Housing discussion at D C meeting highlights rents issue
The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce met at 10:00 am with President E. J. Jenkins presiding. Directors discussed housing, urging fair rents for rooms and apartments, and the secretary was to guide housing inquiries and avoid recommending unreasonable prices. The group also addressed telegraph service hours, planned entertainment for teachers, and recruitment of new members. The meeting adjourned to September 13, 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan and Brazos County
J. M. Gordon
Sam B. Wilson
T. K. Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
W. H. Cole
Better Telegraph Service
Cole
John A. Moore
College Men To Put In Baby Chick Hatchery
Bryan to host a new poultry hatchery by F. W. Kazmeier and Thos. J. Conway of A. and M. College. A four acre site, concrete and hollow tile building, and a 150000 egg season capacity aim to hatch 100000 chicks yearly with custom hatching and egg sales from 2500 hens. Plans include expansion and modern facilities to benefit Brazos County farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Brazos County
Messrs
F. W. Kazmeier
Thos. J. Conway
Poultry Department
A. and M. College
Kazmeier Place
College Road
Conway
Brazos
Earthquake Toll Rises in Tivizzano Italy
Rome reports several hundred killed and many injured in a devastating earthquake at Tivizzano. Dispatches confirm widespread destruction and casualties across the affected county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Associated Press
Rome
Tivizzano
Hert
Airplane Race Headlines Labor Day Feature in Dallas
Labor Day in Dallas highlights a sixty mile airplane race from Love Field with five army planes, including a German Fokker, flying to Fort Worth and circling Taliaferro Field before returning to Dallas. The item appears amid other period advertisements and notices.
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Dallas
Texas
Love Field
Fort Worth
Taliaferro Feld
Fixing Cotton Prices Violates Texas Anti Trust Laws
Austin attorney general C M Cureton declines to participate in Dallas cotton seed price meeting declaring any agreement to fix cotton seed prices a violation of Texas anti trust laws. A Dallas consultation between United Cotton Growers Association of America and Texas division of American Cotton Association failed to unite but planned to appoint four members from each side to Houston to pursue a new merger plan.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
C. M. Cureton
Dallas
United Cotton Growers’ Association of America
American Cotton Association
Houston
610 Colored Man Fatally Injured by Trolley Car
Louis Vonner an elderly man over eighty was struck by the Bryan College Interurban trolley at College Morning. He was severely injured with a lacerated face jaw broken teeth knocked out stitches in facial wound a badly cut leg broken ribs nose bleeding from the ears and possible fatal outcome due to age. He was taken to College hospital for treatment.
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Louis Vonner
Bryan College
College Hospital
The
Eagle
Mr and Mrs Driver Return Home After Visit
Mr and Mrs J O Driver have returned to their Austin home after visiting Mrs E M Driver in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. J. O. Driver
Austin
E. M. Driver
Mrs W P Jones and Daughters Visit Town
Mrs W P Jones and her daughters Ardella and Willie visited in town today arriving from Harvey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Jones
Mises Ardella
Willie
Harvey
Harding outlines farming program at Minnesota State Fair
At the Minnesota State Fair Grounds on September 8 Senator Harding presented an agricultural program aimed at national self sufficiency and improving farmers' conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Minnesota State Fair Grounds
Senator Harding
Minnesota
Texas Democrats Plan Large Campaign Fund Drive
In Fort Worth on September 8 a Democrat committee led by J. A. Kemp of Wichita Falls discussed raising a $20,000 Cox-Roosevelt campaign fund. District and county chairmen will be named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
J. A. Kemp
Wichita Falls
Status of Texas Women Voters Not Yet Known
Austin Texas Sept 7 an opinion on how ratification of the federal suffrage amendment will affect Texas poll tax laws is expected from the Attorney General's Department once Acting Attorney General Keeling returns from the convention at Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Attorney General’s Department
Keeling
Fort Worth
MacSweeney Remains in Hunger Strike at Brixton
London reports Poor MacSweeney entering the twenty seventh day of hunger strike in Brixton prison. He is said to be a little brighter yet weaker and more exhausted this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
MacSweeney
Brixton Prison
Treasury targets illicit distilling with tighter still rules
Washington reports the Treasury Department will tighten regulations on the sale of stills and add checks to trace liquor users as part of the effort to end illicit distilling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Treasury Department
Seven Die From Poisoned Booze at Edgewood Arsenal
Baltimore reports seven civilian Edgewood arsenal employees died after drinking poisoned alcohol. One more victim’s condition is improved, bringing the total fatalities to seven with one recovery noted.
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Baltimore
Edgewood Arsenal
Texas Farm and Ranch road trip reveals mixed Texas progress
J P Holland chronicles a July to August automobile journey from Dallas to Galveston through Ellis Hill and McLennan counties. He notes good crops in most regions, improving highways in places, but severe mud and damaged roads in West to Hillsboro, and a hard drive through oil country near Hungerford and Hungerford.
