Rocksprings hosts two day barbecue and games event
In Rocksprings Texas on June 12 a two day barbecue festival closed with rodeo ball game and polo matches. Music featured Brackenridge Brass Band and Fredericksburg string band while Menard and local teams competed with Rocksprings a close second in polo and in the ball game.
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Rocksprings
Tex
Brackenridge Brass Band
Fredericksburg
Menard
Camp Wood
Cardwell
Watson
Edwards County
S. A. Express
Senate in Jam on Farm Relief Efforts and Good Roads
Washington June 6 the senate will devote time to farm relief legislation while the house passes unimportant measures. Friends of farm legislation hold conferences to craft a bill that can win House approval and a presidential signature. Vice President Dawes joins the talks to aid in solving Congress most pressing issue while the good roads measure is also expected to be considered.
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Washington
Senate
House
Friends of Farm Legislation
Coolidge
Dawes
Congress
Rabid Cow Licks Family Prompting Rabies Serum
In Dallas six members of Mrs. A G Edwards family aged four to thirteen are receiving hydrophobia treatment after a pet cow licked their hands and faces last week. The cow died Sunday afternoon. veterinarians say rabies likely came from a dog bite.
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Dallas
A. G. Edwards
Nurse Misreads Thermometer Sparks Urgent Call to Doctor
A student nurse unfamiliar with clinical thermometers records a patient at 120 degrees. She alerts the doctor with a note requesting immediate attendance. The doctor replies that help is useless and suggests calling the fire department instead.
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Jane
Aronout
San Francisco
A Smile or Two and a Cold Reception Tale
An Irishman recalls a lawyer asking if he presented his account to the defendant. He says the defendant cursed him to go to the devil. He then sought his old friend, but a mistaken encounter led to comic confusion with Pat Ryan across the street.
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Pat Ryan
Pat
Oyster eggs spark census quip about married life
A humorous census note on page 11 compares oyster reproduction to married life, joking that a single oyster could lay one to eight million eggs annually and prompting playful reflection.
Money stolen from Ore City Bank recovered near Coffeyville
A loot recovered near a Coffeyville area home holds most of the 2418 dollars stolen from Ore City Bank last Monday in Gilmer Texas. Only a few dollars remain missing. The find was announced June 12.
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Gilmer
Texas
Ore City
Coffeyville
Marbles Championship Dethroned by Global Turmoil
Brooklyn Eagle notes that polar flights, Poland’s government crisis, and Britain’s crisis overwhelmed attention and diminished the importance of this year’s marbles championship contest.
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Poland
Brooklyn Eagle
Specialist and GP Roles as Quipped in Kansas City Star
A Kansas City Star quips that a specialist trains patients to be ill only during office hours while a general practitioner can be called off the golf course at any time. The tongue in cheek contrast highlights medical practice norms.
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Kansas City Star
Inside Rubber Controversy Echoes Inquirer Quotation
An exchange remarks America may seize rubber supply one day and questions whether such control would comfort, noting sand-bagging as an inside job. No further context provided.
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America
Philadelphia Inquirer
Notice to publish legal summons in Gillespie County
The State of Texas commands the Sheriff or any Constable of Gillespie County to publish this notice in a newspaper of general circulation that has run for at least one year. The notice must be printed at least once weekly for ten days before the return day.
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Gillespie County
Gillespie
Texas
Notice of Probate for Will in Gillespie County Texas
Notice is given to interested parties in Gillespie County Texas that Edwin and Hilmar Brodbeck have filed an application for probate of the last will and testament of Jacob and Christine Brodbeck with letters testamentary. The hearing is set for the next term beginning on the first Monday in July 1926 at the Fredericksburg Court House. Interested persons may contest the filing. return on the writ should show execution. Dated June 8, 1926, Albert E. Klett Clerk County Court Gillespie Co Texas.
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Jacob Brodbeck
Christine Brodbeck
Edwin Brodbeck
Hilmar Brodbeck
Gillespe County
Christine Brodbeeck
Fredericksburg
Texas
A. D
Albert E. Klett
St.38
Gillespie Co. Tex
Richard Marion Barker
Redericksburg
Wm. Ahrens
Application for Probate of Will in Fredericksburg Texas
An application for the probate of the last Will and Testament of Richard Marion Barker, deceased, and for Letters Testimentary, will be heard on Sunday in July 1926 in Fredericksburg Texas, at which time all persons are required to appear.
Estate filing in Gillespie County court
Mrs. Katherina Ahrens has filed in Gillespie County Court an application concerning the estate of William Ahrens, prompting court action and further proceedings.
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Wm. Ahrens
Katherina Ahrens
Gillespie County
Probate of will of Wm Ahrens filed July 5 1926
Probate of the last will and testament of Wm Ahrens, deceased, filed with an application on the fifth day of July in the year 1926 before the County Court. Albert E Klett is the clerk.
Burrier Estate Files in Gillespie County Court
The estate of Richard Marion Burrier and widow Sarah Francis Burrier has filed a proceeding in the County Court of Gillespie County seeking probate actions and related settlement in a Deceased estate matter.
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State OF Texas
Richard Marion Burrier
Sarah Francis Burrier
Gillespie County
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