Onion Growers of Texas Reunite After Misunderstanding
Roy Campbell reports harmony restored among Texas onion growers after northern members admitted mistakes about onion industry conditions. The Southern Texas Truck Growers' Association will expand influence next year with renewed leadership and district daily pools replacing a single general pool to pool local outputs.
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Roy Campbell
Southern Texas Truck Growers’ Association
Corpus Christi
Association
Texas
Campbell
Lower
Rio Grande Valley
Onion growers split over pooling quality produce
Weather and local conditions cause tension among growers as some with better quality onions oppose pooling with poorer lots. The new arrangement aims to satisfy all parties by grouping produce under a single system.
Epworth Leaguers Prepare for Work at Corpus Christi Camp
Epworth leaguers open their annual encampment in Corpus Christi Texas organizing mission study and Bible classes for the assembly. Dr Rawlins leads a class with over 125 students as 400 delegates arrive and 1000 more expected. Bishop Joseph Key to deliver tonight's opening sermon.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Epworth Leaguers
League
Rawlins
Ragsdale
Joseph Key
Want Boundaries Defined
Over six hundred residents near Raymondville Lyford and Sebastian sign a petition urging Cameron County Commissioners in Brownsville to define establish and set boundaries for the Union irrigation district planned to cover about 185000 acres. The district would be the first under a 1905 law enabling irrigation districts and governs. The land is among Cameron counties most fertile.
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Raymondville
Tex
Lyford and
Sebastian
Brownsville
Union Irrigation District
Union
Cameron County
Car Seat Wedding In Austin Sealed By Justice
Miss Maud Carroll of San Antonio and D E Rich of Galveston wed in a novel ceremony seated in a car in Austin. Justice of the Peace M M Johnson officiated after they drove to the courthouse for a license. The trio remained in the vehicle as the vows were spoken.
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Austin
Tex
Maud Carroll
San Antonio
D. E. Rich
Galveston
M. M. Johnson
Court House
Grove's Taste Less Chill Tonic Malaria Claim
An ad touts Grove's Taste Less Chill Tonic as a remedy that drives out malaria and builds up the system for both adults and children, priced at 65 cents.
International Building Promoted For San Antonio Trade Hub
A. W. Hartman urged a large international building in San Antonio to foster Texas Mexico trade. The plan would house Mexico’s consul general, Mexican International lines officials and brokers, aligning with U.S. reciprocity moves. Homer Jones spoke on Title Guaranty as the group planned a Corpus Christi trip and Ingleside hotel dinner, returning Monday.
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Mexico
San Antonio
St. Anthony
A. W. Hartman
International Club
Texas
Congress
Canada
United States
Homer Jones
Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Title Guaranty
Real Estate Exchange
Corpus Christi
San Antonio-to-the-gulf
Ingleside Hotel
Pensions Worry Northern Democrats
Northern Democrats from Ohio and Indiana face pressure over veteran pensions. They campaigned in 1910 on passing a service pension act but House inaction leaves them unable to report or debate pension legislation. General Sherwood chairs the pensions committee and battles caucus dictates.
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Washington, D. C
Ohio
Indiana
House
General Sherwood
Suicide blamed on meningitis survey of Brillhart at Astor
The body of Lieutenant Charles Brillhart U S N was found with a bullet wound in a hotel room. An autopsy at the New York naval yard showed meningitis, doctors saying it likely caused a morbid state of mind and his suicide. The body awaits shipment to York Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles Brillhart
Hotel Astor
New York Navy Yard
York, Pa
Brillhart
Claim department of SB&M moved to auditor Nance
Kingsville Texas August 4 The claim department of the St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico is now under O H Nance the company auditor who assumed supervision August 1 William Doherty traffic manager who previously oversaw the department relinquished due to other duties
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Kingsville
Tex
St. Louis, Brownsville
Mexico
O. H. Nance
William Doherty
Doherty
Virginia State Fire Insurance readmitted to Texas market
The Texas Department of Insurance and Banking granted a certificate of authority to the Virginia State Fire Insurance Company of Richmond Virginia, allowing it to resume business in Texas after several years’ withdrawal.
