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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1926
Page
6
Editorial notes condemn vandalism on the Cross Mountain memorial and urge enforcement of law. The piece laments smeared names on the monument and calls for accountability, while stressing parental and teacher cooperation to foster a love of learning and regular school attendance.
The Commissioner's Court authorized a $9 600 apportionment for road improvements. Funds accumulated in the Jury Fund and Special Road Tax Fund due to conservative handling by the county commission ers and judge. The court set an example of economy in handling public funds.
A homeless man stole a loaf of bread in the marketplace and was arrested within minutes. He faced a police judge and received a 90 day sentence. The piece contrasts this with a cabinet bribe case from the prior year where a suspect avoided trial after a large kickback.
With the opening of another school year the problem of encouraging the child to make the most of the opportunities which the school offers again presents itself. It discusses guidance and motivation for student engagement.
The document outlines Democratic platform points: opposition to new bureaus, government control of public utilities, railroad regulation, and primary election reform. It argues for judiciary reforms to speed justice, reduce costs, expand Supreme Court rules, and preserve public credit. It calls for education funding, high school access in rural areas, per capita school funding, and textbook law revisions.
The passage notes that about three million people in the country are ill at any time, with one and a half million dying yearly. It cites tubercu losis affecting at least half a million, half of whom are completely incapacitated, plus a million and a half with preventable diseases. It adds two million harmed in industrial accidents annually, thirty thousand deaths, and three hundred thousand serious injuries, highlighting the ongoing struggle to conquer life’s health threats.
The piece blends a boy’s humorous observations on horses cows ducks and a skunk with an advertisement urging Fly-Tox for health and comfort in Boy Scout camps. It promotes Fly-Tox bottles with a blue label for milk houses clothing and horses. An event notes harness and running horses at a South Texas track in New Braunfels on September 23 24 25 26.
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