Brazos County Club Plans Dallas Fair Encampment Trip
S C Evans notes six Brazos county boys may join the Dallas Fair encampment October 11 to 18 with winners chosen October 1 after county demonstrations of ten ears of corn and 20 bolls of cotton. Transportation costs, about seven dollars per boy, must be provided locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazos
S. C. Evans
Brazos County
Dallas Fair
Dallas Fair Association
Joe Cotropia
Steele’s Store Club
Brazos Valley
Joe
Bryan High
Better Health for Babies in Texas 1926
A health notice urges mothers to prefer breast feeding, register births promptly, and follow proper prenatal and infant care. It cites 80,483 Texas babies born in 1926 with 6,316 deaths before age one and stresses immunization, diet, water, sleep, avoiding medicines, and keeping babies at home to reduce mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Department of Health
Texas
Bureau of Child Hygiene
Austin
County road allotments set at fifty percent by commission
The commission outlined state and federal aid for several counties totaling about 668,488 for grading and drainage on 8.5 to 29 miles of highways. Houston Wilbarger Grayson Leon Lavaca and Val Verde received allocations with half the costs covered by the county. Sterling insisted on a fifty fifty basis prompting postponement of one allotment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
Crockett East
Wilbarger
Oklainton
Red River
Grayson County
Collin County
Preston Bend
Freestone
Madison County
Lavaecca
Val Verde County
Sterling
Teacher Should Have Effective Personality-Eby
Dr. Frederick Eby of the University of Texas urged that every schoolteacher should have the right to dates each night if she desires. Speaking at a Southwest Teachers institute, he argued traditional limits on women in teaching are obsolete and praised the idea as part of a true teacher’s personality and character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
San Antonio
Frederick Eby
School of Education
University of Texas
Southwest Teachers’ Institute
Eby
John Guy Fowlkes
University of Wisconsin
Millican Social News Reflects Visits and Travels
Misses Francis and Maydell Williams of Waco visit grandmother Mrs Emma Williams. Alma Williams returns from Mississippi with Mrs Poole. Several relatives travel between Conroe Houston and Dallas area. a car accident injures Mrs Gotham, Lillian, Georgie Earl, and a child but all recover. Local trips include Decatur Galveston and San Marcos. Students Erin and Doris Simpson near degrees. Houston and A M College plans noted. Labor Day gatherings and the note that school starts soon ends with a reflection on youth and parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle
Millican
Francis
Maydell Williams
Waco
Emma Williams
Alma Williams
Alma Lois
Mississippi
Poole
Williams
Gotcher
Lillian
Georgie Earl Dunlap
Conroe
Houston
J. W. Burrows
Causeway
Nannie Mae Williams
Lynchburg
K. T. Williams
Sandel
Dallas
Erin Simpson
San Marcos
Doris Simpson
Hattie Smith
Sam Houston
M. College
San Angelo
Joe McGregor
Malcolm
Mildred
Labor Day
Lois Gibergheim
Vinton
Iowa
Magic Valley
Sallie Cooner
Oklahoma
Harold Williams
Jim Sawyer
Beaumont
WeevilsRedraw Bryanber Meeting At Y Building
Mrs. F. L. Thomas president urges full attendance as plans for the year are set. Dr. W F Odom of Kurten reports severe boll weevil impact in Brazos county saying one boll had thirty punctures. Meeting moved to 9 30 o clock at the Y building in College Station instead of Thursday as announced.
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R. R. Reppert
Extension Service
Jim Tobias
Steep Hollow
College Station
F. L. Thomas
Brazos County
W. F. Odom
Kurten
Bryan
Rainbow Girls’ Assembly No. 41
Masonic Temple
Gussie Ballerstedt
Dorothy Graham
Ellis Ballerstedt
Katherine Bullard
Gussie Odom
Ethel Ferguson
Margaret Buchanan
Lucile Ayres
Mildred McKenzie
Frances Davis
Joyce Smith
Minnie Lee Ayres
Bess McGee
Lillian Davis
Marjorie Cavitt
Lois Brown
M. R. Bentley
Hazel Adams
Monike Wheeler
Mary Elizabeth Smith
Rainbow Assembly
Bentley
Noted Pianist Lottie Moody Visits Bryan Tex
Mrs. Lottie Hensarling Moody of Stephenville Texas visits Bryan living with sister Mrs A C Williams on East 24th Street. A graduate of Chicago Cosmopolitan School of Music and Dramatic Art she recently completed an M A degree and gave a recital in Chicago. She plans further study and hopes to return to Bryan for a recital.
