Texas Railroad Valuation and Agency Appointments Mix in Austin
The railroad commission quotes the Waco to Sabine line value at 5 204 904 with a 124 000 increase for betterments. Gov Neff names J T Moore to the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission replacing the late J B Murrah. Miss Susanna Schemayer completes a five week health program weighing 950 children in Longview Gregg county. Sister Lucia Bell dies after decades aiding the sick including leper colonies in Louisiana and a plague camp abroad. C F Peter of Denison qualifies as secretary of the Railroad Commission. Dr W J Johnson elected as superintendent of an Austin asylum for the elderly. Inheritance tax collections total 78 494 since Sept 1 1923 with 5 296 delinquent paid in Harris, 863 in Jefferson, 24 573 in Galveston. Brownwood bids strongest for Thirty-Sixth Division encampments site with 1000 acres plus ranges and 12 000 acres for maneuvers. C V Terrell reports 45 000 in coupons from government bonds. Texas State Library issues a library manual and standards. Assistant AG C A Wheeler travels to Carthage to oppose junking the Timpson and Henderson railroad. No operating permit under consideration for McCorkle Pipe Line. Sam R Harlan, former State Superintendent of Buildings and grounds, dies in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon A Smith
Harris County
Jefferson County
Galveston County
Germany Must Pay Say Peace Experts
Paris reports that Dawes and McKenna committees propose Germany pay under a sliding scale from 110 million to 2.5 billion gold marks by 1934. They seek foreign oversight, a restructured Reichsbank, and amnesty incentives to attract capital, with railways and industry pledged as security and sources of revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Charles G. Dawes
Reginald McKenna
Germany
Reichsbank
Texas offers 70 sections for U S potash prospectors
Washington reports the offer of 70 sections of land in Ector Crane and Glasscock counties owned by Will S Edwards of Big Spring as a potential site for government potash prospecting. The amendment-backed bill would reimburse the government for expenses if drilling uncovers minerals of commercial value. Senator Sheppard hopes more Texas offers follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ector
Crane
Glasscock
Will S. Edwards
Big Spring
Sheppard
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Texas
Thaw Sane, Physicians Say
Five physicians in Thaw case have expressed that Harry K Thaw is sane. They will testify he is of sound mind before the jury next Monday. Thaw remains confined at the Pennsylvania Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Pennsylvania Hospital
Bartlett Bond Election Seeks 40000 for High School Addition
Bartlett Texas voters will decide on April 30 whether to approve a 40000 school bond issue for expanding the high school. The prior vote failed due to a minor technicality noted by the attorney general’s department, and revoting appears likely to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartlett
Tex
Attorney General's Department
Riots in Lilly Pa Leave Two Dead and Many Injured
Rioting between townspeople and Ku Klux Klan members in Lilly Pennsylvania Saturday night left two men dead, another critically injured, and about twenty others with injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilly
Ku Klux Klan
Big Cotton Textile Mill to Open in Houston
Plans call for a $1,000,000 cotton textile mill in Houston Texas to begin within 60 days. About 400 workers will be employed when the mill opens and the first unit will have 225 broad looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Texas
Scientific American Publisher Charles A. Munn Dies
Charles Allen Munn editor and publisher of the Scientific American died at his New York home after a brief illness. He led the magazine for many years shaping scientific communication and publishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
New York
Charles Allen Munn
The
Curtis Wilbur Named Navy Secretary by Coolidge
Curtis Dwight Wilbur, chief justice of the California supreme court and longtime jurist, is chosen by President Coolidge to succeed Edwin Denby as secretary of the navy. Born 1867 in Iowa, Wilbur has deep ties to California and the legal and scouting communities, with a brother serving as Stanford president.
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Coolidge
Curtis Dwight Wilbur
Los Angeles
Edwin Denby
Navy
California Supreme Court
Annapoli
Naval Academy
Wilbur
Judge Wilbur
Feather River Country
California
Boonesboro
Wilburs
Jamestown
Dakota Territory
Supreme Court
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Leland Stanford
Mrs Woodrow Wilson Quietly Controls Publication of Papers
As executrix of Woodrow Wilson's estate Mrs Wilson asserts the right to approve or block publications of his letters and manuscripts. She may arrange a authorized edition or assemble a Wilsonia collection for public deposit in a national institution, likely the Library of Congress, citing copyright and statutory rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Library of Congress
Roberts Selected as Special Counsel for Oil Probes
Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia chosen by President Coolidge to work with Atlee Pomerone in the Tea Pot Dome investigation. Roberts, 48, educated at Germantown Academy and University of Pennsylvania, served as law professor, district attorney aide, and wartime prosecutor under the Espionage Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Owen J. Roberts
Philadelphia
Atlee Pomerone
Ohio
Teapot Dome
Senate Public Lands Committee
George W. Pepper
Pennsylvania
Roberts
Germantown Academy
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Law School
United States Housing Corporation
Edward B McLean and the Oil Scandal in Washington
Edward B McLean, longtime Washington host and newspaper heir, figures in the oil investigation as someone who admits to lying at Albert Fall’s request but denies having financial ties to the alleged offenses. He inherited wealth from John R McLean, married Evelyn Walsh, owned the Hope diamond, and faced tragedy when his son Vinson Walsh McLean died after a street accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward B. McLean
Albert B. Fall
John R. McLean
Washington Post
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Evelyn Walsh
Thomas Walsh
Denver
Hope
Vinson Walsh McLean
Washington
Vermont
Ned McLean
Harding
Senate
Ohio
McLean
Compulsory School Laws Face Weak Enforcement
San Antonio officials say compulsory attendance laws are not enforced in areas with large Mexican populations. State Superintendent Marrs notes fines for truancy would swell jails and funds would bolster school salaries and new buildings. County and city superintendents attend a regional education conference with more meetings scheduled in Nacogdoches Cleburne and Stamford in April.
