Texas items and local developments across the border
A roundup of Texas notices reports and developments from Bell County to the Rio Grande Valley including school aid bank capital increases homeseekers and tourism data. Topics cover road and highway efforts gas consumption in Houston a tax rate in Hallettsville and local industry surveys with quotes on citrus and fruit growing. A big block of items notes court actions school bond elections and regional growth tied to oil gas and agriculture.
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South Texas Golf Association
Yoakum
South Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Hallettsville
Houston
Lindale
Smith County
Lindale Fruit Growers Association
Schreiner Institute
Battle that forged Texas liberty and San Jacinto triumph
The article recalls the 1836 Texas independence struggle led by Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, contrasting Alamo and Goliad massacres with the decisive San Jacinto victory. It notes the treaty of Velasco and Houston becoming first Texas president, with a statue unveiling near the San Jacinto site honoring Stephen F. Austin’s conquest and the generals’ lineage.
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Fannin
Napoleon of
The
West
Santa Anna
Texas
Washington
Sam Houston
Jackson
Tohopeka
Tennessee
Stephen F. Austin
San Felipe
Austin
United States
Houston
San Jacinto Bay
Buffalo Bayou
Vince
Deat Smith
Deaf Smith
Alamo
Goliad
Velasco
Republic of Texas
Associated Advertising Clubs
Enrico Cerracchio
David I. Houston
Agriculture
the Treasury
Herbert Houston
Frank K. Flouston
New York
Texas Declaration of Independence Preamble and Conclusion
The Texas declaration argues that when government fails to protect liberty and rights, rebellion is justified to form a new sovereign republic. It cites the Mexican federal system as corrupt and a military despotism, declares dissolution of political connection, and asserts Texas is now a free, independent nation endowed with full rights of statehood.
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Kaverden
Abollah Anc
Raye Oe FE Pure Labs
Wwe
Ple
Texas
Forbesrance
Orme
Texas Independence Day March Two From Our Nation’s Story
By Elmo Scott Watson, the piece contrasts Texas independence on March 2 with the national July 4. It cites Davy Crockett’s diary entry from 1886 written during the Alamo siege as he reflected on liberty and the framing of a Declaration of Independence. The text notes Santa Anna’s 5,000 troops surrounding the Alamo and the February 22 siege start, tying local and national heroes to these events.
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Texas
Washington
Brazos
Travis
Bowie
Bonham, Crockett
Alamo
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
The
Crockett
State Capitol
Austin
Col. J. W. Fannin
Goliad
Aes
Sisterhood of
Lone Star
Davy Crockett
Tennessee
David Crockett
Lberty
San Antonio
Governor plans 10 speed up justice in Texas
Governor Moody outlines reforms to accelerate justice. Proposals include year round appellate terms with eight weeks of judge vacation, hearing transferred case arguments in the originating court, redistricting to equalize appeal caseloads, and creating administrative judicial districts with a presiding judge who can assign district judges to relieve congestion.
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Courts of Appeal
Court of Appeals
Senate Farm Relief Bill Passed In House
Washington D C The McNary Haugen farm relief bill passed the house in the form approved by the senate by a 214 to 178 vote. It calls for a federal farm board with power to levy an equalization fee on six basic commodities to curb surpluses. The bill names swine, wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice as bases and excludes cattle.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Federal Farm Board
Rice Prices Rise in Beaumont Trade Market
Beaumont report shows eight thousand bags of rice sold by the American Rice Growers Association at high prices. Louisiana pearl averaged $4.44 and blue rose $4.95 per bag, with a New Orleans mill paying 37 cents freight, signaling a strengthening market. Prolific variety sold at $4.
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Beaumont
Tex
American Rice Growers Association
Louisiana
New Orleans
Harly Prolific
Moffat Tunnel Breaks Rockies at East Portal
The continental divide was pierced when the last eight feet of granite separating crews drilling a pioneer tunnel were blasted at 8:10 p.m. Friday. The charge was set from the White House as President Coolidge pressed a key in Washington.
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East Portal
Colo
Rocky Mountains
White House
Washington
Coolidge
Pardon Record Revealed In Early January Texas Report
Autin Texas reports show 355 pardons issued by Gov Miriam A Ferguson in the first 174 days of January plus 28 paroles. The State Prison Commission disclosed the monthly figures to Gov Dan Moody. Prison population fell from 3225 on Jan 1 to 2921 on Jan 31, then rose to 2952 by Feb 14.
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Autin
Tex
Miriam A. Ferguson
Dan Moody
State Prison Commission
Moody
Houston Awarded New Postoffice Building
Washington announces a new federal postoffice building for Houston with a projected cost of 2 180 000 dollars as part of the revised federal building recommendations released Saturday by the postoffice and treasury departments.
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Washington, D. C
Postoffice
Houston
Treasury Departments
Wallace bill raises gasoline tax to three cents
Austin Texas The Wallace measure to increase the gasoline tax from one to three cents a gallon was finally passed by the House on Friday.
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Austin
Tex
House
Petsch libel bill passes house with amendment
The Petsch bill to revise libel law was approved by the house with an amendment removing the clause that allowed newspapers to quote parts of speeches dealing with motives of another person.
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Austin
Tex
House
Irish potato acreage boosts in Smithville Texas
Smithville Texas reports a at least 20 percent increase in Irish potato acreage over last season.
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Smithville
Tex
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Bell County
Tantry
del Rio
Batardor
Marest
First State Bank
Mission
Iis
Lower
Missouri Pacific Lines
McGill Ranch
Duval County
Benavides
Department of State At
Ultra State Bank
Florida
Mercedes Chamber of Commerce
Mercedes
Big Sandy
Smith and Upshur County
Maduy
Highway Club of
Charles McKenny
County Court
Bexar County
Limestone County
Laredo
Archer County
Claude Pollard
Fifty-third District Court
School Board of
Linton Independent School District
Cimarron County
Weslace
Chamber of Commerce
Reada
Timpson and
Joaquin
Shreveport
Nacogdoches
Lisiana
DAFID
Elmo Scott Watson
Moffat
Rockies
U. K
Iiah
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