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Lottie H. Moody
Chicago Dramatic School
Bryan
Lottie Hensarling Moody
Stephenville
Texas
A. C. Williams
East 24Th Street
Moody
Brazos County
T. A. Hensarling
Jess F E. Hensarling
Cosmopolitan School of Music and Dramatic Art
Chicago
Ill
L Kimball Building
First Houston Court Minutes Reveal Convictions and Harsh Punishments
Records show the 1837 Houston district court sentencing a murder convict to be hanged, a forgery offender to the same fate, and a thief to scourging and branding. The court’s early era reflected English law. jail conditions and slave dynamics drew scrutiny from a later grand jury.
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Houston
Associated Press
District Court
Texas
Congress
Benjamin C. Franklin
John W. Moore
Grand
Man Who Knew Lincoln Dead Man Who Knew Lincoln Dead
Alva W. Sanders 80 died at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston after forty years in the city. He claimed to have seen Abraham Lincoln and to have known Mary Todd Lincoln. Sanders, a private figure, reportedly belonged to a Ku Klux Klan branch and amassed a fortune over 100000 while working on the waterfront and a dredge boat. He owned property in Georgia and Texas and spent much time at Rosenberg Library.
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Galveston
Alva W. Sanders
John Sealy Hospital
Sanders
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Todd
Lincoln
Erigenna Ku Klux Klan
Georgia
Texas
Rosenberg Library
Nueces County Farmer Receives Half Base Cotton Per Acre Planted
A Nueces county farmer, J. W. Regmund, reports planting 92 acres of cotton and harvesting 59 bales. He says most of his crop sold below 20 cents per pound as prices rose for a time. His family from Corpus Christi visits his brother F. F. Regmund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nuece
J. W. Regmund
Corpus Christi
Correction notice for Brazos County Mothers Club meeting
A corrected notice calls a meeting at 3 30 p m Friday September 9 at the College Y M C A parlors for Brazos County A M Mothers Club members and supporters. Important business will be transacted and a large attendance urged per president Mrs F L Thomas. The meeting had been wrongly announced for Thursday.
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College Y. M. C. A
Brazos County
A. and M. Mothers’ Club
F. L. Thomas
Sam W Law fatally stabbed in Cameron cotton picker area
Sam W Law a prominent Cameron farmer was probably fatally stabbed while hunting cotton pickers in the city’s negro section. He was wounded in the lung and kidney and died shortly after reaching the hospital. Nora Moore, a Black woman, is jailed on charges related to the stabbing.
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Cameron
Sam W. Law
Nora Moore
Law
Americans Feel Friendly Toward People Of France
Edwin Robert Petre argues Americans should view France as their own country Inspired by Benjamin Franklin saying every man has two countries He notes many Americans visit France and praise it while some critics exist He urges pride in France and defending its customs in foreign criticism
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Benjamin Franklin
France
Europe
Finland
Czechoslovakia
America
Franklin
Edwin Robert Petre
Thirteen buttons on sailor trousers mark original colonies
A historical note explains that thirteen buttons across the top of a sailor's trousers symbolize the original thirteen colonies, linking uniform design to early American geography.
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United State
man grows 10 thousand on five acres near Harlingen
Harlingen report says George H. Pletcher, planting five acres west of town, earned about 10 000 dollars in 18 months from potatoes beans palms and grapefruit trees. Starting January 1926 he harvested 730 bushels of Irish potatoes and later produced palm trees beans and improved fruit value, totaling roughly 10 350 dollars from five acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Harlingen
George H. Pletcher
Pletcher
Plethcer
Brenham Banker T A Lowe Named to Park Board
Austin dispatch reports Gov Dan Moody names Brenham banker T A Lowe to fill the Washington Park Commission vacancy. Lowe confirmed he will accept the appointment.
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Brenham
Moody
Austin
T. A. Lowe
Washington Park Commission
Dan Moody
Lowe
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C. L. Benson
Sterling Evans
American Jersey Cattle Club
Chamber of Commerce
J. C. Anderson
M. D
Baby
Rainbow Girls
Brazil
Amazon River
Pamelia Mann
James W. Robertson
Republic
Ben R. Milam
Stephen F. Austin
Nacogdo‘shes County
Free State For
Cameron Farmer
Eagie
Ford
Chambers
Wilson Motor Co
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