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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1924
Page
2
The piece laments ambitious candidates and oil influence in 1920s politics while warning business leaders about stockholder manipulation. It notes Daugherty leaks could trigger major disclosures and mentions waning whaling profits amid industry decline and fashion shifts.
Officials take a warning as a lesson learned from a minor incident. The piece notes valuable truths emerging, while deferring to keep the family intact and proceed with business as usual. Willie’s fib is portrayed as trivial and not warranting disruption.
The Inspiration Copper Company joins Anaconda in withholding its dividend amid weak sales and advertising shortfalls. If copper producers explain plainly how copper benefits construction and savings, firms producing copper at 20 cents a pound could regain business and confidence.
House set to take up Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals plan as Ford offers millions to the government, farm fertilizer, and water power demonstrations. Yet insiders cling to private talks and codes, hindering approval.
Secretary Mellon states the national debt fell by 933 million dollars in the last year and 4.8 billion over four and a half years. He adds the country now owes 21.781966852 billion dollars, arguing a large, prosperous nation can carry high debt and still avoid bankruptcy.
A planned New York production features a white woman marrying a Negro and kissing his hand. The cast includes a full blooded Negro of high intelligence in one role and a white actress in the other.
A column condemns a stage depiction showing a white woman kneeling and kissing a Black man’s hand as damaging to the colored race. It argues such portrayals harm public decency and racial progress, urging restraint despite legal limits.
Attorney General Daugherty declares that if some Senators do not resign he will cause a splash. He says he knows the difference between a splash and a ripple and that the public will watch closely for developments.
Bryant Jasper Strickland died at the home of Mr and Mrs J H Hicks in German at age 79. He was born February 25 1845 in Lawrence County Tennessee and served four years in the Third Tennessee Infantry. He was captured three times and exchanged after Lee's surrender. He married Polly A Emlar December 2 1867 and later lived in Russellville Arkansas Oklahoma and Texas. Funeral services were held at the Hicks home and the body shipped to Pecos Texas for interment. He was a longtime Methodist and Bible student.
The text argues that indirect taxes raise the cost of living by increasing loan interest and housing costs. It notes taxes on banks and property raise rates, and that all consumers ultimately bear tax costs whether or not they pay income taxes. The piece emphasizes universal indirect tax impact on households.
A spring term first aid and home nursing course will be led by Miss L Jane Duffy at the University of Texas to train sopho more women in home care of the sick and infant care. Nine students have enrolled and more are expected. Laboratory equipment includes hospital beds linen bandages medicines thermometers and related demonstration gear.
In the 1870s Texas used city and county bonds to back railroad construction, with numerous votes for bonds in Tyler, Dallas, Waxahachie, Smith and Galveston counties. Legislative limits later curtailed municipal credit for rail projects. The passage blends historical notes with an advertisement for Tyler Commercial College urging business education and training.
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