Passing Year Highlights Texas Growth in 1924
A comprehensive Texas year in review notes strong progress across industries, education, and infrastructure. Dallas completes a half million dollar high school, Houston a comparable church, and Fort Worth leads in home building. Cotton, oil, fruit, and dairy gains are chronicled with rising bank deposits, expanded highways, and a booming poultry sector.
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Texas
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
United States
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Texas Educational Survey Commission
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Stat Literateur
Reagan County
South Vernon
Wortham
Rio Grande Valley
California
Parker County
Smith County
Bureau of Markets and Warehouse Division
State Department of Agriculture
Winona
Arlington
Tarrant County
Jersey
Mistletoe Farms
Holtex Farms
Dallas County
Mitchell County
Colorado Chamber of Commerce
Kansas City
C. M. Sargent
Merkel
Taylor County
Christmas Customs in Texas by Foreign Nationalities
The article surveys diverse Texas Christmas customs among Swedes, Danes, Germans, Bohemians, Moravians, Czechoslovaks, Spaniards, and Mexicans. It notes Swedish practices from Christmas Eve to daybreak, Danish church trimmings and fireworks rules, German three day celebrations, Bohemian four day rites, Moravian and Czech parallels, and Mexican Catholic and Protestant differences, with emphasis on community feasts, gift exchanges, and Santa Claus traditions.
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United States
Texas
S. Yuletide
Turkey
South
Ennis
St. Steve
St. John’s
Santa Claus
Christ
Granger
David W. Carter
Georgetown
Taylor
San Antonio
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Texas Progress
David J. Morris
Denmark
Bohemians