Record Heat in Mexia Stays, Storms Pass Through
Mexia reports 100 degree heat as the official Miss Josephine Newman weather station max. City thermometers show higher readings up to 288. Dallas Weather Bureau forecasts little temperature change for 48 hours with continued high heat and scant rain across Texas. Kansas City records 95 degrees while New York endures a severe storm causing fatalities and damage.
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Mexia
Josephine Newman
Weather Observer
News Publishing Company
Dallas
United State Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Lubbock
Lampasas
Spur
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Sunday School Class Plans Picnic
The Sunday school class of Mrs. Victor K Aubrey of Central Presbyterian Church plans a picnic Thursday evening at Groesbeck City Park. More than 25 members are expected to attend.
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Victor K. Aubrey
Central _,presbyterian church
Groesbeck City Park
Bankers See Prosperity as Panhandle Bankers Report
Bankers at the Twenty first Annual Panhandle Association convention report prosperity across Texas plains. They note record bank deposits and crop prospects with wheat and cotton expected to exceed earlier estimates and crops in splendid condition.
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Amarillo
Texas
Plains
Panhandler
America seeks greater respect from Mexico
Washington June 16 United States officials say Kellage's warning to Mexico aimed to force better treatment of American representatives and standard diplomatic courtesy. The move followed Ambassador Sheffield’s reports of discourtesy and a belief that a public jolt was needed to prompt improved relations.
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Paul R. Mason
United Press
Washington
Kellage
United States
Mexico
Sheffield
Eastland Doctor Attends Two U S Centennials
Dr H B Tanner of Eastland may join a rare group by attending both the first U S centennial in Philadelphia and the upcoming 150th jubilee also in Philadelphia. He attended the first celebration 49 years ago and plans to be present for the 150th anniversary mark. Miss Alice Stevens, Texas University graduate, returns to Mexia. New York cotton opens steady with July at 23.45 up 1 and Oct at 28.10, Dec 23.19 up 2.
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Eastland
H. B. Tanner
United States
Tanner
Philadelphia
New York
Mexia Merchants Set Pep Party With W V Crawford
Mexia retail merchants and guests attend a Tuesday night Pep Party at Liontarian Inn with W V Crawford as principal speaker. The two hour program features music by Wayland Moody's jazz orchestra, sing along, multiple addresses including Noel Hollingsworth and John I McElroy, vocal solo, short talk, piano, and mystery show.
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W. V. Crawford
Waco
Mexia
Liontarian Inn
Patterson
Mexia Retail Merchants Association
Liontarian_Inn
M. S
Wayland Moody's Jazz Orchestra
Tehuacana
A. Garland Adair
Wayland Moody's Orchestra
Noel Hollingsworth
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
John I. McElroy
E. M. Strange
Leoward Tidwell
Marguerite Spowell
E. L. Crow
Officers Protest Against Pardons For Murderers
Austin officials from Bexar and Jimmett counties protest to Governor Ferguson about pardons for General Jose H. Rangel serving life for murder and for Charles M. Cline and four other Mexicans linked to the 1913 kidnapping and murder of Deputy Sheriff Ovitz.
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International News Service
Austin
Ferguson
Bexar
Jimmitt
Jose H. Rangel
Charles M. Cline
Rangel
Cline
Ovitz
Japan Orders Four More Warships for Shanghai
Tokyo reports four additional warships speeding to Shanghai to protect Japanese subjects, bringing total Japanese vessels in foreign waters to ten. London rumors circulate of a coup in China led by Feng Yunliang with anti foreign sentiment and possible oil withdrawal affecting the region. Chinese students push for boycotts against British and Japanese forces near the Forbidden City as placards denounce foreign presence.
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International News’ Service
Tokio
Japan Today l
Shanghai
Tory
Japan
Forbidden City
Pekin
Daily Telegraph
Equalization Board Opens Its Annual Review Week
The city board of equalization led by J Desenberg begins its week long deliberations to adjust school and city assessments. R B Howard and W B Gardner assist as values move toward actual market levels and taxpayers are notified of changes.
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City Board of Equalization
J. Desenberg
R. B. Howard
W. B. Gardner
Mexia Man Injured as Pilot Falls From Plane
In Dallas on June 16 Carter Leach aged 119 of Dallas died after falling from the seat of a plane at 500 feet during a nose spin while instructing Roy Faust 22 of Mexia. The pilotless plane dived and crashed bottom up with Faust seriously injured. Leach was a printer and apparently unstrapped. Faust formerly worked for Mexia Battery and Tire Company and has a sister in Mexia. The day also notes a Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society meeting at First Methodist Church where Mrs W B Landrum led a Jonah study which attendees found instructive.
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Dallas
Carter Leach
Roy Faust
Mexia
Faust
Leach
Mexia Battery and Tire Company
Women's Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church
Split Season Approved By Texas Association Officials
Texas Association representatives led by J. G. McIntosh and Charles L. Glover voted to split the playing season with a June 25 game, closing the second half on August 30. The meeting in Austin outlined a 134 game schedule and listed attendees from McLendon, Sims, Davenport, Alderson, Poindexter, Meadows, Campbell, and Hart.
