Bills Passed By The Legislature In Second Called Session
Austin Texas The second called session closed last Tuesday passing numerous general bills and about fifty local measures. Notable acts create a new supreme judicial district. set wine, education and tax rules. extend water and park provisions. and provide appropriations for roads, schools, and public institutions.
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Austin
Tex
Red River
S. B
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Supreme Judicial District
Court of Appeals
Eastland
Wharton
Matagorda
Colorado River
San Jacinto Bay
Houston
Sam Houston
State Department of Banking
Board of Control
American Legion Memorial
Kerrville
Texas Historical Board
Texas
Controller’s Department
Agricultural and Mechanical College
United States Supreme Court
Wood From Tutankhamen Tomb For Forest Lab Study
Samples of wood from King Tutankhamen's tomb have been requested by the forest service for its Madison Wisconsin laboratory. The aim is to learn how extreme age affects physical and mechanical properties and glue joints of fitted pieces. Experts will also identify the species to reveal forest tree types of the period and durability differences.
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Tut
Wagnington
Tutankhamen
Forest Service
Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
Forest Services
Tick Eradication Work Showing Normal Increase
Fort Worth report shows April dip totals reach 4 810 057 head of cattle, greatest April record in Texas tick eradication. The Texas livestock sanitary commission and the bureau of animal industry summarize three sections with hundreds of thousands of cattle dipped or inspected, infections found, and vats built across 31 to 64 counties.
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Fort Worth
Tex
J. E. Boog-Scott
Livestock Sanitary Commission of Texas
Texas
Bureau of Animal Industry
Beaumont Flood Slams City With Record Rainfall
Beaumont Texas suffered $750000 in damage from a flood caused by 13.64 inches of rain in under three hours the heaviest rainfall on record in Southeast Texas. Streets were 12 to 18 inches deep with motorboats replacing jitneys while Neches River rose rapidly. Local losses included $100000 from pavement buckling, $60000 from Magnolia Petroleum fire, a hotel basement groceries loss of $25000 and a music house $20000 for piano damages.
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Beaumont
Tex
Texas
Neches
Amelia
Port Arthur
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Allen selects Bethlehem site for new orphanage
Jerusalem report says Henry J. Allen former governor of Kapeas touring the Holy Land for Near East Relief has picked a Bethlehem area near the Church of the Nativity as the site for a new orphanage after inspecting Nazareth and Jerusalem facilities filled with children fleeing interior Turkey conflict between Turks and Greeks.
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Jerusalem
Henry J. Allen
Kapeas
Holy Land
Church of the Nativity
Bethlehem
Allen
Nazareth
Turkey
Memorial Day Tribute to American Heroes and War Service
A 1923 Memorial Day reflection salutes American soldiers who fought across wars from the Civil War to World War I and the 1898 Spanish American War. It honors Logan, Lincoln, Grant, and unknown dead, praising sacrifice, unity, and the national resolve to liberty humanity and justice as the nation remembers its fallen and the enduring flag.
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America
Tower of Liberty
Charles Pope Caldwell
New York
Pirit
Europe
France
Belgium
England
Meuse-Argonne
Nomagne-sous-Montfaucon
Meuse
St. Miciel
Thiaucourt
Belleau
Aisne
Suresnes
Paris
Flanders- Field
Wuereghem
Brookwood
Surrey
Washington
Jefferson
Adams
Frankin
Sherman
Livingston
Alexander Hamilton
Nathan Hale
Greene
Cornwallis
George Rogers Clark
Mississippi
John Paul Jones
United States
Andrew Jackson
New Orleans
Fort Mecklenry
Francis Scott Key
Tie
Christendom
Lincoln
Appomattox
Grant
Lee
Jackson
Sheridan
Stuart
John A. Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Logan
Hig
Havana
Stars and Stripes
Santiago
Lusitania
Arlington
Harding
Capitol
Wastington
Republic
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Adjutant General’s Department
Memorial
Jay
John Dickinson Sherman
Sena
Sian
Flanders Fields
Marie
Roye
Bayly
ALE
Maaj
Robert Alexander
Jane
Abraham Linco de
OLR
AL Suresnes
the Sailor
Ormnderstood
Lhrder Wood
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