No Dancing Planned for Neff Inauguration Ceremony
Austin reports no dancing or inaugural ball will accompany Pat M. Neff’s Texas governor inauguration in January. Neff says he will name top aides after Mexico trip and daily letters of application flood in from across the state. He denies Lewelling’s rumored appointment and mentions talks with Dallas officials and Taylor University trustees.
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Associated Press
Austin
Pat M. Neff
Texas
Dallas
Mexico
Laredo
Neff
Waco
Dwight L. Lewelling
Lewelling
Mr. Neff
Daylor University
Rat Contest Proposed for Boy Scouts in City
D A Huddleston of Corpus Christi calls for a rat contest among Boy Scouts across cities. Rats killed must reflect city population. only scouts count kills and tail ends submitted to a reputable committee. Contest begins December 15 for ten days with encouragement from local businesses and agencies. Extension Service A&M College provides details.
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D. A. Huddleston
Corpus Christi
A. & M. College
Prisoners Granted Thanksgiving Furlough by Governor Brough
Little Rock Nov 25 Gov Brough granted a Thanksgiving furlough to Dr A H Housley formerly a Hot Springs VA and prisoner serving one year for receiving stolen property. He also granted a furlough to Jeff Hines Texarkana serving 21 years for murder. Four more names added to pardon list bringing total to eighteen.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
A. H. Housley
Hot Springs
Ark
State Penitentiary
Brough
Housley
Jeff Hines
Texarkana
Secretary Colby to South America on Florida
Secretary of State Colby accompanied by Rear Admiral Frank Bassett and Major General Adelbert Cronkhite sails from Hampton Roads on the battleship Florida to visit the governments of Brazil and Uruguay and to make an unofficial stop in Argentina. Walter J. Coulter travels to Austin to watch the game.
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Associated Press
Washington
Colby
Frank Bassett
Adelbert Cronkhite
Hampton Roads
Florida
South America
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Negro College Sees Ten Years Without A Football Defeat
Atlanta Nov 25 The end of the 1920 football season finds one southern Negro college with a record of only one defeat in twenty years Morehouse College an Atlanta institution has not lost a game in ten years prior to and since that time the word defeat has been used only for its opponents The team has played annually against leading Negro schools such as Tuskegee Institute Atlanta University and Morris Brown
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Associated Prep
Atlanta
Morehouse College
Morehouse
Tuskegee Institute
Atlanta University
Morris Brown
Silent Thanksgiving Day for Sena. Harding in Canal Zone
Ancon Panama Zone November 25. Senator Harding and Mrs. Harding observed Thanksgiving quietly in the tropical sun while the President-Elect dined as a guest in Colonel Chester Harding's home, governor of the Canal Zone. Tonight Harding will attend a banquet and reception hosted by President Porras of Panama.
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Associated Press
Ancon
Canal Zone
Harding
Chester Harding
Senator Harding
Porras
Panama Republic
State officials study pink boll worm in Mexico
Austin Texas November 25 George B Terrell Texas agricultural commissioner elect Dr M C Tanquary entomologist College Station and Professor R F McDonald chief motorist 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. F. McDonald
State Department of Agriculture
Mexico
Texarkana Native A R Johnson Dies At 60
A R Johnson aged sixty a Texan from Cleburne Texas died of a sudden heart stroke at a local Texarkana hospital this morning after living in Cleburne more than thirty years.
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Associated Press
Texarkana, Ark
A. R. Johnson
Cleburne
Texas
Venizelos Despondent Over Greek Election Defeat
Paris reports former Greek premier Eleftherios Venizelos is despondent after his November 14 defeat and may retire. Sophocles Venizelos, his son, says the elder statesman is disgusted, ponders in silence, and will await Allied plans before deciding on politics again.
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Associated Press
Paris
Venizelos
Grece
Greece
Sophocles Venizelos
Nice
Coal Miners Accept Terms End Mexican Strike in Coahuila
Eagle Pass Texas reports the end of a coal miners strike in Coahuila Mexico with workers returning to work under government terms. The agreement includes a twenty percent wage increase after eleven thousand miners quit October 11 seeking a one hundred percent raise. Federal troops intervened as mines in the Monclova district were affected and later returned to owners.
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Associated Press
Eagle Pass
Texas
Coahuila
Mexico
Monclova
Iowa Treasurer Heads to Mexico for Obregon Inauguration
Des Moines Iowa November 25 M H Hoyt state treasurer and his wife and daughter depart today for San Antonio to join party officials from other states as guests of the Mexican government to observe the inauguration of Alvaro Obregon as president Hoyt represents Iowa on the invitation
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Associated Press
Des Moines
M. H. Hoyt
Iowa
San Antonio
Texas
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Hoyt
Grand Prairie Garage Fire Destroys Cars
A Grand Prairie garage housed thirty autos and burned early today. Loss estimated at $100,000 with Dallas fire units fighting the blaze for two hours before control. Cause remains undetermined.
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Associated Press
Grand Prairie
Dallas
Mob lynching hearings urged by National Equal Rights group
Boston reports Rev. M. Shaw president of the National Equal Rights league sent a request to Oswald Garison Villard and Miss Jane Adams, committee members, to continue sessions after the Irish inquiry to address lynchings of negroes. The request seeks facts and recall of mob murders and injustices.
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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 Texas Shooting
Paris Texas November 25 Buck Merrill charged with assault to murder in the shooting of M W Thomas at Pecan Gap last Saturday night. Merrill held after an examining trial before Justice R D Humphries and committed to Cooper jail in 9000 bail. Two other youths charged with complicity were committed in default of 5000 bail each. The wounded man is in a sanitarium in serious condition.
