Dr Cranfills warning on speed maniacs in Dallas
Dr Cranfills Dallas News letter laments deadly speeding in Dallas and urges penitentiary for reckless drivers. He decries drivers who claim slow speeds after fatal crashes and calls for classifying automobile murder as murder. He cites personal near misses and urges street safety. The Tyler Commercial College ad promotes business training and enrollment.
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Sam Fishburn
News
Texas Press Association
Turnerville
Houston
Gatesville Advance
Sam
Mexia Ledger
East
Dallas
Cedar Sao
Texas
Texas Market News highlights quiet grain and livestock markets
Grain traded mostly quiet with slight price shifts. Corn and wheat demand varied, soy prospects mixed. Texas carlot movement, cabbage and spinach markets show modest activity. prices for potatoes, lettuce, beans, and carrots noted. Live stock and poultry markets in Texas fluctuated, with hogs and cattle showing varied prices and the Fort Worth sheep market steady.
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Kansas City
North Texas
Texas
South Texas
Texas Savoy
New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Chicago
Houston
San Antonio
Various For Sale Notices From Pecos Texas Area
A compilation of local ads lists items for sale including Ancona eggs at 1.00 per 15 eggs, quilts for 6.50 at Pecos Mercantile, a five passenger Nash car in good condition, and land for sale near Tovah Texas with potential platting if an oil strike occurs. Also offered is a drilling contract for tracts 45 and 47 in Loving County, Texas, with good title and rental through January 1928. Listings include contact details and locations in Pecos and nearby towns.
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Loving County
Texas
Toyah-Bell
Bell
J. A. Law
South
Harvard Blvd
Los Angeles
Calif
Reeves County seeks depository bids for county funds
The Reeves County Court will meet February 12 1923 to open bids from banks associations or individual bankers for county funds depository rights. Bids must be sealed and include a certified check of not less than one half of one percent of 1922 revenue, plus bond if awarded. Rights reserved to reject all bids. James F Ross County Judge January 15 1923.
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Tyler Commercial College
America
United States
Reeves County
Vernon
Change the B to P in time notation historian note
A historian explains changing B C to B P meaning Before Prohibition. The idea reclassifies historical time markers replacing BC with BP in archival records.
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B. C
Sawdust Dynamite Idea from Prof William Dehn
University of Washington chemist William Dehn claims a new explosive concept using sawdust as a base for dynamite like compounds. He compares potential energy to high explosives and suggests breakfast foods could inspire similar compounds.
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William Dehn
University of Washington
What Think You Lending Money to Europe as a Bad Check
Opinion piece comparing lending to Europe to funding a man whose check has bounced marked N. S. F. The aphorism frames financial aid as risky and unreliable government policy, urging caution in international loan commitments.
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Europe
Fastest Twist in Court Fine Joke
A humorous exchange shows a judge fining a motorist twenty dollars after asking to change a twenty, with the line that the fine can change but the bill cannot. The gag hinges on the wordplay between speed terms and a small courtroom dispute.
To Cure a Cold in One Day Patent Medicine Claim
An old time patent medicine listing promotes tablets that supposedly cure a cold in one day. The product bears a fictitious “We's” signature on each box and includes a claim about stopping coughs and nasal symptoms.
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DR. Cranfill
J. B. Cranfill
Dallas News
Tyler
Emile Coué
Nancy
U.S
Dey
Ners
Fort Worth
Woody
Tovah
Wm. L. Emery
Toulon
Pecos Mercantile Store
J. B. Sullivan
Jas. F. Ross
Joseph “A. Daniel van Horn
Little Ex
Pense
Palace
Erise
Purina Mills
St. Louis
Leader Grocery Company
Jersey
John
Hibdon
Pecos, Texas
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