Textbook Board Bill Introduced in Texas Senate
In Austin on August 15 a bill to create a Texas textbook board to select and adopt a uniform public school text system was introduced. It would name a 25 member pool of teachers, with five chosen by the governor and include the state superintendent and UT president. The board would ban lobbying by publishers or their agents.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Ward
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Text Book Board
Remedy Advertises Diarrhoea Cure For Sale
An ordinary case of diarrhoea can be cured by rand aurrhen Remedy. This remedy has no superior for bowel complaints. For sale by all Dealers.
Cotton Men to Meet in New Orleans Exchange Session
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange will meet tomorrow to decide on calling a general conference of planters, brokers and bankers to discuss the cotton bill of lading question. A central bureau of registration in New York faced Southern opposition. Charles Haight of Liverpool interests proposed the plan, rejected by the committee. report due Wednesday to directors, who will push for the general conference.
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New Orleans
Cotton Exchange
Electric Bitters Blood Purifier Adclaims
Attack like tigers fighting disease germs. when germs multiply, pimples, eczema, salt rheum and sores appear. Electric Bitters regulate stomach liver and kidneys and purify blood. C T Budaboa of Tracy Calif declares they are the best blood purifier. 50c at Palace drug store.
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C.T. Budaboa
Tracy, Calif
Palace Drug Store
Colquitt Pushes Highway Engineer and Insurance Reform
Gov Colquitt sent a special message to the Texas legislature proposing three additional subjects. They include the creation of a public highway engineer, regent appointments for four state normal schools, and an amendment to fire insurance laws to shield the public from fraudulent wildcat insurers.
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Austin
Tex
Govor Colquitt
Legature
Howsengol
Experimental farm established on Medina irrigation lands
San Antonio, Aug 15. An experimental farm on 50,000 acres to be brought under irrigation by the Medina Irrigation Company will be established. Soil survey by Professor C S Hopkins of the University of Illinois will precede artesian well drilling. Crops will be planted at once to demonstrate best crops for the land.
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San Antonio
Tex
Medina Irrigation Company
C. S. Hopkins
University of Illinois
Auto Roasting Chicken Gains Fad Status in Thomaston
In Thomaston Connecticut Aug i a new trend appears as a family discovers a chicken roasted in the radiator of an automobile traveling at fifty miles per hour. Mr and Mrs Tyler, returning from Thompsonville, smelled roasting poultry and traced the aroma to their car where a broiler had been roasted to a brown finish over a thirty mile drive.
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Thomaston, Conn
Texas Wonder Cure Ad Promises Kidney and Bladder Relief
An old advertisement touts Texas Wonder as a cure for kidney and bladder troubles for men and women and claims it also regulates bladder issues in children. It offers mail delivery for $1.00 and states one bottle provides two months of treatment, with Dr. E W Hall of St. Louis as the contact.
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E. W. Hall
Olive Street
St. Louis
Texas
Des Moines woman cured after two days by remedy
A Des Moines woman endured two days of severe bowel complaint before being cured by a single dose of Chamberlain's Cold, Cholera, Diarrhoea Remedy. The ad urges care with cold and promotes Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar Honey as a recommended product, with sales noted at local dealers.
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Des Moines
Dr. Bell
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