Texas Items Reflect Local Developments and Records
Texas news item roundup reports on bond issues approved in San Patricio and Marshall, a new high line construction from Jacksonville to Tranp, an open record office setup in Port Arthur, a 1927 prison population rise to 3897, and a Plaza hotel project in Corpus Christi. It notes deer hunting changes, increased Sabine exports totaling 62.9 million and Port Arthur customs data, a water tower completion, rice bids rejected, and rising fruit and vegetable shipments 1926 27 with 40 000 carloads. Births in Galveston reached 1078 with 710 deaths, plus highway and railway regulatory actions and local chamber progress.
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Mexico
Sabine
U. S
Port Arthur
Port Bolivar Ferry Landing
Houston
Galveston
State Railroad Commission
City of
Marshall
Ganton Independent
van Zandt County
Attorney General's Department
American Rice Growers Association Wriday
Beaumont
Jian Moody
Caesar Kleberg
King Ranch
Moody
Texas
J. Austen Hunter
Market News Service
Taxus
Federal Departments of Agriculture
Texas Jersey Cattle Club selects Amarillo for 1929 convention
Dallas and Amarillo were named the 1929 convention city for the Texas Jersey Cattle Club. All officers were reelected at the closing Dallas session. S. M. Marrs, Texas school superintendent, was appointed to the international relations committee of the National Education Association this week.
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Dallas
Tex
Amarillo
Texas Jersey Cattle Club
Austin
Tex.s
Road Construction in Texas 1927 Summary
Austin Texas report shows 742 miles contracted in 1927 with 213 miles concrete pavement. Federal Road Bureau contributed 38,2138 dollars while counties paid 20,686,015. Total state expenditure 1,431,10 after adjustments. 742 miles of roads and 404 miles of bituminous surfacing completed.
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Austin
Tex
Thomsen
Tesug
Highway Department
Federal Road Bureau
Public debt cut in 1927 by over one billion dollars
The public debt fell by 1,055,312,886 during the last year, with a total reduction of 8,500,849,197 since 1919. Treasury estimates 1927 savings in interest around 40,000,000 annually, leaving gross debt at 18,036,862,451 in Washington.
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Washington, D. C
The
Treasury
Texas Has 380 Millionaires and Corporate Returns
Washington DC The United States has at least 29 857 millionaires with Texas home to 380. Commissioner Blair Friday reported Texas corporations filed 11 095 returns. Of these 6 938 reported net income totaling 192 260 275 and paid in come of 24 106 656 while 4 157 corporations posted deficits totaling 49 472 339.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Texas
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Blair
Air Mail Lines Set to Open February First
Dallas lines will start the six Texas routes from Dallas and Fort Worth to Waco Austin San Antonio Houston and Galveston on February 1 according to F G Lippett Fort Worth manager of Texas Air Transport to Jack McDermott acting Dallas manager.
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Dallas
Tex
South Texas
Fort Worth
Waco
Austin
San Antonio
Houston
Galveston
F. G. Lippett
Texas Air Transport
Jack McDermott
Four More Bodies Recovered From S-4 Sub Sunk
Divers retrieved four additional crew members from the engine room of the sunken submarine S-4 at Provincetown Massachusetts on Friday. Two were found under a tarpaulin near the site where one of three bodies recovered earlier Wednesday lay.
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Provincetown
Mass
Rogers Repeat Seed Heading Leader at Cottonseed Meet
Dallas scene notes John D. Rogers of Navasota was re elected president of the Texas Cottonseed Breeders Association at the midwinter session. Jon Gorham of Waco was chosen as vice president and professor J P Humbert of College Station was re elected secretary treasurer.
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Dallas
Tex
John D. Rogers
Navasota
Texas Cottonseed Breeders Association
Jon Gorham
Waco
Pr. J. P. Humbert
College Station
Vasquez Accepts Post as Mexican Counsel in Galveston
Ismael M. Vasquez, recently named Mexican counselor for Galveston, assumed duties this week. He hails from Laredo and previously served in Galveston in 1920 during Adolfo de la Huerta's provisional presidency after Carranza's overthrow.
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Galveston
Tex
Ishmael M. Vasquez
Vasquez
Laredo
Adolfo de la Huerta
Mexico
Carranza
Remus Enters Insane Asylum in Ohio Trial Outcome
George Remus, famed bootlegger, was committed to the state hospital for the insane in Lima Ohio on Friday after a Hamilton County jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of his wife Imogene.
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Lima
Ohio
George Remus
State Hospital For the Insane
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Imogene
Highway Has Cash Balance in Texas
The highway department in Austin, Texas, traces a 1927 year of road building and maintenance with a cash balance of 9,345,860 against 663,806 at year end 1921. Nearly 2,000,600 was received in recent days including 1,225,900 from gasoline tax and 922 from 1928 automobile registration fees.
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Austin, Texes
R.A. One
New Peace Pact Offered France
The state department made public a formal invitation to France to join the United States in proposing a multilateral treaty to all principal powers declaring war as a national policy. The invitation was sent to Paris on December 28 as an elaboration of the draft pact of perpetual friendship between France and the United States.
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France
Washington, D. C
United States
State Department
Paris
Millions Go By Air to Wall St Daily
New York banks receive vast sums daily via air mail easing clearance. Air mail saves millions in interest by speeding checks between banks, with Chicago and Kansas City clearinghouses reporting substantial monthly savings. Air mail timetables connect San Francisco to New York, while a New York bank uses outgoing air mail to counter fraud in opening Chicago accounts.
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Wall ST
New York
Wall Street
Trnois Merchants Trust Company of
Chicago
New York City
Trust Company
Kansas City Clearing [Lease Association
Moad
San Francisco
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
St. Louis
Reserve Bank
General Post Office
New Brunswick
N. J
Financial District
City Mall
Atl Mail
Aie Mail
Fiis
Governor's Wife Finds Mansion Not Like Home
Jackson Mississippi governor's wife Mrs Murphree says the governor's mansion feels like a long visit as nothing belongs to them and lacks home atmosphere. She plans to return to their own home and chickens in January when Governor Murphree's term ends. She favors having her own chickens and a home to arrange, with the family on the outskirts of Jackson near the capitol. Her four children Mary Frances Lois Emma Jane and Thomas Martin are mentioned as the reasons for her interest in a private home.
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Jackson
Miss
Governor's Mansion
Dennis Muurphre
Mississippi
Murphree
Capitol
Mystery Nebulaic Glow Solved By Harvard Scientist
New York reports Prof. Uarlow Shapley of Harvard says the nebulae mystery that thrilled science for six decades stems from oxygen with two electrons removed. This explains the unusual glow and clarifies long debated celestial chemistry.
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New York
Uarlow Shapley
Harvard
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M. College
John Henry Kirby Houston Limberman
Corpus Christi
Venter
Heisht
Rio Grande Valley
Grim Reaper
A. Pucciarello
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Texas Cattle Club
S-4
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Kansas City
Saving
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New England Department Store, Inc
Park Square District
Mr. Coolidge
Havana
Cuba
Presidential
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Arthur Biss Lane
Mexico City
James Willard Schultz
Waterton Lakes National Park
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