Ranger Citizens Demand Action Against Lawbreakers Edict
May 19 Ranger civic groups including Rotary Club Lions Club and Ku Klux Klan issue an ultimatum to bootleggers and professional gamblers. A committee will confront alleged law breakers or face citizens enforcing the law. Police Commissioner Davenport was asked to resign. he refused. The move aims to curb bootlegging and gambling amid alleged intimidation of Police Chief Luther Davenport.
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Ranger
Rotary Club
Lions Club
Ku Klux Klan
Alonzo Davenport
Luther Davenrt
Sherifan Nolley
Citizens Protest Dam Across Creek in Graham
Citizens of Graham protest a proposed dam across Salt Creek below Graham. The Board of Water Engineers in Austin has extended the hearing to June 5, hoping protests will force dismissal of the application. Residents urge streams remain open to prevent adverse effects on the town and surrounding people.
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Graham
Salt Creek
Board of Water Engineers At
Austin
Wichita Falls Record News Seeks Subscribers
The Wichita Falls Record News announces new management and improvements. It offers daily and Sunday delivery from now until August 1, 1922 for one dollar, with subscribers urged to mail a dollar and the ad to the Record News office.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Record News
Memorial Service by W O W and Woodmen Circle
Memorial Day observations by the W O W and Woodmen Circle featured parades in uniform led by the Graham Concert Band to the cemetery at 2 o'clock. Eighteen girls in white carried flower baskets, with many friends gathered to witness services, followed by cream and cake after.
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Woodmen
Graham
Simple tale of heroism from Marlin dispatch
An AP report from Marlin recounts a brief act of heroism by Rev. H. W. Knicklebecker, pastor of the Methodist church. He relinquished a plank to a swimmer in danger, a simple gesture that conveyed a profound deed and earned wide recognition across Texas.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Marlin
Texas
H. W. Knicklebecker
Methodist Church
Jean State Bank Ledger Notice from Graham Leader
The Jean State Bank at Jean Texas closes May 5 1922 and publishes asset details in the Graham Leader on May 18 1922. It lists loans and discounts overdrafts bonds and stocks real estate banking house furniture and fixtures amounts due from other banks and cash on hand and deposits to the Depositors Guaranty Fund with related assessments.
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Jean
Nation’s luxury spending in last year totals billions
Last year Americans spent 750 million on cosmetics and 300 million on furs. Jewelry reached 500 million, with total luxury outlay at 22.75 billion. Cigarette smoke accounted for 800 million and cigars for 150 million, chewing gum 50 million, and men spent 800 million on chewing tobacco.
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America
Rutherford listed as graduate of Kansas City Veterinary College
R W Rutherford, graduate of the Kansas City Veterinary College, res phone 207 3sl, office duty at Duty's Drug Store in Graham Texas.
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Stine & Stine Attorneys-At-Law
Sloan’s
Graham, Texas
R. W. Rutherford
Kansas City Veterinary College
Office Duty’s Drug Store
Graham
Texas
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Keaton
Pathe News
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O’brien
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Lash
the National
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Young
H. K. Weems
James G. Staples
A. D
A. J. Cantwell
J. L. Gammill
G. M. Roden
J. T. Sims
M. D. Brown Elmer Graham Brown & Graham Lawyers
First National Bank Building
McFarlane
McFarlane Lawyers
Tidwell Building
Arnold & Arnold
Herman T. McBrayer
H. H. Guice
Alden S. Young
McBrayer, Guice
Johnson & Johnson Lawyers
West Side Square
W. W. Price
Graham National Bank
G. Drummond Hunt
American Exchange Bank Bidg
Dallas, Texas
Chas. F. Triplett
W. F. Schenck Schenck & Triplett Lawyers Office
First National Bank
F. W. Hinson
Graham Land Office
L. A. Kayser
PENIX
Morrison Building
Caldwell & Perry General Insurance
Smith & Smiley
East Side Square
Young County Abstract Company
Arnold & Kay
First Nat'l Bank
W. A. Morris
DR. M. AH
Chism
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Rieger
Bob Tadt Eneee
Pat Ei
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Virginia Lee Guthrie
Palmer School
Oxfords
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Navy
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