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San Antonio
Tex
S. M. N. Marrs
Marrs
Nacogdoches
Cleburne
Stamford
Valley Growers Ship 7000 Cars of Produce
Valley growers report Gulf Coast Lines moving 6784 carloads of produce through April 3, 1924, with cabbage 3839 carloads beets and carrots 1631 and mixed vegetables 1110. Lettuce 44 carloads and citrus 112 carloads plus smaller express shipments. Prospects include potatoes onions and later tomatoes cantaloupes and roasting cars as harvest continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAllen
Tex
Gulf Coast Lines
No. 26 Blamed in Katy Wreck Near Houston
Interstate Commerce Commission report faults No 26 crew for failing to obey a wait order, leading to a collision with the Katy Flyer near Hillende siding, 14 miles from Houston. Five lives were lost and 74 injured. Conductor Carney allegedly did not relay orders to the flagman and porter, possibly preventing the error.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katy
Houston
Tex
Hillendahe Siding
W. P. Boland
Bureau of Safety
Interstate Commerce Commission
Carney
Senator Wheeler Indicted Over Oil Permit Retainer Fee
United States Senator B. K. Wheeler of Montana was indicted by a federal grand jury in Great Falls on charges of unlawfully receiving a retainer fee to influence oil and gas prospecting permits issued by the interior secretary and the general land office. Wheeler claims the indictments aim to hinder the Daugherty investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Great Falls
Mont
United States
B. K. Wheeler
Senate
Daugherty Investigating Committee
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Daugherty
Recheck Reverses First Report in Houston School Board race
Alfred C. Finn, candidate on the parent teacher ticket and endorsed by the League of Protestant Women, was found after a recheck of last Saturday's election figures to have been elected to the Houston independent school district board, replacing Oscar C. Lang by a margin of 19 votes.
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Houston
Tex
Alfred C. Finn
League of Protestant Women
Houston Independent School District
Oscar C. Lang
Austin hailstorm halls in Burnett County records
The heaviest hail storm in the nation struck a portion of Burnett County on Wednesday. Ice two feet deep covered the ground, breaking telegraph and telephone wires and delaying train service over two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Burnett County
Texas Lumbermen's Convention Selects Beaumont as City
The Texas Lumbermen's association held its seventh annual convention in El Paso Beaumont chosen as 1925 host city. T. C. Spencer of Houston elected president with G. E. Merlitt of San Antonio first vice president Miers C. Johnson El Paso second vice president J H Cooke Houston third vice president Thomas W. Blake Houston treasurer and J C Ray Waco sergeant at arms named at the final business session.
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el Paso
Tex
Beaumont
T. C. Spencer
Houston
Texas Lumbermen's Association
G. E. Merlitf
San Antonio
Miers C. Johnson
J. H. Cooke
Thomas W. Blake
J. C. Ray
Waco
Cold Chills From Pimples Prompt Social Disdain
An old advertisement text mocks facial blemishes and claims Black and White Ointment clears skin blemish quickly, offering 50c and 25c sizes with dramatic sales. also promotes Roman Eye Balsam for inflamed eyes and hints of gossip about a selfmade man.
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Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Railroad
Railroad Commission
Gus Bryan
Ochfitree County
Court of Criminal Appeals
J. T. Moore
del Rio
Gov. Neff
State
Live Stock Sanitary Commission
J. B. Murrah
Susanna Schemayer
University of Texas
Longview
Gregg County
Lucia Bell
Seton Infirmary
Louisiana
C. F. Peter
Denison
E. R. McLean
Peter
W. J. Johnson
Tyler
East Texas Hospital For the Insane
Rusk
State Board of Control
Asylum For Senile Insane
State Bind School
School of Military Aeronautics
Brownwood
Texas National Guard
Adjutant General's Department
C. V. Terrell
Texas State Library
Texas Library Manual
C. A. Wheeler
Carthage
Panola County
Keeling
Timpson & Henderson
McCorkle Pipe Line Company
Delaware Corporation
Fort Wort
Carter County
Port Aransas
Sam R. Harlan
J. D. Sayers
U. S
Duval West
West
Federal Equity Court
Denby
Valley Growers
Texas Lumbermen’s Convention
St.Joseph’s
Gude
Seeety
M. J. Breitenbach Co
Warren St
N. Ye
Pearl St
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