Texas News Highlights From Various Texas Local Notes
Kerrville wool and mohair sales near six million pounds at top prices. Longview Kilgore highway work to begin soon. San Marcos foundation broken for a million dollar cotton mill. Wills Point lights in business district in service. Center women form cemetery association. Rusk bonds for waterworks approved. Houston Independent School District bonds voted and approved. Navarro County Medical Society elects officers for state convention. Rail rate decision allows 12 cents per 100 pounds salt cake to several Gulf ports. Rio Grande Valley shipments reach 131 cars to Brownsville. Lamesa Independent School District bonds approved. Texas Railroad Commission to hold Fort Worth hearing Jan 31 on livestock freights. Weimar cotton reports 8,000 bales shipped, yield equal to last year. Per capita school fund apportioned December 15. State attorney general clarifies term starts for offices. October fire losses near a million dollars in Texas. Automobile travel totals 300 million miles monthly. gas tax revenue expected. Texas asserts Rio Grande water jurisdiction for state use. Highway department urged to seek law on road sign protection while bridges are repainted.
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Kerrville
Longview
Kilgore
San Marcos
Wills Point
Center
City of Rusk Waterworks
Attorney General
Houston Independent School District
State Comptroller’s Office
Navarro County Medical Society
I. N. Suttle
J. W. Davis
R. C. Curtis
Slater
W. D. Cross
Houston
Manchester
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Orange
Texas City
Railroad Commission
Rio Grande Valley
Brownsville
Henson
Weimar
S. M
N. Marrs
Public Instruction
Reach Agreement On Cattle Dipping
San Antonio reports Texas cattlemen and officials reached a plan to end the present tick eradication law. The conference recommends repealing the compulsory system, enacting state funded eradication, extending quarantine areas, enforcing strict anti drift and shipment penalties, and allowing local option eradication with county funding. The committee includes Seeligson, Kokenot, Wardell, Kleberg, Borden, Brooks, Callen, Lusater, and Edd.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Miriam A. Fergusson
Colorado River
Gulf and Rio Grande River
Free State
Sanitary Commission
A. W. Seeligson
H. T. Kokenot
W. M. Wardell
Fort Worth
Caesar, Kleberg
Kingsville
A. P. Borden
Pierce
Victor Brooks
Austin
J. M. Callen
Menard
Ed l Lusater
Falfurrias
Henry Edd
Hebbronville
Average Life Expectancy In U S Rises Since 1870
Surgeon General Cumming announced in the annual public health service report to Congress that the average life length in the United States has grown by about 15 years since 1870. The current average life span is 56 years, contrasting with 18 to 20 years in the sixteenth century and about 25 years in the eighteenth, reaching 45 to 48 years by 1900.
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Washington
United States
Cumming
The
Public Health Service
Congress
America
Surgeon General
Railroads Fight Rate Cut in Suit Against Government
Fifty three railroads filed suit in United States district court Thursday to block a reduction in express rates ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission on May 17, effective January 1. The action names the federal government and the American Railway Express Company as defendants and is led from St Paul, Minnesota.
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St. Paul, Minn
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States District Court
American Railway Express Company
Verdict in Furnace Mystery Stuns Columbus Officials
Coroner Joseph A Murphy filed an official verdict in the Boxley furnace mystery declaring Mrs Addie Sheatsley wife of a prominent Lutheran minister ended her life by casting herself into the heating furnace of the parsonage.
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Columbus
Ohio
Boxley Furnace
Joseph A. Murphy
Addie Sheatsley
Six Mexicans Held in Agua Prieta Arms Plot
Six alleged members of a Mexican revolutionary junta are jailed at Agua Prieta across the border, with another man held in Douglas as authorities uncover an arms smuggling plot. Additional arrests are expected.
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Douglas
Ariz
Agua Prieta
International Boundary Line
German Wireless Exhibition Opens in Berlin
President Ebert opened the large wireless exhibition in Berlin by telegram to Honolulu. An acknowledgment to the message was received within six seconds.
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Berlin
Ebert
Honolulu
Fort Worth Gun Battle Ends in Killing of O A Morris
Fort Worth Texas reports a gun battle on Thursday in which S W Thompson age 60 a sleeping car conductor killed O A Morris near Keller. Thompson is described as the shooter and the incident appears to be the fatal exchange of gunfire in the vicinity.
Big Oil Sale in Mexia Wortham Field
Colonel A. E. Humphreys, president of Boyd Oil Company, announced a Prairie Oil and Gas Company deal to take 3,000,000 barrels from Boyd’s Mexia Wortham production, with a daily cap of 30,000 barrels. Boyd No. 1 and No. 2 plus Simmons No. 1 output over 6,000 barrels daily, constrained by a one inch choke. Prairie laid pipeline connections before completion.
