Texas terracing schools curb soil erosion nationwide expansion
The Texas Extension Service leads a terracing education push with joint stock land banks and the Federal Land Bank of Houston. Spur substation results show soil loss drops with terraces, while 167 county schools reached 18 075 farmers in 125 counties. About 159 percent more acres were terraced in 1927 and nearly 500 000 acres protected. 160 000 more planned for 1928.
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Virginia
Alabama
Oklahoma
Kansas
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Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
A. B. Conner
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R. E. Dickson
College Station
A. & M. College of Texas
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Houses of Congress
Texas Extension Service
Federal Land Bank
M. R. Bentley
A. K. Short
Federal Bank Bank of Houston
Bentley
Snowbound tragedy and fishing parties loom in Great Lakes region
A Chicago and Northwestern Railroad engineer was killed by a snow plow at Minnesota Junction Wisconsin. Fears for safety grow for two fishing parties: one drifting on Lake Superior near Isle Royale and another leaving Charlesvoix Michigan. Search parties sweep Beaumont to San Antonio via Houston and Austin. Southland Red Ball Bus Lines oppose a permit to Jackson as intercity carriers without negro passengers are noted statewide.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Minnesota Junction
Wis
Lake Superior
Isle Royale
Charlesvoix
Mich
Beaumont
San Antonio
Houston
Austin
Southland
Red Ball
Jackson
Heatwave Grips Buenos Aires With 99.5 Degree High
Buenos Aires records 99.5 degrees in extreme heat, the year’s peak so far. No deaths reported, but several prostrations indicate the humid conditions across the metropolis.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Notice on City Taxes for Fredericksburg Corporation
Citizens are advised to withhold payment of Fredericksburg city taxes while a suit challenges the corporation's validity. If the corporation is found invalid no payments are required. if valid, tax payments may still be deferred until charter validity is settled.
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Fredericksburg
Negroes to Petition for Bus Service
In Austin Texas on January 12 petitions are being circulated among the negro population asking the Railroad Commission to require all Texas bus operators to transport Negro passengers on every bus. If denied, a hearing is requested. The move follows Floyd Jackson of Tulsa Oklahoma filing for a permit to operate an exclusively Negro bus line.
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Austin
Tex
Railroad Commission
Texas
Floyd Jackson
Tulsa
Okla
5 000 Bond Fixed In Boerne Killing
Boerne Texas January 9 5 000 bond fixed for TL Graham stepfather murder case at preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace W W Davis Priday bond arranged by District Attorney J K Woodley County Attorney Maurice Lehman and defense attorney G C Brown San Antonio funeral services for Graham noted he once served as chief assistant to Judge W Linden district attorney of Bexar County.
Grade crossing deaths surge in October in Texas
Austin Texas January 12 railroad accidents at highway grade crossings in October killed fifteen persons and injured thirty one. Thirty one accidents were reported with fourteen killed and thirty one injured. One death followed a collision between a train and a wagon. An automobile driver asleep on a crossing near Houston was killed. Another driver intoxicated drove onto the tracks at Corpus Christi and was injured.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Houston
Corpus Christi
Georgetown may lose Methodist school to Dallas
The Texas Methodist educational commission on correlation of schools plans a Dallas survey to decide on consolidating Georgetown’s Southwestern University with Southern Methodist University. If moved, Georgetown would become part of SMU and Southwestern would lead state Methodist schools, with the Georgetown campus repurposed. Four people were injured when a car hit a train at Fort Worth, though details are unclear.
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Methodist School
Dallas
Southwestern University
Southern Methodist University
Texas Methodist Educational Commission On Correlation
Dallas News
H. Warren Brown
Nashville
Tenn
General Education Board
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Brown
John Moore
B.t.gothlpekted
Fort
Half Dozen Dead in Midwest Cold Wave
Chicago reports sub zero temperatures and a heavy snow storm sweeping six states from the Mississippi to the Ohio Valley. The cold killed about six people, left thousands in distress, and disrupted highways, rail lines, and communications as a new cold snap loomed.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Ohio River
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