17 Jul 1925
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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
1
Washington reports a corn crop one fourth larger than last year with a forecast production of 8,095,000,000 bushels, ranking as the third largest on record. Wheat prospects rise, with winter and spring yields forecast. other crops and stocks also updated with July 1 conditions and regional outputs.
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a brief local item with unclear subject and missing context. The readable fragment mentions eating and a person possibly named Opster, labeled Bald. No clear event, date, or location emerges to confirm details.
State Superintendent S. M. N. Marrs told the board of education that Texas must spend 2,449,500 for free textbooks in schools for the new fiscal year starting September 1. The textbook fund shows a 60,000 balance and Marrs asked the board to set aside 2,389,000 from educational taxes for contracts in force. Action was deferred awaiting taxable value estimates.
Washington reports federal internal revenue for fiscal year 1925 fell only by 212 million dollars from 1924. Total receipts reached 2.584 billion, with 1.762 billion from direct income taxes and 822 million from miscellaneous sources. In 1924 income taxes produced 1.842 billion and miscellaneous 954 million.
Mrs. Virginia Canaday arrives in San Antonio Texas with her 5 year old son Roscoe Jr. She declares she is in first class fighting trim and ready to defend herself in court in Texas or New York State. She admits forcibly removing the boy from his paternal grandmother Mrs. Mary Canaday in Forest Hills New York Tuesday.
Twelve jurors were chosen to try John T. Scopes on a charge of violating a Tennessee law that bans teaching evolution in public schools. The panel was selected Friday in Dayton, Ohio, as the landmark case proceeds.
A heavy downpour in Houston Texas drenched the city within two hours on Friday morning surpassing the state's average June rainfall. The event brought 1.68 inches of rain, contributing to a notable local weather surge during the month.
Fort Worth, Texas. The livestock sanitary commission aims to finance a 600000 dollar yearly tick eradication program with 80000 dollars for next year's inspector salaries as of September 1. The plan relies on a fifty fifty basin funded by 100 Texas counties, cowmen, and commissioners after lobbying by Leo Callan Caesar Kleberg and Dr J L Jarrel.
The State textbook commission, formed in Austin and chaired by Governor Ferguson, votes to defer all textbook adoptions until the second Monday in October. State Superintendent Marra notes no contracts end before September 1, 1926, and new laws allow additional titles in science biology history geography and civil government. The panel adopts a rule banning book firms or attorneys from presenting books without written permission.
In Austin, depositors in seven closed banks will soon be paid about 1.2 million dollars. Bank Commissioner Charles O. Austin said $1,215,000 was drawn from the state treasury at a Tuesday meeting to be distributed to creditors. Banks include American State Bank Harrisburg Peoples State Bank Ranger Security State Bank Cooper First State Bank Rio Hondo Rock Island State Bank Rock Island and Alameda State Bank Alameda. Poor oil paper cited as a primary cause of closures.
Suffolk County grand jury opened an inquiry into the Pickwick Club collapse last Saturday in a crowd of over a hundred revelers. Reported remains removed left the death toll at forty three with no new victims disclosed among the wreckage.
Three Texas youths 19 year old Lewis Perry 22 year old Thomas Bailey and Edward Montijo were executed at San Quentin and Folsom prisons for the murder of Los Angeles patrolman Glenn Bond. The trio faced the death penalty Friday in California.
King Tutankhamun's palace, used by the ancient Egyptian monarch for two decades, was unearthed in Middle Egypt by the Egyptian Exploration Society. American representative Thomas Whittemore spoke on arrival aboard the Mauretania, describing the discovery.
Houston experienced a heavy downpour totaling 1.58 inches between 10:27 and 11:10 a.m. Friday, delivering more rainfall in two hours than the statewide June average. Local rain totals surpassed typical seasonal figures, signaling a unusually wet morning for the city.
Paris reports General Guillaumat has declined the appointment selected by Premier Painleve to replace Marshal Lyautley as commander of the French army opposing Abd-El-Krim’s Rif forces in Morocco.
Mary Louise McCachren a sixteen year old orphan from Concord North Carolina who attends the Presbyterian Mission school won a 57 day free voyage to Europe in a national Bible story telling contest open to all Sunday school pupils. Her parents died in the flu epidemic years ago and she traveled from New York on the Leviathan to claim the prize.
A fragmentary exchange ponders whether a tale about a fast-growing bean stalk is a fairy tale. The dialogue suggests uncertainty about the story’s origins and its classification as folklore.
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