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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1927
Page
8
A survey of landmark innovations from the lightning rod by Franklin in 1702 to Edison’s devices in the late 19th century. It notes the sewing machine by Howe, the telephone by Bell, typographic and motor advances, and the rise of electric inventions within fifty years.
Plaintiffs seek an accounting of tornado relief funds in Rocksprings Texas after District Judge Joseph Jones ruled the fund not within the court's preview. The case, brought by A E Aiken against a citizens committee, concerns mismanagement of more than 1 million dollars in damages and the loss of 65 lives. The judge offered two options: appeal the demurrer ruling or file a new suit presenting the issue differently.
Cherokee County agent W L Knapp outlines Wilt and the tomato fruit worm as the two most destructive diseases and pests in East Texas. He cites Septoria Leaf Spot, rotation for wilt, early and regular insecticide and fungicide use, and seedbed to field timing from January to May with harvest from May 20 to June 5.
Proper housing is vital for hog raising says E R Eudaly extension swine husbandman. Farrowing houses are usually too small and lack adequate pig guards. rails should be twelve inches from floor and wall to allow piglets room to pass without being crushed.
Popular Bluff Missouri July 28 Ed Morris 60 was fatally wounded early Thursday when neighbor William Skelley 70 shot him near the Skelley home. The two had been enemies for three years stemming from a dispute over a Biblical verse. Skelley fired point blank into Morris face.
Roy Ellis of Edinburg was shot in the foot while hunting near Harlingen Texas. The wound required amputation between the ankle and knee. His parents Mr. and Mrs. W M Ellis were notified after the accident involving Eric Gaines of Harlingen.
An old health column warns that normal blood is too thick for mosquitoes to draw without thinning fluid and that disease germs spread via bites. It endorses Fly-Tox as a safe easy solution to kill house insects and prevent infection.
Little Irma Lawler six daughter of Hyden and Mrs Lawler was bitten by a rattler near her grandmother's ranch on Kerrville Road thirty five minutes before anti venom was given. She is reported out of danger and this is the first snakebite case in the county for several months.
The state issues a summons to O A Adams via newspaper publication for four weeks before August 1927 to answer a suit in Gillespie County District Court No 1603. Plaintiffs William Hoelzer August Krueger John Heep A N Striegler Aug Jung Alfred Jung J W Adams and Alvin Jenschke claim to hold assets of the Cain City State Bank and to recover on a $2500 note plus a chattel mortgage on sheep and goats signed by Adams and Blum.
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