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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1924
Page
2
A fragmented quotation discusses how men shape their own fate and links to Ed Purdy's philosophy. It notes a candidate who can present a plan to keep the automobile issue managed for another year feels likely to win elections.
A narrator recalls a flirtatious evening with Curtiss Wright at a Florida beach, exploring confidential kisses and moonlit promises. The scene shifts to a confrontation as a man advances, leaving the tale in suspense with a cliffhanger: to be continued.
Reports show numerous contracts and projects across Texas, including $330,000 for a stock judging pavilion at Kingsville's South Texas College, $1.807 million paving of 78 Dallas streets, a $1.9 million Rockefeller Foundation health grant for Texas, and new buildings in El Paso, Dallas, Fort Worth, and other cities. Cotton markets, rising crop yields, and public works such as schools, hotels, and highways are noted, along with plant openings and transit developments.
Crop condition data indicate the nation will produce about 12 351 000 equivalent five hundred pound bales of cotton this year with a yield near 146 3 pounds per acre.
San Angelo September 2 The murder trial of Andy Meador of Andrews county will not begin October 13 as scheduled. The case was continued to January on motion of defense attorney W A Reiderson due to illness of Lud Williams of Waco, a co defendant.
Reference notes say Meador was found guilty on June 12 1923 and sentenced to 20 years. The Court of Criminal Appeals later reversed the case citing an error in the court's charge.
A writer praises Steve as patriotic for preferring U S made moonshine and shunning imports. Blights answers that he would die for his country. The piece notes a new football season and modern, cold stadiums of concrete and steel across the land.
An assortment of quotes on literacy and civilization outlines a global push led by the World Federation of Education Associations with a million yen sum from the Crown Prince of Japan. It links literacy to thinking, references Martian knowledge, and notes public figures like John A. Stewart and Clarence Darrow amid broader debates on education and reform.
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