Texas Keeps Up With Times In A World Of Millions
The piece notes Texas now sees mill consolidations into multi million dollar ventures and plans to raise stock to 6.9 million. It praises farmers using fertilizer and hard work doubling yields while roads autos and schools improve. It warns that those not adapting will be left behind across manufacturing business farming and education.
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Texas
Britain
Shenandoah
Los Angeles
England
India
Europe
United States
Texas Fruits Grow As Grassroots Push Defies Doubters
The piece praises job creators in Texas for expanding the Rio Grande valley and turning arid lands into thriving fruit regions. It contrasts bold, action oriented locals with critics who claimed Texas could not develop fruit production, noting progress since earlier development.
Oil Strike at Spindle Top and the Texas Oil Boom
The passage recalls Spindle Top near Beaumont as the first oil strike in Texas and how ridicule met early prospectors. It notes Texans now boast widespread oil. naysayers and chronic do-nothings would not have found it.
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Spindle Top
Beaumont
Texas
Ohio
Panhandle land once deemed unfarmable now yields big crops
The Panhandle country was once considered unfit for farming and investors faced losses. Now the region faces a contrast as it can’t harvest the large crops seen elsewhere, while Central and East Texans who stay home are pitied for sticking to old methods.
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Panhandle
East Texans Embrace Book Farming Tale
The East Texans once laughed at book farming and at the fellow. recollections capture rural humor about serendipitous experiments and community chatter as literacy spreads through small towns.
Adapting To Modern Pace In 1925 Life
The piece argues that 1925 demands embracing current methods over old ox-wagon practices. It notes more leisure in the past but insists progress requires modern work and speed, comparing the era to how people must use airplanes rather than limited, outmoded ways.
Rural Subscriber Opinion Censures Farm Leaders
A rural subscriber objects that the loudest advocate for farmer unity is often the hardest person to work with. The remark comments on cooperation dynamics and leadership in farming communities.
You Guess Rastus Dinner Joke
A fragment shows Rastus joking about being invited to a fancy dinner. He guesses the family’s name sounded like Pullman, noting that as the name he noticed. The tone reflects a dated caricature from a punchline exchange.
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Rastus
Ephc
Pullman
Pecos River Railroad Company Stockholders Meet March 4 1925
Notice announces the Pecos River Railroad Company stockholders annual meeting at the General Office Pecos Texas on March 4 1925 at 12 noon to elect a board of directors and handle other business. Directors meet immediately after the stockholders meeting at the same location. T. H. Beauchamp 25-9.
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Pecos River Railroad Company
Pecos
Texas
T. H. Beauchamp
Knight Writes From Nacona Texas On Birthday Outlook
George A Knight reports from Nacona Texas that illness kept him bedridden until February 5 his 86th birthday. He expresses hope Pecos Valley will blossom with irrigation Pecos grow into a city and the Enterprise become a daily publication.
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George A. Knight
Nacona, Texas
Mrs. Knight
Pecos
Geo
A Knight
Tyler Commercial College touts modern business training
An advertisement contrasts antiquated methods with modern Tyler Commercial College courses in bookkeeping shorthand secretariat and more. It claims the program halves time and cost to expertise, invites readers to request a free 208 page book, and notes no branch schools with a national reputation.
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George Washington
Mars
America
Europe
Tyler Commercial College
The U S A Joke on 506 Airplanes a Month
The Country Editor argues Japan builds 500 aircraft monthly while the US allegedly owns only 700 planes with twenty in fighting condition. Britain advances an independent air fleet and plans troop carrying airships, urging the US to match pace and develop a national flying service.
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Japan
William Mitchell
Souna
Air Service
An Open Letter on Air Defense Urges Civic Action
The author warns only 450 pilots exist for wartime air battles and argues Congress and editors can push for a strong air force. He blasts the rich for fearing revolution and proposes dirigibles with flying machines as peaceful demonstrations to spur global perception and domestic support for Coolidge. He urges readers to contact their Congressman and two Senators urging decisive air defense.
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Country Weekly
United States
President Coolidge
Reeves County Texas Executor Notice for the Hann Estate
In Reeves County Texas the Estate of Ochola V Hann deceased names H W Hann as Executor appointed January 31 1925. Creditors and claimants must present claims to Henry Russell Pecos Texas and settle debts per law. Public notice issued by H G Russell attorney for the estate.
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Reeves County
Texas
Ochola V
Ochola V. Hann
Said County
Henry Russell
Pecos
Odola V. Hann
H. G. Russell
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