Newspaper Row and the Press as Public Officials
A rambling reminiscence on Texas editors and reporters, praising newspapermen who become public figures. It lampoons editor culture, notes certain city editors and editors now mayors, and ends with a mock Biblical tirade about a wedding notice and a publisher’s influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Clements
Stephenville
Wendell Mayes
Brownwood
Geveral
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
H. 8
Hilburn
Plainview
Houston Harte
San Angelo
R. H. Nichols
Vernon
Wilburn Hawk
Amariolio
N. H. Pierce
Menard
Congress
Suntan Caution from State Health Officer
State health officer Dr George W Cox urges caution in sun exposure this season. He warns against overestimating sun tolerance and notes many people risk painful sunburns on unprotected faces necks and legs. Trahsin?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. W. Cox
Con
Laughing Around the World With Irvin S Cobb
A serialized humor piece follows the narrator as he travels from town to wheat belt farms. Stranded without funds he seeks work with a farmer and observes the clash between city sensibilities and rural life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvin S. Cobb
Safety Rules for Fishermen From Texas Department
The State Game Department outlines sun exposure limits for anglers advising ten minutes first day increasing with acclimation. It warns against overexposure and first degree burns while stressing caution with sunbathers and vacations. Rules emphasize safe handling of fish, legal sizes, and humane release to protect both anglers and aquatic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cox
Texas
State Game Department
Fisherman Safety Rules From a Field Guide
Practical advice for anglers on gear checks boat safety and personal precautions. Emphasizes life jackets, sound boat condition, swimming guidance, proper clothing removal, first aid readiness, sunburn care, snake bite precautions, and overall safety to prevent accidents while fishing.
Members of Cult Fill Jail at Waxahachie
About two hundred visitors descended on Waxahachie with phonograph records and pacifist literature urging allegiance to no man made government. Deputies swarmed a crowd of citizens blocking streets as Ninety members of a religious sect were jailed after arrests, with several escaping during the confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waxahachie
Joe Roy
Farm population doubles in Southeast since Civil War
Henry A Wallace, Secretary at Agriculture, notes farm population in the Southeastern states has doubled since the Civil War while total cultivated land is smaller than in 1860.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry A. Wallace
Also Mentioned on This Page
Abraham Lincoln
Mineral Wells
Stanley Babb
Galveston News
Jean LaFitte
W. B. Ruggles
Dallas News
Asa Patrick
Weatherford Herald
Henry
Boyles
Getteth
Sharon
Peterson
American News Features, Inc
Boaig
Sino
Dai
Jile
CULT
Waxahachee
FORD
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