Home Grown Luncheon Planned at Gunter Hotel
Civic committee of the Woman's club and the Chamber of Commerce prepare to host a home grown luncheon at the Gunter Hotel next Tuesday July 8. The event features the hotel kitchen team and a menu to boost the city fruit and vegetable contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Chamber of Commerce
Gunter Hotel
W. B. McMillan
T. A. Coleman
Mabel Massey Bates
L. J. Hart
Percy Tyrrell
Burleson Brother Named Local Postmaster in Lockhart
James Green Burleson assumes duties as postmaster of Lockhart Texas today. He is the older brother of Postmaster General Burleson and has been a prominent local businessman for many years.
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Burleson
Lockhart
Tex
James Green Burleson
Revival of apprenticeships urged by U S education official
Dr. Holmes Breckwith of the United States Bureau of Education advocates reviving apprenticeships in some form in the nation. His report, based on a study of the German system, calls for industrial schools to complement the program and praises in shop training as the best method for preparing workers.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Holmes Breckwith
Bureau of Education
Bureau
Breckwith
Germany
Dr. Breckwith
Granitord and Granocrete The Economical Pavements
Advertising note listing Granitord and Granocrete as economical pavement solutions titled The Economical Pavements and The Modern Pavements.
End of AG Rulings on Minor County Officials
Austin July 1 The attorney general's department will no longer answer inquiries or issue rulings for minor county officials. Only state officials and legislators may seek guidance. County treasurers and cities must rely on their own county or city attorneys for opinions and law interpretations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
Looney
Flood Waters in Crystal City Subside
Reports from Crystal City show Nueces River flood waters subsiding. Railroad bridge near Crystal City no longer in danger as work gangs repair hundreds of feet of washed out track. Water slows but may rise again if heavy rains occur in Edwards County.
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Crystal City
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad
Nueces River
Edwards County
Nueces
Riebe Undertaking Co Auto Ambulance Service
Riebe Undertaking Co provides auto ambulance service at 211 East Commerce with phone line 341 for immediate arrangements and transfers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riebe Undertaking Co
E. Commerce
Standardized Carat Weight Adopted Internationally
New York July 1 International standardization sets the carat at 200 milligrams for all gems and stones. A special weights and measures bureau opens for public jewel weight testing under the new standard. The bureau holds certified weights from one two-hundredths of a carat to 2500 carats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
City Bureau of Weights and Measures
City Council Considers Bids for Denver Boulevard Paving
The council moved to request competitive bids and prepare detailed specs for the Denver boulevard paving contract. City engineers would supply the specifications for bidder inspection, amid questions about stone type costs and a proposed 10 000 front-foot guarantee funded by adjacent property owners.
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Denver Boulevard
Lambert
Warren
Alderman Fincham
Fincham
Paul Stone
Olga
Dittlinger Stone
Mt. Pancoast
Beckman
Paul
Pancoast
Kelly
Mr. Pancoast
Richmond
Steves
Brown
Baldwin
Ludovic Printing Company
Alamo Printing Company
San Pedro Place
Hugh B. Rice
Nacogdoches Street
Riveris Talcum Beauty Ad Claims Subtle Scent
A vintage advertisement promotes Lehn & Fink's Riveris Talcum as key to personal daintiness and allure. It highlights its delicate fragrance, skin soothing texture, lack of boracic acid, and invites readers to ask their druggist for the large glass jar.
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Lehn & Fink
City adopts publishing of building ordinance and approves signs
Building Inspector Emmett T. Jackson leads adoption of a resolution requiring official publication of the building ordinance to aid enforcement. The Interstate Amusement Company gains permission to erect an electric sign spanning Houston street from the Stowers' to the Frost building. Alder Lambert asks the city engineer to prepare cost estimates for two public comfort stations in the business district to be potentially included in the annual budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett T. Jackson
Lts
Interstate Amusement Company
Houston Street
Stowers
Frost
Lambert
Beckman Stone Available for Denver Boulevard Paving
Beckman stone from the Paul quarries at Beckman can be used for concrete paving on Denver Boulevard. Local agent Joe Wright says the city can obtain this rock and avoid buying Dittlinger crushed stone, which costs 5 cents per ton more. G T Jambers attributes the price rise to the Olga quarry closure reducing competition.
