Westchester Creates First County Recreation Commission
The Westchester County Board of Supervisors names five prominent women to a new recreation commission. Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. chairs the panel, aiming to provide outdoor facilities and public entertainments across the county park system. The park board has $3.8 million for new parks and parkways, with Glen Island Manursing Island and Croton Point added to park holdings. The two commissions will divide duties for maintaining parks and organizing activities.
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Westchester County
New York
Westchester
County Park Commission
Glen Island
Manursing Island
Sound
Croton Point
Hudson
Meyer
Sinclair the Oil King Dominates Headlines and Rumors
A profile of Harry Ford Sinclair outlines a rise from Kansas pharmacist to a dominant oil magnate. It notes Zev’s Belmont triumph under the Rancocas stable, a $482,444 earnings total, and the Teapot Dome lease scandal tying Sinclair to Wyoming’s oil interests. It covers birth in 1876, West Virginia origins, Kansas schooling, and 1919 Sinclair Consolidated Oil merges amid rampant power in global oil.
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Sinclair
Harry Ford Sinclair
Zev
Papyrus
Belmont Park
Rancocas Stable
Teapot Dome
Naval Oil Reserve
Wyoming
West Virginia
Independence
Kans
University of Kansas
Kansas
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company
Albania
British cabinet reshaped as Labour forms government
Premier MacDonald leads a mixed Labour cabinet with two viscounts a lord a knight a brigadier general and a colonel. The choice reflects aristocratic inclusion while aligning with Labour aims. MacDonald mends policy by merging foreign affairs with the premiership to avoid clashes seen under Curzon and Baldwin.
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MacDonald
Labor
Ramsay MacDonald
Admiralty
Jennier MacDonald
Foreign Office
Lord Curzon
Mr Baldwin
Miss Esther Lape Appears Before Senate Panel
An up-to-date portrait of Esther Everett Lape, in charge of the Bok peace prize contest, shows her facing Senate investigation questions with firm, tactful responses. Reporters say the committee found her a model of feminine efficiency, though her testimony varied between frank, evasive, and intelligent.
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Esther Everett Lape
Senate
Miss Lape
Moses
N. H
Reed
Greene
Lape
Texas Centennial Exposition Born in Austin Amid Debate
The Texas Centennial Exposition was born in Austin amid heated debate and agreement on a 100 member board to run the celebration. County meetings to select delegates are set for April 12 with district conventions on April 19 and a May 21 meeting in Austin to establish initial plans. Four cities Galveston Houston Austin and San Antonio vie to host the event.
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Austin
Tex
Cato Sells
Fort Worth
Texas
House
Senate
Galveston
Houston
San Antonio
Old submerged railroad rails now being raised
In Texas the body of the drowned Trinity river rail line from Liberty to Livingston is being recovered after 66 years underwater. A Houston dredging firm has raised fifteen tons and continues to lift rails, which remain largely rust free due to an old British manufacturing process.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Trinity River
Liberty
Livingston
Trinity
Howard Kenyon Dredging Company
Royal mummy case of King Tut exposed at Luxor
Howard Carter halted Tut Ankh Amun excavations after a dispute with the Egyptian public works department over access for workers' wives. The sarcophagus lid was raised revealing a gilded mummy case three meters long with a hawk and serpent in gold and lapis lazuli. Experts call it the greatest discovery in Egyptology.
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Luxor
Egypt
Public Works Department
Howard Carter
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Three Texas Officials Named Fort Bend to Goliad
The post office department announces the appointment of Texas postmasters. Fresno in Fort Bend County gets Harry L. Taylor. Turpentine in Jasper County gets Thomas J. Parker. Weser in Goliad County gets Ben J. Zengerle.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Texas
Fresno
Fort Bend
Harry L. Taylor
Turpentine
Jasper County
Thomas J. Parker
Weser
Goliad
Ben J. Zengerle
Postmaster Appointed at Sunny Side Texas
Ernest F. Andricks named postmaster at Sunny side Waller County succeeding Lucile Manix who resigned. The appointment announced in Washington reflects a routine civil service change affecting local mail operations and community access.
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Washington
Ernest F. Andricks
Sunnyside
Waller County
Lucile Manix
Statewide road repair system expands with 16 divisions
Austin reports the Texas highway department has organized 175 counties into 16 divisions under a division engineer and two maintenance superintendents. Patrol gangs inspect pavement and crews repair asphalt and gravel roads, with bids requested for tractors, asphalt heaters, graders, and other equipment as counties join or operate under department supervision.
