Roads meetings announced across several towns this week
Good roads meetings will be held this week in Shiloh Springfield Tehuacana and Mexia. Jere Cason secretary of the Chamber of Commerce lists the schedule with school houses and Westminster College as venues. A December sixteenth vote on the gold road program will be explained to voters.
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Jere Cason
Chamber of Commerce
Shiloh
Springfield
Tehuacana
Westminister College
Mexia
London Wireless Sends Pictures To U S Papers
Pictures wirelessed from London in twenty minutes appeared today in New York newspapers via Photoradiogram, a RCA process. Images included President Coolidge in pen ink and photo forms, along with other notable figures and scenes transatlantic transmissions, some clear, some faint.
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New York
London
Radio Corporation of America
Marconi House
Corporation
Coolidge
Atlantic
State Hughes
Ueen Alexandria
Prince of Wales
Owen D. Young
Stanley Baldwin
Ambassador Kellogg
Oxford
Cambridge
Woman to Be Tried Second Time For Lover's Murder
New York report says Annie Buzzi returned from Sing Sing to the Bronx to face a second Supreme Court trial for the murder of her lover Fred Schneider. Witnesses and supporters gathered outside during the hearing, amid memories of her prior first degree conviction and a court of appeals stay.
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New York
Sing Sing
Annie Buzzi
Bronx
Fred Schneider
Supreme Court
Mexia Honors Colonel Humphreys With Historic Citizens Welcome
Colonel A E Humphreys is deeply moved by Mexia business leaders tribute in a full section of The Mexia Daily News. Mayor Ernest Watson notes the unity of Mexia citizens in a back home welcome, a novel journalism precedent. Humpreys, a lifelong Democrat, has voted in Mexia most years except one Denver election.
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Ernest Watson
A. E. Humphreys
Mexia Daily News
Mexia
United States
Business Hien
Denver
Colorado
Local Radio Fan Listens Across Seas During International Week
Friends gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A H Eubanks to hear radio records they have been collecting. Eubanks tuned in to stations across the Atlantic reaching Italy and Petrograd, hearing programs in foreign languages. Saturday night closed International Radio Week as locals stayed up late seeking broadcasts.
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A. H. Eubanks
Eubanks
Atlantic
Italy
Petrograd
Mr. Eubanks
Smith Edwards 1 Drilling Around 808 Near Penn
The E L Smith Oil Company is drilling near Beall and has four operations active. If leases prove productive, about twenty wells will be added. Linc plans ten for a property deemed highly productive. Edwards near Penn, McCorkle, and offset sites push surface casing toward 800 feet. Additional locations exist on the Sneed tract and Manning acreage between Shafer and Lytle. Long Beach, Cal., markets a Pacific coast beach five miles long.
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E. L. Smith
Beall 1
Linc
Productioa
B. L. Smith Oil Company
Tis Edwards
Pen McCorkle
Manning
Shafer
Carter
Lytle
Swindled Crowd Gangs Up On Leo Koretz in Chicago
Chicago reports Leo Koretz arriving amid heavy police protection after accusations he swindled hundreds of residents out of five million dollars. A large crowd jammed the railway station as detectives and officers held back the mob and Koretz was escorted to the awaiting authorities.
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Leo Koretz
Chicago
Leo Korentz
Chicago Cotton Market Opens Favorably With New York
Chicago cotton market opened fully active on regular parity with New York as officials participated in the opening ceremonies. First sale recorded January consignment to Joe Sertber at 23.40. traders noted a historic development for Chicago Boards of Trade.
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Chicago
Army Football Team Grateful After Victory
WEST POINT N Y Dec 1 The Army football captain Ed Garbisch explained the team’s postgame ritual after beating Annapolis. He said the players prayed before each game not for victory but to act manfully. After the win they removed helmets and thanked God.
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West Foint
N. Y
Army
Annapolis
Ed Garbisch
Supreme Court Grants Hearing on Tax Deduction Question
The Supreme Court granted a petition to consider whether a taxpayer may deduct the difference between the actual cost of property acquired before March 1 and the amount held for loss after the 1918 Revenue Act, or whether deduction applies to the price of purchase and sale.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Witness Heard in Government Hospital Probe
Elias H. Mortimer a Justice Department special agent testified in the Forbes Thompson fraud trial in Chicago. He said he was promised five percent of contractors profits in the erection of government hospitals. Charles Forbes and John Thompson faced the court as defendants in the case.
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United Press
Chicago
Elias H. Mortimer
Department of Justice
Forbes-Thompson
Mortimer
Charles Forbes
John Thompson
Wortham Area Sees Surge in Drilling Within City Limits
Judge H E B Bell of the Texas Railroad Commission announces active aid for the new oil pool near Wortham and between Wortham and Mexia. He notes rising requests for special permits to drill near property lines as leases and royalties spread, with Rio Bravo Company already issued 18 permits in and near Wortham.
