Texas News Briefs From State Agencies and Local Developments
Attorney general approves 201506 bond funding for Orange County road and bridge projects. Grasshopper threats rise in San Saba County. Cameron Freestone county town may gain electric service with a new golf club and fishing lake. George B. Terrell pushes Austin weather bureau forecasts via radio. Donna to take over water system on June 1 as a $150000 bond plan funds a new sewer project. Houston rapid growth shown by 18 residential additions approved so far this year. Texas Pecan Growers plan Mason meeting June 16 17 and 18. over 500 expected. State health data shows high defectives among 5657 schoolchildren examined. State highway commission funds exhausted. no new allotments. Auto mobile license and chauffeur badges to exceed 1100000 plates. Hempstead fire rates rise to 87 cents Elgin to 80 cents Grandview 73 cents Henderson 40 cents. Texas to spend over 35000000 on roads and public works this year. summer construction surge expected. Topographic surveys cover 3 358 000 acres under flood control program. goal 4 000 000 acres by September 1. Railroads adopt new carload rate for sawmill refuse 30 000 pounds minimum weight. advance to over 500 miles 24.44 cents per 100 pounds.
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Railroad Commission
Texas
Texas Leads Nation in 1924 Exports
Texas topped all states in 1924 exports with 737.22 million dollars, ahead of New York. Cotton shipments drove the gain, with mineral oil and wheat following. total US exports reached 4.498 billion. Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, Illinois posted lower totals. per Washington figures, Texas became champion of exports.
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Texas
Union
Pennsylvania
New York
Julius Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Houston Chamber of Commerce
King Cotton
Empire State
United States
Commerce Department
Washington, D
Oklahoma
Louisiana
California
Illinois
State to Sell Oil Leases in Texas First Competitive Auction
The University of Texas oil and gas leases covering 1,003,000 acres will be offered by competitive bids on June 16. The tracts span Andrews, Martin, Gaines, Dawson, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Reagan, Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Loving, Ward, Winkler, Pecos, and Schleicher counties with the state reserving a one eighth royalty.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Land Office
Andrews
Martin
Gaines
Dawson
Crane, Crockett
Ector
Reagan
Culberson
el Paso
Hudspeth
Loving
Ward
Winkler
Pecos
Schleicher
Petrified Sea Remains Found During Dallas Street Work
A Dallas real estate man uncovered a petrified turtle fish oysters and a large body believed to be a whale during street excavations. The artifacts will be submitted to the Texas Museum of Natural History for study and preservation.
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Dallas
Texas
Monday
Texas Museum of Natural History
Negro brothers sentenced to death for Dallas assault murder
Frank Noel and Lorenzo Noel, both black, were sentenced to die in the electric chair at Huntsville penitentiary before sunrise June 28. Judge Charles A. Pippen in district court pronounced sentence after brief trials for the April 12 attack on Mrs. Mary Steer and the murder of her companion Ryan Adkins. Jurors deliberated two and three minutes.
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Dallas
Tex
Huntsville
Frank Noel
Lorenzo Noel
Negro Brothers
Mary Steer
Ryan Adkins
Charles A. Pippen
Train wreck near Longview kills seven in Texas
A northbound International Great Northern passenger train derailed two miles southwest of Longview Texas on Thursday. Seven people died including engineer Lem Tarburton 65 and fireman F H Griffith 37 both from Palestine Texas and five African American passengers were killed. A score were injured in the crash.
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Longview
Tex
International- Great-Northern
Lem Tarburton
F. H. Griffith
Palestine
Kidnapping Plot Revealed In Penniless Confession
In Los Angeles Claude Arthur Holcomb aged 80 confessed to conspiring with two others to kidnap Mary Pickford for a $200,000 ransom after a long police cross examination. The arrest followed months of investigation and a tense courtroom atmosphere.
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Los Angeles
Claude Arthur Holcomb
Mary Pickford
Camp Mabry Fire Loss Tops Million Dollars
Fire at Camp Mabry in Austin Texas destroyed vast stores of federal military equipment slated for summer National Guard encampments. Major Charles M. Crawford, former assistant adjutant general, announced the estimate Friday.