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Austin
Tex
State Highway Department
Lew Eblinger
Anderson
Angelina
Aransas
Armstrong
Atascosa
Bandera
Bastrop
Baylor
Bee
Bell
Bexar
Blanco
Bosque
Bowie
Brazoria
Brazos
Brewster
Briscoe
Brooks
Brown
Burnet
Caldwell
Calhoun
Callahan
Cameron
Castro
Chambers
Cherokee
Childress
Clay
Coleman
Collin
Crockett
Collingsworth
Colorado
Comal
Cooke
Coryell
Crane
Crook
Crosby
Culberson
Dallam
Dallas
Deaf Smith
Denton
DeWitt
Dimmit
Donley
Duval
Eastland
Edwards
Ellis
el Paso
Falls
Fannin
Fayette
Fisher
Floyd
Foard
Fort Bend
Freestone
Frio
Galveston
Gillespie
Goliad
Gonzales
Grimes
Guadalupe
Hale
Hall
Harris
Harrison
Hartley
Hayes
Hemphill
Henderson
Hidalgo
Hill
Hood
Houston
Hudspeth
Hunt
Jack
Jackson
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jim Hogg
Jim Wells
Jones
Karnes
Kaufman
Kendall
Kerr
Kimball
Kinney
Kleberg
Knox
Lamar
Lampasas
la Salle
Lavaca
Lee
Leon
Liberty
Live Oak
Llano
Lubbock
Madison
Marion
Martin
Mason
Matagorda
McCulloch
McLennan
Milam
Mills
Mitchell
Montague
Montgomery
Moore
Nacogdoches
Nueces
Oldham
Orange
Palo Pinto
Parker
Palmer
Pecos
Polk
Potter
Presidio
Randall
Red River
Reeves
Robertson
Rockwall
Runnels
Rusk
Sabine
San Augustine
San Jacinto
San Patricio
San Saba
Shackelford
Shelby
Sherman
Smith
Somervel
Starr
Stephens
Sutton
Swisher
Tarrant
Taylor
Terrell
Throckmorton
Tom Green
Travis
Trinity
Uvalde
Val Verde
Waller
Washington
Webb
Wharton
Wheeler
Wichita
Williamson
Wilson
Young
Zapata
Zavala
Texas AG Opposes I G N Railroad Sale to Gulf Coast Lines
Austin attorney general W A Keeling said he will protest to the Interstate Commerce Commission against the sale of the I G N Railroad to the Gulf Coast Lines and seek permit provisions stating Texas constitutional and statutory limits. He asked the ICC to require safeguards preventing consolidation of parallel lines and to uphold Texas anti trust and monopoly laws.
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Austin
Tex
W. A. Keeling
Interstate Commerce Commission
I.G. N
New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Company
Gulf Coast Lines
Texas
Origin of Jury Trial In Magna Charta Commentary
Chief Justice Clark argues Magna Charta did not originate or guarantee trial by jury. He notes the modern form of jury trial appeared in England about 1351, long after Magna Charta’s 1215 signing. The article appears in the North Carolina Law Review, cited by Raleigh News and Observer.
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North Carolina Law Review
Clark
England
Raleigh News and Observer
Bond Issues Approved for Denison Texas
Four city of Denison bond issues totaling 185000 were approved by the bond division of the attorney general's department Friday. The issues include street improvement 65000 water works extension 50000 sewer extensions 10000 and public school 50000. All issues mature serially and bear 5 percent interest.
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Austin
Tex
City of Denison
Attorney General's Department
Estate of Louise Lawson Valued at 30000 in New York
Louise Lawson estate appraised at 30000 after the Texas music student slain last week. Principal assets include Brooklyn Manhattan Transit bonds worth 10000 jewelry 18000 and 2000 in furniture. Bonds stored in a broker's safe. Jewels and 10000 in gems were taken and are being reconstructed by a jeweler.
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New York
Louise Lawson
Less Painful Wife Scene Broadcast from Boston Tran
A humorous interaction shows a wife asking Richard to watch the baby while she has a tooth pulled and a husband offering to do the same. The narrator notes men often fail to learn lessons that experience should teach.
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Richard
Madge
Boston Transcript
Homestead Mystery in Open Spaces
Hogan seeks homestead guidance from a friend Clancy who breaks down the practical wager about proving up land. The informal exchange frames the legal challenge as a bet: 160 acres for $14 if one can live five years without starving.
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Hogan
Clancy
Joke exchange on bread between housewife and baker
A Cincinnati Enquirer joke features Clarence arguing with his dad about the difference between a housewife and a baker. Clarence quips that both make bread from dough but the baker uses dough to make his bread.
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Clarence
Cincinnati Enquirer
Lants for protection not to influence men's duties
A fragment argues that laws should shield people from harm rather than govern their moral duties. The text emphasizes protective aims over imposing ethical standards on behavior.
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