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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1926
Page
4
An agricultural notice warns cotton farmers of 1927 worm threats and warns of delays in poison supply. It urges storing calcium arsenate as insurance, advising five pounds per acre to meet early infestation and avoid high costs. It notes transport delays and higher prices last season and calls on bankers and organizations to help pre-purchase.
Juenke and Schoenewolf advertise affordable lumberjack shirts and sweaters. Ladies Committee for the Fireboys election returns include Miss Anna Gold and several Mrs. names and invite donations of cash cake candy or bread via phone.
Beaumont reports two and possibly more men killed as fire swept the Sour Lake oil field near Beaumont, destroying six derricks and eight 500 barrel tanks. Ten workers were burned, including Fred Tuff of Houston, head of Humphreys Oil, whose body remained unfound at 4 p.m. Sunday.
Dan Moody and nine Williamson county attorneys issue a 1000 word statement calling Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson’s clemency for Murray Jackson an improper use of the pardon power. Jackson, convicted in 1923 for involvement with Ku Klux Klan violence, was pardoned last week after less than a year of a five year sentence. The document lists Graves, Critz, Wilcox, Taulbee, Moody, Nunn, Reinhardt, Lawhorn and Evans as signers and notes roles with the house committee and state Democratic machinery.
In Taylor Texas on Friday a woman reading mail halted in the road. Two traveling salesmen, likely speeding, chose leaping a 25 foot embankment over a railing on Cir cleville bridge over the San Gabriel River instead of hitting her car. Both men escaped with no injuries and continued to the next town.
Lisle Missouri October 23 M Wilson a farmer escaped with his life after a six foot four inch blacksnake dropped from a tree and wrapped around his neck. Neighbor J P Gilmore intervened as Wilson restrained the reptile and began moving toward Gilmore's farm.
Austin Texas October 26 guidance from the Attorney General's Department states a voter may mark out all names on an official ballot for an office and write in a name. If a name appears in multiple columns it counts once. multiple write ins count as a single vote. Intent governs and mischief or mutilation may lead to rejection. 000 Corn Shellers also advertised by Juenke and Schoenewolf.
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