HIS WINNING CAMPAIGN FOR TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
The Houston Post editorial from August 22 1920 endorses Senator Lynch Davidson of Houston for lieutenant governor. It notes broad support across Texas, cross faction backing from Neff and Bailey groups, and a pledge to govern without partisan bias. Davidson is pictured as capable of filling the governor’s role with broad acceptance regardless of who wins the governor race.
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Houston Post
Texas
Lynch Davidson
Houston
Davidson
Neff
Bailey
Senator Davidson
Harris County
The
Temple Mirror
Culp
South Texas
Protection to Aliens at ABA urged federal action
The American Bar Association committee urged Congress to enact federal protections for aliens rights under treaties. The plan would authorize the President to direct the Attorney General to file equity suits in federal courts against violators, with federal transfer of state cases deemed contrary to foreign rights. It also proposes judicial code clarifications on removal of causes and tweaks to Supreme Court rules to avoid distant filings.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Convention of the American Bar Association
Committee of Jurisprudence
Congress
United States
Judicial Code
Supreme Court
Washington
Labor Aggressors Target Brazos County Cotton Fields
A mass Bryan Chamber of Commerce meeting in Brazos county adopted resolutions denouncing labor agitators who sought to hire Brazos county workers to pick cotton elsewhere. The notice warned against those making false promises and pledged protection for local laborers, detailing potential repercussions if the practice continued.
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Firvan
Texas
Bryan Chamber of Commerce
Brazos County
Brazor County
Laredo
Citywide Rats Elimination Contest Declared by Austin Mayor
The Health Department urges Texas cities to wage a rat extermination campaign or face quarantine. Austin offers prizes for the top four counts of dead rats brought to City Hall within sixty days, with a daily tally by an appointed receiver. Mayor L Villegas announces the plan.
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Health Department
Austin
Texas
L. Villegas
What World Owes to Petro leum
Washington D C Aug 27 Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the first oil well drilled in the United States at Titusville Pa in 1860 The article traces petroleum evolution from a lamp fuel to a global power source noting kerosene gasoline paraffin and other by products fueling houses factories ships and ships engines It highlights gasolene as key for automobiles aviation and engines and describes paraffin candles and other products from crude oil including Vaseline polish and lamp fuels
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Washington, D. C
United States
Colonel Drake
Titusville
Litte
Cleveland
Standard Oil Company
Dance and visits fill social calendar in San Marcos and area
Local notices list dances at the Service Club and Soldiers Club Root Garden, plus a string of visitors and short trips. Mrs. R B Echols visits relatives in San Marcos to meet her brother Dr Edwards of New York, and Dr and Mrs W B Lowry return from Kentucky to visit family.
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Service Club
Soldiers Club
R. B. Echols
San Marcos
Dr. Edwards
New York
Douglas McLean Promoted to Stardom in Ince Film
Douglas McLean has risen to stardom after years of work with stage and screen stars and will co star with Donny May in the Ince picture 23 Hours Leave at the Strand Theatre Tuesday. Luminaries Dorothy Dalton Enid Bennett Mary Pickford and Alice Brady have appeared on screen, with Maude Adams Margaret Anglin and Marjorie Rambeau on stage during his career.
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Douglas McLean
Thomas H. Ince
Donny May
Ince
Strand Theatre
Dorothy Dalton
Enid Bennett
Mary Pickford
Alice Brady
Maude Adams
Margaret Anglin
Marjorie Rambeau
Mr. McLean
Three New Literature Courses Added by UT Extension
The University of Texas extension department expands its group study options with three new literature courses. L. W. Payne offers Special Course in American Literature, James F Royster compiles Recent American Drama, and James F Dobie introduces Literature of Letters. In total fifty courses now available for clubs across Texas.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
L. W. Payne
James F. Royster
James F. Dobie
England
America
University of Texas offers expanded correspondence courses
The extension department reports 2112 applications in the last year for correspondence courses. Most grant college credit after completion. New options include international markets and commercial resources, foreign trade, economies of agriculture, rural Texas focus, anthropology, modern drama, European history, and modern Spanish drama. Fulfillments from the teaching division.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Texas
Cox to deliver more exposes on Republican funds
Governor Cox on the move toward New Haven plans further exposes of Republican campaign funds within a week. He claims large contributions, dummy names, and asserts the Senate committee will hear more when he testifies in Chicago. The Eastern push follows Pittsburg and Cincinnati revelations.
