Neff taxes and state reform push drive Texas special session
Texas Governor Neff sent a sweeping message listing nearly twenty subjects for the special session. Proposals include consolidating state departments, reforming health and education agencies, creating a state illiteracy commission, and new occupation taxes. Advances include a $7 million eleemosynary appropriation, road funding for San Jacinto State Park, and a drive to regulate chiropractors with a licensing board.
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Austin
Tex
Neff
Labor Department
Mining Board
Health Department
Bowers
Holbrook
Baugh
Agriculture and Markets Departments
Livestock Sanitary Commission
State Board of Agriculture
McMillan
State
Chiropractioners Board
Darwin
Bledsoe
Seventy
Texas
Pat M. Neff
C. C. Lemly
Texas Chiropractors’ Association
Chiropractic Examiners
Bryan editor Lee J. Rountree dies on Texas House floor
Representative Lee J. Rountree of Bryan Texas died of heart trouble on the Texas House floor shortly after addressing the body with a floral tribute. Born in Kyle fifty four years ago he served as Daily Eagle editor and held posts in the National Editorial Association, Sons of Confederate Veterans and state Masonic circles.
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Austin
Tex
House of Representatives
Lee J. Rountree
Bryan
Texas
Mr. Rountree
Kyle
Hays County
Daily Eagle
National Editorial Association
Texas Organization of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Supreme Court Powers Face Campaign Debates in 1924
Washington reports a proposed change to curb Supreme Court authority. Bills aim to require a six to three or seven to two vote for constitutional rulings or empower Congress to override decisions. The issue surfaces amid Harding's Westward trip plans and Alaska disputes.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the
United States
Congress
Supreme Court
G. Gould Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Harding
White House
Answers to Everything? A Humble Invitation
A London Answers quip suggests intellectual humility as a host invites a guest for a pleasant chat, inviting conversation without asserting expertise. The dialogue playfully dismisses knowledge on music arts politics sports drama and the League of Nations.
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League of Nations
London
Phrenology Head Shape and Character Claims
The article describes phrenology findings linking head shape to personality. It claims the back brain governs affection and that a rounded back of head indicates kindness. It notes the extent of the head’s rear projection as a measure of a person’s affectionate nature.
Texas Fire Losses In March Reach 346245
Texas fire marshal reports March fire losses totaling 346145 across 196 incidents. Unknown causes lead with crashes of defective wiring a close second. several smaller categories include incendiary, cigars, matches, explosions, and various equipment and building ignition factors. Houston appears as a major city in the breakdown.
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Austin
Tex
Houston
Boundary survey to fix Texas Oklahoma line
Colonel Arthur A. Stiles leads a joint state and federal survey at Henrietta Texas to establish base points along the Texas Oklahoma boundary. Each point, half in Texas and half in Oklahoma, will have a concrete base and bronze tablet from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. A 12 man crew is in field and 36 more will join soon.
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Henrietta
Tex
Arthur A. Stiles
Austin
Texas
Oklahoma
Stiles
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Hughes joins in Fight for Court
Secretary Hughes urged the United States to back a permanent court of international justice as essential to peace and war prevention. He argued existing arbitration fails and the court should be independent from the league of nations with its own legal status.
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Washington
International Court
League of Nations
United States
Permanent Court of International Justice
Secretary Hughes
American Society of International Law
Hughes
Court of International Justice
League (of Nations
Rep Davey Urges Gov to Buy 81 Million Acres for Timber
Rep Davey of Ohio asked Chairman McNary to have the government purchase 81 million acres of waste land unsuitable for farming for timber production. He urged federal supervision of timber cutting, changes in taxation to aid reforestation, and the creation of game and bird preserves in national forests.
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Washington
Davey
Ohio
McNary
Senate
World grape acreage totals over twenty four million acres
Berlin reports in a grape growers trade journal that about 24 816 599 acres of the world's surface are covered by vineyards. Europe accounts for 92.7 percent of the total. Italy leads with 42.82 percent of global vineyards, then Spain 18.4 percent and France 15.5 percent, with Germany at 0.72 percent.
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Berlin
Europe
Italy
Spain
France
Germany
Cattle dipping under way in Brackettville county
Cattle dipping has begun in Brackettville Texas with broad owner cooperation. County inspectors report all cattle in fine condition as ranges are at their best in years.
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Brackettville
Tex
Portugal Ratifies Armaments Treaties
Washington reports Lisbon has ratified the two nine power treaties from the Washington arms conference completing approvals by signatory powers except France. State Department officials expect France to ratify in due course.
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Washington
State Department
Lisbon
Portugal
France
Woman Sickness Relief Promised by Lydia E Pinkham
Two readers from New York report long term illness and postpartum weakness improving after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Ann Rpkins of Medina credits nerve relief and recovery after two years of discomfort. Mrs Nellie Dorey of Rochester notes weight gain and renewed vitality after twins birth.
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Fee Eats
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ann H. Rpkins
Road
Medina
N. Y
Rochester
Joe
Lerma
Lynn E. Pinkham
Nellie Dorey
Skuse Par Park
N.Y
President Bennet Replies With Serious Tone About Humor
J. J. Bennet of the Nickel Plate railroad answers a request for a funny story with a straight-faced reply. He says he is so serious he would not recognize a joke and would forget it even if he heard one, noting he would not seem to have the material.
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Washington
Alaska
Northern Territory
White House
Congress
J. J. Bennet
The
Nickel Plate Road
New York Herald
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