Mexia Shrine Club Announces Chicken Feast Fundraiser
Mexia Shrine Club, led by Wyatt Hayter, plans a Friday night chicken barbecue at Reunion Grounds on June 22 with over fifty frying size chickens. Colonel Humphreys provides tables and pavilion for the event, featuring a program of music and a pavilion dance, inviting Shriners and ladies to attend.
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Wyatt- Hayter
Mexia Shrine Club
Colonel Humphreys
Shriners
Hurdleston Bate
Mexia
Finger Prints Help Arrest Two Negroes in Dallas
In Dallas on June 14 two African American convicts were jailed on murder charges after fingerprints linked them to the killings of Motorcycle Officer J C Gibbons on April 19 and Special Officer J R Crain on May 24. Lawson confessed to Crain’s death and accused Dyer of killing Gibbons. Dyer accused Lawson.
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Dallas
Ernest Lawson
Blaine Dyer
J. C. Gibbons
J. R. Crain
Gibbons
Crain
Lawson
Dyer
Thomas B Love Seriously Ill in Dallas Hospital
Tom Love a Texas National Democratic committeeman lies in serious condition at a Dallas hospital from appendicitis. Doctors will decide if surgery is needed. In Geneva a man named Strumer, on trial for murdering his wife to obtain insurance money, shouted a vow to God and then collapsed dead.
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Dallas
Texas
Tom| Love
Geneva
Strumer
Plans to Introduce New Beer Bill
Representative Fred D. Britten of Illinois announces a beer and light wine bill on the first day of the new Congress. He argues federal tax on production and sale could raise $700 million, fund a soldiers bonus, and pay off the national debt in twenty years.
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Fred D. Britten
Illinois
Eet
Congress
Army
Navy
Potato and Tomato Grown on Same Plant At Grinsvelle
In Grinsvelle Texas on June 14 news describes E. F. Colwell displaying a single plant bearing both a potato and a tomato. He frames the curiosity around grafting to answer if two crops can emerge from one plant.
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Grinsvelle
Texas
E. F. Colwell
Rev G T Reaves to Lead Flag Day Tribute at First Christian
Rev G T Reaves pastor of the First Christian Church and acting Exalted Ruler will deliver the address and preside at Mexia Elks Flag Day service tonight at the First Christian Church. The event honors the flag with a 21 piece band concert and a program by the Elks Bank and members urged to attend in full strength.
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Mexia E. P.C. E
First Christian Church
United States
Elks Lodges
G. T. Reaves
Fort Schuyler
Elks’ Organization
Ord
T. A. Oldfather
Elks' Bank
Charles L. Clover
Elks 1 Club
Lodge
Charlie Clover
Christian Church
Dusie
Star - Spangled Banner
Elks Band
Mexia Lodge
R. ©. McCullough
Oscar Denzing
Columbia
Sunrise to Sunset Flight Planned by Lt Maug
Lt Russell Lowell Mangham, holder of the world speed record, plans a transcontinental flight from New York to San Francisco between sunrise and sunset. He will tune his army pursuit plane for the journey, aiming to depart after several days of preparations. His record speed is 248.5 mph set at Selfridge Field, Michigan, and he earned the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II for shooting down four enemy airmen.
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Russell Lowell Maugaam
New York
San Francisco
Mangham
Selfridge
Field
Michigan
East Prospects Seen For New Oil Field
Rumors of a fire showing oil on the Rosson farm grid east of Mexia draw hundreds of visitors. The 3500 foot well near the Woodbine sand has seen renewed interest after years of inactivity and past gas blowouts. Local operators and scouts inspect the slush pit as talks of revived production grow.
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Mexia
Golden Lane
Rosson
Negro’ Cemetery
Witherspoon and
Peck
Woodbine
Powell
Carrie
Big Williams
Nationwide privately owned power grid proposed by 1950s interests
Westinghouse Electric Company and chairman Guy E. Tripp back a plan for a huge unified electrical system to supply the nation. The project would require years of work and about five billion dollars with a potential yearly electricity cost rise near one billion. It aims to electrify all steam railways, with Frank G. Baum advancing the concept from theory to possible practice. A separate note mentions the Mexia oil field lease transfer and initial cleanup yielding oil and waste removal.
