Texas Population Surges Past Five Million
Census Bureau reports Texas now exceeds 5 million people and grows about 190000 yearly. Cities outpace rural areas with population shift, while wealth rises faster than population, according to Internal Revenue Bureau figures. Tolstoy lecture contrasts Russian poverty with Texan growth. New York Edison building to use Texas granite. state peaches pricing fosters planting. Road quality critiques and civic projects dot Texas news across counties and cities. Texas aims to showcase its resources through a Centennial push and rapid industrial and agricultural development.
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Census Bureau
Texas
Mexico
Internal Revenue Bureau
Texas Pink Granite Company
Burnett County
Edison
New York
Man Finds Oyster Pearl Necklace Amid Odd Dining Tale
A London humorist notes a man in Madrid who discovers an oyster containing a valuable pearl amid a joke about eating his way toward a necklace. The anecdote frames curiosity and fortune in a light, humorous 19th century tone.
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Madrid
London
Washington Money Experts Seek Longer Lasting Dollar
Treasury conference gathers money experts from 12 federal reserve banks and bureaus to discuss extending dollar bill life. Assistant Secretary Dewey notes average seven months life and prints cost of one and seven tenths cent per bill.
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The
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Bureaus
Dewey
Shortage of Women in Japanese Colony Sparks Emigration Drive
A nationwide campaign by Nippon Rikko Kan to attract women to emigrate from Japan to Brazil's Japanese colony amid a noted gender imbalance.
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Brazil
Japan
Nippon Rikko Kan
Russia
Reverend Bacon Sells Throat For Ten Thousand After Death
Kel logg Minnesota pastor Rev Enos Bacon known as the York shire Nightingale announced he sold his two throats to the British Medical Association for 10000 in a deal to be fulfilled after his death. He possesses two complete vocal cords producing a deep bass and a high soprano and has toured widely in America and the British Empire giving concerts.
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Enos Bacon
Kellogg (Minn
British Medical Association
Doctor Bacon
Yorkshire
America
British Empire
Soldier at 3 Months Joins Training Camps in 1942
John Stephen Tillman, four months, sits with Lieut. Stephen Tillman as the youngest member of the Citizens' Training camps enrolled at three months old. He is a kin to Brig. Gen Samuel E. K. Tillman and the late Senator Ben Tillman.
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John Stephen Tillman
Lieut
Stephen Tillman
Baby Tillman
Samuel EK. Tillman
West Point
Ben Tillman
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Ilya Tolstoy
Austin
Athens
Texas State Checker Players’ Association
Dallas Y. M. C. A
Texas News
Texas Laundry Owners Association
San Antonio
Amarillo
Halletsville-Schulenburg
Sweet Home
Schulenburg
Hallettsville
8. H. Terrell
Fort Worth
Epworth League
Lampasas
Cameron County
Southwestern University
Georgetown
Brazos River
Richmond
Federal
F. J. Willmann
State Department of Agriculture
Br. H. O. Sappington
Mexia
O'L
Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe
Lubbock
New Mexico
National Educational Association
S. M. N. Marrs
Indianapolis
Attorney General's Department
Crosby
Gorey
Center Independent
Hockley County
United States Department of Agriculture
H. H. Shutz
Houston
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Tennessee
Kentucky
West Texas Lumbermen’s Association
San Angelo
B. B. Hail
West Texas Lumber Company
J. D. McCollum
McCollum Lumber Company
Paint Rock
W. P. Hogan
Burton-Lingo Lumber Company
Allen Carr
Bryan
Mary P. Carr
M. Parker
Board of Control
R. B. Walthall
Caldwell County
County Board of Equalization
Lockhart
State Hospital
Wichita Falls
Rusk State Hospital
Rusk
el Campo
Kurdistan
Mohammed Said Zerdechene
United States
Berlin
Germany
William H. Atwell
Dallas
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
Portland
Oregon
Miriam A. Ferguson
National Convention of Insurance Commissioners
National Association of Fire Marshals of North America
Katy
Taylor
State Textbook Commission
Washington News
KB. D. Ball
Department of Agriculture
Dr. Ball
China
Kelley
Coolidge
Washington
Kherson
Moscow
Korea
Navy
Santa Barbara
Gros Ventre Lake
Wyoming
Sheep Mountain
Gros Ventre River
Argentina
John G. Quekemeyer
General Pershing
Argentine Republic
Justo
London Air Station
Georgia
Robert M. Hull
Savannah
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