Texas News Highlights From 1925 Reports Across State
The survey covers ship shipments through Laredo, Edna’s incorporation vote, Corpus Christi building permit surge, rural mail routes switching to horses, and Houston hosting the American College of Surgeons. It notes Eastland and Callahan oil well vacuum hearings, 50 percent freight-rate extension, playground progress, Aransas Pass bay closures, Texas crop value at 799.33 million, December fire losses, Confederate Memorial coins appeal, Orange muskrat farming, Hoffman Construction case delay, Pat Neff portrait, hoof and mouth tests, Port Houston fumigation rules, Gilmer bond approval, Laredo export value, and prospects for Texas mills and manufacturing growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoffman Construction Company
Eastland
Austin
Fifty-third District
Pat M. Neff
J. B. Rhodes
State Board of Control
Texas
State House
Alta Loma
League City
A. H. Hughes
Safe Farming Program for 1926 Urged by Texas A&M Extension
Charles H. Alvord of the Texas A&M Extension Service outlines a 1926 farm plan. The program emphasizes home gardens, hens, dairy cows, hogs, soil conservation, terracing, drainage, crop quality, pest control, and canning. It invites county agents to provide more details and aims to boost soil productivity and rural prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
California
Florida
Charles H. Alvord
Extension Service
A. and
M. College of Texas
A. and M. College
M. College
Windy Bill Woolfson: Boston hitchhiking champion at BU
Malden Mass resident William Woolfson known as Windy Bill leads crowds to cheering spots and follows teams to away games. He heads Barnstormer's Dramatic Club and the O T R, an organization of collegiate hoboes, after 2500 miles of hiking. He warns never try to stop a flivver uphill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Woolfson
Malden
Mass
Boston University
Barnstormer’s Dramatic Club
College of Business Administration
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Texas News
Tell
Laredo
Edna
Corpus Christi
Flatonia
American College of Surgeons
Houston
Callahan Counties
Railroad Commission
Grouth
Texas Railroad Commission
Playground and Recreation Association of America
South Carolina
Aransas Pass
Corpus Christi Channel
Turner E. Hubby
Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner
Department of Agriculture
J. J. Timmons
Stone Mountain
Georgia
Florine Ross Harrington
Sal Ross
Orange
Port Houston
N. F. Williams
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Bolivar Roads
Galveston
City of Gilmer Street
Attorney General's Department
Comptroller’s Department
Y. M. Vasquez
Mexico
Center Point
Kerr County
Guadalupe River
Union
New Braunfels
Waco
Waco Mills
Texas Grapefruit
Spindle Top
Beaumont
Corsicana
Hoyle
Extension Service Publications
Will H. Mayes
Department of Journalism
University of Texas
North Pole
Fokker
G. H. Wilkins
Australia
Alaska
Atlantic Aircraft Corporation
Hasbrook Heights
N. J
R. BR. C. Morduyn
Wikia
Philadelphia
Silver Crown Club
New England
Clara Enebuske
Eugene Field
Clarendon Avenue
Chicago
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
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