Texas News Roundup From Anahuac To Brownsville
An ice plant starts operation at Anahuac while Brownsville sets city and school tax at 2.41 per hundred. Rains ruin sweet potatoes in Cherokee and Smith counties. Brazoria bees report weak winter honey. South Texas counties released from foot and mouth quarantine allow thousands of calves to move to market from El Paso. Lufkin courthouse annex planned at about 60000. Tennessee Colony to Bethel road contracts signed by Anderson County. Edom farmer Carl Foster yields 23 bales from 18 acres with three more in field. Texan wool output expected under 4,500,000 pounds, wool heavier but shorter staple. MKT Railroad to spend about 9 million on Texas properties in 1926. Navasota tax rate 2.35. 1925 renditions total 3,169,246 for city and 696,073 for school. Rusk County campaigns to purge shorter cotton staples amid price declines. Texas Association annual meeting set in Brownsville December 3–5 with side trips to nearby towns. Abilene bond issues for water works street and school building approved. Brazoria to vote December 4 on 1 million for Deep Water Channel at Freeport. Austin justice of the peace notes hunting restrictions on Sundays. fines 10 to 50 dollars. Reagan county university oil royalties total about 1.6 million in suspense. funds undecided between university and building purposes. Legislature error in fur season dates cited. legal reading prevails. College leaders urge excellence. federation leaders lament home breakdown and discuss Texas school survey results.
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Anderson County Commissioners Court
Tennessee Colony
Bethel
Carl Foster
Edom
Tyler
Texas
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
W. M. Whitenton
Hoover declares merchant marine policy limits government ship operation
Secretary Hoover urged an exit from government ship operations as private capacity can handle it, framing a broader merchant marine policy amid Coolidge tensions. Separate figures show October foreign trade with exports at 492 million and imports at 375 million, creating a 117 million favorable balance.
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United States Shipping Board
Coolidge
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Commerce Department
United States
State and Local News from Galveston Convention
The Texas Hotel Association closed a two day convention in Galveston after electing W. L. Stark of Austin as president and naming Dallas as the next meeting site. A major lawsuit seeks 100000 damages plus 510000 for damages and an injunction and receivership against Hoffman Construction Company of Eastland. Louisiana lifts its foot and mouth disease quarantine on Texas holdings. A Texas irrigation effort near Tyler and Troup aims for 500 gallons of ribbon cane syrup per acre, worth about 700 dollars gross. Rio Grande smuggling raid nets 20000 rounds of revolver ammunition seized near Laredo. Rice crops in Texas suffer about 30 percent loss, reducing value to 5 to 6 million from 8.4 million. A Coke County irrigation district plan would dam the Colorado River to water up to 100000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Stark
Austin
Dallas
Texas Hotel Association
Galveston
Dan Moody
63Rd District Court
Travis County
Texas
Hoffman Construction Company, Et al
Eastland
Moody
Marvin Hall
Lee Kay
Tyler
Troup
Rio Grande
Mexico
Laredo
Rufus Hoffpaulr
American Rice Growers Association
Mussolini Sees Deb pact Signed With Gold Mark
Premier Mussolini called the November 14 1925 signing date of the Washington debt agreement a pivotal moment to be celebrated on the fascist calendar. Paris reports from Syria indicate reinforcements are needed to quell the revolt, though generals Gamelin and Duport downplay the severity. English girl Eleanor Mitchell won the European speed typing championship with 129 wpm on Monday in London.
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Mussolini
Italy
Washington
Paris
Syria
Gamelin
Duport
Eleanor Mitchell
London
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Nassau Nquor House
Iscocles
Irene Blakeman
Kansas
Wichita
Texas News
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Brownsville
Board of City Commissioners
Cherokee
Smith Counties
Brazoria County
el Paso
Lufkin
City Commission of
Navasota
Rusk County
The
Texas Association
Mercedes
San Benito
Harlingen
Matamoros
City of
Attorney General's Department
Commissioners’ Court of Brazoria
Freeport
Alvin
Chocolate Bayou
Justice of the Peace At
University
J. T. Robison
Texan Oil Company
Reagan County
University Permanent Fund
Lindsey Blayney
College of Industrial Arts
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs
John D. Sherman
Federation
Walter Splawn
Texas University
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Ways and Means
Green
Treasury
Count Volpi
Italian Debt Commission
American Debt Commission
Romania
Mitchell
Margaret Ross Lansdowne
Paul Foley
Shenandoah Navy Court of Inquiry
Naval Court
Louisiana
Jerry Thiers
Lake Charles
Colorado River
Coke County
Robert Lee
Hardway & Cathey Bankers Mortgage Bidg
Houston, Tex
SPM
Lieber &Co
Plains Land CO
Happy
Dr. Peery
Free Farm
Portland Cement Association
West Washin Street
Chicago
National Organization
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