Christmas and New Year Postage Rules Declared by Post Office
The Third Assistant Postmaster General urges prepaying postage for Christmas and New Year greetings sent as Post Cards and sealed envelopes. Postage rates vary by item from 1 cent to 2 cents per ounce, with separate duties for printed cards and folded enclosures. International mail registration fees rise from 10 to 15 cents effective December 1, 1925, and return receipt fees apply if requested.
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RK. S. Regar
Scouts Save Youths Life Near Worth Texas
Scouts Jack Davis and Robert Anderson aided Prank Carter after a hunter shot him near Worth Texas. They applied a tourniquet, stopped profuse bleeding, and carried him on a shirt stretcher to a farmhouse and then to a hospital. Carter plans to join the Scouts.
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Mort Worth
Tex
Dee
Carter
Jack Davis
Robert Anderson
Frank
Oil bribery case to resume after DC appeals ruling
Government plans to press the Doheny Fall bribery case after the DC Court of Appeals decision clears the path for renewed prosecution. Edward L Doheny Sr and Jr and Albert B Fall face charges over Elk Hills naval reserve leasing amid months of inactivity.
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Washington, D. C
Edward L. Doheny
Edward L. Doheny Jr
Albert B. Fall
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Secretary of the Interior
Elk Hills Naval Reserve
California
Staple Cotton Program to be Broadcast Across Texas
A Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation radio program will broadcast December 14 from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. over Station WFAA Dallas News and Semi-Weekly Farm News. W. W. Pitts of Wills Point will speak on staple cotton advantages and premiums on local markets. A. K. Short will discuss progress of the staple cotton movement in Texas agriculture.
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Southwest
Texas
Sears- Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Dallas
WFAA
Dallas News
W. W. Pitts
Wills Point
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association
Pitts
A. K. Short
The
Agricultural Foundation
Mr. Short
OTM
Colan
German immigrant Carl Lange found dead in Abilene
Taylor Texas reports Carl Lange a German immigrant found dead in Abilene Saturday night with a gunshot wound and a gun by his side. He lived on a local farm after arriving from Germany about 40 years ago and recently left Taylor seeking work. The body will be brought to Taylor for burial.
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Taylor
Tex
Carl Lange
Abilene
America
Germany
Boy Hunter Killed in Accident Near McMahan
Morgan Baker, 14, son of James Baker, near Lockhart Texas, died from a accidental discharge of a 22 caliber target rifle Sunday night. Three boys were hunting with one gun when the weapon was passed and discharged.
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Lockhart
Tex
Morgan
James Baker
McMahan
Christmas Apples and Can Dies at Knopp and Metzger
Notice urges readers to visit the office to purchase Gillespie County History books, noting high demand and imminent selling out. It invites inspection of the volumes and highlights availability.
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Gillespie County
HACKED TO DEATH IN TEXAS
Del Rio Texas December 7 The special grand jury investigating Ed A Taylor s death indicted William M Geyer for murder Taylor was hacked to death near the city Wednesday night with a hand axe The two men are strangers passing through in a car District Attorney Julian Lacrosse hopes to try Geyer this term of district court
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del Rio
Tex
Ed. A. Taylor
William M. Geyer
Taylor
Julian Lacrosse
Geyer
Mexican Shot Down in Round Rock Shootout
Round Rock December 7. Constable W. E. Baker shot and killed Tomas Guardilla a 22 year old Mexican during an attempted arrest on murder charges. Guardilla had earlier killed Anesticio Aranda a man awaiting his departure, for whom Guardilla planned to marry his daughter.
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Round Rock
W. E. Baker
Tomas Guardilla
Guardilla
Anesticio Aranda
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Mickie
By Charles Sugkroe
Apple River Canyon
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Albert J. Schmidt
Schmidt & Meurer
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OO. B. Flint, Michienan Fehrenbach Motor CO
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