Lone Star State Industrial Notes
PORT LAVACA grants a franchise for an electric light plant and water works with work to start immediately. SMITHVILLE plans $10 000 street improvements with gravel and graded thoroughfares citywide. WACO BRAZOS VALLEY TELEPHONE CO plans ~$250 000 building switchboard and apparatus upgrades. BIG SPRINGS 6000 acres of Spanish peanuts under cultivation. largest peanut farm in Texas. WILLS POINT a large dam contracted to cover 75 acres, hold millions of gallons, supply water. SAN ANTONIO a theater with roof garden planned at about $50 000. start dates soon. HOUSTON a 30-mile sanitary system contracted, nearly $200 000 expenditure. TAYLOR a Swift & Company branch house under construction with cold storage for perishables. OAKVILLE George W. West to divide 22,000 acres into Spagere tracts. two town sites George West and Kittie. waterworks sewer and electric plant planned. homeseekers invited.
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Oakville
George W. West
San Antonio
Mr. West
George West
Kittie
Texas Rivers and Harbors Plan Boosts Gulf Port Trade
The Panama Canal opening accelerates Texas waterway improvements. Waco is named head of navigation on the Brazos, Freeport harbors thrive, and sulphur deposits near a 17 million ton field drive 300 000 tons annual output. Intercoastal Canal will feed vast outgoing tonnage as railroads expand terminals.
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Gulf Port
Texas
Brazos River
Waco
Brazo
Atlantic
Brazos Valley
New Bottling Works Set to Open in City
W K Richter will shortly open a bottling works in this city. The building is completed and some machinery has arrived. The plant will be equipped with modern devices for making carbonated beverages. Richter is an enterprising citizen who boosts the town and is wished success.
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W. K. Richter
Richter
Jaeggli Family Post Birthday Celebration and Visits
Mrs A Jaeggli and three granddaughters Lillian Theodora and Gladys Jaeggli returned Wednesday from an extended visit to relatives in Helmleigh. Mrs G J Bobnenkamp entertained relatives and friends Sunday in commemoration of her birthday anniversary. Dainty refreshments were served. We wish her many happy returns of the day.
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A. Jaeggli
Lillian, Theodora
Gladys Jaeggli
Helmleigh
G. J. Bobnenkamp
Sanday
Emil Koester
George von Lienen
A. F. Kotzebue
Mrs. Kotzebue
A Talk To The Boy Poem By Strickland Gillilan
A father speaks to his son about lineage and love. He recalls his own father, contrasting strength and gentleness, and hopes his boy values family bonds and understands the costs of life while accepting his affection. The poem emphasizes enduring love and the desire for mutual trust.
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Strickland Gillilan
Cotton gin fire robs Cue ro of $15000 loss
The Farmers' cotton gin at Cue ro was destroyed by fire Monday causing a loss of $15,000 with $5,000 insured. State school board awards $8 per capita for the next scholastic term amid regional growth.
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Cuero
Extraordinary Session Called To Address Cotton Warehouses
Governor O B Colquitt issues a proclamation to convene the Texas Legislature in an extra session beginning August 24 1914 at Austin to pass laws creating public and bonded warehouses to store cotton and support producers amid storage shortages and wartime market disruption. The session aims to act before the regular Thirty-fourth legislature, addressing section 40 article 3 of the Texas Constitution.
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O. B. Colquitt
Thirty-third
Texas
Europe
United States
Austin
Educational progress in Texas praised by New York paper
A Texas Conference bulletin cited by the New York Evening Post praises gains in rural and state education over seven years, including longer terms and tripled funding. It credits A&M College, State University extension departments, State normals, and the College of Industrial Arts for bolstering schooling from kindergarten to higher education.
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Texas Conference of Education
New York Evening Post
Texas
A. & M. College
State University
State Normals
College of Industrial Arts
Bulletin
Russell Sage Foundation
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Lone Star State Industrial Notes
Port Lavaca
Smithville
Brazos Valley Telephone Company
Big Springs
Howard County
Wills Point
San. Antonio
Houston
Taylor
Swift & Company Packing Interests
Fort Worth
Brazos
Guy Haltom
Moulton, Texas
Kod SX
F. F. Nesrata
Flatonia
City
Kbitzebue
Mexico City
Goddard S. Ezekiel Diamond
San Francisco
James Ek, Ferguson
Temple
Corpus Christi
Louisa Boehm
Akum
A. Edward Boehm
Augusta Weller
LaGrange
Emma Bobnenkamp
Vobnnie Wilson
Eagle Lake
Theodore Wolters
Culberson
Dallas
Senate
W. P. Lane
Jeff McLemore
Clarence Ousley
Fort Worth Record
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Panama Canal
Sam J. Fountain
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Cleveland
Ohio
T. H. McGregor
McReynold
Wilson
Supreme Court
T. W. Gregory
Barbara Nachlinger
Henry Pilsner
Ludwig Heinrich
Pilsner
LavacaCo.Medical Association
Moulton
Walter Shropshire
Yoakum
J. D. Gray
Shiner
A. M. Kotzebue
Dre
F. J. Guenther
Laura Valenta
Vlasta Marik
Mra. Valenta
John Freytag
Hamiltonburg
Jimmie Harrison
Warner, Krause
Anderle
Che Eagle
A. D. Igle
OF. Nite
Education In
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