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Mexia
Tex
A. E. Humphreys
Boyd Oil Company
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Mexia-Wortham
Boyd
Simmons
Prairie Company
Rush of Oil Drilling In Limestone County Texas
In Wortham area of Freestone County 20 new oil drill permit applications were filed Thursday with the oil and gas bureau. All locations lie in Limestone County across the Hue from Wortham, with several leases adjoining the town. Gulf Production Company plans seven wells near Wortham and others on Ferguson Lindley and Wilson leases, while Magnolia Petroleum will commence 13 wells on the M B Boyd tract this week.
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Austin
Tex
Wortham
Freestone County
Oil and Gas Bureau
Limestone County
Hue
Gulf Production Company
Ferguson
Lindley
Wilson
Magnolia Petroleum Company
M. B. Boyd
Gas Line Near Completion Between Nederland and Magneteo
Magnolia Gas Company advances connection to the lower Magnolia refinery at Magneteo, with twelve inch main pipe unloaded for the line. Gas from North Louisiana fields will fuel Magnolia Petroleum Company and could supply other industries and municipalities. Test drilling underway in Brewster Alpine on Green Alley Corporation No 1, offset to Wilson No 1 which yielded oil in 1920. Corporation has $48,000 capital and 9600 acre Brewster County lease.
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Nederland
Tex
Magnolia Gas Company
Magnolia
Magneteo
Beaumont
North Louisiana
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Brewster
Alpine
Green Alley
Brewster County
New Wells in Calliham Field Tex McMullen County
Two new wells completed in the Calliham Field in McMullen County boost regional production. Officials expect more drilling before year end and considerably higher activity after January 1, marking a shift from recent slow months.
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Calliham Field
Calliham
Tex
McMullen County
Thompsonville Townsite Springs Up Near Hebronville
Hogg Field reports a new townsite Thompsonville on the Oscar Thompson ranch of Jim Hoge County, eighteen miles southwest of Hebronville, near the Henne Winch and Farissol producers. Event buildings are finished or under contract as the town rapidly develops.
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Hogg Field
Laredo
Tex
Thompsonville
Oscar
Thompson
Jim Hoge County
Hebronville
Texas Pipe Line Halted? Archer County Construction Opens
The Texas Pipe Line Company will at once begin building a new six inch Mine from its main pump station on the L. B. Wilson ranch north of the Wilmot pool in Archer County to producing areas in the south part of the county.
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Archer
Wichita Falls
Yex
Texas Pipe Line Company
L. B. Wilson Ranch
Wilmot Pool
Archer County
Big Ridge Oil to drill test well near Huntsville
The Big Ridge Oil and Gas Company will spud its first test well at Wiser's Bluff, fourteen miles north of Huntsville, within days. The company has leased 50,000 acres and is under contract to drill six wells.
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Huntsville
Tex
Big Ridge Oil and Gas Company
Wiser’s Bluff
Burkburnett Pipe Line Output Dips Last Week
Burkburnett Pipe Line in Burkburnett Texas reports a weekly average of about 665 barrels per day for the week ending Saturday November. This marks a loss of roughly 270 barrels daily compared to the prior week’s figures.
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Burkburnett
Tex
Burkeburnett
Texas Oil Company Plants 20000 Barrel Well Near Lake Charles
In Lake Charles Louisiana the Texas Oil Company reports a wild cat well near the Vinton Ged field producing 10000 barrels per head in an open pipe and expected to reach 20000 barrels after washing out. The announcement emphasizes potential output and development prospects for the area.
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Lake Charles
Texas Oil Company
Vinton-Ged
Wildcatting Active In Bastrop County Smithville Tex
An unprecedented drilling campaign in Bastrop County spurs oil men to the Smithville area where five operations are under way south of town, drawing added interest to the region.
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Bastrop County
Smithville
Tex
Big Indian Well Flows Again Near Gainesville Tex
Flowing for several minutes the Big Indian Oil and Development Company well on the Bud Davis farm twelve miles northeast of Gainesville showed first activity since last Thursday when it made two heads. The report notes the renewed flow marks a notable step for the venture amid ongoing drilling efforts in the area.
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Gainesville
Tex
Big Indian Oil and Development Company
Bud Davis
Cainesville
Mirando Oil Exports Move From Port Aransas in November
During November 190,000 barrels of Mirando crude were exported from Port Aranas. The shipment marks a notable movement in Aransas Pass oil trade, reflecting ongoing activity in the Mirando region.
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Mirando Oil
Aransas Pass
Tex
Port Araneas
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