Earthquake Rocks City in California
Santa Barbara suffers a damaging series of earthquakes early Monday. Officials revise rehabilitation needs to 3 million dollars for charitable institutions and 10 million for business districts. The tremors bring collapse across State street, with 14 deaths reported and hundreds injured as residents seek emergency shelter.
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Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Charley Knudson
Cal
Channel City
State Street
Sheffield
Charles BE
Perkins
Burlington
Iowa
Patrick Shea
Bertram Hancock
J. Mostlero
William Matthews
Demitrius Satator
James Angel
James Starrow
H. Hazgard
Henry G. Hensey
G. A. Hancock
Ruth Allan
Henry T. Brent Louis
Seattle
William Benwicl
John
Good
Lamesa
Cali
Leo Stewart
Lempos
Henrietta Best
Henry De'l. Gadillo
ALA
Henseling
Uye Lamphier
Alameda
California
Santa Cruz
Atlantic City
Intangible Values of Texas Railroads Rise in 1920 Report
Austin Texas net increase of 250192 in intangible valuations of Texas railroads per Tax Commissioner Ed ward Edwards to county assessors. One line dropped, five railroads and one bridge and one ferry raised totaling 75181116. Principal lines listed with large totals include Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio and Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Edward Edwards
Cisco
Northeastern
Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific
San Antonio Southern
Shreveport, Houston and Gulf
Wichita Falls
Southern
Brownsville Ferry
Laredo Bridge
Galveston
Harrisburg
San Antonio
Gulf, Colorado
Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Denver
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Houston
Texas Central
Chicago
Rock Island
Gulf
New Orleans
Texarkana
Fort Smith
St. Louis
Brownsville
Southwestern
Panhandle
Pecos
North Texas
Houston Hast
West Texas
Houston attorney urges U S entry into world court
A resolution by H. M. Garwood of Houston favoring U S entry into the permanent international court of justice was recommended to the State Bar Association by the board of directors and was unanimously adopted.
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Austin
Tex
H. M. Garwood
Houston
United States
Permanent International Court of Justice
State Bar Association
Board of Directors
Two Black Brothers Executed in Texas Near Dallas
The fragment reports the execution of Frank and Loren Noel, both Black men aged about 70, at the State Penitentiary on a crime involving aggravated assault against a white woman named Mary Steer near Dallas. The text is fragmented and lacks clear dates or full details.
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Huntaville
Tex
Frank
Loren
Noel
State Penitentiary
Mary
Dallas
Texas Oil Fields Dominate US Refineries
Washington reports Texas houses 113 of 654 U S oil refineries, the most of any state, with total capacity 506,580 barrels of which 91,450 is idle. National capacity 2,864,842 barrels, up 141 percent since 1919. Gasoline from cracking plants mainly from Texas gulf coast, with gasolines recovery 29 to 34 percent. Gulf coast area plants account for a large share. Texas outside gulf has nine plants totaling 10,000 barrels daily.
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Washington
United States
Texas
United States Bureau of Mines
Texas Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast
Oil Leases Bring U S 427 420 In Royalties
Washington reports four oil leases on Western public lands have yielded 427 420 in royalties since applications were filed. The Texas Production Company received a 640 acre lease in the Ball Creek fields Natrona county Wyoming with 409 564 generated.
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Washington
Interior Department
Texas Production Company
Ball Creek
Natrona County
Wyo
Test at Beeville Well Reworks Casing After Water Issue
Beeville Texas promoter W G Clark reports Scott test No 1 five miles north of Beeville had 5 3 16 inch casing pulled and new 5 3 16 inch casing set from top to bottom with cement. Water influx earlier troubled crew. later determined to come from a higher stratum and seek its level.
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Beeville
Tex
W. G. Clark
Clark
Humble Oil tests two wells at Orange field Texas
Humble Oil and Refining Co began a test at No 21 Chesson in Orange Texas with a immediate big well result following an earlier report of Edgerly ranch No 4 Courmier well. The Wednesday operation yielded a large output while the Tuesday report noted a smaller product from Courmier.
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Orange
Tex
Humble Oil An‘ Refining Company
Chesson
Deussen No 2 oil well taps 800 barrels in Texas
New Liberty Well near Liberty Texas reports Deussen No 2 for Associated Oil flowing about 800 barrels. The well reaches total depth of 8559 feet and lies just south of Deussen No 1 in the South Liberty field.
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Liberty
Tex
Associated Oil Company
South Liberty Field
Drilling Well Near Taylor Tex First New Drill Spudded
The Amor Forwood well near Taylor Texas began spudding on Wednesday, the first to operate under recent lease agreements. It is being drilled adjacent to an older well sunk about ten years ago during the Thrall boom.
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Taylor, Tex
Taylor
Oil exploration returns to Victoria County after years
Seagraves and Moody of Galveston begin drilling on the W. K. Reeves tract by Colette creek near Raisin nine miles west of Victoria, marking another chance to map oil prospects in Victoria County after a two year lapse.
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Victoria
Tex
Victoria County
Seagraves and Moody
Galveston
W. K. Reeves
Colette Creek
Raisin
Well Spudded In Bastrop Well Near Coal Mine
Bastrop Texas reports Nelson and Dorning No. 1 spudded in on Consumers Coal Company tract Sunday. The well lies near the Consumers Coal mine and roughly midway between Bastrop and Calvin.
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Bastrop
Tex
Nelson and Dorning
Consumers Coal Company
Calvin
Continental Oil Well Produces 500 Bbl Daily Near Orange
Orange Texas reports Continental Oil Company number 4 oil well at 4700 feet came in Tuesday and flowed about 500 barrels per day. Chesson supervised the workover and caming. The discovery adds another productive well to the area’s oil activity.
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Orange
Tex
Continental ‘Ol
Chesson
Sugar Crop Record Set for Hawaii in 1926
The Hawaiian sugar crop for 1926 will total 763,700 tons, 60,000 tons above the prior estimate and 46,000 tons more than any previous Hawaii crop, according to the sugar factories.
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Hawaii
Wanolulu
Volcano erupts near Pasto in Colombia with flames and ash
Violent eruption of the Galeras volcano near Pasto Colombia began on Wednesday with large flames erupting from the crater and rocks and ashes covering surrounding areas across the country.
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Bogota
Colombia
Galerag
Pasto
Marines Guard White Court Detachment Assigned to Swampscott
United States marines have been sent to Swampscott Massachusetts to guard White Court the summer White House while President Coolidge is in residence.
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United States
Swampscott
Mass
White Court
White House
President Coolidge
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New Liberty
Victoria County of Well
Grant Park Stadium
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Freydenberg
Great Shipyards
Great Hog Island
Delaware River
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