Rangers Crack Down on State Sugar Booze Ring
Texas lawmen with Governor Neff backing raid Huntsville bootleggers using prison sugar in illicit liquor. Series of arrests underway as investigators examine sugar disappearance from the state store, with local officers aiding Ranger Lee Shannon. Findings point to possible state employee complicity as clean up efforts begin.
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Neff
Huntsville
Surat
Houston
Lee Shannon
Austin
Ranger Shannon
Huntisville
Financial statistics of Austin Texas 1922
The Department of Commerce reports the city of Austin Texas spent 1 288 359 dollars for the fiscal year ended December 31 1922. The per capita cost was 35 62 dollars. Earlier years show 1917 at 31 89 and 1914 at 28 27 dollars.
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Ing
Austin
Independent
Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Bureau of the Census
Texas
Frontiersman Ranger Sparks in Texas Battle Narrative
The narration recounts Gov Sparks of Nevada serving as a lieutenant in the Texas Frontier Battalion in 1861 chasing Comanche bands near the Santa Anna Mountains in Coleman County. A clash followed after the Indians attacked a settlement, leaving several dead or wounded and the band routed. The piece promotes a magazine feature in the Cameron Herald to preserve pioneer stories and notes a September 13 publication date and 1.50 annual subscription.
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Gov. Sparks
Nevada
Texas Frontier Battalion
Santa Anna Mountains
Plains
West Texas
Coleman Purty
Jim Ned
Camp Coloado
Texas
Magiazine
Cameron Herald
Blue Star Remedy for Various Skin Ailments
For eczema itching tetter cracked hands ring worms chapped face poison oak sunburns old sores or sores on children it relieves all forms of sore feet. For sale by all druggists.
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Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch $T. Louis
Robert McLane Co
Cameron, Texas
Farmers Pride
Lone Star Concord
Lone Star
F. J. Beckerman
Cameron
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