West Texas A and M Plank Defeated in Democratic Platform
Special to the Eagle Fort Worth Texas Sept 8 The West Texas A and M College plank in the Democratic platform was voted down by the subcommittee five to one and by the full platform committee fifteen to eight Six members signed a minority report and it will go to the convention at 3 o clock The West Texas Chamber of Commerce claims they have enough votes in the convention to push it through The issue stems from underrepresentation of East Texas counties and light votes from Brazos area West Texas is represented at the convention Fort Worth Sept 8 Four With the platform adoption and a chairman yet undecided the State Democratic convention opens the second day of its session
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Chamber of Commerce
Central Texas Teachers’ Institute
A. and
M. College
A. M. Waldrop
West Texas A
W. C. Davis
Lee J. Rountree
Fort Worth
Sam B. Wilson
Trade Extension Committee
Eagle Printing Company
Ed Hall
A. F. Stasney
A. Navasod
A. Slovacek
I. Maniloff
J. B. Beers
A. P. Buchanan
Willie Rogers
Gerson Bros
John G. Flowers
Eberstadt
W. F. Doughty
Texas
A. and M. College
West Texas
A. & M. Plank
East Texas
West Texas A. and M. College
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Brazos
J. Rountree
Associated Press
Texas to Operate About 1500 Cotton Gins This Season
Austin September 7 Approximately 1500 cotton gins will operate in Texas this season to handle an estimated 3 000 000 bale crop per the Texas Bureau of Markets and Warehouses. No single gin dominates the state as several run at 250 bales daily and the largest in the world is in Mississippi with only 25 extra bales daily.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Texas Bureau of Markets and
Mississippi
F. G. Weinert
Bureau
J. S. Williams
Paris
Clarence Ousley
Fort Worth
Europe
Congress
United States
Weinert
Neff's Governor Runoff Leads Bailey in Texas Vote
Fort Worth reports Pat M. Neff holds a 75,615 vote lead over J. W. Bailey in the August 28 runoff for governor. With nearly all counties tallied, Neff 258,459 to Bailey 182,844 from 441,303 counted. 10,000 to 15,000 votes may still be unaccounted for.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Pat M. Neff
J. W. Bailey
Texas Election Bureau
Bailey
Neff
No Post Office In Cochran County
Dallas Texas September 6 Cochran County Texas which gained two in habitants in the last ten years and now has a population of 67 according to figures announced by the United States census bureau for 1920 dates its history back to the early settlement of West Texas and has less than one inhabitant per square mile The first census of the county was taken in 1900 when enumerators found twenty five residents In the following decade the county grew from 25 to 65 inhabitants then added two more in the next ten years Cochran County formed in 1874 from a larger county now east of it It lies on the Texas New Mexico line named for Robert Cochran who opened a frontier store before the Civil War Edwards is the only settlement reached by a small railroad from New Mexico Big ranches occupy most of the county There is no county organization and not even a post office in the county.
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Dallas
Texas
Cochran County
United States Census Bureau
West
Texas-New Mexico
Robert Cochran
Edwards
Cement Workers and Plasterers Win Big Raise
Fort Worth reports a new wage scale sets plasterers at twelve dollars per day and cement finishers at eleven, effective December 1. The raise totals one dollar per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Washington Closed for Labor Day Observance
Washington observes Labor Day with government offices closed and business generally suspended across the city. The holiday affects federal and local operations as workers take a day off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cotton Market Holds Near Yesterday Close
The cotton market closed essentially unchanged from yesterday with spots at 28 1 2 cents middling basis and cotton seed priced at 22.00 per ton. Read the advertisements.
Texas Farm Bureau Organized as Permanent State Body
Dallas scene as the Texas division of the American Farm Bureau Association is made permanent with headquarters in Dallas. C. C. Moser named secretary manager as a statewide drive aims for 100000 members. Conference to revise by laws and plan convention in Dallas with officials from A and M College and the U S Department of Agriculture.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
Texas
American Farm Bureau Association
Chamber of Commerce
C. C. Moser
State Farm Bureau
W. B. Lowry
Houston
Lee J. Rountree
Bryan
T. O. Walton
R. R. Lancaster
A. and
M. College
J. T. Orr
J. T. Tinsley
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad
C. O. Moser
Dallas County
Walton Peteet
Agricultural Department
The
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Bell County
Williamson County
Nacogdoches County
Texas Farm Bureau
Texas A. and M. College
U. S. Department of Agriculture
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D. C
Ruseu
Harding
Texas Democats
J. P. Holland
Texas Farm and Ranch
Lancaster
Waxahachie
Milford
Hillsboro
Ellis
Hill Counties
Ellis County
Hill County
McLennan
Waco
Temple
Holland
Bartlett
Granger
Taylor
Dalas
Hill
San Antonio
New Braunfels
Corpus Christi
Floresvile
Karnes City
Kenedy
Beeville
Tlour Bluff
Clines
Victoria
Linton
Refugio
Edna
Hungerford
Galveston
Marlin
Navasota
Bremond
Calvert
Leavi Marlin
Abbott
Hilsboro
West Tex. A. & M
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