Thirteen Seek Governor Race With 12000 Salary Promise
A July 23 ballot offers thirteen candidates for governor, seven lawyers and six professionals from various fields. The salary is 12000 per year plus expense allowances, amid discussion whether higher pay attracts better candidates. Observers note an open race with no incumbent candidate and debate over pay influence.
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Sul Ross
James Stephens Hogg
Thomas Mitchell Campbell
S. W. T. Lanham
O. M. Roberts
Joseph D. Sayers
McDonald Seeks Second Term as Land Commissioner
William H. McDonald campaigns for re election noting a record high state school fund revenue and a modernized bookkeeping system. He highlights coastal oil development boosting school funds and claims broad statewide support after carrying 178 counties to 76 previously.
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McDonald
William H. McDonald
Metcalfe Seeks State Senate Seat With Broad Platform
Metcalfe from the San Angelo district urged voters to elect him State Senator. He called for a constitutional property tax, stronger rural school support, reduced state government costs, aid for aged, blind, and dependent children, and teacher retirement. He backed soil erosion funds from federal aid and higher truck load limits. He cited a rural funds measure bearing his name and cited past work on anti theft, fewer bureaus, and a gasoline tax law adding over 10 million annually. He spoke in Here Saturday then went to Brownwood for another campaign address.
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Office
Metcalfe
Texas
San Angelo
Brownwood
Visit Roberson Sisters Sale
Ad promoting an event called Visit Roberson Sisters Sale with a religious sermon style text about salvation and rebirth. The fragment includes religious phrases and a clipped ending suggesting a clerk or notice line.
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Roberson Sisters Sale
Colonel Goodnight A Living Legend Of The Texas Frontier
Soe Raat Wiens profiles Colonel Goodnight born March 9, 1800s frontier icon whose life traces his rise from boyhood rides to guiding Texas Rangers and blazing cattle trails. The piece honors his leadership amid law and order across 20 million acres and his later status as a range cattle authority and economic thinker before his death in 1929 at saddle time.
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Colonel Goodnight
Texas
Illinois
Texas Rangers
Golden West
Plenty of Room For Court Reform Says Fitzgerald
J. E. Fitzgerald discusses court reform criticizing the legal system as unfair to the poor. He cites Hauptmann and Tom Mooney cases, urges decisive judges with backbone over precedent, and notes New York’s woman judge as a model for decisive justice.
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J. E. Fitzgerald
Stephenville
Dallas News
New Jersey
Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Duke of Windsor
California
Tom Mooney
Supreme Court of America
Supreme Court
Tom Money
New York
Local Social Notes From Pettit and Nearby Towns
Weekend visits unfold as Miss Clodah Nelson stays with Miss Billie Burnette at Pettit. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wilson visit John and Mrs. Holland at Honey Grove. Several families travel from Lubbock to relatives. Clawson reunion draws statewide attendance in vev County. Edinburgh and Sykes families visit in Macksville. Proctor visitors Earl Ray McCamey and family enjoy Sunday evening gathering.
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Billie Burnette
Pettit
C. C. Wilson
John Holland
Honey Grove
J. O. Stewart
Chester Allen
Russell Nance
Lubbock
R. J. Stateville
Clawson
Vew County
Monay
Simon Edinburgh
Martin
Edinburgh
Claud Sykes
Macksville
Dave
A. M. McCamey
George Turley
Joy, Ford
Allan Woods
Proctor
Earl Ray McCamey
Mrs Gid Bryan To Speak At M E Church
The W M S announces Mrs Gid J Bryan will address the congregation at 4:00 PM Monday July 18 in the local Methodist Church auditorium. All church women and the public are invited to attend with a social following in the basement recreation rooms.
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Gid J. Bryan
Bryan
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