REPORT MADE ON RED RIVER CLAIMS
Washington reports by a special committee found eighteen of sixty four oil claims equitable and recommended awarding 1 750 000 while 320 000 from the area would revert to the federal treasury The Burke Divide company received the largest award 693 502 with other sizable sums to General Oil Company Lone Star Refining Company and individual claimants The dispute arose over Red River oil wells in Oklahoma and Texas later ruled as federal land with a federal receiver operating the wells under an interior department plan
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Red River
Oklahoma
Federal
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Terre Maule
Ind
General of Company
Houston
Texas
Lone Star Refining Company
Kansas City
Kan
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Okla
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Work
Supreme Court
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
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The Way of the World Beau Nash and charity
The seventeenth century arbiter of fashion Beau Nash, once generous to charity in his prime, faced actual want in old age and found that no one came to his aid.
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Beau Nash
Harvesting Corks Cork in Algeria After Nine Years
An old science note notes cork trees in Algeria are stripped once every nine years after reaching age fourteen to fifteen. It states an average yield of about 15 pounds of cork per tree. feeding into industrial cork production data.
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Cork
Algeria
Bscience
Texas tops list in export trade for 1924
Texas led the nation in exports for 1924 with $737,218,927, surpassing New York's $731,593,502, aided by cotton shipments and a late-year surge. Oil and wheat also contributed, while Illinois ranked fourth with $239,314,270 and the total U.S. exports reached $4,498,151,906.
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Union
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New York
Julius Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Houston Chamber of Commerce
King Cotton
Empire State
United States
Commerce Department
Washington, D.C
Oklahoma
Louisiana
California
Illinois
Allies demand Germany rectify Versailles breaches before Cologne evacuation
London reports the allied note lists thirteen specified defaults in German military provisions. It warns Germany cannot reconstitute an army and calls for drastic cuts in police and disbanding of the army high command. If complied, Cologne will be evacuated and control withdrawn.
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London
Germany
Cologne
Council of Ambassadors
Inter-Allied Control Commission
Allied Military Control Commission
Intangible Assets of Railroads Increase in Texas 1925
Austin Texas tabulation of intangible assets for 1925 by Tax Commissioner Edwards shows a slight rise from 1924 when intangibles totaled 72 million dollars. Hearings with railroad representatives indicated a generally healthy financial condition, though most carriers reported lower passenger earnings in 1924 due to the growth of motor buses paralleling rail lines.
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Austin
Edwards
Guard Camp Transferred to Camp Mabry Austin
Orders transferred back to Camp Mabry in Austin the infantry brigades of the Texas National Guard. An infantry brigade will assemble at Austin July 3 after being ordered to Palacios for a 1926 encampment. The 711st and 72nd Brigades trained in Austin for years, moved to Galveston last summer, and Palacios grounds were deemed unsuitable for July camps.
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Austin
Texas
Camp Mabry
Texas National Guard Infantry
Palacios
711St
72Nd
Galvyeston
Texas and Pacific Railroad valuation revealed
The Interstate Commerce Commission tentatively fixed a property valuation of 68,170,227 dollars for the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The firm shows outstanding capital issues of 174,040,278 dollars and a capital investment account of 115,499,577 dollars.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Tunney Knocks Out Gibbons In Fifteenth Round Clash
Gene Tunney of New York, American light heavyweight champion, knocked out Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in the twelfth round of a fifteen round bout on Friday. A right to the chin sent Gibbons down for seven and a subsequent blow put him down for the full count, a first in his career to be counted out.
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New York
Gene Tunney
Tom Gibbons
St. Paul
Minn
Middle West
Gibbons
Shrine Meeting Adjourns Votes New Tadmore Temple Charter
The Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine at its closing session in Los Angeles voted to charter Tadmore Temple in Akron Ohio as the youngest temple. It set a life membership fee at least ten times annual dues and raised annual dues from five to ten dollars while fixing the crippled children’s hospitals fund at ninety three dollars.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine
Tadmore Temple
Akron
Philadelphia Wins Shrine Meet in Wet Weather Bid
Rain postpones outdoor Shrine events in Los Angeles but the imperial divan votes to hold the 1926 convention in Philadelphia on June 1 2 and 3.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Philadelphia
Artist Carl Lotave Buried On Pike's Peak Boulder
The ashes of New York portrait painter Carl J. Lotave were scattered beneath a giant granite boulder at the summit of Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs. A band played Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries as the ceremony took place on Thursday.
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Colorado Springs
Carl J. Lotave
New York
Pike's Peak
Noted Cartoonist Bradford Dies in Philadelphia
Walter R. Bradford, long time cartoonist for the Philadelphia North American, died Thursday. He served twenty years in the role, shaping the paper's comic pages and editorial cartoons.
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Philadelphia
Walter R. Bradford
Radio Expert Miss Grace Hazen Talks Tech and Trends
Miss Grace Hazen of the United States Bureau of Standards radio laboratory in Washington discusses meters kilocycles and other radio terms and also the modern flapper style topics rouge and bobbed hair.
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Grace Hazen
Radio Laboratory
United States Bureau of Standards
Washington
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