Texans Learn From Each Other On East West Farming
Over 200 editors from across the state visited East Texas from June 15 to 26. They saw roads improving in Tyler and Jacksonville and noted diversification beyond cotton. The piece contrasts West Texas’s large farms with East Texas’s varied crops, poultry, and dairy, warning against overreliance on a single crop and highlighting the value of better farming methods and soil care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byier
Mast
Texas
East Texas
East
West
Tyler
Anderson County
Pales
Peter
Jacksonville
New Highways Designated and Aid Requests in Texas
Texas highway commission filed multiple actions in regular session. Designations include a Fredericksburg to Kerrville route and a Dallas to Glenrose road with construction in areas of Pfaiiston Rath and Somerville counties. Numerous county aid requests totaled over a dozen projects, plus contracts worth $50,000 for road maintainers and graders awarded to Hubb-Diggs and Russell Grader companies.
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Austin
Tex
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Kerrville
State Highway Commission
Dallas
Glenrose
Pfaiiston
Rath
Somerville
AleParlane
Fort Bend
Add
Jim Wells
Beeville
Malfurrias
Limestone County
Milaim County
Madison County
Madisonville
Walker County
Uvalde County
Medina County
Frio River
The
Highway Commission
Hubb-Diggs Company
Fort Worth
Russell Grader Company
Governor Ferguson seeks extradition of 58 prisoners
Austin records show Governor Miriam A. Ferguson has urged other states to extradite 58 individuals wanted to answer charges in Texas since January 1. Officials say the 38 requisitions include 20 surplus to Texas, illustrating stricter law enforcement rather than increased crime. Ferguson has honored 37 of 38 requests and refused one, for a man wanted in Massachusetts for wife.
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Austin
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Ferguson
Massachusetts
Shepherd acquitted in typhoid germ murder trial
Chicago, NL William Darling Shepherd was Friday acquitted of the murder of his foster son William Nelson McClintock by typhoid germs. The five hour forty minute jury deliberation ended with a vow of secrecy on ballots. Shepherd’s relief showed as he thanked the jurors. He faces another murder charge and may sign his own bond. The coroner’s jury urged holding him for the murders of Billy McClintock and Emma Nelson McClintock from years past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Shepherd
Thomas J. Lynch
Greek Government Overthrown in Athens Coup
The Greek government led by Michalakopoulos was deposed and a military government installed in Athens. The revolutionary movement began at dawn with simultaneous actions in Athens and Saloniki, seizing telegraph offices and cutting communications after a brief fusillade. The army and navy cooperated in the coup.
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Athens
Michalakopoulos
Saloniki
Record Seizure in Mobile Tops Coast Guard Action
A Coast Guard cutter Saukee seized a whisky cargo aboard a liquor schooner and six small boats worth an estimated 360000 dollars. Twenty three men were brought to Mobile harbor as prisoners after the Friday night operation, described as a record singlehanded capture since the war on rum smuggling began weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Coast Guard
Saukee
Independence Day 1927 and Defense Day plans
An essay by John Dickinson Sherman surveys the 1925 sesquicentennial year and the coming 1926 celebration tied to Independence Day. It details the Sesquicentennial Commission, Philadelphia exposition plans, and Coolidge administration views on Defense Day and Armistice Day, plus anticipated parades, speakers, and national unity themes.
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St. Mihiel
Peo
Philadelphia
United States
League Island Park
Coolidge
Congress
Kendrick
Secretaries of States and Commerce
Lexington and Concord
American Farm Bureau Federation
O. B. Bradfute
Farm Bureau
Bradfute
Hess
War Department
National Guard
Regular Army
Bunker Hill
California
George Washington
Cambridge
Army
New York
United States of America
Thirteen Colonies
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Department of Journalism
University of Texas
Tor
Germ
Billy McClintock
Emma Nelson McClintock
Billy
John Dickinson Sherman
Concord Bridge
Army General Staff
White House
Europe
America
Tss
Dawes
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