Variance In Election Cost For Party Voting
State secretary Bob Bullock reports wide cost variance for party voting across Texas with per voter expenses from 36 cents for Democrats in Travis County to 4.83 dollars for Republicans in El Paso County. He notes some counties ran thriftier elections while others spent the maximum allowed and suggests fewer machines could have sufficed in some cases. The analysis uses the gubernatorial race as the basis for average per voter costs.
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Bob Bullock
Bullock
Travis County
el Paso
E. P. Rodgers Rites Saturday in Bryan
Funeral services for E. P. Rodgers 80 of Bryan were held at 2 p m Saturday July 8 at Hillier Funeral Home with Rev James Steeley officiating. Burial in Bryan City Cemetery followed by Northview Baptist Church deacons as pallbearers. Rodgers died July 6 in a Houston hospital. Born December 31 1891 in Robertson County he lived in Brazos County since 1941. He retired as custodian for Bryan Public Schools in 1964 and was a Northview Baptist Church charter member. Survivors include son Jim Rodgers Bryan. daughters Reba Rochester Merner King Lucy Cothren Arlington Martha Park Jonestown. 11 grandchildren 12 great grandchildren and brother Tom Rodgers Hearne.
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Bryan
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James Steeley
Northview Baptist Church
Bryan City
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Houston
Robertson County
Brazos County
Bryan Public Schools
Jim Rodgers
Reba Rochester
Merner ‘King
Lucy Cothren
Arlington
Martha Park
Jonestown
Tom Rodgers
Texas doctors in early history and their limits
A critical look at medicine in Texas from the 1830s to 1865. Doctors often lacked training, relied on unscientific cures, and misattributed causes of death. Epidemics swept the region, with yellow fever and cholera feared as mists from rivers. Some dying words were likely contrived by biographers, but physicians still offered care, comfort, and burial for pioneer families.
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