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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1925
Page
5
Public notice from the Fredericksburg Publishing Co asking readers to send communications to the Editors or Bookkeepers departments. Indicates weekly Saturday issue and post office filing as second class matter in Fredericksburg Texas.
The piece laments rising speeders and bootleggers as a sign laws and lives matter little. It argues speeders pose immediate danger to victims, while bootleggers harm only those who choose to drink the poison.
A historical critique argues that auto horns cause noise pollution and stress, urging traffic experts to consider horn quality. It links water supply to city growth, fire protection, and economic development, questioning how towns can prosper with inadequate water while pursuing roads and parks.
The Fredericksburg Standard publication in Texas files its annual statement of ownership management and circulation. O R Schumacher editor Fredericksburg Publishing Co publisher and a list of stockholders bondholders and fiduciaries are disclosed with notarized affirmation on April 2 1925.
The piece notes divergent opinions on the dissolubility of marriage among clergy, creeds, and church state. It observes wide variations in value and practicality, with plentiful but varied suggestions to make it work and no consensus in the chorus of responses.
The bereaved family expresses deep gratitude for the kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of Mrs. Joseph Jenschke mother and mother in law Special thanks to Rev H Gerlach St Anna Verein and the wake for condolences and floral offerings
Fredericksburg merchants quoted many items with per dozen and per bushel prices including eggs 22 cents and wheat 1.40. Oregon notes Charles T. Wrightson arriving at Oregon Agriculture College from Fresno as a freshman flyer. An eagle on a telegraph line near Elko disrupts Atlantic Pacific telephones and AP wires. Civil War veteran Mark Eben Cheney of Jamestown, New York, is mentioned as a report extends.
A tree scar remains three feet from the ground from ten years old and will stay so as it ages. A surveyor’s blaze lasting a century stays shoulder high. Indian University bans student automobiles due to scholastic standing. Mines from war linger in the Baltic and English Channel. The dirigible America’s 1910 Atlantic crossing attempt ended in disaster within seventy hours.
Denmark plans a bill to dissolve its national forces and create a constabulary only. The proposal envisions ending the army and navy while maintaining internal security and policing functions under a new force.
Italy intends to build the Mole Littoria, an eighty eight story tower rising 408 feet taller than the Woolworth Building above Rove. A French plane fuel leak saw a mechanic crawl out and tie the pipe ends, saving the flight while freezing in the process. Atlantic City division of Reading Railroad adopts automatic train control to prevent rear end collisions and halt trains automatically in danger zones.
A grandfather trained a man with a Revolutionary War sword ear plowshare, and he repurposed a lancer blade into a pruning hook. Spanish feminists protest over denying Senora Reverte a chance to bullfight. Gulls in Pandora County destroy grasshoppers. Edison on wireless power future. Education value and U S murder rate comparisons.
Deputy Commissioner George M. Doughert of the New York Police Department says a federal law prohibiting manufacture and sale of revolvers and pistols would reduce crime by seventy percent across the United States.
The King ranch of Mrs. Henrietta King in Kleberg County may push Texas inheritance tax past the half a million dollar mark with possible totals reaching into the millions if much of the 2 000 000 acre Santa Gertrudis holdings pass to heirs. The Gates estate of Port Arthur yielded 357 000, while Tyrell of Beaumont and Waelder’s Victoria estate each approached 1 000 000 in value. The state has taxed seven nonresident estates this year, led by Harold M. Sewall of Bath Maine with 2 336 in shares in the Texas company Austin American.
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