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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
3
Four-County Meet results and legislative notes
The article lists winners and times from the Four-County Track Meet across events led by Eldorado Junction Sonora and Menard with names such as Bryant, Driskell, Richards, and Archer. It also covers state weathered politics, O Daniel vetoes, bank acts, county road bonds, and a humorous quip about rural musical Mexicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page
Menard
Jones
Eldorado
Barrow
Junction
Davis
Cartwright
Sonora
Kidd
McKay
Driskell
Willman
Briley
Walston
Higgins
Archer
Trainer
Bricker
Baugh
Adams
Whitworth
Riley
Bryant
Matthews
Coffey
Hill
Whitley
London
Clark
Stokes
Richardson
Sonva
Stephenson
Monroe
Rodriguez
Sonwa
Meard
Stepherson
Cook
Haney
Carmichael
Wyatt
Morris
Walton
Cummins
Bierschwale
Segovia
Pullaip—Mauldin
Lacklin
Ward School
Texas House Rejects Sales Tax Amendment Amid Lobbyist Plan
The Texas House voted 79 to 65 against a proposed sales tax constitutional amendment, risking a major lobbyist funded plan to tax the poor and lock it into the Constitution. Doubt remains over obtaining the required 100 votes as effort continues this week, with committee resistance and re referrals delaying alternative financing proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
House
Senate
Austin
House Taxation and Revenue Committee
O’daniel
Bitter quinine tastes linger when dissolved in vast water
A statement notes that the average person can still taste quinine even when one part is dissolved in 152,000 parts of water, illustrating the compound's strong sensory impact.
Cold Sense Confounds Hot Mercury and Iron Test
A person discovers their sense of temperature is unreliable after touching both frozen mercury and red hot iron and failing to distinguish which is which. The incident highlights limitations of tactile temperature perception and safety concerns.
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Cooper
Perry
Reynolds
Carson
Foley
Randle
Gardner
Gibbs
Jackson
Shurley
Kiser
Burleson
McGuffin
Edmiston
Phillips Segovia
C. T. Driskell
Patricia Patterson
Paula Grimes
Myron Morris
Nelson Stubblefield
Carlton Sisler
Charles Cunningham
Dayne Davis
Victor Hill
Polly Lou Pettigrew
Maurine Highsmith
Mildred Trainer
Gene Davis
Charles Bishop
Claude Thomas Driskell
Katheryn Consert
Rachel Ford
Hazel Wright
James Henry Coleman
W. D. Stewart
K. C. Collier
Bobby Starnes
Helen Levinson
Maureen Miller
Jamie Callan
Caddo Wright
Helen Reid
Kathryn Bradford
Mary Spence
Louise Spence
Dorothy Mueller
Lena Brady
Days—Menard
Valley Bail Junction
Hext
Grace Thomas
Wirt Ellis Stephenson
Jack Whitley
Joycelyn Pruitt
Zella Bagwell
Jack Durgan
Mary Mauldin
Margaret Buster
Nancy Durst
C. F. Jones
Maude Brown
Billie B. Steward
Dorothy Jackson
Jack Neill
Peggy Brown
Sharon Rogers
Elizabeth Taylor
Winnie Gean Steward
Robert Hunger
Warren Reddock
Robert Bridgman
Felan Bishop
Mary Lou Neuerbur
Rene Clif Johnson
Raymond Clark
Mae Jean Goodman
Shirley Jones
Ann Bannowsky
Bernie D. Gibbs
Jewell Watkins
Dorothy Goodman
Lorene Mueller
Cappy Reeve
Jacqueline Theis
Boyd Wilson
Justin Odom
Saul Pompa
Felix Haler
Ollie Alexander
H. B. Rees
Charlene Edmiston
Fern Hunger
Frances Baker
Memory Junction
Kathryn Stapp
Carlton Bierschwab
Madelyn Phillips
Number Sense
Henry Garza
Katherine Stapp
Saline School of Menard
Ruth O’spain
Amnon Jones
Scions
Homer Leonard
McAllen
Ely Thornton
Galveston
Thornton
Leonard
O'Daniel
House Committee On Banking
Washington
United States Attorney General
Sam Stone
Williamson County
County Judges Association
South Texas
France
Julian Capers
Coke R. Stevenson, JR
Junction, Texas
General Auto Repairing
DR. J. Holt Smith
Kimble County
M.C. Blackburn
M. BE. Blackburn
Lowgren Junction
Woodmen OF the World
Callan Graham
Junction National
de Luxe
FORD
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