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Camp Mabry
Austin
Tex
Charles M. Crawford
National Guard
Buried Church Found In Naples Subterranean Sighting
Students of antiquity report a subterranean church beneath Naples famed Church of the Virgin. The ruin is believed to date from the 14th century and has attracted scholarly interest.
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Naples
Oil Worker Killed in Liberty Texas Derrick Fall
Oliver Long, 35, of Danbury, Texas, died instantly after falling from a derrick in the South Liberty oil field.
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Liberty, Tex
Oliver Long
Danbury
South Liberty
Trying Out Oiled Streets In Texas City
Texas City undertakes an extensive experiment with oil on shelled streets to test effectiveness and traffic impact in improving road conditions.
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Texas City
Tex
Duty as a Steward of Abundance for Others
Quote attributed to George Herbert on personal stewardship and responsibility.
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George Herbert
Death Ends Career of Thomas R Marshall
Washington mourns as Thomas Riley Marshall former vice president for eight years dies at 71 from heart attack in his New Willard Hotel room. He had been improving from nervous exhaustion after a trip from Indiana but suffered a fatal relapse. He viewed a hotel Bible at death and the open page cited the Parable of the Sower with the line about measure for measure.
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Washington
Thomas Riley Marshall
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Indiana
New Willard Hotel
Thomas R. Marshall
Jesus
First Bale 1925 Cotton Auctioned Off at Houston
Houston reports the season 1925 26 first bale of cotton arrived from Mission Hidalgo county weighing 497 pounds classed strict middling 28 29 mm. The bale consigned to William D Cleveland & Sons and ginned by Borden Gin Co. It reached the Houston Cotton Exchange by 8 05 am and set for sale at 1 pm. May 26 1921 was the earliest first bale date and June is the usual record.
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Houston
Tex
United States
Mission
Hidalgo County
Gulf Coast Lines
William D
Borden Gin Company
Houston Cotton Exchange
W. D. Cleveland & Sons
State seeks receiver for Frio River oil wells
In Austin a receiver is asked for oil wells in the Frio River bed owned by Grubstoke Investment Association of San Antonio. The suit by the attorney general’s department aims to preserve land title in litigation until final Supreme Court disposition. A San Antonio injunction allegedly blocks Coyle-Concord Oil Company from pumping without an accounting system.
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Austin
Tex
Frio
Grubstoke Investment Association of
San Antonio
Fifty-third District Court
Attorney General's Department
Supreme Court
Court of Civil Appeals
Coyle-Concord Oil Company
New Cotton Seed Rates Are Ordered
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered Southwest railroads to set by August 20 new rates on cotton seed, cottonseed oil and related products based on distant scales. Rates mainly move from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas, with oil priced higher and seed meal and cake reduced to offset. The change was developed with carriers, shippers groups and state railroad commissions in Arkansas and Oklahoma and Texas authorities.
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Washington
Southwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Riilroad
Two Flights Planned for Shenandoah During June and July
The dirigible Shenandoah will fly up the Hudson to Poughkeepsie on June 22 afternoon, timed with the intercollegiate boat race, then proceed to Portland, Maine on July 4 in connection with the governor’s convention.
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Washington
Hadson
Poughkeepsie
Portland
Calcutta Smallpox Epidemic Tops 1200 Deaths
The Calcutta smallpox outbreak is declared under control though the number of deaths has surpassed 1200. The health crisis prompted authorities to intensify vaccination and sanitation efforts across the city.
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Calcutta
Grace Hazen Talks Radio Terms Like Modern Fashion
Miss Grace Hazen of the United States Bureau of Standards radio laboratory in Washington discusses meters kilocycles and other radio terms with the same poise a modern flapper uses to talk about rouge and bobbed hair.
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Grace Hazen
Radio Laboratory
United States Bureau of Standards
Washington
Shriners Honor Hat by Miss Helen Glass in Los Angeles
Miss Helen Glass of Los Angeles debuts a novel hat adornment she devised to honor Mystie Shrine members who gathered in the southern California metropolis for the event.
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Helen Glass
Los Angeles
Mystie
California
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