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Austin
Tex
Department of Insurance and Banking
Texas
Virginia State Fire Insurance Company
Richmond
Leave Granted for Lieut Walter R Weaver Three Months
Lieut Walter R Weaver of the Twenty eighth Infantry has been granted a three month leave of absence. The action formalizes a temporary halt in his active duties while he travels or attends to personal matters. Weaver is listed among known officers of the Twenty eighth Infantry.
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Walter R. Weaver
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Clemency Plans Spoiled by Officers
Chicago reports that John R. Nichols, a former Cambridge Maryland insurance agent, was spirited out of the city, derailing clemency efforts by Illinois Governor Deneen. Inspector Hunt says requisition papers promised Nichols a fair chance to present facts before a Chicago judge, a promise allegedly not observed.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Maryland
Illinois
Hunt
John R. Nichols
Cambridge
Inspector Hunt
Deneen
Nichols
James R. Hill
Victor Hugo
Attorney General Rules on Fire Insurance Stock Sales
The Texas attorney general's department holds it is not a violation of the insurance law for a fire insurance company president to sell or contract for sale through agents the unsold portion of the company's capital stock and to receive a commission. It says the provision does not apply to fire insurers but would violate if a life or accident company president sold capital stock through agents.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Bill
Northbound and local train times listed in timetable
The page lists multiple Santa Fe and Union Pacific lines with arrival and departure times. Notable services include No. 4 from the north at 1:55 pm and No. 6 from the north at 6:45 am, local trains to Palestine Laredo Kerrville and Houston, and express services to El Paso and the east.
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Palestine
Mexico
Laredo
Houston
New Orleans
Galveston
Dallas
Fort Worth
North
Dallas, Fort Worth
Waco
Gal- Wortod
Corme
Combe Coco
Kerrville
Sun- Odly
Buncorse
Ceevees
Coast
el Paso
Cuero
Victoria
West
East
Uero
Santa Fe
Casing Steamer Bunker Hill Runs Aground Off Vineyard Point
The steamer Bunker Hill with 275 aboard ran on a rock at Nebraska Point in Vineyard Sound early today. After backing off, the leaking vessel reached Vineyard Haven harbor and passengers were transferred to the Uacatena and later to Woods Hole and Boston by train.
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Associated Press
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Bunker Hill
New York
Boston
Vineyard Sound
Nebraska Point
Vineyard Haven Harbor
Nantucket
Martha's Vineyard
New Bedford
Woods Hole
Farmers Institute Held At Luling Texas
A farmers institute will be held in Luling under the Texas Department of Agriculture with Commissioner Edward Ri Kone of Austin attending. An engaging program is planned and a large turnout of farmers from the area is expected. Cotton receipts rise with 350 bales marketed. some growers report cotton worms but Paris green yields good results.
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Farmers’ Institute
Duling
Luling
Tex
State Department of Agriculture
Edward Ri Kone
Austin
Summer normal examinations close at Yoakum
Examination of the summer normal students finished today at Yoakum Texas closing the session. Most examinees will depart tonight for their homes as the term ends.
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Yoakum, Tex
Injured by a Fall in Yoakum Texas
Mrs William Menke fell ill today in Yoakum Texas after an apparent fall. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment and observation and her condition was not immediately released.
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Yoakum
Tex
William Menke
Woman Falls at Home and Receives Medical Care
While performing house duties a woman fell and struck her head on a kitchen safe, cutting a sizable gash. Dr. H. H. Brown dressed the wound and reported she was resting easy. Dr. Sara F. Herdman, osteopath, Gibbs Building. Phones: Residence N. P. 3055-blue.
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H. H. Brown
Sara F. Herdman
Osteopath
Gibbs Bldg
Res. N. P
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