Editorial Notes on Home Maintenance and State Tax Debate
The note urges yearly cleaning of smokepipes and flues to prevent fires and improve draft. It criticizes the Texas State Senate for reversing course on a gasoline tax affecting 1,300,000 school children, arguing oil interests block highway and school funding while gasoline prices stay uniform across states. The editorial hints at hidden motives with a controversial racial remark.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Fredericksburg
Altho
Texas
Senate of Texas
Nimitz Hall Memories of Fredericksburg’s Hotel Days
The piece recalls the Nimitz Hall hospitality era in Fredericksburg with guests arriving by horse, meals prepared by a house staff, and social life centered on dances, balls, and local clubs. It notes German immigrant customs, weddings, theater by stock companies, and the eventual razing of the old hotel to make way for a new building while preserving enduring memories.
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Bertha
Lina
Augusta
Sophie
Nimitz
Sophia Mathilda Nimitz
Farmerverein
Landsmann
Meinherr Nimitz
Casino Verein
Austin
Fredericksburg
East Lynne
Lady Audeley
Longstreet and Lee
Kirby Smith
Phil Sheridan
Grandfather
Bertha Nauwald
Charles Nimitz
Selecting disease free sweet potato seed at harvest time
The U S Department of Agriculture advises choosing medium sized, disease free sweet potatoes from productive hills for seed. Avoid stems rotted or abnormal vines and store seed in baskets away from the general stock to prevent fungal spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
The Chicken Tick Control for Fowl Health
The chicken tick is a nocturnal bloodsucker affecting fowl in the South. Eradicate by thorough house cleaning and insecticidal spraying using wood preservatives or crude petroleum thinned with kerosene. Keep birds out while treated, suspend roosts, place nests away from roosts, and quarantine new birds for 10 days.
Last Chance for Henry and Horner Buries Ford Joke
Old Bill Horner organises his will with a quixotic request to bury his Ford car. The lawyer asks about the idea and Bill replies he has never seen a hole a flivver couldn't pull him out of.
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Bill Horner
Bill
Flivver
Girl Swallows Coin During Birthday Party
Beatrice Wilkins of Boerne swallowed a 25 cent piece at a birthday party. An emergency operation at Santa Rosa Infirmary removed the coin from her throat. She recovered quickly and left the hospital within 24 hours to return home with her parents.
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Little Beatrice Wilkins
Boerne
Santa Rosa
San Antonio
The Beauty of Painted Farm Houses
An editorial urges painting farm houses to save costs and protect the structure. It argues paint adds beauty, brightness, and a sense of enterprise despite high lumber and building costs, calling for widespread adoption across the South.
Wanderer Killed in Houston Dragging Incident
Authorities seek kin of Charles Rankin 35 of Winegrove Kentucky after a Katy switch engine dragged him to death in Houston. Army discharge papers found with the body confirm his identity and origin. Telegrams to Winegrove are sent as efforts to locate relatives continue. The article notes living cost decline of 1.7 percent over six months per the Department of Labor.
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Houston
Charles Rankin
Winegrove
Katy
United States Army
Rankin
Department of Labor
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Fredericksbur Standard
Fredericksburg Publishing Co
KLETT
WM. Habenicht
Postoffic
Gillespie County
Henry
Wanderer
Rud. Marschall
Tatsch’s Hall
Cain City
EDG
H. Tats&ch
Cain City State Bank
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