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Associated Press
New York
Cox
New Haven
Conn
Will Hays
Hays
Ny Dot
Senate Committee
Chicago
Retail prices expected to drop this fall and next spring
The federal reserve board predicts a slight decline in retail prices during fall and winter, with a further slide to still lower levels in spring. It adds that savings from cheaper materials and improved labor efficiency should translate into lower consumer costs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Legal Aid Bureau Proposed to Curb Radicalism
The American Bar Association convention in St Louis recommended establishing a nationwide legal aid bureau to provide free legal advice to the poor as a method to check the spread of radicalism.
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St. Louis
United States
The
American Bar Association
France Advises Poland on Frontier for Peace Terms
Paris August 27 France’s foreign ministry said Poland should seek the best strategic frontier as military conditions will shape peace terms. The statement framed the guidance as essential for securing favorable postwar arrangements.
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Associated Press
Paris
Foreign Ministry
France
Poland
Robbery by Hypnotism Stuns Mexico City
In Mexico City two suspects allegedly robbed General Palemon Rojas in his home after one felon induced hypnosis. The incident involved a handbag, a guitar, and five pesos in cash, with the alleged trance aiding the thieves.
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Associated Presa
Mexico City
Palemon Rojas
Candidates for Degrees at University of Texas
Associated Press reports eighty three candidates for Bachelor of Arts and others for Master of Arts, Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Laws, Home Economics, Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. The total for the summer session stands at 125, down from 75 degrees conferred last summer.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Freight Car Shortage Bites Kansas City Wheat Trade
Kansas City elevators hold under 2.9 million bushels of wheat against storage capacity of 15 to 20 million as arrivals lag. Shortage worsens corn shipments in the Southwest. Grain officials warn of a deeper business downturn unless cars move soon. Judge Clyde M. Reed says it would take 28 months to transport the wheat currently stored at the present rate.
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Kansas City
Southwest
Kansas
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Actress Applies as Comedienne Capable of Twist Face
A young woman, seeking a career in motion pictures, submitted an application claiming she could be a film comedienne. She described herself as more homelier than Charlie Chaplin and boasted of an india rubber face able to twist into knots.
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Charlie Chaplin
Secretaries of defence councils meet to form national body
Kek Moines Iowa Aug 27 Pur pose in calling the secretaries of the state councils of defence who served during the world war to meet here September 12 and 14 to form a na tional organization is to give consi deration to the many organizations In various states fostering propaganda of a common interest. In addition to the secretaries members of the state councils also have been invited to the conference. Mr Metcalf said responses have been re ceived from a number saying they will attend. In addit ion to considering the various organizations which are now re ported to be doing similar work Mr Metcalf said the secretaries will discuss problems dealing with the general welfare of the nation.
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Aio
Presse
Kek Moines
Iowa
State Councils of Defence
H. I. Metcalf
Queen Candy Company Opens In Laredo Saturday
The Queen Candy Company, a new concern in Laredo, will open Saturday in the Walls building next to Botica del Pueblo. They offer a full line of home made candies, high grade chocolates, fancy boxes, sodas, ice cream and sherbets under manager James Mataragas, a well known local expert.
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The
Queen Candy Company
Laredo
Walls
Harding Declines Comment on Cox Campaign Funds Charges
Marion Ohio August 27 Senator Harding declined to comment on detailed charges about Republican campaign fund allotments raised by Governor Cox in his Pittsburg speech last night. He said he read it thoroughly and has nothing to say and does not expect to say anything.
