Traffic Ordinance on Main Street Regulation and Penalties
The ordinance sets traffic rules for Main Street and Eighth Street including hand signals, speed not exceeding twenty miles per hour, location of turns, parking angles, and time limits. It grants right of way to Main Street traffic, requires safe overtaking, and defines amendments for gender inclusive language. Violations are misdemeanor offenses with fines from one to fifty dollars, effective July 25, 1928.
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Main Street
Eighth Street
Wild Hog Attack Injures Farmer Near Burnet
Burnet Texas July 6 Bill Watson a 76 year old farmer living west of Burnet was seriously injured while chasing wild hogs from his corn. The hogs attacked him striking the calf of his leg and throwing him to the ground before help arrived. He is in a precarious condition.
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Burnet
Tex
Bill Watson
Watson
Card of Thanks to Gillespie County G V Verein
Mrs Henry Tatsch expresses sincere thanks for prompt payment of her husband’s insurance policy through the Gillespie County G V Verein. Also appears an advertisement seeking poultry eggs cream butter hides and other country produce by KNOPP & METZGER.
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Gillespie County G. V. Verein
Henry Tatsch
Knopp & Metzger
Rebels attack rail station in Leon Guanajuato execution
A band of about 50 rebels attacked the Leon Guanajuato railroad station killing Agent Joaquin de la Torre who resisted them. The attackers stole 4000 pesos and ransacked nearby stores before fleeing as federal troops pursued.
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el Paso
Tex
el Continental
Leon Juanjuato
Joaquin de la Torre
Card of Appreciation from Fritz Ahrens Family
The Ahrens family thanks responders to their house fire and expresses gratitude for generous donations given in their time of need. Special sale on summer dress goods runs July 14 to July 21 at Juenke & Schoenewolf.
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Fritz Ahrens
Farmers Embrace Democratic Platform Plank at Dallas Meet
W. W. Pitts of Willspoint reports farm leaders back the party's agricultural plank after returning from Houston. Advertisements note a 600 phone line and a Big Dance in Grapetown Hall on August 25 with Melody Mixers.
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Dallas
America
W. W. Pitts
Willspoint
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association
American Cotton Growers’ Exchange
Houston
Grapetown Hall
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Joe Stein
Otto Hartmann
Arno Heimann
R. J. Olfer’ss Auto Top Shop
Pehl’s Hall
Albert
Texas
Faulkner & Ramsey
Blanky Four
Felix T. Pehl
Tatsch’s Hall
Cain City, Texas
Edgar H. Tatsch
Alex W. Maier
Saddlery
Juenke & Schoenewolf
No. 14
Music By the
Martin
Burg’s
Stonewall, Texas
Faulkner & Ramsey the
Hy. J. Burg
Klingelhoefer’s
Cherry Springs
Alfred Klingelhoefer
Hue
Deske’s Hall
The
American Eagles
Otto Kolmeier & Co
Cord
Goodyear
Taylor-Burke Motor Co
Ford
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