Valley Mills Local News Highlights and Visits
Miss Thelma Ferrell and Miss Lauretta Turner of Baylor University visited Valley Mills relatives over weekends. Locals traveled to Waco for medical and family reasons, with several residents moving or planning moves and a calm local election yielding about 100 votes.
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Valley Mis Tribune
Thelma Ferrell
Baylor University
A. M. Tibbs
Lauretta Turner
W. S. Turner
C. A. Smith
Fort Worth
S. K. Lewis
la Verne Jones
Oglesby
Minnie Fitzhugh
Violet Fitzhugh
Jimmie Bible
Bessie Nowlin
A. S. Tweedy
Waco
Cotton Palace
McNe!! Motor Co
Freedman
McAdams Shoe Hospital
Mac
F. W. Hildebrand
C. D. Sears
Percy Wilkerson
Hillsboro
C. M. Hubby
A. A. McNeill
Carrie Beavers
Willie Hunt
Gatesville
Will H. Jones
J. C. Howard
E. B. Henley
Baby
Brownwood
Alex McNeill
J. M. Brooks
Dallas
J. B. Pool
Henry Willard
Willard
W. T. McNeill
Valley Mills
Dennis Heath
S. R. Heath
H. P. Black
J. C. Jarrett Jr
Olden
W. R. Chapman
Cleburne
Ovie
Earl
Avarado
Minnie Chapman
Tobys Practical Business College and School of Finance
The Old Reliable Tobys Practical Business College and School of Finance and Business Administration has served Texas and surrounding regions for 36 years. It has enrolled and graduated students nationwide and from Mexico, producing numerous prominent business leaders. Catalogues are available and admissions are open year round.
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Toby’s Practical Business College
School of Finance and Business Administration
Aluran
Texas
U. S
Mexico
Toby's College
Gossiping wives of Custrin jailed by husbands
Belgi um men invoke a revived medieval law to silence wives by jailing them in a case described as a village dispute over domestic freedom and control.
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Custrin
Belgium
Brazil Soaks Up About 120 Nonworking Days Annually
About 120 days per year in Brazil are nonworking due to Sundays or holidays. The figure reflects weekly rest days combined with official holidays across the year, impacting business and labor calendars nationwide.
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Brazil
Selecting Feeds for Laying Hens
Practical guide to choosing and mixing feeds for laying hens. Key factors include digestibility, composition with emphasis on protein, carbohydrates and fats, palatability, and cleanliness. It recommends a dry mash and scratch feed formula plus continuous access to green feed minerals and oyster shell coal mix, served in a protected self feeder.
Fight Poultry Diseases by Timely Prevention
Professor Dearstyne of North Carolina State College urges strict farm hygiene to prevent poultry illnesses. He notes warmer autumn months trigger seasonal infections like pox and bronchitis, and warns that lax housing conditions allow diseases to take hold, raising mortality in flocks. Isolation of sick birds is advised.
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R. 8. Dearstyne
Poultry Department
North Carolina State College
Dearstyne
Select Early Hatching Roosters for Next Year’s Chicks
Pennsylvania State College poultry specialists urge saving fathers from early hatches. Choose twice as many early birds as needed to allow heavy culling in fall. avoid keeping weak late-hatched males to preserve yard quality.
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Pennsylvania State College Poultry Specialiits
Poultry Breeding and Housing Tips From Farm Notes
The article emphasizes breeding over breed, noting feather picking links to crowding and poor range. Suggestions include keeping broody hens for nesting, culling finished layers, and using 2 to 4 percent bone meal. It advises well drained, sandy, sloped sites for houses to prevent damp disease.
The Passing of the Famous Texas Longhorn
A 1920s piece recounts the decline of the Texas longhorn and efforts to preserve the breed. The Texas Folklore Society urges state funding to safeguard this historic cattle line, with a herd started at Wichita National Forest Reserve by Will C. Barnes.
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San Antonio
Texas
Texas Folklore Society
Lone Star State
Wichita National Forest Reserve
Will C. Barnes
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Texas Plains
American Indians Increasing in the United States
Contrary to common belief, American Indians are not vanishing. Census and population data show their numbers in the United States are growing rather than shrinking.
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The
United States
Early Kite Flying Linked to Ancient Ceremonies
The article notes kites were flown before the fourth century BC, likely tied to religious rites, indicating an early ceremonial use of airborne devices.
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Clifton, Texas
W. V. Eagle the Tailor
Onio
Clifton Mercantile CO
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H. J. Cureton
Meridian , Texas
J. T. Hill
Silver Moon Cafe
J. W. Griffin
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Clifton Tailors
S. M. Ringness
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