Florodora Girl Montana Moon and Local Notices
Obituary notes Mrs Earl McCormick buried Tuesday afternoon. Relatives and friends attend in Lissie area. Evangelical and Women's Missionary Society delegates travel to San Antonio for Texas Conference. Residents visit Houston Richmond and Port Arthur. local farm women plan meeting. families seek medical care for children.
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Susa
Thomas Nas
Earl McCormick
McCormick
Jell
W. D. Dilbeck
San Antonio
Mose Thowns
Women’s Musioners Society
Texas Conference of Evangelical Church
James Adkins
Arthur Anderson
Gissady
Charleston
Michaels
B.C. Cassady
Ed. Causey
Jick Hough
Houston
Fern Hough
John Kelly
Port Arthur
J. F Hough
E. A. Wiese
Richmond
Albert. Thomas
Bertha Smith
W. D. O'Bannon
Sargent
E. W. Wolfe
Lissie
DB. F. Isenhower
P. D. Gertson
Ruby
Bay City Tobunes Reiterates Irrigation's Impact on Agriculture
The paper emphasizes the essential irrigation canals stretching over 200 miles and servicing 230000 acres, calling canals vital to rice and benefiting corn, cotton, and other crops. It urges farmers to adopt proper water management to keep the region productive.
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Prom Bay City Tobunes
Irrigation touted as key to doubling county crop yield
A migration of irrigation advocates argues canals can lift corn cotton and other crops to double outputs with a single watering. They highlight W. L. LeTulle’s 500 acres of cotton and related crops as proof of irrigation's power and urge farmers to view his plantation as a model for countywide adoption.
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Vv. L. LeTulle
LeTuile
LeTuire
Mr. LeTulle
Tribune
Meteor Piece Displayed by Local Geologist at Times Office
L H Colyer of Everett-Allen oil interests showed a metal fragment he claimed is a meteor. The piece measured 6 by 3 by 4 inches, weighed 6 pounds 8 ounces, and appeared ironlike, non magnetic, a nickel and ion alloy. The meteorite was found by Jens Rhodes on Hart Aller farm east of Deport, with other fragments located on Linton farm northeast of Deport.
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L. H. Colyer
Everett-Allen Oil
Times Office
Linton
Deport
Rhodes
Texans Celebrate Independence Declaration at Washington on the Brazos
The piece recalls Texans proclaiming a free independent republic on March 2, 1836 at Washington on the Brazos. It notes previous 1835 actions against Santa Anna’s dictatorship and the initial loyalty to Mexico’s 1824 liberal constitution.
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Washington
Santa Anna
Alamo
John W. Smith
Gonzales
Travis
Bowie and Crockett
James W. Fannin
Goliad
San Antonio
Brazos
Richard Ellis
Red River
H. 5
Kimble
Texas
Mexico
Rio Grande
Sam Hourtoh
David G. Burnet
Lorenzo de Zavale
Thomas A. Rusk
Robert Potter
Houston
San Jacinto
Republi
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
United States of Mexico
West Texas animals forecast rain better than prophets
Alvin Neel of Menard studies weather like a banker and cites animal signs as predictors of rain. He notes electrical activity in the air accompanies rain but does not guarantee it, recalling past sheep losses and multiple bets on rain. His calendar hints include May 1 to 6 as wet days and a pattern of ten day spells following a ten day stretch.
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West Texas
Alvin Neel
Mennid
Mr. Neel
Menard
Granbury
Hood County
Rex
Otter
Neel
San Angela
Welcome the Stranger in Ferrest Tribune Tone
The clipping urges communities to welcome strangers, noting the value of hospitality to a town and especially to candidates for state office. It emphasizes giving a warm reception to visitors who may share impressions of the town.
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Ferrest Tribune
Terrell urged to show courtesy to visiting candidates
A call goes out for Terrell to extend basic courtesy to visiting political hopefuls. The author argues hosts should offer water, hospitality, and a chance to speak, noting that such small acts reflect civility, welcome strangers, and cost the town nothing. Multiple candidates, including Jimmie Allred, are mentioned as examples.
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Willits Point
Commerce
Temas Bays
Terrell
Jimmie Allred
Alfred
Skeletons Found Near Devils River Recall Early Railway Days
Skeletons discovered near the Devil's River and Del Rio recall junior rail era deaths at a distant construction camp. District Judge Joseph Jones notes men were killed either accidentally or intentionally during the 1890s railway-building period.
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Devil's River
del Rio
Joseph Jones
Ghosts of the Devil's River railroad camp persists in memory
The old rail camp near Devil's River is recalled through markers and graves erased by floods. survivors recount a harsh, rugged life with saloons and gambling tents, dangerous blasting at a quarry, and deaths from accidents and fistfights among railroad workers and convicts.
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Dudge Jones
Impr
West Texas
Hopi Snake Dance Honors Rain and Reverence
The Hopi Indians of Arizona revere snakes not as worship but as a sacred part of August ceremonies. During their annual snake dance live rattlesnakes and other serpents are used in a religious observance to thank the earth and seek moisture for crops.
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Arizona
Hopi Water Beliefs and Snakes in Pueblo Ceremonies
Notes describe Hopi arid region beliefs with serpents linking supplicants to water gods, water stored in heavens and earth, and snow often falling during ceremonies while spectators may be drenched. The passage also includes a card of thanks for funeral kindnesses shown to a family, and a terse exchange between father and son about an allowance.
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Touiss Re Marshall
H. D. Swesringen
Charles Herndon
F. Corley
Bro. W. &. Rodgers
Christian Science Services This Sunday Schedule
Sunday morning service at 11 2. m subject Life. Sunday School at 9 45 a.m. Wednesday evening meeting at 3 o'clock. Public invited to attend these services while held in the IO O FP Hall. Mrs I V Dunesn visiting natives at Palestine.
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Christian Science Services
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