Ferguson urges reforms and funding in Texas state needs
Governor James E. Ferguson presents the shortest Texas governor's message on record outlining demands and proposed measures. He calls for itemized appropriations, farm legislation, higher education balance with high schools, highway commission funded by vehicle taxes, judicial reform, livestock disease control, stronger border ranger services, and election law changes. He urges cooperation to implement these priorities.
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Austin
Tex
James E. Ferguson
Texas
Farm Loan Bank
Schoors
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Mexico
National Congress
Buffalo Bill Cody Dies at 70 in Denver Home
Colonel William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill dies at 12 05 p m Wednesday at his sister’s Denver home. He would have turned 71 on February 26 after a career as hunter scout soldier and showman with the Wild West show. In New York Jacob H Schiff rejects Jewish dinner for his 70th birthday and donates 100000 dollars to the American Red Cross in response to Wilson relief appeal.
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Buffalo Bill
Denver
Colo
William Frederick Cody
William F. Cody
America
Europe
New York
Jacob H. Schiff
American Red Cross
Wilson
Texas Legislature Opens with Fuller and Henderson in Key Roles
The thirty-fifth Texas legislature convened in Austin as J. M. Henderson was named president pro tempore of the senate and F. O. Fuller was elected speaker. Officers were chosen, early bills moved, and a joint session set for January 15 to count governor and lieutenant governor votes. Prohibition measures began moving in the house with a caucus backing July 28 1917 as a statewide election date.
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James E. Ferguson
W. P. Hobby
House of Representatives
Nelson Phillips
State Supreme Court
Woods
Clark
Canales
Neill
Miller
Dallas
House
Woodward, Bailey and Gibson
Senate
Rogers
Austin
Tex
Texas
John M. Henderson
Morris County
Franklin O. Fwiler
Cold Springs
San Jacinto County
Henderson
O. S. Lattimore
Tarrant County
Fuller
Bruce W. Bryant
Haskell County
Churchill Bartlett
Hobby
John D. McCall
Conroe
G. H. Boynton
Hamilton
R. M. Gilmore
Center
O. Ridgway
Denton
Ralph Soap
M. F. Hornbuckle
Morgan
Jack Crotty
Stephenville
J. A. Kenney
Z. A. McReynolds
Palestine
I. D. Eagan
Houston
W. E. Conn
Fort Worth
W. C. Day
C. RB. Gilbert
Bay City
Albert Stelfox
J. J. Albright
San Marcos
Birdie Cannon
Paris
J. D. Morgan
Elgin
Mae Oliver
Longview
E. C. Little
Hilda McLendon
Waco
Francis MecMinds
Cleburne
Clyde Smith
Arthur Lebonitz
Johnnie Haidusek
William Atkinson
Brooks Lemburg
Paul Bledsoe
Valta Layne
Quintus Mundine
Fielding Jones
Max Hauschild
Stewart Francis
John Hurley
Roy Burns
A. W. Kennard
Robert Lunsford
Eugene Potter
Curtis Knobelsdorf
J. S. Crawford
Beaumont
Mary McCollum
Tysie Ragsdale
Monhette Smith
Mary Thompson
Allye Smith
Menafee
Minnie Collins
Jennie Brin
Rena Hunter
Margaret Mitchell
Theodora Bell
William Oshman
Fannie S. Daniel
Ada
Pinkie
Linton H. Archer
Bell County
Reading
O. P. Basford
Travis County
T. B. Reese
Teddy
James L. Robinson
Leon County
Noel P. Brown
Ed Graham
Hill County
J. T
Kit) Robison
Limestone County
Laren Stanberry
Kaufman County
J. K. Lane
Freestone County
M. G. Jackson
Bexar
Eastland County
Jackson
H. T. Dunaway
F. O. Fuller
Lattimore
Ammunition Plant Destroyed by Explosions in New Jersey
Fire at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Kingsland plant in Kingsland New Jersey destroyed the munition facility. Explosions blew out the cleaning department and caused an estimated 3 million dollars in high explosive shells to be lost to the Russian government with total property damage around 5 million dollars.
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New York
Canadian Car and Foundry Company, Limited
Kingsland
N. J
Reputation Built on What Isn't Known
An old ad notes a cynical view that a man’s standing rests on undisclosed facts. It promotes a 10 cent offer to Dr. Pierce in Invalides' Buffalo for a kidney cure trial package claiming relief for backache. The copy emulates period advertising language.
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Dean
Texas
Pierce
Invalides
Buffalo
Oracle at Home Dream Leads to Wedding Bet
A young couple in an Indianapolis setting shares a playful bet after a dream about a coffin. The man jokes that dreaming of marriage signals an upcoming wedding, while the woman teases him about managing many wives.
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Jim
Ater
Indianapolis News
Gold From the Earth and a Parable on Prospect
A brief dialog about mining contrasts coal and gold with a witty twist. The text then shifts to a fragmentary note mentioning Russia with 10,000 lepers cared for by 21 institutions and a dented reference to Philadelphia preachers forming a church advertising club.
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Russia
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