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Harding
Marion
Ohio
Cox
Pittsburg
Calls It Phony List
Governor Cox’s schedule of Republican party fund quotas from 51 cities is called a phony list by Pred Upham a Republican leader. Upham says no city quotas were apportioned by the RNC only state quotas. The treasurer denies large collections, showing total receipts about 1 017 000 with New York state and city contributing 225 292 and the national campaign budget near 7 million.
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Chicago
Cox
Republican
Paien
New York State
New York City
Whhl Hays
Paris to Constantinople Train Service Improves
Through trains between Paris and Constantinople resume this month reducing mail delays across the Levant. The journey now takes about five days, with trains seldom more than six hours late, easing passenger traffic to French and Italian steamers.
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Constantinople
Paris
Levant
Positions for teachers at University of Texas
The University of Texas teachers' appointment committee has placed several hundred high school and college teachers for the coming year. Additional openings are expected with more entering. Rural districts and small towns face the greatest shortage, running about three thousand teachers at the start of the school year.
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Presa
Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Rail yard strike ties many California railroads
One year ago today a strike by yard switchmen tied up many California railroads. The report notes nineteen of fifty two aviators completed a round trip race between Toronto and Mineola New York.
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California
Toronto
Mineola
L. 1
Refused breakfast for inmate before last meal
Associated Press report from Dallas Texas describes Pred Douglas Lero hanged in Inflas county jail for July 6 murder of Q Williams, manager of the station where Douglas worked. He struck Williams with an iron rod, refused watermelon and chicken, and asked for cherry pie for his last breakfast.
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Dallas
Tex
Douglas
Lero
Inflas County
Williams
Census Report Numbers City Populations
Census figures show Hot Springs Arkansas with 11 696 residents, down 2 739 or 19 percent, while Corpus Christi Texas records 10 522 people, up 2 300 or 28 percent as of the latest tally.
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Ty Associated Press
Washington
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Corpus Christi
Texas
Battle of Photos: Capitol battle in Columbus housing both parties
The capital building in Columbus becomes a political battleground as Democrats and Republicans face off in a tense, bloodless clash over the storied "Battle of Photos" involving Cox and Heraug amid the August heat.
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Columbus
Capitol
Mail for Manila sets daily record with six thousand bees
Postal officials reported a record daily mail reception in Manila on August 27 as six thousand bees were shipped in two steamers, the Empress of Australia and the Tyndarus, from Seattle and Vancouver.
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Sy Associated Press
Manila
P. L
Seattle
Vancouver
Boy Scouts Burn Rats in Corpus Christi Report
In Austin a report to the State Health Department notes that Corpus Christi Boy Scouts captured and incinerated 2,444 rats and 214 mice in one week. The scouts received a bounty totaling $117.05 for the rodents.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Aig
Boy Scouts of
Corpus Christi
State Health Department
Bale to the Acre in Corpus Christi Farm Report
A resident farmer twelve miles west of Corpus Christi plans to harvest over 250 bales of cotton from a 250 acre farm. The first picking yielded ten bales from seven acres. Mixing cotton and onion farming, he has earned more than two hundred dollars per acre this year on the property.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
A. Feensee
Prosperous Farmers From Dimmit and Zavalla Counties
Corpus Christi August 27 reports show farmers in Dimmit and Zavalla counties thriving as crops boom. R Schultz of the railroad notes 1500 onion cars from 2800 acres yielding 530 crates per car at 1.75 per crate. Spinach brings over one hundred dollars per acre from 317 cars. Large cabbage and lettuce harvests complete the bumper season. Railroads plan to run solid spinach trains to New York City next spring due to car shortages.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Dimmit
Zavalla
R. ¥. Schultz
New York City
First Woman Admitted to Berlin Stock Exchange
Berlin August 27 Frau Margaret Bruehl becomes the first woman admitted to the Berlin Stock Exchange she heads important cereal interests in the city marking a historic breakthrough for gender barriers in finance.
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Berlin
Berlin Stock Exchange
Frau Margaret Bruehl
Masonic Notice From Laredo Lodge Postponed Meeting
There will not be a called communication of Laredo Lodge No. 47 A F and A M tonight as previously announced. R B Lee W M signs the notice.
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Laredo Lodge
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