Crop report issued by Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
Texas Commissioner George B. Terrell released the July crop report based on June 25 data from 210 counties. Cotton at 99 percent of last year, corn at 100 percent, oats and wheat up, with good condition across crops and livestock. wheat and oats yield above average. Cotton damage from fleas, weevils, worms, and grasshoppers prevalent from Travis County south, with notable insect impact in other regions.
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Austin
George B. Terrell
Travis County
Texas
Rising Star Brownwood road work begins
Citizens of Rising Star and vicinity are told that progress on the Rising Star Brownwood road has begun at the Brownwood end last week. The project includes many changes to the roadway, especially planned between May and the coming period.
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Rising Star
Brownwood Road
Brownwood
Rising Star Road Plan Cuts Across Patterson Farms
The proposed May Rising Star road would cross Patterson and Hancock farms from Union Grove School house and swing into the valley west of Holloman place to avoid mountain skirts. Patterson and Hancock file protest, no action yet. Brownwood News reports crews at work, State Highway Engineers grading and fencing, two new stretches built, and existing road used. The new route shortens grades and crooks, adding Brownwood as a three highway hub linking Wichita Falls to San Antonio and channeling tourism through Brown County.
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Rising Star
Hancock
Reed Patterson
Union Grove
Holloman Place
Messrs. Patterson
Brownwood News
Commissioners
May
Brownwood
Wichita Falls
San Antonio
Brown County
Young Woman Orders Muff To Keep Hands Warm
A young lady visits a fur store and asks for a muff. The polite salesman responds affirmatively and wonders what fur she wants. She replies that it is to keep her hands warm.
Galli Curci Read Swedenborg in Single Summer
Clarence Barron of the Wall Street Journal reports that soprano Galli Curci read Emanuel Swedenborg’s complete 32 volumes in one summer. Barron notes her deep understanding, talks with her husband Homer Samuels, and how Swedenborg informs her singing and outlook on life.
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Rotch
Lydia S. Rotch
New Bedford
Mass
Emanuel Swedenborg
Houghton Mifflin Co
Cleveland
Galli-Curci
Barron
Swedenborg
Sweden
Catskills
Homer Samuels
Mrs. Samuels
Tea Vitamine Bios Linked to Longer Life, Study Claims
McCormick & Co notes a New Jersey Grocer report on a California University finding a tea derived vitamin Bios with 300 times life extending properties. Rats showed increased lifespans. researchers aim to fund further work with support from Indian tea planters.
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W. M. McCormick
McCormick & Co
Baltimore
New Jersey Grocer
China
Japan
Java
Sumatra
University of California
Department of Anatomy
California University
Tea vitamin discovery sparks funding from planters
The best results in isolating the new vitamin have come from high quality tea buds of the India and Ceylon tea plant. India and Ceylon tea planters, impressed by the scientific reception of the discovery, are expected to contribute funds to further the investigations.
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India
Ceylon
Brown County Champion Wild Bee Hunter Near Brownwood
Frank Blair of McDaniel in Brown County is named a likely Central West Texas wild bee hunter. He has located 22 wild bee trees this year by tracking bee flight paths from water sources to the trees and harvests the honey. Blair often wins Brown County fair premiums for wild honey.
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Brown County
West
Texas
Brownwood
Frank Blair
McDaniel
Blair
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Commissioner OF Agriculture
Goodyear
W. B. Brown
Cone Car Co
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Kerrville
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Ford
Adic
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Kerrville, Texas
Isi
Chrysler
Lee Mason
RCA Radiolas
Charles L. Mason
of Labor
Hill View Times
Richard
P. M. Wright
Bhone
FISK
PAT
Fisk Tires
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