Texas and Texans Gun Supply and Energy News
Texas leads in natural gas use and pipeline expansions while oil fields keep pumping gas to heat cities. A scenic border highway along the Rio Grande is proposed from the Gulf to El Paso, demanding vast funds. Airmail letters rise in speed across the nation at 5 cents for two ounces. Nueces County tops Texas ginnings with 73,295 bales to Oct 1, far behind last year. Williamson Ellis and McLennan also high.
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Border
Laredo
America
Rio Grande River
el Paso
Brownsville
Gulf of Mexico
Port Arthur
United States
Nueces County
Williamson County
McLennan
Ellis
San Patricio
Navarro
Williamson
State highways need protection from bus and truck abuse
Legislation is urged to curb heavy vehicles on state highways citing danger to roads and travelers. Trucks swing on curves and bridges carry excessive loads, prompting taxpayer complaints about road conditions. San Antonio faces a rate increase dispute with the telephone company after an injunction hampers rate control. If the city loses, other towns fear loss of similar ordinances.
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San Antonio
Texas
Telephone Company
Taylor acquires city water plant to end dispute
Taylor moves to control its water supply by buying the existing water plant from the former owner. The city had considered building its own plant and voted bonds for that purpose, but reached a satisfactory solution through purchase enabling direct city control.
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Taylor
Counties fund public hospitals through tax levies in Texas
Bee county plans a next month election on a 125000 dollar bond issue to build a hospital. The text argues public hospitals are necessary and favor among people due to lower charges, contrasting with privately owned and church hospitals.
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Texas
Bee County
Turkeys Short Crop May Raise Thanksgiving Prices in Texas
The article notes a turkey crop shortage of about 80 percent leading to higher costs for dinners in Texas during Thanksgiving and Christmas. It cites a regulated supply and demand approach as affecting prices and hints at broader agricultural pricing dynamics.
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Texas
Denver and South Plains Railway Announces New Service
Train service from Childress to Plainview and Lubbock will start next month with approximately twelve hour through service from Dallas to Plainview over Denver lines. The road will serve a rapidly developing vast territory and will base its terminal division headquarters at Childress.
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Denver and South Plains
Childress
Plainview
Lubbock
Dallas
Denver
Terminal Division
Local Llano River Sand Rises in Granite Sandblasting Use
Llano river sand, famed for cement and plaster, is now used by local granite makers in sand blasting. Previously imported from Vermont, the sand cuts closely to the New England product and, due to its hard surface, speeds up the work.
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Llano River
Vermont
New England
Foreclosure summons for Mary Jane Stephens Milam County Texas
The sheriff is directed to publish once a week for four weeks a citation to Mary Jane Stephens in a Milam County newspaper. She must answer in the next District Court term in Cameron on November 12, 1928, in suit No. 10075 by T. S. Henderson. The petition seeks foreclosure of vendor and deed of trust liens on multiple parcels to satisfy a $120 note plus interest and attorney fees.
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Milam County
Mary Jane Stephens
District Court
Cameron
T. S. Henderson
Sam Stephens
Joe J. Michalka
W. W. Lewis
Oxsheer Smith
Texas
O. M. Smith
Samuel Johnson
Nat Nigby
Nat Higby
Hattie Monroy
Margaret Edwards
Will Davis
W. H. Day
Milam County Deed and Lien Notices Involving Stephens Family
The record outlines three notes dated June 4 1925 owed by Sam Stephens and wife Jane to plaintiffs totaling 7650 with partial payments noted. It details a materialmans and mechanic s lien plus a deed of trust on four tracts, including 1761 square yards from Nat Higby, a half acre parcel, and a 20 foot strip from Oxsheer Smith, securing notes dated 1924 1926 bearing 10 percent interest and attorney s fees.
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Sam Stephens
Jane Stephens
Trusts County
Texas
Nat Higby
Milam County
W. H. Day
Oxsheer Smith
Mary Jane Stephens
Personal recollection of a 1918 campaign urging vote for Mr Smith
In a late summer Red Cross style reminiscence, Mrs Bolling recalls a WWI era meeting with President Wilson and Mrs Wilson in New York. Wilson urged them to register and work for Mr Smith, saying it was a moral injunction. They followed the instruction and voted for Smith, believing in their duty.
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W. M. Barger
Crystal
W. Va
Thedford’s
New Uh
Bolling
Mra
Wilson
Presi
New
Lega i
Smith
Tammany Hall
Wallace's Farmer Editor Praises Smith in Iowa Note
Henry A Wallace of Wallace's Farmer urges farmers to back Governor Alfred Smith for president. He cites Smith's McNary Harrison era principles and his forwardness and trustworthiness as reasons to support the nominee.
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Des Moines
Iowa
United States
Alfred & Smitt
Henry A Wallace
Wallace
Smith
Past Due Notes Lead to Suit for 10 Percent Fees
Notes are past due and unpaid and plaintiff has brought suit to collect thereof and claims ten percent attorney's fees. Plaintiff has released described liens on five thousand five hundred fifty five square feet of land conveyed by Sam Ste.
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Sam Ste
Writ for Foreclosure and Sale in Milam County Texas
Plaintiff seeks judgment on debts with interest and attorney fees, foreclosure of liens, order of sale and writ of possession, costs, and general relief. Court requires writ return on next term with execution details. Dated October 1928, Milam County Texas. Leading Varieties Frost Proof Cabbage Plants offered by Winter Garden Shippers, Carrizo Springs Texas.
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Phens
Henry Knight
Sam Stephens
W. F. Whitaker
Penn Wolf
Milam Co
Texas
Express
Winter Garden Shippers
Carrizo
Springs
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Milam County Hardware
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