Perkins Junction Amusement Sparks College Scheme
In Perkinsville a romance unfolds as Sidney Stone and Alonzo Love strike a plan to swap identities at Perkins Junction and pursue mining engineering and domestic science. He agrees to take her mining path while she runs his cattle-ranch home, forging a lifelong swap of names in a 1917 tale of love and disguise.
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Perkins College
Perkins Junction
Perkinstown
Perkins
Lold
Sidney Stone
Alonzo
Bill
Tom
Bill Dean
Sidney
University
Alonzo Love
Value of a practical business education emphasized by leaders
Letters from prominent leaders including Champ Clark O M Dickinson and Oswald West advocate business college training as essential for success. They argue that practical commercial education equips individuals for law politics and modern business and urged its widespread adoption.
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America
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
O. M. Dickinson
R. B. Glenn
North Carolina
Oswald West
Oregon
T. C. Pickett
Iowa
Oklahoma
John W. Kern
United States
Joseph M. Cary
Wyoming
Catalogue Ad Promoting Large Commercial School
An advertisement extols a leading American commercial school offering extensive courses and high placement, boasting 2000 enrollments annually from across the states, a national reputation, and a printed catalogue with endorsements and graduate salary data including business contacts and addresses.
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America
Tyler Commercial College Promises Faster Training
An advertisement asserts Tyler Commercial College in Tyler Texas offers instruction in finance and telegraphy at half the time and cost of rivals. It urges enrollment through a brief course description and mentions the school address.
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Tyler
State Tax Rate Fixed At Sixty Cents For Current Year
The State Tax Board sets total state tax at 60c per $100 of assessed valuation. Ad valorem 35c, state school 20c, Confederate pension 5c. This marks the highest levy in Texas history, surpassing 55c from 1915 which had 30c ad valorem, 2c schools, and 5c pensions.
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State
Texas
Mrs Henley Hosts Guest at Friday Morning Tea
Mrs W H Henley entertained Friday morning with Miss Maurine Stroud of Hubbard City as guest. The event featured pleasant conversation and needle work followed by a refreshment course of salad sandwiches crackers and iced tea. Assisting Mrs Henley were her two nieces Miss Laura Bell and Pendora Frances of Terry Mississippi.
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W. H. Henley
Maurine Stroud
Hubbard City
Lemon Skin Whitening Lotion From Lemons and Orchard White
Cheap beauty lotion recipe uses two fresh lemons and three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint, strained to remove pulp. The liquid, kept in a bottle, promises months of skin whitening and smoothing for face neck arms and hands with daily massage.
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Osborn Jones
Star
Cameron
John Bremond
Camerons
J. D. Dobbins
B. P. Matocha
Moore Building
Cameron, Texas
Maxwell Autos
Milam County
Detroit
Mrs. Henley
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