Texas Senate Passes Electrocution and Prohibition Bills
Proceedings detail the Texas Senate and House actions on multiple measures including the Thomas electrocution bill, the Abney prohibition bill, and the Ridgeway primary designations. Final passages, engrossments, and adjournments are listed with accompanying resolutions and reports. Twelve men die in a Powell Texas gusher explosion at the Corsicana platform.
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Texas
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Ridgeway
House
Bowers Senate
Jacks
Carpenter
Fugler
Tex
Bell and Abney
Clark
Department of Health
Witt
Irwin
Baugh
Doyle
M. Lands
Bowers
Watts
Wood
Holbrook
Lewis
State Historical Board
Parr
Standard Oil Company
Congress
E. W. Cole
Turner
Hendricks
Melson
Culp
Rogers
Publica
Harding
Kaufman
Texas Technology College
Mathes
Ku Klux Klan
Burkett
Eastland Court of Civil Appeals
Fairchild
Railroad Commission
Milling
Floyd
Holbrook-Wirtz
Bill
Corsicana
Powell
Ban Phillips
Kerens
James Phillips
Travis Owen
L. C. Cook
S. P. Allen
W. A. Hicks
Wortham
E. ©. Cooper
France and Belgium reject Germany 30 billion mark reparations offer
Paris and Brussels refuse to consider the German note delivering 30 billion gold marks as reparations. They insist on full payment and demand Ruhr restoration before negotiations. Berlin touts a loan dependent sum with neutral expert judgment to fix terms amid diverging diplomacy.
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France
Belgium
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Brussels
Ruhr
Berlin
United States
Italians slain near Rio Grande in Mexico border area
Six Italians were killed while being guided by paid smugglers across the Rio Grande about twelve miles west of Nuevo Laredo. A wounded survivor fled to Colombia Nuevo Leon and reported the crime. authorities found the six robbed bodies identified as Lerarro Lerarro Pernaralli Caesarro Mussell. The wounded man was named Giovanno Lerarro.
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Nicola Lerarro
Zitto Lerarro
Andrea Pernaralli
Nicola Caesarro
Eustachi Mussell
Antonio
Giovanno Lerarro
Cisco Mass Meeting Condolences After Officer Kills Pet Brown
In Cisco Texas over 1000 residents gathered Sunday to express sorrow and adopt resolutions for Pet Brown killed by Constable L J Starkey on Saturday at Brown s camp one mile east of Cisco. The shooting followed arrests of several African Americans for gaming.
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Cisco
Tex
L. J. Starkey
Brown
Bandits Raid Train Near Shangtung Border
Bandits killed a foreigner and abducted 150 passengers in a raid on the Tientsin Pukow line near the Shangtung border on Saturday. Miss Aldrich of New York, sister in law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was aboard.
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Pekin
Shangtung
Tientsin Pukow
Aldrich
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
United States
Nelson W. Aldrich
New Orleans Rice Market: Mills Open to 4c Bid
Local mills in New Orleans were willing to consider 4c bids for fancy Blue Rose rice, but top offers hovered at 3 5/8 to 3 3/4 cents. With this gap trading slowed as about 4 000 pockets arrived from the country, much for Porto Rico. The Porto Rico demand persists locally on a small scale, and mills are dwindling to two or three still operating.
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New Orleans
Porto Rico
Hounds Spoiled Her Solo On Country Estate
A girl visiting a friend's mother on a large estate dressed for a vocal lesson and performed a soprano in the garden. Two hounds howled along, causing amusement for the host as the singer and the dogs joined in a comic chorus.
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Tucker
Chicago Tribune
California Fig Syrup Ad Promotes Kid Health
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup to relieve constipation in children. It promises a reliable bowel cleanse and cites symptoms like biliousness feverishness sour stomach and bad breath as reasons to administer a teaspoonful. The copy warns to insist on the genuine California product to avoid imitation.
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California
Protecting Alaskan Game Regulations Expanded in 1923
New Alaska game protection rules take effect April 1 1923. Southeastern island deer kills are restricted with Kruzos island kept as a preserve. Mountain sheep and goats on the Kenai peninsula are barred until April 1 1925. A deer closed season remains west of longitude 141 degrees.
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Alaska
Secretary of Agriculture
Kruzos Island
Kenai Peninsula
Rich Harvest of North Sea
The article claims North Sea fish catches could fill a convoy of two ton trucks spanning from New York to San Francisco via New Orleans, illustrating a vast annual harvest.
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North Sea
New York
San Francisco
New Orleans
Lydia E Pinkham's Medicine Claims 98 Percent Benefit
A circular with each bottle asks if recipients benefited from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Replies from over 50 000 women show 98 percent report benefits. The ad touts the medicine as specially suited for women's ailments and cites over 50 years of development and global sales.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia E.kham
Sweetened wind remark ends senator's New Mexico speech
Senator Ashurst recalls a New Mexico speech where an elderly woman in the front row rose to leave and uttered sweetened wind as the crowd reacted. He frames the moment as a notable example of public reception to political pledges and criticism.
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Ashurst
New Mexico
New York Herald
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Proven To Relieve Inflammation
An advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine treats catarrh by an ointment reducing inflammation and a salve aiding relief. It notes the product has been sold by B J Cheney and Co for over 40 years in Toledo Ohio and surrounding areas.
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Hall
B. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
A Woman's Reason in a Drama Scene
A woman questions why a fiancé postponed marriage as another man named Dick marries Gladys in a brief dramatic exchange. The domestic moment centers on love, betrayal, and choice.
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Alice
Virginia
Gladys
Progress waits on removal of an ass with good intentions
A terse saying notes that progress hinges on discarding a well-meaning fool whose aims hinder advancement. The remark implies that sincere but misguided actions can block meaningful change.
Calomel Poison vs Dodson’s Liver Tone Claim
An advertisement argues calomel friendly remedies are dangerous and mercury poisons bones. It promotes Dodson’s Liver Tone as safe pleasant and non salivating, claiming it won’t upset the stomach and helps adults and children feel fine for a full day’s work.
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Dodson
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