in Hotel Room
J. R. Connor cashier of the First State Bank of Ratcliff in Houston County shot himself to death in his hotel room in Houston. Friends could not explain the act and believe it not connected to bank business. his father W. P. Connor is vice-president of the bank.
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Houston
J. R. Connor
First State Bank of
Ratcliff
Houston County
W. P. Connor
Ford's Are Dividing the Bonus Money
Detroit reports that Ford Motor Company will distribute over 7 million in bonus checks to employees. Edsel B. Ford announced the payments, tied to old higher prices, with distributions set to begin January 1.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Edsel B. Ford
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