Graham High School praised as top in Texas
The Graham community and Leader praise the public schools citing two brick buildings, a large daily attendance and a strong library. The High School and Fourth Street building serve about 400 daily students with out-of-town enrollees noted. The paper lauds the district's facilities, staff, and state university credits while urging continued support for growth and safety.
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Texas
Graham
Fourth Street
Young
Inraham Public Schools
Youne
Publc
Supt. McLendon
Transportation and Texas rail policy urged by commission
An editorial urges the Texas Railroad Commission to expand mileage and improve service as a path to progress, calling transportation a business issue and criticizing piecemeal regulation. It notes gender imbalances per federal census and laments scarce transportation facilities on the trackless prairies.
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Railroad Commission
Texas
Union
Waxahachie Nursery Agent Seeks Orders in Four Texas Counties
W. D. Spivey, agent for Waxahachie Nursery, plans a canvass of Young, Jack, and Palo Pinto counties. He asks customers to hold orders and references Cotton at Tort Arthur, Texas City. In 1912 port cotton receipts totaled 586,458 bales, with 411,604 exported to Great Britain, 92,658 to France, 7,339 to Mexico, and 75,007 to other destinations.
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Waxahachie Nursery
Young
Jack
Palo Pinto Counties
W. D. Spivey
Texas City
Texas
Great Britain
France
Mexico
Proportionate development for Texas urged
The essay extols diversification for the South and argues for proportionate development in Texas. It defines the principle as a balance where railroads move freight to factories, raw products feed factories, and local production supplies the people, emphasizing growth of domestic industries over imports.
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South
Texas
Combined course in Draughon's Practical College for trade
A truncated OCR fragment lists a combined course in a Draughon syllabus. The note mentions Eugineas College for sale trade chain and Ban Marun in error or garbled form. The readable parts imply a trade training focus with possible institutional references.
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Draughon
Eugineas College
Eale
Ban Marun
What We Never Forget From Early Home Life
Science notes show early home life memories tied to cures like Bucklen's Arnica Salve used for burns boils scalds sores skin eruptions cuts sprains and swelling. Forty years of cures prove its merit and it is unrivaled for piles corns or cold sores. Only 25 cents at All Druggists.
Texas August mineral output rises 22 percent to 1.86 million
Texas mineral production for August neared 1.86 million dollars, up 22.8 percent from July by about 345 thousand dollars. Oil output reached roughly 1,087,500 barrels with Electra leading at 343,000. Corsicana 10,000. Gulf Coast 32,000 and 500 from Caddo fields. Ten new wells were completed and 72 derricks are under construction in Electra fields. Coal mines produced about 60,000 tons, a small month increase, while salt ran near average with minor gains.
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Houston
Texas
Electra
Corsicana
Gulf Coast
Caddo
Graham Gin Co Promotes Ready Ginning Services
Washington September 25 The first Federal Census Bureau ginning report for 1912 shows on September 10 a total of 729 926 bales ginned since the season began Five percent of the crop is already in Round bales show no increase over last year Sea island cotton ginned totals 203 bales Texas leads with 673 985 bales ginned an increase of about one hundred thousand bales over last year.
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Dallas
Texas
Washington, D. C
Federal Census Bureau
Sea Island
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