Texas News Briefs on Factories and Airport Site Offers
A new undergarment factory opens in Denison by W R Russell to make men women and children underclothes with five electric machines. Clarksville will host a government inspector to evaluate eight airport site tracts ranging 125 to 250 acres one mile west of town. The airport will be municipally owned. Mohair uses expand Texas output with Sanford Mills in Maine sourcing Texas mohair for coats and fabrics. Texas milk plants saw five million dollars invested 1928-1932 boosting milk production 100 percent. 39 creameries employ 402 workers with payrolls around 466 925 yearly. A Texas school desk factory started in 1927 now employs about sixty. produces 70 000 units yearly in two 20 000 sq ft buildings and has supplied desks and chairs to multiple states and US government Indian schools.
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Clarksville
Dallas
Little Rock
Arkansas
Texas
United States
New York
Kansas City
World telephone total and regional shares
World telephones numbered 35 836 467 as of January 1 with the United States holding 20 207 576. North America totals 21 836 301. Europe 164 585 222. Asia 1 249 540. Oceania 794 448. South America 619 825. Africa 247 091. Germany leads Europe with 9.19 percent of world telephones, followed by Great Britain and France.
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American Telegraph & Telephone Company
United States
North America
Europe
Asia
Oceana
South America
Africa
Germany
Great Britain
France
Markers Set For Chisholm Trail Across Texas
Permission granted to place markers along the Longhorn Chisholm Trail from Red River bridge north of Quanah to the Mexican border. P. P. Ackley of Elk City Oklahoma reports all markers will be installed soon with Texas highway numbers provided by the State Highway Department, signaling Texas State Highway Commission cooperation.
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Texas
Red River Bridge
Quanah
P. P. Ackley
Elk City
Oklahoma
Texas State Highway Commission
State Highway Department
Texas Gasoline Tax Revenue in 1931 Reaches $30.5 Million
Texas collected 30,514,558 dollars from gasoline taxes in 1931, up 987,460 from 1930. With a four cent per gallon rate, the state ranked fourth in total gasoline tax revenue. Higher rates in some states reduced revenue and boosted bootlegging, a trend likely to worsen with federal and state increases to five to eight cents a gallon.
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Texas
Money in blue bells for a Montgomery county farmer
Ben Cluxton and family near Montgomery County have earned about 1800 dollars per season from wild bluebells. The plants are shipped with stems intact, roots preserved, and fields left re-seeded. The family expanded by leasing nearby fields to increase output as customers prize the blossoms for long water life and fragile beauty.
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Ben Cluxton
Montgomery County
Mr. Cluxton
Texas Highway Commission Grants Emergency Road Projects
The Texas Highway Commission awarded road and bridge construction contracts totaling nearly two and a half million dollars. Much work is let under the federal emergency highway aid to relieve unemployment. Preferences favor local labor and World War veterans with minimum wage rates 30 cents per hour for common labor and 45 cents for skilled labor.
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Texas Highway Commission
Texas Leads In Number Of High Schools
Texas maintains more high schools than any other state, countering claims of lagging educational progress. Despite its population ranking, Texas surpasses New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio in the total number of high schools, a point residents may rightly emphasize.
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Texas
Lone Star
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Ohio
Pedestrians Granted Right of Way at Intersections
The U S Court of Civil Appeals of the District of Columbia ruled pedestrians hold the right of way at crossings, including green lights, and remain protected until they reach the opposite curb, obligating motorists to wait for a crossing to clear even if signals change during passage.
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United States Court of Civil Appeals
District of Columbia
High Court
Texas Garden at World Fair Exhibit Details
Texas will showcase a Lower Rio Grande Garden at the Chicago Century of Progress, adjacent to the Texas exhibit in the Hall of States. The outdoor garden will feature citrus trees, grapefruit, papayas, bananas, pecans, poinsettias, and cactus, highlighting Texas crops and tropical flora alongside other state displays.
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Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Lake Michigan
Lower
Rio Grande
Lower Rio Grande
Florida
Texas Commission
Gulf Pacific Highway Association forms to push cross‑country route
The Gulf-Pacific Highway Association formed in Mount Pleasant with officers from Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana. Plans call for a federally designated highway from New Orleans to near Seattle with a route through Baton Rouge Shreveport Mount Pleasant Paris Hugo Antlers Ada Oklahoma City and Denver among others. The project aims to boost South West trade and offer a scenic tourist route from the Pacific to the South.
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Gulf-Pacific Highway Association
Mount Pleasant
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
New Orleans
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Baton Rouge
Shreveport
Jefferson
Daingerfield
Mount Pleasent
Paris
Hugo
Antlers
Atoka
Coalgate
Ada
Seminole
Oklahoma City
Calumet
Geary
Watonga
Seiling
Woodward
Liberal
Kansas
Colorado Springs
Denver
Pacific Slope
Iron ore leases eyed for East Texas fields near Ore City
The Midcontinent Tron & Steel Corporation has leased about 5,000 acres across Upshur Marion and Cass counties with 17,000 acres in Upshur. Tests show iron ore seams from three to twenty seven feet deep near Ore City and near Rusk in Cherokee county. The report notes potential for a Texas steel plant to serve the Southwest, reducing out of state shipments and improving freight rates. It also includes a series of brief Texas law questions and answers on civil suits practice medicine and penalties as part of a local information note.
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Ore City
Upshur County
Tron & Steel Corporation
Dallas
Upshur
Marion
Cass
Cherokee County
Rusk
East Texas
Marion County
Jefferson
Texas
Statues and cannon unveiled at Crowell memorial
On Armistice Day two statues were unveiled on Crowell courthouse lawn. One honors the American Doughboy the other the American Sailor. They stand on concrete pedestals with a German cannon between them captured by Texas soldiers in World War I. Funds were raised by the Gordon Ford Post American Legion.
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Crowell
Texas
Gordon Ford
American Legion
Texas Cottonseed and Products Value in 1932
The 1932 output of cottonseed and cotton seed products in Texas exceeded 50 million dollars. Estimated total value of all Texas cottonseed products last year reaches about 135 million dollars, including rayon, explosives, fertilizers, foods and more, with most value added outside the state.
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Texas
Primer on World War I Foreign Debts and Repayments
The piece reviews wartime US loans to twenty nations totaling about 10.34 billion dollars, led by Great Britain, France and Italy. It explains how funds were spent in the United States on munitions and goods, outlines the 62 year repayment plans negotiated by the World War Foreign Debt Commission, and notes that as of now only about one fourth of principal and interest has been repaid.
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France
Belgium
Hungary
Poland
Estonia
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
Finland
Italy
Lithuania
Latvia
Greece
Armenia
Cuba
Nicaragua
Liberia
Romania
Russia
Exchange
United States
Congress
Ceechoslovaka
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Goa
Principa
Ednesa
Yuroslavia
Kumania
Cere
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East Texas Iron Ore Tract
Board of Examiners
Texas Cottonseed and Products
Charles Merz
New York Times
United States Treasury Department
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Yaroslavia
Austria
Tebe Iy Sretons
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