Brooks Campaign Tour Proposes State Pension Plan
P. Pierce Brooks, a Dallas County candidate for Governor, visits Texas towns on a whirlwind tour. He promotes paying pensions to all over 65 and to those over 60 when funds allow, plus a tax free license plate for Texas auto owners. He vows immediate action to run a businesslike state government and enforce laws while visiting this city.
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Brooks
P. Pierce Brooks
Dallas County
Texas
Mr. Brooks
Bert Ford’s Strong School Record Endorsed
Bert Ford has supported and voted for all constructive school measures including Industrial Aid Vocational Aid Rural Aid Common Schools and higher learning. He backed the Constitutional Amendment to authorize a Teachers retirement system, and his school record is presented as unchallengeable in this political advertisement.
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Bert Ford
Black Land Farm for sale near Cameron Texas
56 12 acre Black Land Farm eight miles northwest of Cameron near school and church. Five room boxed dwelling two boxed barns and other out buildings. Water from cistern and pool. Good cotton and corn yield. Bonded to protect investment credit and family. Other Milam County farms on similar terms. No trades. See J hi Lovelace Box 1648 Waco Texas. 41 For sale eight good young Jersey cows R L Batte.
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Cameron
Milam
J. Hi Lovelace
Waco
Texas
Cardus Promises Relief For Women Suffering Pains
A reader testimony from Mrs. Cole Young of Leesville Louisiana touts Cardus as a remedy for irregularity and pain linked to poor nourishment. The ad urges consultation with a physician if Cardus does not help and claims improved health and steadier nerves.
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Cardus
Cole Young
Leesville
Xou
Fakir Tahra Bey Reveals Endurance Feats London
Tahra Bey, famed for walking over live embers and enduring blade stabs, describes calm trance states and pain suppression in a tale recorded by Paul Brunton in A Search in Secret Egypt. He explains a process combining concentration and muscle relaxation to render flesh insensible to pain and accelerate healing.
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London
Tahra Beg
Ertelene
England
Paul Brunton
Egypt
Tahra Bey
Mr Brunton
Tabra Bey
Witch Doctor Delivers Rain Then Is Struck by Lightning
In Harrismith Orange Free State a witch droetor claimed to summon rain on two Tlarksmith district farms. Natives paid a witch doctor. after a ritual a cloudless downpour followed and dams filled. A second subscription brought heavy rain but a lightning strike killed the doctor and injured two native women.
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Harrismith
Orange Free State
Tlarksmith
Brown
Elephant with six tusks causes toothache in Kenya find
Nairobi reports a unique six tusked elephant from Lamu district Kenya. One tusk is normal while five branches extend up to two feet with thick diameters and separate nerves. A dental expert notes the long standing toothache as the likely cause of tusk development.
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Lendon
Nairobi
Lamu
Kenya
Mouse and Cat Grow to Be Good Friends
Mrs. P. L. Tobey of Pittsfield Massachusetts reports a pet cat and a pet mouse play together without harm. The cat carries the mouse in its mouth and roams the house while the mouse naps in a hole or on a chair before resuming play.
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Mouse
Cat
Pittsfield
Mass
P. L. Tobey
Dad's dramatic reveal in custody case for adopted son
South Bend court hears war veteran Alles Horning claim he is the boy's natural father in a custody dispute with his ex wife Betty Horning. The revelation follows a habeas corpus bid to regain custody of five year old Albert Eugene Horning, with Horning asserting his paternity and seeking temporary custody.
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South Bend
Ind
Alles Hornung
St. Joseph County Court
Alies Horning
Betty Horning
Albert Eugene Horning
Jleming
Demings
Shocking Mud Kills Silva Cow at Liberty Ranch
In Visalia California a worker at the M. P. Silva ranch saw a cow collapse near the barn as she approached the milking area. Two other cows followed and fell, while a hired man was shocked by a live current, leaping the corral fence. A transformer short near the barn is blamed for charging mud in the corral with electricity.
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M. P. Silva
Liberty District
Lad Swallows Toothpick On Busy Newark Corner
Newark youth Fred Mack, sixteen, half-swallowed a toothpick at a busy corner. Police, traffic aides, and a riot squad failed to extract it. An ambulance arrived and doctors monitored the strange case as the boy claimed the toothpick had gone.
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Newark
N. J
Fred Mack
Fred
N-ray
Immorality in Apartment Sparks Fires Confession
Mrs Isabel Borrell thirty eight years old and mother of three confessed to Assistant State's Attorney Gordon Nash that she started several fires in the apartment building citing immoral activity in one unit as the motive. She said she warned residents and called firemen to evacuate.
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Chicago
Isabel Borrell
Gordon Nash
Mystery Within Mystery at Elyria High School
Elyria Ohio seniors staged The Haunted House with coach Miss Nina Baker keeping cast members in the dark until the final line, heightening the mystery element of the school production.
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Elyria
Ohio
Elyria High School
Nina Baker
Police dog returns lost purse in Boonville case
Police officer C. Dy er's German police dog discovered a purse on a downtown street and returned it to its owner, who had misplaced it the previous day in Boonville Missouri.
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Boonville
C. Dyer
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Kentucky
Brown - Forman Distillery Co
Louisville
Gruen Marlene
Sharpe’s Jewelry and Gift Store
Cameron Package Store
Silver
Cameron, Texas
McLennan County
San Andres Lodge
A. F
A. M
L. W. Murff
Bill Boyd
Rosebud, Texas
Travis
F. G. Yee
Herald Office
Jersey
H. B. McClellen
Phone
General Electric
Cameron Hospital
Dave Hemenas
E. O. Schiller
Milam County
C. D. Lewis
J. R. Watkins Co
Memphis, Tenn
R. L. Batte
Fakir
Tahara Toy
Omar
Dad
Horning
Ile
Marjorie Demning
Aurora
Hisband
Silva
Visalia, Califf
Lad
Horstmann Bros
Louis Meyer
Firestone
Horstmann
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