Brazos County Teachers Institute convenes in Bryan
County Superintendent TW Parker calls the Brazos County Teachers Institute to meet at the East Side school in Bryan at 9 AM Monday September 21 1914 and continue through the week with sessions on best practices in schools discipline agriculture sanitation and home and school cooperation with multiple instructors and topics listed.
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East Side School
Bryan
TW Parker
Brazos County
Teachers’ Institute
East Side
Confederate pensions mailed to Texas veterans
Seventeen thousand Confederate pension warrants will be mailed to old soldiers in Texas, each for 22 dollars payable tomorrow for the quarter ending September 1. The total surpasses previous records, with 1,500 warrants for totally disabled veterans at 25 dollars each. Officials cite pension-law amendments and a 5 percent special tax as factors boosting applications and benefits.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Local Marriage Licenses Reported
Willie Lawless and Miss Mary Akins, Clint Jackson and Frances Allen, Pinkney Hawkins and Lillie Livingstone obtained marriage licenses in the period covered. The couples represent three unions recorded in the county clerk's office.
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Willie Lawless
Mary Akins
Clint Jackson
Frances Allen
Pinkney Hawkins
Lillie
President Wilson on Vacation Trip
President Wilson arrived at Windsor Vermont for a rest visit en route to the Summer White House at Cornish New Hampshire. He was tired from travel and planned full rest with only possible business being an executive order updating navigation laws per the Panama Canal act amendments.
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Associated Press
Windsor
Wilson
White House
Cornish
N. H
Cornish and
Mr. Wilson
Washington
Grayson
Country School Statistics for Texas Report
Data from the Texas State Department of Education shows 8500 country schools with 6500 one teacher. About 2000 operate under five months and 300 under three. The average term is 119 days. Of 506k white children ages 7 to 17 on farms, 416k are enrolled, leaving 90k out. Average daily attendance 257k. absence 249k. Forty six in every hundred farm children do not attend school.
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Austin
Tex
State Department of Education
Texas
Good Roads Call for Active Care and Sustained Interest
Homer D. Wade urges continuing support for highways beyond construction. He cautions against complacency once roads are built and warns against creating ruts that damage the work and harm future maintenance.
Rusk County Tops Texas in Fertilizer Purchases
Henderson Texas August 31 Rusk County leads Texas counties in fertilizer purchases with about 5000 tons bought for local farms last year. Texas farms using fertilizer number 16000 and the annual expenditure is around 600000 dollars.
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Rusk County
Henderson
Tex
Texas
Will It Be a Long War
Count Witte predicts a short war two or three months for Germany’s defeat. German sources offer a similar stance, suggesting a swift outcome.
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Count Witte
Germany
Winds of War and Peace Terms in Modern Conflicts
The piece weighs how war duration hinges on supply lines, armaments, and decisive tests of strength. It notes that rapid victory is not guaranteed and cites Bismarck’s 1871 peace, arguing that only moderate terms likely prevail for an early end, regardless of who wins.
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Bismarck
Sedan
Springfield
Mass
Sure of a Catch and Pleasantries Across the Page
A Kansas City Journal item presents a light verse about dreaming of big fish and fishing ideas. The piece includes a playful exchange about a third umpire and a note on a new role deciding legal questions in the game.
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Kansas City Journal
Ball Park Banter and Charitable Kisses Transcribed
Quotations reveal lighthearted chatter at a charity fair with a beauty college graduate boasting a dipalma. A playful office boy faces roasting while keeping coworkers informed. A man jokes his wife would scold him since 1895 for lateness as a baseball game ends.
Paris to Take Drastic Step in Defense Strategy
Washington reports a Military Governor of Paris order might require residents in the zone of action to burn their homes to clear approaches for fort defenses. The plan covers a 47 mile square ring around Paris with seventeen forts and an outer triple line, designed to repulse a siege with cross fire from adjacent forts.
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Associated Press
Washington
Paris
Neuilly
Versailles
Vincennes
Texas Legislature Eyes Full Thirty Day Session
Austin Sept 1 indications point to a full thirty day session with limited accomplishments after ten days. A bonded warehouse bill is expected but without a 10 cent ginners tax or state ownership. Governor Colquitt plans a divorce measure between gins and cotton oil firms amid probes of oil company charters.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
Senate
Colquitt
Texas
Weather Bulletin Predicts Two Weeks Of Varied Weather In Sept
A 1914 forecast notes disturbances from Aug 29 to Sept 2 and again mid September across the Pacific coast to the eastern sections. It warns of a stormy two-week period bringing rain, cool and warm waves, with advisories on sowing winter grain after Sept 21 and holding cotton and grain for market.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Great Central
Great Central Valleys
Equator
South America
Central Africa
East Indies
Australia
Borneo
New Guinea
Living at Home Uncle Leonard Sells Pears From Farm
Uncle Jimmy Leonard, three miles southwest of Bryan, thanks the editor for a bucket of fine pears. He has sold thirty bushels and nearly as many more to sell, with a strong market. His peaches, pears, plums, crab apples and preserves overflow his pantry amid a fine fall garden, and he notes the European war and high prices do not worry him personally.
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Jimmy Leonard
Bryan
Mr. Leonard
Leonard
Government detains 1000-ton corn cargo at Seattle
Officials seize a 1 000 ton Manchurian corn cargo in Seattle to test for wee vil infection and assess potential destruction. The action reflects concern over a plant disease and its impact on trade and agriculture.
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Seattle
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Ili
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A. B. Ford
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Stamford
Texas Good Roads Association
Severa
Gothard Oil
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Iowa
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