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Paris
Texas
Buck Merrill
M. W. Thomas
Pecan Gap
Justice of the Peace
R D. Humphries
Cooper
Board of Control Claims Saving From Grocery Contract Delays
The Texas Board of Control saved about 1 000 000 by not signing a yearly grocery and dry goods contract for state eleemosynary institutions. A. R. Johnson said ninety day contracts were used due to volatile markets and expected price declines. He noted sugar, flour, meal, and dry goods have fallen sharply since September with further drops expected.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Texas Board of Control
A. R. Johnson
Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Mexicans on Border Raise Alarm Over rebel bands
Reported presence of former Carranza generals Lucio Blanco and Alfredo Ricaut along the lower U S border near Matamoros raises concern among authorities. Pursuit troops say the raiding band from Ramirez remains uncaptured. Also noted is the tainted Ta maulpias governor race and potential realignment of defeated candidates with anti government groups. Blanco and Ricaut reportedly staying near Cameron and north of Brownsville, with no active involvement disclosed.
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Associated Press
Brownsville
Texas
Carranza
Lucio Blanco
Alfredo Ricaut
Mexico
Matamoros
Ramirez
Tamaulpias
Luiz Cabellero
Cesar Lopez de Lera
General Blanco
Cameron
Kicaut
Methodists Push National Sabbath Law Against Sunday Trains
North Carolina Methodist Conference unanimously backs a federal law to ban Sunday trains newspapers mails and post offices and to establish Sunday as a rest day for federal and interstate workers. The move parallels actions by other Southern conferences and religious bodies. Referred by Rev. R L Davis of the Anti Saloon League and supported by Noah W Cooper of Nashville.
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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
Noah W. Cooper
Nashville
Europe
Year's profits buy a pair of socks in Cumby tale
In Cumby Texas a farmer who rented land and grew cotton had 60 cents left after rent and gathering costs from selling a bale. He spent the money on a pair of hose, a small fortune compared with a Temple farmer who bought shoes from his cotton profits.
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Cumby
Tex
Temple
Ponent
Aggies Longhorns Battle for Southwestern Championship
Eighteen thousand fans fill the stadium as the Longhorns and Aggies square off for the Southwestern championship. Both squads report fine condition and readiness as the first whistle nears.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Arkansas May Have a Chance in Southwestern Title Fight
Arkansas University clashes with Rice Institute in a pivotal Southwestern contest. If Arkansas wins, they would tie the Austin winner for the Southwestern lead and a postseason game could settle the championship.
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Associated Press
Houston
Arkansas University
Rice Institute For Southwestern
Texas University
Texas Aggies Austin
Arkansas
Austin
Southwestern
Turkey to Eat Not to Fight: Cuero Turkey Tales
Cuero Texas November 25 readers discuss the White House yard fight between the Texas and Kentucky turkeys sent for Thanksgiving. Cuero turkey lovers note that eating turkeys differ from fighting ones and praise the 38 pound Texas gobbler fed for tenderness. They challenge Kentucky breeders to prove their birds in a rematch.
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Cuero
Texas
White House
Kentucky
Wilson
Thanksgiving Day Observed in Bryan by Churches
Bryan held a union Thanksgiving service at First Methodist Church led by Rev. W. N. Sholl of the Presbyterian Church. The sermon reflected on the harvest meaning, with residents celebrating in various ways from feasts to altruistic reflections.
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Bryan
First Methodist Church
W. N. Sholl
Presbyterian Church
Jurors Deadlocked in Arlington Assault Case
A jury in Fort Worth failed to reach a verdict in the case of Robert Loewe, nineteen, charged with criminal assault on a young girl near Arlington on November 1. He first confessed, then recanted. Judge Mosby ordered the jurors discharged. Meanwhile A W Kinnard and Jno Kosarek, with Brazos county farmers, plan to attend a United Cotton Growers meeting in San Antonio with Farm Bureau representatives.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Robert Loewe
Arlington
Mosby
Lowe
A. W. Kinnard
Jno. Kosarek
Brazos County
San Antonio
United Cotton Growers Association
Federal Farm Bureau
Several kinds of oil excitement 16 reported at Mexia and Groesbeck
Mexia Texas Nov 25 crowds pour in from Dallas Tulsa Fort Worth and other towns as oil fever grips the area after the Humphreys Petroleum Co well spurts fifty feet and walls of the derrick warp. Investors chase leases while farmers swap crops for oil acreage and Mexia braces for a new boom with plans for a 2 million dollar company.
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Mexia
Groesbeck
Texas
West Texas
Dallas
Tulsa
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
Humphreys Petroleum Company
Humphreys
Rodgers
Woodbine
E. A. Humphreys
Ira B. Humphreys
Denver
Colo
E. A. Humphrey
Humphrey
Freestone County
Iumphreys
Ranger
Humphreys Petroleum Co
John B. Means
Casper
Wyo
Means
Mexia Oil &Gas Co
Oil and Gas Corporation
Bank Cashier Shoots Self in Hotel Room
J. R. Connor cashier of the First State Bank of Ratcliff Houston County shot himself to death in his hotel room. Friends could not explain the act and believe it not tied to his banking duties. His father W. P. Connor is bank vice-president.
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Associated Press
Houston
J. R. Connor
First State Bank of
Ratcliff
Houston County
W. P. Connor
Ford Employees to Receive Bonus Funds Next January
Ford Motor company will start distributing bonus checks totaling over 7 million dollars to employees on January 1. Edsel B. Ford announced the bonuses reflect profits from the old higher prices now reduced.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Edsel B. Ford
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