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Paul
Beckman
Denver Boulevard
Joe Wright
Dittlinger
G. T. Jambers
Olga
Paul Company
Hall method could boost cotton crop value nationwide
Fred D. Maisch of the Commercial Museum in Philadelphia promotes the Hall method to mature immature cotton. Bolls are picked early and run through a machine, curing in two to three hours. One man can process six to ten bales daily, potentially ending the boll weevil threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred D. Maisch
Scentific Department
Commercial Museum
Philadelphia
Former Washington Belle Dead
Miss Narcassa Pillow Saunders, once a Washington bell during President Buchanan's administration, died in Nashville. She was postmaster general M. W. Brown's stepdaughter and Gideon G. Pillow's niece, famed as a Tennessee beauty in youth and from a once wealthy family.
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Washington
Nashville
Tenn
Narcassa Pillow Saunders
Buchanan
M. W. Brown
Gideon G. Pillow
Tennessee
Beacon City Form Emerges From Merger Of Attaewan And Fishkill
Beacon becomes New York’s newly formed city merging the villages of Attaewan and Fishkill. It inaugurates the state’s first trial of the commission form of government with Mayor Frost and five commissioners, plus an advisory committee of 20.
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New York State
Beacon
N. Y
Atteawan
Fishkill
New York
Frost
Fire damages Tennessee Packing plant in Nashville
A fire at the Tennessee Packing amp Stock Yards plant in Nashville caused an estimated loss of 250000 to 300000. The blaze started in the smoke room and company officials say the loss is covered by insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee Packing & Stock Yards Corporation
St Anthony Roof Garden Hosts Lugaro and Bell Tonight
The St Anthony Roof Garden offers dining and nightly music with soloists Signor Arturo Lugaro, noted bari tone, and Charles Cameron Bell, tenor, presenting vocal and instrumental performances in a refined atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Anthony Roof Garden
Signor
Arturo Lugaro
Charles Cameron Bell
Miss Sullivan Sues Hoe for 220000 in Breach of Promise
Miss Mae Sullivan of New York sues Arthur Inger Hoe heir to Robert Hoe fortune for breach of promise to marry and for breach of contract. She seeks 150000 dollars in the first suit and 75000 in the second, claiming he promised 50000 annually after revealing he had a wife. She says payments on the contract are overdue by a year and a half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mae Sullivan
New York
Arthur Ingersoll Hoe
Robert Hoe
Miss Sullivan
Hoe
Texas Bar Association Opens Three Day Corpus Christi Session
The Texas Bar Association begins a three day convention in Corpus Christi with 742 members, including many prominent Texas figures. Judge Duncan praises recent legislature laws such as the early closing measure. Judge Morrow discusses Judicial Reform as attendees enjoy receptions and a garden party.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
The
Texas Bar Association
Texas
Timon
Roy Miller
Robert W. Slayton
John L. Dyer
el Paso
John M. Duncan
la Grange
State Association
Duncan
Cave
Dallas
William D. Williams
Austin
W. C. Morrow
Hillsboro
H. M. King
Nueces Hotel
Agriculture launches two pest crusades against invaders
The Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine on importing cotton bolls or cotton seed from Hawaii to curb pink bollworm. A second order targets New England states over gypsy and brown tail moths. Experts warn pink bollworm could threaten U S cotton and moths devastate vines and trees in Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Houston
United States
Hawaii
New England
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
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Royal Rochester
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Educational Bureau
Pierce
R.V. Pierce
M. D
Dr. Pierce's Invalids
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Dr. Pierce
CON Tractors
Council
E. Hertzberg Jewelry CO
Houston and St. Mary's Sts
BAR Association
Corpus
Maxwell Motor Co., Inc
Detroit, Mich
E. H. Labadie Auto Co
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