Aggies Open 1929 Football Camp With First Day Rush
Texas A M began its 1929 football training at College Station with 52 of 59 invited players reporting. Twelve returning lettermen led by Captain Tommie Mills Groesbeck Brooks Conover and Ralph Dorsey featured in two hours of morning and afternoon drills under Head Coach Matty Bell.
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College Station
Texas Aggies
Matty Bell
Aggie
Tommie . Mills
Groesbeck
Brooks Conover
Dallao
Mills
Bible
Dansby
Dorsey
Conover
Clark
Marshall
Sebesta
Marlin
Talk Happiness Chums Readers With Positive Message
The column urges daily happiness and positive talk. It dismisses constant complaints and encourages seeking joy in life’s byways. It frames happiness as a shared companion, suggesting a stranger may be influenced by optimistic chatter.
Mrs H D Williamson Under Observation In Temple Hospital
The notice says Mrs. H. D. Williamson spends the week in Temple under hospital observation due to illness in recent weeks. Charles Friley, son of Dean Charles Friley of A and M College, is visiting his grandparents at Palm Court apartments and will return soon to be a high school student at College Station.
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H. D Williamson
Temple
Williamson
Charles Friley
A. and M. College
W. A. Wood
Palm Court Apartments
College Station
Waco News- Tribune
Woman escapes fire by improvised rope from second story
Mrs J L Cobb awoke to flames in a second story front bedroom on South Washington Avenue. With stairs cut off she lowered herself to the ground using a rope made from a bed sheet. The Cobb home interior burned through, losses estimated at 3500 dollars. neighbor L E Sykes’s house nearby was scorched but saved.
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J. L. Cobb
Cobb
Washington Avenue
L. E. Sykes
Cotton market slips as futures fall again
The cotton market edged lower with futures down 18 to 20 points. New cotton quotes weakened to 18 1 4 to 19 1 4 cents.
Football as Sport and Training for Youth Emphasized
Coaches from A and M College Allen Academy and Bryan High discussed football youth development at the Bryan Lions Club meeting. Matty Bell praised football for building discipline teamwork and mental skills while noting strong early turnout and a tough upcoming schedule.
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Bryan Lions Club
A. and M
Allen Academy
Bryan High
Matty Bell
A. and
M. College
Bell
Weather outlook for Bryan and Texas regions
For Bryan and vicinity mostly cloudy with local showers tonight and Thursday. East Texas cloudy with showers tonight and Thursday. West Texas occasional rains tonight and Thursday with warmer conditions in the south portion.
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the Eagle
New Orleans
Bryan
East Texas
West Texas
Forest Fires Threaten 40 Miles of Oregon Timber
In Oregon 25000 workers battled fast moving fires as authorities closed all 14 national forests to curb arson and prevent further blazes. One fire neared Portland while another burned into 40 square miles of premier timber in western Oregon.
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Oregon National Forests
Portland
Orc
Oregon
Talk Good Roads At Rye Meeting
Community members at Rye gathered after an all ages meeting of the Boys and Girls 4 H Club to discuss road improvements. Speakers included John M. Lawrence J D Martin Walter Wipprecht and W S Barron outlining benefits and a round table discussion followed.
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Rye
John M. Lawrence
J. D. Martin
Walter Wipprecht
W. S. Barron
Fighting Ceased Along Manchuria Border
An official communique said fighting between Russian and Chinese soldiers at frontier points in eastern and western Manchuria ceased Monday. The conflict began last week, and the government confirmed the halt of hostilities.
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Associated Press
Mukden
Manchuria
King Tours Barron Pair on Prison Relocation Plan
A. H. King of Throckmorton and Bob Barker of the senate and commission stopped in Bryan on Monday for lunch with Speaker Barron and Howell. Barker headed to Austin from Huntsville while King headed home. King outlined a two prison plan for Texas with one facility in the east and one in the west. Barron said he had not decided but favored placing the first prison in this section, regardless of the plan’s adoption.
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A. H. King
Throckmorton
House
Prison Relocation Commission
Bob Barker
Senate
Commission
Bryan
W. 8. Barron
Howell
Austin
Huntsville
Rep. King
Texas
Barren
King
Women of Bryan Among Leaders In Work of PTA
A letter from Mrs. Stephen Chamness executive secretary of the State PTA to Mrs. Albert Buchanan president of Bryan PTA notes Bryan workers excel in correspondence course work. She reports about 300 lessons to grade, including 150 from the Ninth District, praising the Bryan district’s earnest, active membership and anticipating meeting graduates in Waco at the State Convention in November.
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Stephen Chamness
State
Parent-Teacher Association
Albert Buchanan
P.T. A
Bryan
Waco
Liner Romar Es Caped Submersion After Forced Sea Landing
Aerial liner Romar Es was forced down at sea off Travemunde Germany on September 11. Thirteen passengers and the crew escaped with their lives as the craft sank to 60 feet of water. Salvage vessels cannot raise the vessel at this time.
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Associated Press
Travemuende
Ger
Romar
Electric Plant Inspection by Teague Officials in Bryan
Teague city manager F. F. Sims and mayor S. W. Robinson visited Bryan Monday to inspect the electric power plant. They gathered data on costs and profits as Teague considers a city owned light and power plant to satisfy its utilities needs. The waterworks plant is city owned, but Bryan powers the system via a high line.
