Texas Business Review notes April dip amid overall gains
April results in Texas and the Southwest show a softer month after strong early-year performance. Bernard Nichols cites abundant cheap credit, firmer money markets, and higher interest rates with ample funds. Checks in the Dallas Fed district rise 24 percent from last April while bank loans hold steady and Fed borrowing climbs.
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Austin
Texas
Southwest
Bernard Nichols
Texas Business Review
Bureau of Business Research
University of Texas
Dallas
McKenzie Rehearing Scheduled for June 6
Austin May 25 The Court of Criminal Appeals set June 6 for submission of John A McKenzie alias Pete Mc Kenzie motion for rehearing in death penalty case. He seeks to overturn a prior decision affirming the murder conviction of Sam Street San Antonio chief of detectives killed Sept 10 1927.
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Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
John A. McKenzie
Pete McKenzie
Sam Street
San Antonio
McKenzie
Small boy killed by car near New Braunfels
May 26 New Braunfels Texas Carlos Quiroz a 14 year old Mexican boy was killed when struck by a car near his home about six miles from town. The accident happened Friday afternoon as the lad went to a mailbox near his home and was found dead near a cane patch moments later. His back was broken and his chest crushed. Officers investigate but have not learned who drove the death car.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Carlos Quiroz
Brasher Freed in Murder Case by San Antonio Jury
Claude Brasher was acquitted of murder after a 16 hour jury deliberation in the 19th District Court. The verdict came at 2 45 p m Saturday, with Brasher claiming he drove Turner to Niemeyer's station but did not know illegal activity would occur. The trial followed a hung jury in an earlier proceeding.
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Claude Brasher
Henry Neimeyer
San Antonio
Llo’colek
Brasher
Victor Turner
Niemeyer
Turner
Hold up man gets 25 years for killing
Wichita Falls Texas May 26 Jack Nagie found guilty of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the 89th district court after an hour of deliberation. He claimed the shooting of Theodore Zimmermann, a shopkeeper, during an attempted holdup last April 13 was accidental and asked for a suspended sentence.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Jack Nagie
89Th District Court
Nagie
Theodore Zimmermann
Zimmermann
Confederate veteran Harry C. McClausland 79 dies in Texas
Harry C. McClausland, born 1849 in Staunton Virginia, died in Lockhart Texas after a long Civil War service. He was 13 when he joined Company H of the Fifth Virginia Infantry and was the bodyguard to General Stonewall Jackson throughout the war. He was first cousin to General John C. McClausland and was paroled by General Grant on April 18, 1865.
Mercury Reaches 103 in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Texas records a high of 103 degrees on May 27, marking a new daily heat record for the date.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Firemen Hurt in Paint Company Fire Wrecks Two Plants
Two Wichita Falls firemen were injured when a fire and explosion damaged the Landon Hill Company and the Sherwin Williams Paint Company. Officials estimated losses between $65,000 and $12,000 from the Saturday morning blaze.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Landon Hill Company
Sherwin Williams Paint Company
Accidental Shooting Injures Waelder Graduate
Waelder Texas May 24 Miss Anna Grace Cockrill a high school graduate and daughter of Mr and Mrs A A Cockrill received a painful but not serious wound from an accidental pistol discharge The ball entered her limb just above the knee and passed through the limb A young boy friend was toying with the pistol when it discharged.
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Waelder
Tex
Anna Grace Cockrill
A. A. Cockrill
Woman and child drown in car crash near Dallas
Mrs Barney Owens 33 and her seven year old daughter, both of Athens, drowned when their automobile went through a bridge rail into the Trinity River between Seagoville and Crandall, about 25 miles southwest of Dallas. Owens husband escaped with bruises as the car was recovered two hours later.
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Dallas
Tex
Barney Owens
Athens
Trinity River
Seagoville
Cramdall
Here
Modern hotel planned for New Braunfels site
A meeting of hotel company subscribers at the courthouse Tuesday night raised 145000 for a modern fireproof hotel in New Braunfels. Officers elected were Emil Fisher president Walter Faust vice president B W Nuhn secretary treasurer and directors Emil Fisher Walter Faust B W Nuhn U S Pfeuffer Adolf Henne Bob Gode J R Fuchs I A Ogden Emil Heinen. Negotiations with hotel firms seek a lessee. site chosen is the old Faust homestead on Seguin Avenue.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Emil Fisher
Walter Faust
B. W. Nuhn
U.S. Pfeuffer
Adolf Henne
Bob Gode
J. R. Fuchs
I. A. Ogden
Emil Heinen
Faust
Seguin Avenue
Parachute Jump Ends Fatally Near Kerrville
Edward O. Helton, 33, of San Antonio, died after leaping 1500 feet during an air circus six miles south of Kerrville. He did not deploy his parachute properly, the harness released late, and rings fouled. Helton served as WW II pilot at Kelley Field and leaves a San Antonio sister and Stilwell Oklahoma parents. The body was moved to Stilwell for burial.
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Kerrville
Tex
Edward O. Helton
Inlaw
O. H. Kilpatrick
West
Summit Avenue
San Antonio
Helton
Kelley Field
Phelps
Smiths Plan $2,000,000 Cement Plant in San Antonio
San Antonio prepares for industrial expansion as Smith Bros. Properties aims to start a $2 million cement plant employing hundreds. Judge J. W. Young announces the deal for an 800 acre site near the Austin Highway and MKT lines. A new company will operate the plant with enhanced water and sewer systems, moving the area toward becoming an industrial hub.
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San Antonio
Judge J. W. Young
Smith Bros. Properties, Inc
United States
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Missouri Pacific
Austin
Judge Young
Richard K. Meade
Baltimore Cement Authority
J. H. Smith
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Schandua & Reichenau
Kellogg’s
Juenke & Schoenewolf
General Merchants
Stonewall Jackson
Heston
J. P. Helton
Stilwell, Oklo
Stilwell
C. H. Kilpatrick
Schandur & Reichenau
TIN Metal and
H. Kuenemann
Mr. Farmer and
Stockman
Fredericksburg Publishing Co
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