Eight Years of Trouble Ended by Tanlac
In Atlanta Georgia Mrs T C Corbitt says eight years of stomach souring gas and weakness vanished after two bottles of Tanlac. She reports regained strength and appetite, with back aches gone and improved mobility. Tanlac sold by Clifton ee Brothers Drug Store. Also Prickly Ash Bitters offered for torpid liver with fatigue and poor appetite at $1.25 per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Corbitt
Ponders Avenue
Atlanta
Georgia
Tanlac
Clifton
Ee Brothers Drug Store
Executive Salary Amendment Favorable Report In Texas
Austin on February 17 the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments reported the Senate joint resolution favorably. It proposes a constitutional amendment to raise the governor salary to ten thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
House Committee On
Senate
Farmers Gin Co concludes season with record 743 bales
Conclusion notice from Farmers Gin Co announces season closed Feb 7. 1919 ginning started Aug 13. County record 743 bales this season with 350 customers. Top ginner Otto Krueger 12 bales, Chas Leuck 9, M L Lambert 8. Last season 902 bales. Thanks to patrons and best wishes for a prosperous next season. Directors listed. Get your bread from the Cliff bakery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Krueger
Chas. Leuck
M. L. Lambert
Farmers Gin CO
O. M. Bronstad
Sec’y-Treas
Mgr
H. A. Nelson
K. A. Mjaaland
J. D. Railsback
P. F. Bertrand
A. G. Nelson
Adolf Wiede
Neal Nelson
Wilson reads covenant for a league of nations at Paris
President Wilson central at plenary peace conference reading the league of nations covenant. He adopts a unanimous commission report and says the document is elastic yet definite, a practical human instrument aimed to purify and end annexations of helpless peoples.
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Paris
Wilson
League of Nations
Foreign Office
Clemenceau
Dent Wilson
Hobby Plans to Finance University Bonds in Texas
Governor Hobby proposes a Texas UT system bond issue to be repaid from university and A&M revenues with a sinking fund. Proceeds fund university needs and a percentage share for A&M. Separate notes mention a $1,250,000 new Dallas post office site and a $50,000,000 public buildings appropriation. Chicago, Boston, Dallas, and Oakland post office funding totals are outlined, lifting total authorization to $6,000,000 (prior sums included).
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Hobby
University
Austin
Texas
Board of Regents
University of Texas
Cnts
A. & M. College
Dallas
Washington
House Public Buildings Committee
Chicago
Boston
Oakland
Cal
Senate Bill Lets Counties Buy Seeds and Feed for Citizens
Austin report notes the senate bill passed authorizing counties to purchase seeds and feed for financially unable residents. The act requires distribution through the commissioners' court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
House
Senate
Commissioners’ Court
Telephone Rates to be Contested in Houston Suit
Houston acts to curb rising telephone charges. City files injunction against Southwestern Telephone Company and is joined by thirty three firms and individuals in the petition seeking to overturn higher rates.
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Houston
Texas
Southwestern Telephone Company
Wilson on Way to America and Paris
President Wilson has left the Murat mansion on the first stage of his journey home escorted by a detachment of the Republican Guard. In Austin Texas a senate bill proposes care and education for blind babies and children too small or backward for the state school for the blind. The State Board of Education would place such children in the institution or another state facility with parental consent at a cost not exceeding 1.50 per week for care and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
America
Paris
Murat
Republican Guard
Austin
Texas
Senate
State Board of Education
Especia l News Summary Archive Highlights
Ephemeral weekly digest highlights significant events with concise reportage. It catalogs important national and regional developments, noting political, economic, and social items likely to affect readers during a busy week.
Peace era notes from the war week in review
The dispatches report France offering a U S monument site on French soil for American war dead. Viscount Grey is now blind. British delegates demand indemnities covering war costs and damages. The U S S George Washington with President Wilson arrives Brest to sail home with twenty destroyers joining at the Azores. A German loan plans and armistice policy changes are noted. Chancellor Ebert defends armistice terms before the Weimar assembly.
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George Washington
Brest
President Wilson
United States
Azores
Ebert
Weimar
United States Army Size Under League Plan Amended
The United States under the amended Society of Nations plan would maintain an army of at least 500000 men, available for use wherever necessary after Senate authorization.
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United States
Society of Nations
United States Senate
Missouri women win vote for presidential electors in lower house
Missouri's lower house passes a bill granting women the right to vote for presidential electors by a 122 to 8 vote. A War Trade Board action opens South American markets. state employees barred from oil stock per attorney general ruling. Dallas officials create levee district No 6 to reclaim about 5,000 acres across Dallas, Rockwall and Kaufman counties.
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War Trade Board
South America
Missouri
Attorney General
Insurance and Banking Department
Dallas
Rockwall
Kaufman
Oklahoma Quarantine Tightens on Texas Cotton Seed
Announcement by E. E. Scholl of the Texas department of agriculture states Oklahoma raises its quarantine against Texas cotton seed. The note cites the pest risk and continued restrictions affecting seed movement and agricultural trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Texas
E. E. Scholl
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Bill Granting Eminent Domain to Pipelines Advances
Among several oil industry bills in Texas, the measure granting unrestricted eminent domain rights to pipeline companies has made the most progress. The proposal would allow pipelines to condemn land for routes, potentially impacting landowners and local jurisdictions as lawmakers push forward in committee and on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Yonkers boy awarded $30,000 damages in railroad case
A jury in the extreme court at White Plains New York awarded ten year old Jamen Longacre of Yonkers damages totaling 30000 for the loss of his left leg in an incident involving a railroad company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamen Longacre
Yonkers
White Planes
The Economy of Buying Good Tires
A wartime letter from Sergeant J. D. Duncan of the 359th Infantry offers a curious note on economic ideas. He imagines turning a cream separator into a profitable home device, predicting a surge in cream separator demand once Prohibition ends. He contemplates mass production, jokes about apple juice, and hints at economic opportunity in small-scale manufacturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ford
Land of the Free
Letter From Sergt J D Duncan From France 1919
Sergt J D Duncan writes from Peruqueak Dorddogne France dated January 8 1919 to Mrs M A Duncan. He details receiving seventeen letters, hospital stay since November 13, upcoming possible discharge, and desire to return with his company in the 90th division after hard fighting. He notes losses of friends Dr Burton Car Jodie Britton Betsy Larson and mentions letters to Frank B and news from home.
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Peruqueak Dorddogne
France
M. A. Duncan
Brother Kidd
Germany
Dary Halverson
Otto Hanson
Clifton
Frank B
Dr. Burton Car
Jodie Britton
Betsy Larson
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Auto Track and Auto Service
S. J. Tennison, Proprietor
H. W. Hering
Clifton Marble Works
J. W. Houston
Clifton, Texas
Veen
Clifton Lumber, Co. Townsend, Mgr
Drouth
Viscount Grey
Krein
Edith Cavell
Supreme War Council
Lauzanne Gazette
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Henry J, Lindsley
Citizens’ Association
Texas Fire Insurance Commission
Beaumont
Jacksboro
Kerrville
Whitesboro
J. D. Duncan
Co. M
359Th Infantry
Chain
Lil
Sergt
Carpenter & Carpenter Physicians and Surgeons Office
Carpenter Bros
Jas. M. Robertson
Atty
Meridian
Booque Valley Land Co
Boweh
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