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Texas Association
J. G. McIntosh
Charles L. Glover
Association
J. W. McLendon
W. E. Sims
Austin
J. W. Davenport
Ray Alderson
Terrell
Mexia
Dee Poindexter
Corsicana
H. A. Meadows
Temple
T. M. Campbell
R. H. Hart
Palestine
Coolidge Orders Economy Drive Across Government
President Coolidge directed a 1926 economy push urging all heads of government to cut budgets and attend the Government Business Association meeting on June 22. Slashes in personnel and expenses are anticipated as part of the order.
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International News Service
Washington
Coolidge
AIL
Government Business Association
Water Lands Deeded City by W. E. Ley
Mexia announces completion of a six acre deed for a new water supply. City pays 6500 cash to J. W. Hey and wife for property three miles west in the water field district. Humble Oil holds existing well rights. three more wells are being drilled and work proceeds to expand the system for the city.
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Mexia
J. Sandford Smith
W. B. Kendrick
JW. E. Hey
Rich Water Field
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Humble
Music aids in tuberculosis treatment by patient diversion
F D Bell of the New York Tuberculosis Association told the American Sanatorium Association meeting in Minneapolis that concerts by singers musicians and entertainers in sixteen New York hospitals help patients forget their illness. He noted light hopeful tunes and non classical musical numbers boosted mood and health with hundreds of volunteers contributing.
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Minneapolis
American Sanatorium Association
F. D. Bell
New York Tuberculosis Association
Bell
New York
Lions Club attendance contest starts with Manes leading
The Lions Club contest opened with the Manes ahead of the Tails in attendance. Absent members are listed and the losing side will host a banquet. Rev J W McKinney spoke at the dinner with music by Agee and Scott. Next meeting set for June 23 with Poteet Harvard Hodges leading the planning. An oil company executive, H P Dunn, moved to Mexia for summer. The Eastland boys and girls club encampment returns July 16 to 18 with hundreds expected.
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Lions Club
Manes
Lion E. H. Poteet
Lion W. M. Schmidt
Roy Flynn
John Phillips
Tait J. K. Hughes
J. Stuart
B. B. Simmonds
Geo. Peyton
B. L. Walkup
Lion Mason
J. W. McKinney
First Christian Church
Mexia
Goleman
Texas
Rev. McKinney
Agee
Scott
Lions Poteet
Harvard
Hodges
Lions
Eastland
Isabelle Pope’s Court Testimony Details McClintock Affair
In Chicago reporter Edward C. Derr notes Isabelle Pope, the young widow-to-be who wore mourning after Bill McClintock’s typhoid death, testifies in the Shepherd germ case. She speaks calmly under heat, answering clearly as jurors and attorneys focus on her statements.
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Edward C. Derr
United Press
Chicago
Isabelle Pope
Bill McClintock
Shepherd Germ
Isabelle
Lightning Strike Wrecks Immigrant Train in New Jersey
A Delaware and Lackawanna immigrant train from Chicago plunged from the track during a thunderstorm near Hackettstown New Jersey. Twelve killed and scores injured as the engine and cars tumbled down an embankment while immigrants bound for Germany prepared to sail from New York. Officials say the storm may have caused a switch to clog with debris or the train was struck by lightning. The wreck left 182 passengers, with many victims recovered at daylight and others treated at Easton Hospital in Pennsylvania.
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International News Service
Hackettstown
N. J
Delaware and Lackawanna
Chicago
New York
Germany
Easton
Emancipation Granted to 35 Prison Inmates at One Signing
In Austin, a late afternoon announcement states pardons for 35 inmates confined in the penitentiary become effective June 19. The governor noted most inmates are serving long terms and have no advocates, with pardons issued on advice of Jim Ferguson, the governor's adviser. Also mentions Dallas visitors the Casons and Mrs Sweatt visiting Hubbard and the Skinners visiting the Hartis.
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International News Service
Austin
Jim Ferguson
Drive Against Riffs on Soon
Paris reports the planned joint Spanish and French offensive against the Riffians will begin shortly. Minister of Marine Emil Borel told the cabinet that air and ground forces are ready, while French destroyers patrol the African coast to stop arms shipments.
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International
Paris
Emil Borel
Local Texas grandparents visit newborn twin granddaughters
Mr and Mrs Wood Smith of Cer yellton Texas are in Mexia to meet their new twin granddaughters Earline and Ernestine Smith daughters of Earl and Mrs Earl Smith. The twins share their father's name Earl Smith and carry the family surname Smith.
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Mrs. Wood Smith
Ceryellton, Texas
Earl
E. L. Smith
Mexia
Earline
Ernestine
Smith
Earl’ Smith
Earl Smith
Pele
Ernest ‘le: Smith
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