Money In Growing Cucumbers In Hallettsville
A local pickling plant seeks contracts with farmers to plant cucumbers for the coming season. The company has operated a station here for years and cucumber farming has been profitable. Northern capitalists have bought 960 acres in southern Hale County. An irrigation dam on the Nueces River at the Black ranch is near completion and will irrigate about 15 000 acres.
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Hallettsville
Texas
Hale County
Nueces River
Black Ranch
Texas needs great men in an era of vengeance
The text urges leaders to avoid hatred and scorning divisive politics. It cites historical examples like Darius, Athens, Marathon, Hannibal, Carthage, and Rome to warn against vengeance guiding a state. It calls Texans to seek virtuous leadership to prevent national decline.
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Darius
Athens
Marathon
Hannibal
Rome
Italy
Texas
Texas Industrial Congress Expands Agricultural Prizes
The Texas Industrial Congress in Dallas is offering cash prizes totaling 10 000 for agriculture across five classes including irrigated and unirrigated crops. A new Class E awards 300 to the top merchantable kaffir corn or mile maize yields on two irrigated acres. Entries and details are available by request at Dallas headquarters.
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Texas Industrial Congress
Springfield
Mass
Boston Transcript
Montana
New York
Texas
Industrial Congress
Congress
Dallas
West Texas
Brewster County
Hale County
Great Plains
The
Texas Cost of Living Drops Seven Percent
Washington Jan 27 Special figures from the January Crop Reporter show Texas cost of living fell about 7 percent in the last year based on farm values of six leading food items. Butter fell to 22 cents per pound from 24, eggs rose to 26 cents per dozen, chickens at 84 cents per pound, hogs down to 5 60 per 100 pounds, cattle at 3 70 per hundred pounds, sheep 4 10 per hundred pounds.
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Washington, D. C
Texas
Rgtr
Local Ads Highlight New Listings This Week
Tuesday Eagle calls attention to fresh advertisements from R. Jaeggli & Bro., Koester Bros., G A Baur, Jno Bruvkenhoefer, Severa Uo., Will A. Watkin Company, Jacob Cinadr and the Hermann Verein.
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Tue Eagle
R. Jaeggli & Bro
Koester Bros
G & A. Baur
Jno. Bruvkenhoefer
Severa Uo
Will A. Watkin Company
Jacob Cinadr
Hermann Vark Verein
Red Cross Seals Sales Reported for Texas
Mrs. O B Colquitt, Texas state chair for Red Cross seals, notes about 20000 dollars in seals sold and 15000 collected statewide. The campaign, run by the Texas Anti Tuberculosis Association, aims to fund a Gulf Coast hospital home for crippled children with tuberculosis until state support begins.
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Austin
Texas
O. B. Colquitt
Red Cross
Gulf Coast
Moulton Plans Creamery and Local Tax Voting Note
If you have not paid your poll tax your vote is lost. The poll tax season expired Wednesday. Improved highways are the most valuable asset to the farmer and to the town folk that can be secured by their own efforts. Moulton needs a creamery.
Bryan and wife in Texas amid early 1900s travels
Notable visits include William Jennings Bryan and his wife traveling through Texas. Other items mention Frederick Gross, a San Antonio pioneer banker and merchant, dead, and a plan for an Alamo replica at the San Diego world’s fair. Orange suffers a major fire causing around 100000 dollars in damage.
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Frederick Gross
San Antonio
Texas Produce Markets Brace For Cold Wave Impact
Houston reports Texas produce arriving in good quantities despite a recent cold snap. Lettuce and Texas potatoes from the Eagle Lake area enter active competition with California stock. Butter and eggs are scarce, cabbage prices firm with rising demand for cotton export boosts. Cotton prices firm on strong overseas buying as interiors see better receipts. Census data show cotton ginning through January 16 at 1814 510 000 bales.
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Houston
Texas
California
Eagle Lake
Liverpool
Europe
Census Bureau
Industrial Notes From Across Texas
The report highlights dairy farming in Victoria by Wm J Quirke. Balmorhea honey yield from forty hives. Trickham gas well at 3 190 000 cubic feet daily. Bond vote set for San Benito Feb 3 for 452 000 drainage system. Taylor land sold at 165 per acre on 125 acres. Southwest shipments: twelve train loads of fruit and vegetables to northern markets. Texarkana Bank eyeing seven story building 150 000 to 200 6oo cost. Sweetwater organizes Boys Corn Club and Girls Flower Club led by R E Mann. Barnhart livestock shipments 398 cars Sept 1 to Dec 24. Seventeen Frisco Brownsville line homeseekers cars via Houston. Mission to Monte Christo interurban grading begins. completion within three months. Parker county forms community peanut clubs for carload shipments. First carload of sweet potatoes from Raymond sold at Beau mont. San Angelo landowner to irrigate 120 000 acres with large sub irrigation project. Twenty Bexar County Boys Corn clubs organized by W G Hand. Greenville tract of 230 acres sells for 24 000 about 104 per acre. Chicago Land Show boosts Texas investment outlook around 10 million dollars."
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Victoria
Wm. J. Quirke
Balmorhea
Trickham
Brownwood
San Benito
Taylor
Texas
Texarkana National Bank
Sweetwater
R. E. Mann
United States
Nolan County
Barnhart
Orient
Houston
Brownsville
Frisco
Mission
Monte Christo
Parker County
Raymond Station
Beaumont
San Angelo
Gonzales Woman Candidate for County School Superintendent
Miss Celina King announces as a candidate for Gonzales County school superintendent challenging incumbent A. B. Corder who also seeks re election. She is a county public school teacher living in Wrightsboro and has pondered a county office race for years.
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Gonzales
Texas
Gonzales County
Celina King
A. B. Corder
Local notes on visitors and political endorsement
D W Taylor of Bishop is in the city since Wednesday. Mrs Eliza Fehrenkamp of Temple visits the Fehrenkamp family and left for LaGrange. At Hallettsville bar meeting Henry S Paulus was endorsed for district attorney of the Twenty fifth judicial district.
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D. W. Taylor
Bishop
Eliza Fehrenkamp
Temple
F. T Fehrenkamp
LaGrange
Hallettsville
Henry S. Paulus
Twenty-fifth Judicial District
Agricultural Promise in Moulton County Grows
The article notes that almost everything in the agricultural line can be grown in Moulton County, highlighting diverse crops and farming potential.
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Moulton Country
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