Motoring Abroad at Home Niagara Falls Travel Talk
A travel feature extols Niagara Falls as a major U.S. sight reachable from Buffalo. It describes two falls the Horseshoe and the American, with heights of 155 and 162 feet and covers their crests. It notes Ontario and New York lands turned into public parks and mentions the river flow of 222 000 cubic feet per second.
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Niagara Falls
United States
Buffalo
N. Y
Province of
Ontario
State of
New York
Why Young County Needs Good Roads
An essay argues for road construction in Young County detailing benefits of good roads for hauling efficiency, farm product marketing, market access, price stability, tourism, rural mail service, and social development. It notes cost beared by bonds repaid via taxes and cites state and national support for highway improvement programs.
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Young County
Dong
Building Good Roads in Young County
The speaker argues Young County should invest in roads to boost markets and welfare. He notes eastern and western farmers face isolation from trade centers, banks, and schools, hindering productivity and development. Improved roads would ease child transport, support a gasoline plant family, and raise health and opportunities for local residents.
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Young County
Young
Rabies Virulent in Texas Sparks Stray Dog Culling Call
Austin reports an uptick in hydrophobia cases with 85 patients on preventive treatment and 225 dog heads examined this month. Dr. J. T. Wilhite urges killing all stray dogs to curb rabies as 40 percent of examined dogs tested positive, vs 17 percent in summer months when dogs are penned.
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Austin
Mar
J. T. Wilhite
State Pasteur Institute
Bastrop
Dr. Wilhite
Texas
Justice Cropsey Rules Eggs Not Drugs in Sunday Sale Case
Supreme Court Justice Cropsey concludes the defendant failed to prove eggs and ham are drugs and suggests the eggs could have been defended as fertilizer. He notes any city jury would likely agree with that stance.
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Supreme Court
Cropsey
Publication Citation in Debt Case Young County Texas
Publication summons to W F Caldwell in a debt suit filed October 14 1924 in 30th District Court Graham Texas. Plaintiff Continental Supply Company seeks $1502.35 on a note from 1923 with garnishment and attachments involving Calmo Oil Co and Casino Oil Co. Return due at June 1925 term.
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Young County
W. F. Caldwell
380Th Judicial District
30Th Judicial District
Graham
Texas
A. D
Continental Supply Company
Atlas Supply Co
Atlas Supply Company
J. D. Dawson
Prect
District Court
Woodstock
Burroughs
Calmo Oil Co
West Fifth Street
City of
W. N. Warble
Casino Oil Company
Willie Riggs
The Passing Day Describing Texas Legislature Critique
A UT Texas journalism piece argues Texas lawmakers are largely unqualified, urges voters to restore mass meetings, and condemns lobbyists and sectional hostilities. It calls for patriotic service, stronger legislators, and unity across Texas to rival other states.
Gugenheim gift funds fifty Rhodes fellowships
Simon Gugenheim and his wife have made a preliminary gift of 3,000,000 to endow fifty international study fellowships in memory of their son who died in 1922. The fellowship will be open to both women and men, unlike the Rhodes scholarships which are men only. There are no restrictions on field of study or colleges.
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Texas
Simon Gugenheim
Side debates on lobbying spark education and bias claims
The piece argues that ignorance breeds prejudice in voters and lawmakers alike. It contends that uninformed legislators oppose capital, business interests, and organizations they know little about.
Kinema Theatre survey shows strong reader interest in films
An Fresno Kinema Theatre survey with 1600 patrons and personal interviews finds 98.5 percent follow motion picture items in papers and 97.5 percent discuss pictures with friends. Conducted by Beaumont & Mohman, the study underscores audience appetite for film news.
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Kinema Theatre
Fresno
California
The
Kinema
Beaumont & Mhohman
Johns Hopkins Plans Full Shift to Postgrad Study and Research
The university intends to abandon the first two years of college work and discontinue bachelor’s degrees to devote all resources to graduate study and research. A $3,000,000 gift funds a new eye diseases research hospital center, linked to the surgeon Dr. William Holland Wilmer who helped save Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root’s sight after she sought care in New York.
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Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins
Aida de Acosta Root
Manhattan
Europe
America
New York
William Holland Wilmer
Dalhart ad offer pays 10 cents a dozen for rusty nails
C. H. Walker of the Dalhart Texan reports the Fort Worth Record offered ten cents a dozen for rusty nails found by boys on Dalhart streets and delivered to the Texan office. The stunt aimed to show advertising value and readers who take part are rewarded with small pay.
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C. H. Walker
Dalhart
Texan
Fort Worth
Mira Likely Second Largest Known Body in Universe
Astronomers announce Mira a faint speck 165 light years away is probably the second largest known body in the universe with a diameter of 25000 miles. The largest Anteras measures about 400000 miles across.
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Mira
Anteras
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Eliasville
Minnesota
R. L. Lord
Wells (Minn.) Mirror
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Will H. Mayes
University of Texas
East Texas
West Texas
North
Rio Grande Valley
Florida
Motion Pictures
John G. Sargent
U. S
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