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F. F. Sims
S. W. Robinson
Teague
Bryan
Sims
Robinson
Probe Is Ordered Of Ship Builders
The Senate today formally ordered an investigation into the activities of American shipbuilding corporations at the unsuccessful 1927 Geneva naval limitations conference.
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Probe
Associated Press
Washington
The
Senate Today
Waggoner Arrested at Wyoming Camp
C D Waggoner president of the Bank of Telluride was arrested eight miles north of New Castle Wyoming for engineering a fake telegraph credit of 500000 from Chase National Bank to protect depositors in Telluride He admitted sending the telegraph orders and claimed the plan was premeditated though his wife and the bank cashier say they knew nothing of it.
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New Castle
Wyo
C. D
Waggoner
Bank of Telluride
Col
New York
Denver
Telluride
Here
Carl Howell
Associated Press
Chase National Bank of New York
C. W. Downtain
Distinguished Railroad Men Visit Bryan on Sunbeam Flag-Stop Talks
J. F. Sullivan, B. S. Holliman, J. H. Evetts, and G. W. Martin from the Southern Pacific met Bryan business leaders. They discussed the Sunbeam train possibly making a flag stop in Bryan, noting other recent flag stops at Navasota College Station Hearne and Mexia. The visitors praised Bryan as progressive and promised cooperation to advance Bryan and the territory.
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J. F. Sullivan
Corsicana
B. S. Holliman
Ennis
J. H. Evetts
G. W. Martin
Southern Pacific Lines
Bryan
Sunbeam
Dallas
Houston
Navasota
College Station
Hearne
Mexia
Sullivan
Holliman
Jury Completes For Becky Rogers Bank Holdup Trial
New Braunfels reports the jury for Mrs Rebecca Bradley Rogers to face trial for the Farmers National Bank holdup in December 1926 and $1000 escape, completed after 152 veniremen were examined.
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Associated Press
New Braunfels
Rebecca Bradley Rogers
Farmers National Bank Statien
Lions Plan Entertainment at Tabor Meeting
Lions Club rural committee chairman W. E. Leverkuhn will organize members to provide entertainment at the Tabor meeting Friday night.
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W. E. Leverkuhn
Lions Club Rural Committee
Tabor
Admiral Dayton retires after 40 years in Navy command
Rear Admiral J H Dayton relinquishes command of the American naval force in European waters and applies for retirement after four decades of service.
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J. H. Dayton
Tars Drown as Vessels Collision in Fog
In Flushing on September 11 the Belgian steamer EstecHa collided with the German steamer Indria in the Schelt river. Fourteen crewmen are believed drowned with only two rescued. The fog prevented clear details and authorities assessed the tragedy.
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Associated Press
Flushing
Holland
EstecHa
Indria
Schelt
Vaccination Certificate Required for Bryan Students
City School Superintendent H. L. Durham announced that all Bryan students must be vaccinated before the September 23 start. The board passed a resolution and the rule will be strictly enforced. no student will enter classes without a doctor's vaccination certificate.
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City
H. L. Durham
Bryan
Board of Trustees
Durham
Minnesota Solon Believed Burned In Fire of Home
A charred body found in the ruins of a summer cottage near Battle Lake is believed to be Congressman O. J. Kvale of Minnesota's 7th district. The cottage was destroyed by fire last night and discovered today by a neighbor who had returned to repair fences.
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Associated Press
Battle Lake
Min
O. J. Kvale
Minnesota
Lawmakers Consider Short Session to Amend Pension Law
Reported poll results show 100 members of the House and 21 senators ready to convene a brief special session in Austin to amend the Confederate pension law and cover their own expenses. The proposed change would allow younger wives of Confederate veterans onto the pension rolls, removing the previous age limit of 75 years.
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Austin
Williams
San Antonio
House
Lower Grain Freight Rates Set to Gulf Ports
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific to cut grain freights from Kansas City to Gulf ports by 7 cents per 100 pounds. The reductions took effect yesterday.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Atchison, Toka and Santa Fe
Chi Rock Island and Pacific
Kansas City
Gulf
Apoplexy Fatal To Brother of Col C C Todd
Col C C Todd received a message from Vicksburg Miss informing him of the death of his brother A Miller Todd aged 55. A Miller Todd graduated from A and College in 1894 and for years worked along the Mississippi river as a welder with the U S Government. He was stricken with apoplexy while about his daily duties this morning. Col Todd left on the Selina train to attend the funeral at Vicksburg.
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Col
C. C. Todd
Vicksburg
Miss
A. Miller Todd
A. and College
Mississippi River
U. S
Col. Todd
Selena
Moody names J. H. Walker land office chief clerk
Gov. Dan Moody appoints J. H. Walker chief clerk of the general land office, succeeding the late J. T. Robison. Walker has served 21 years in the office since January 1899. His son Mills P. Walker is a Bryan resident who once served as a Spanish translator in the same department.
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Gov. Moody
J. H. Walker
Land Office
J. T. Robison
Associated Press
Austin
General Land Office
Dan Moody
Walker
Mr. Walker
Mills P. Walker
Bryan
Finger
Comptrollers Office
Ads Highlight Used Car Boom In Weekly Eagle
Marion Halsell credits the Weekly Eagle for a successful used car sale by Halsell Motor Company over recent days. Halsell says sales have been good and credit is due to the publication’s pages.
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Marion Halsell
Began
Eagle
Halsell Mo Company
Falsell
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