Dallas Woman Seeks Texas Centennial Role Ties to 1842 Beans Event
Arion Rodgers of Dallas is the great great granddaughter of a Texas soldier who died in the beans lottery after the 1842 battle. The story notes 176 Texans captured by Mexicans, 17 drawn black beans and killed, 159 drawn white beans and imprisoned. Rodgers, a descendant of Grace Isa Houston and Gen. Sam Houston kin, is a candidate for the Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition opening June 6.
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Arion Rodgers
Dallas
Texas
Fief
Miss Rodgers
Grace Isa Houston
Sam Houston
Rural school funds aid Flatonia district and bus line
Elm Grove, the only rural school in Fayette County, received $683 in state rural aid for teachers' salaries. Flatonia High School got aid for a bus line from Rocky Ridge through Muldoon and Froy to the high school. About 45 students from the area attend.
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Flatonia
Texas
Elm Xrove
Fayette County
Flatonia High School
Rocky Ridge
Muldoon and Froy
Promotion director announces Texas Centennial Exposition dates
Frank N. Watson, director of promotion, informs the public that the Texas Centennial Exposition will be in Dallas from June 6 to November 29. Travel agencies already estimate attendance at 12 million.
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Frank N. Watson
Dallas
Get Your Stationery At Eagle Printery
Community notice invites local residents to place printing orders with Eagle Printery or Eagle Job Office for lithography and all job printing needs. Emphasizes local economics and keeping business in town to boost prosperity.
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Eagle Printery
New Ways With Corn for the Intelligent Housewife
The article explains selecting corn styles by label and purpose, noting creamy style for soups, whole grain for succotash, and vacuum packed roasting ears. It presents two modern quantity recipes using whole kernel corn: Corn Salad with olives and lettuce nests, serves twenty four, and Corn Fritters with eggs milk flour and baking powder, yields sixteen.
McGee's Baby Elixir Promises Quick Colic Relief
Advertises McGee's Baby Elixir as safe for infants to ease indigestion gas and colic pains and help sleep. Claims pure medicinal extracts and syrup with simple directions and prompt relief available in 35 cent and 60 cent sizes from Kopecky Drug Company.
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McGee
Kopecky Drug Company
Bee County electorate approves liquor sale in county vote
Beeville Texas residents favored restoring liquor sales by 836 to 420 with one total box reporting 12 votes for three dry ballots. The county ends the local option prohibition in effect since January 1916.
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Beeville
Texas
Dupont To Exhibit At National Exposition
For the first time in over a century E I DuPont de Nemours will display at a national exposition. The $100 000 exhibit on modern chemistry will be housed in the Hall of Varied Products when the exposition opens.
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Dallas
Texas
E. L DuPont de Nemours & Co
Texas Invites Nation Centennial Opening
Dallas residents will mail half a million postcards during the week beginning January 12 inviting out-of-staters to Texas Centennial opening on June 6.
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Texas
Dallas
Texas Centennial Exposition allocates half million for art
Dallas plans allocate 500000 dollars for murals friezes bas reliefs and other sculpture works for the Texas Centennial Exposition. The funding covers artistic touches to enhance the exposition venue and displays in Dallas Texas.
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Dallas
Texas
Hallettsville Earns 15 Percent Fire Record Credit
Hallettsville's fire marshal N A Moreland reports the city has again earned a 15 percent good fire record credit for the coming year. Last year’s fire loss was only 169 dollars. Hallettsville relies on a volunteer fire department for protection.
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Hallettsville
N.A. Moreland
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