States Rights rally planned across Texas tour
The States Rights campaign schedules a series of speeches with leaders including former Mississippi Governor Hugh White and Gov. Fielding Wright joining. Key stops span Columbus, Wichita Falls, Lubbock, Fort Worth, and other Texas cities with a final push in San Antonio and Beaumont.
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Laney
Evene
Texas
Mississippi
Hugh White
Sam Lumpkin
John Bell Wanes
William, Colmer
Mississippi Supreme Court
Tom Q
Allen Jackson
Miss
Sores Boyce
Columbus
Tex
Wichita Falls
Lubbock
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Clarksville
Paris
Bonham
Sherman
Gainesville
Denton
Fort Worth
Thurmond
Cleburne
Hillsboro
Waco
Energy Boost Tonic Ad in Declining Health Tone
An advertising fragment promotes 806 Tonic as a fast energizer to fight sluggishness and bloating. It claims to improve blood flow and vitality, suggesting readers start using the tonic for greater freshness and strength and to improve appetite and work performance.
USDA Reports Slight Drop to Texas Meat Production
The USDA says Texas meat production in the first seven months of 1948 fell about three percent from 1947. Estimated output was 530.9 million pounds versus 545.4 million a year earlier, covering beef veal lamb mutton and pork slaughtered in federally inspected and other wholesale and retail plants.
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Austin
Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
USDA
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
General Clay to Fly to New York for Alfred E. Smith Dinner
Gen. Lucius D. Clay American military governor for Germany plans a one day trip to New York next Wednesday to address the Alfred E. Smith memorial foundation. The flight is to be on Oct. 16.
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New York
Frankfurt
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation
UCRA proposes master reservoir to supply West Texas cities
The Upper Colorado River Authority announced a plan to supply upriver cities with unlimited quality water from a master reservoir just above Robert Lee at five cents per thousand gallons. The proposal follows a Bureau of Reclamation study and aims to meet Odessa Midland Big Spring Colorado City Robert Lee and Bronte needs amid oil boom growth.
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Colorado City
West Texas
Robert Lee
Upper
Colorado River Authority
Coke County
Five End
Bureau of Reclamation
Federal Agency
UCRA
Odessa
Midland
Big Spring
Bronte
R. T. Piner
Colorado River Municipal Water Association Executive Board
Piner
Here
Colorado
Youngblood
Texas and Pacific
Colorado River Municipal Water Association
Scurry County
Busy Courthouse Schedules Put Murder Case First
The 99th court leads with the Walter Echols murder with malice charge set for May 22 as jurors reported in Slaton railroad yards. Judge De V Pardue in the 98th district and Judge Dan Blair in the 72nd district oversee a heavy docket with numerous theft burglary forgery and desertion actions planned this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de V. Pardue
98Th
Tral
Dan Blair
72Nd
Walter Echols
Clyde Tune
Fletcher D. Sneed
Echols
Tune
Slaton
George G. Hall
E. A. Blair
Grady West
Lubbock
Bill Beck to Manage Walgreen Store Here
Appointment of Bill Beck as manager of Walgreen’s Drug store at 1219 Becainey succeeds Jack Heath who transfers to San Jose for health. Beck has 20 years in the drug business in California. He is married and the father of three school aged sons.
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Bill Beck
Walgreen
Becainey
Jack Heath
San Jose
Calif
Beck
California
Texan Denies Charge In Grave Mistreatment Case
Sid Hall of Sherman Texas pleaded innocent at a pre hearing on a charge of mistreating an Indian grave in search of treasure in Madill Oklahoma. J B Wright and Gene Jackson of Sherman waived preliminaries and did not enter pleas. All three were bound over for district court trial. Hall was released under $1000 bond.
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Madill
Okla
Sid Hall
Sherman
Texas
J. B. Wright
Gene Jackson
Justice of the Peace
Charles S. Grider
Per
Local theft and burglary cases proceed in district court
Two theft defendants Jean Thomas Welch and Charles Lee Smith face charges with the state represented by District Attorney Lloyd Croslin and assistant E G Pharr. Robert Louis Scales stands charged with burglary, with representation by the same prosecuting team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Thomas Welch
Charles Lee Smith
Robert Louis Scales
Lloyd Croslin
E. G. Pharr
Childrens eating advice from Dr. A A W
Dr A A W of Cincinnati told the Texas Pediatric Society that a mother should pretend not to care when a child balks at eating. He warned against showing fear or distress as the child senses dominance when the tray is removed. Dr Weech is a Cincinnati University professor of pediatrics and a father.
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Cincinnati
Junior
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New Hudson
Strea
New
Hudson
THE
Hadeos
Kerr Hudson Sales
Main
Lubbock, Texas
Daniel D. Floyd
Arthur D. Harris
Janie J. Wood
Don Newton Hull
L. R. Upchurch
A. J. Smelly
Johnnie Johnson
Jess Jackson
Weldon Eugene Walker
Arthur D. Harry
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Dallas
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Broadway
Seidlitz Paints
Newson’s
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Newcorrp Paint & Supply Compa
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Our Ave. E
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Texas Ave
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