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Ylang
Westinghouse Electric Company
Guy E. Tripp
Frank G. Baum
San Francisco
Mexia bankers urge attendance at chamber annual meeting
Mexia bankers from three financial institutions urge citizens to attend the Mexia Chamber of Commerce annual meeting at the Hurdleston Hotel Friday night June 15 at 8 45. Messages from Jack Womack Prendergast Smith National Bank and INO H Sweatt Farmers State Bank emphasize civic progress and unity for Mexia.
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Mexia Chamber of Commerce
Mexia
Chamber of Commerce
Hardleetown Hotels
Jack Womack
Fres
Prendergast-Smith Natl
Bank
Hurdleston Hotel
INO
Sweatt
Pres
Farmers State Bank
Corynerca
Soeg
Basinessin
Hurdleston
Fort
Blake
City Neth Bank
Indian Mate Rich To Quit Work And Walk
Kansas City June 14 Y Hudson an Osage Indian drew his last six dollar check from a local ice company and said he was through working for good. He received notice of a $100000 deposit at an Oklahoma bank and expected more assets to follow. He declared he would not buy an automobile and called women a nuisance while vowing to continue walking.
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Y. Hudson
Hudson
Olahoma Bank
Pye
President Li Yuan Hung Freed After Abdication
Shanghai reports Li Yuan Hung, the former president, released from Tianjin where he had been held by the military governor after abdication. Seals of office missing earlier, now recovered by the cabinet, enabling governance. Calm returns to Shanghai and Beijing. troop uprising feared earlier is believed deterred.
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Shanghai
Li Yuan Hung
Tien Tsin
China
Pekin
Senate Divided Over Prohibition Repeal Resolution
In Austin June the House approved a resolution deploring repeal of New York prohibition laws. A Senate resolution stated Texas Senate has enough support on the issue.
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Austin
Texas
House of Representatives
New York
Senate
Legislature Holds Line on Emergency School Bill
Austin June 14 The House adopted the conference report on the emergency school bill reducing the appropriation from six to four million dollars. The move likely avoids another extra session, with the governor expected to act only if further reductions align the bill with available revenues.
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Austin
House
Speed King Maughan Prepares Continent Flight
Lieutenant Russell Maughan of the Army Air Service undertakes a trial flight from Bolling Field Washington to map the route for his planned attempt to fly across the continent. The weather is fair as he begins the milestone journey toward McCook Field around 11 o clock.
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Washington
Russell
Maughan
Army Air Service
Bolling Field
McCook ‘Field
Federal Prohibition Agent Charged With Murder
Galveston June 14 J C Dilworth federal prohibition agent is held without bail on a murder charge in the shooting that killed Fredius Wilson plain clothes officer of the local police force Dilworth was wounded The shooting followed an argument over whether a man arrested in a raid on a cold drink stand should go to jail
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Galveston
J. C. Dilworth
Prohibition
Fredius Wilson
Dilworth
Stamboulisky Aims to Oust King Boris in Bulgaria
Reports from RIESTE dated June 14 state Stamboulisky and his peasant followers plan to declare Bulgaria a republic once Sofia is captured. Passengers aboard the Orient Express recount peasants shouting over Sofia and indicate the former Premier’s army supports overthrowing the king. Boris allegedly backs the revolt leading to Stamboulisky’s government being ousted. A note mentions Miss Inez Simpson leaving for a two week vacation in Bridgeport, MI.
Flood Hits Tulsa Oklahoma Destroys Homes and Railways
A Tulsa flood report shows 38 houses wiped out and bridges and rail lines washed away. About a thousand homes flooded from three feet to roof tops, with refineries damaged and livestock drowned. Estimated damage exceeds 1.1 million dollars.
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Tulsa
Okia
Araksas River
McNeece Returns to Mexia in Hughes Role
H G McNeece returns to Mexia after a stint in Dallas with a motion picture firm. He now heads records for the Production department at J K Hughes Developing Company and resumes ties with the town and its citizens. A June report from Kansas City notes a separate highway accident involving Leona M Onson and her three children, with minor injuries after their car leapt the embankment.
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Mexia
H. G. McNeece
Dallas
J. K. Hughes Developing Company
McNeece
Hughes Organization
Kansas City
Leona M. Onson
Agin’jured
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Mexia Elks
Thomas B. Love
Dangerously Ill
G.t.reaves
Mexia Bankers Back. C
Rich
Kansas City, MO
Convic
Fed. Pro
Stamboulisky
Marie
Inez, Simpson
Humphreys
Bridgeport
Okla
Hughes
Fréderika Karner
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