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H. EB. Bell
Oil and Gas Division
Railroad Commission of Texas
Wortham
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
Main and
McKinney Streets
Rore Modrell
Austin
Commission
John Locke
Rio Bravo Company
Southern Pacific
Rix Bravo Company
Judge Bell
Requesse
Mexia Daily News
Klansmen Donate Thanksgiving Baskets in Mexia
The Mexia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Junior Klan presented the Salvation Army with six large buckets of Thanksgiving gifts to be distributed to the city’s needy community.
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Mexia Knights
Ku Klux Klan
Salvation Army
Fire devastates West Side New York rooming house
Four persons died when a December 1 fire swept a crowded West Side tenement rooming house. Many residents escaped or leaped from ledges, and several were injured. two victims burned beyond recognition and one died in Roosevelt Hospital.
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New York
West Side
Roosevelt Hospital
Speight Wildcat Watching By Oil Fraternity
Oil men watch Speight 1 six miles south of Mexia as Z Gardner and partners drill through oil and shale. Major companies once skeptical now eye the site as a potential new discovery with a promising sand. Drilling at about 4588 feet with cores taken. deeper attempts and possible early bailing. Gas noted during operations.
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Z. Gardner
Mexia
Oil Man
Wortham Welcomes Newcomers as Oil Field Rush Grows
Wortham experiences a large influx of workmen and prospectors as an oil field boom arrives. Homes and spaces prepared earlier accommodate the newcomers with little disruption, while Mexia and Wortham cooperate to handle the surge, each seeing substantial business growth.
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Wortham
Mexia
Drive Slow Signs Placed On X-All Highway
Road signs reading Danger Ahead Drive Slow have been set on the X All highway between Mexia and Wortham. The oil fraternity and the public welcome them, and no accidents have been reported since their installation. The weather is cloudy and cooler in Texas.
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Mexia
Wortham
Funeral Service Held Sunday for Mexia Youth
A large crowd attended the First Christian church service for Benjamin Davis a 15 year old student of Mexia High School and member of the First Christian church He died near Arlington on the Bankhead highway while visiting relatives The service was led by Rev G T Reaves with Rev Patrick Henry of San Antonio assisting Pallbearers were fellow students and the John R Corlay Undertaking Company managed arrangements The community extends universal sympathy to the Davis family with flowers marking the burial site. burial followed at the local city cemetery
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Mexia
Benjamin &. Davis
C.D. Davis
G. T. Reaves
Patrick Henry
San Antonio
the Defented
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Ft. Worth
Bankhead
Arlington
John R. Corlay Undertaking Company
Dick Buford
Roy Akin
Iilandery Auld
William Murphy
Robert Wallace
Tuefor Bennett
Edward Wiggins
Sandierd Auld
Derrick Lumber Expands Oil Field Activity Near Hewri
New derricks rise around the Hewri Field as oil operations begin in earnest. Reports caution that drilling details lag behind rapid activity and material shortages hinder early progress. Fraternal orders in Mexia and Wortham invite newcomers to weekly meetings, offering welcome and fellowship.
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Jyainls
Wortham
Mexia
Worthan
Oil boom expands in proven area near Wortham
Reports say Boyd producers push heavy output as derricks multiply south of Wortham in a new oil field. Investors offer Mexia parties 100000 cash and 109000 in oil for a ten acre tract between the Sims and Boyd wells along the West side of the X All 1 highway.
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Boyd
Wortham
Boyd Oil Company
Bsases
Simmons
Senator Jones Succeeds Lodge as GOP Whip
Washington December 1 Senator Westly Jones of Washington named republican whip by Senator Curtis new party leader Jones takes over after Curtis replaced the late Senator Lodge as floor leader in a reshaped GOP leadership amid a 28th Congress opening scene. The session plans routine organization and approval of several appropriation bills as the Congress reconvenes.
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United Press
Washington
Westly Jones
Curtis
Jones
Senator Lodge
Paul R. Mallon
Congress
Republican Party
Senate
Robert M. LaFollette
Norris
Nebraska
House
Nicholas Longworth
Garrett
Committee On Committees
Watson
Indiana
William E. Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Hiram Johnson
Albert Commins
Judiciary
Wadsworth
Fernald
McCormick
Ladd
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London Wireless
U.S
Humphreys
Smith-Edwards
Penn i
Long Beach
Cal
Pacific Coast
N.Y
Uniter Press
WTAM
Cleveland
Orchestra and Girls Glee Club
WNYC
Rialto
GFCA
Toronto
The
Harmony Choir
WEAP
Fort Worth
Carnegie Four
WMH
Cincinnati
P. m
Tenth Infantry Band
KLAN
Texas
Hewri Field
Lodge
G.O.P
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