Texas Receives Federal Route Funds For Highway Build
The Bankhead road act totaling $85,000,000 gains approval, with Texas allotted $1,050,000 in year one and rising to $1,505,250 by year five. States share funds by area and mileage, with Texas planning a cross-state system ensuring maintenance overseen by state departments and a federal role in construction oversight.
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Oklaho
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mexico
Federal Treasury
Deral Treasury
Congress
Bankays
Ry of Agriculture
Madrid Declared in a State of Siege
Paris reports Madrid and its province are under siege by order of the government due to a railway workers strike. The declaration was issued in the Spanish capital.
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Madrid
Spain
Paris
Army officers promoted transferred and ordered to duty
Army announces captains lieutenants and majors assigned to new regiments and duties. Charles Hall transfers to the Second regiment of engineers while Vernon Boller moves to the Thirty fifth infantry. promotions in the Signal Corps medical reserve and coast artillery are listed alongside upcoming examinations at Eagle Pass San Antonio and Camp Stotsenberg with boards at Massachusetts General Hospital and Schofield Barracks for field artillery transfers.
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Regiment of Engineers
Signal Corps
Frank E. Hopkins
Sebring C. Megill
Cavalry
George M. Sabin
William O. Ower
Board of Officers of Medical Corps
Vernon W Boller
Eleventh Infantry
Thirty-fifth Infantry
Edwin A. Miller
Third Field Artillery
Eagle Pass
Field Artillery
William D.chitts
First Cavalry
Cl Lat H, Hyde
Coast Artillery Corp
Oliver H. Robinson
Eighteenth Infantry
Davis L. Roscor
John H. Read JR
Third Cavalry
Seer L. Walsh
Coast Artillery Corps
Lis L. R. Miller
Coast Artillery Heros
Thomas M. Gimpoarling
Sixth Infantry
Clyde Leastman
Twentieth Infantry
Oseph A. Rogers
Homer H. Slaughter
Thirteenth Infantry
Otto J. Brunsell
Twentieth Infan
Seventh Infantry
Vernon E. Pritchard
Seventeenth Infantry
James M. Moore
Nineteenth Infantry
George P. Dickerson
Wa J. Mathews
Eleventh Iantry
Harry J. Malony
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Ira T. Wyche
Thirtieth Infantry
Jobe H. Reany
Robert Davis
First Field Artillery
Massachusetts National Guard
Sherwood A. Cheney
Corps of Engineers
San Antonio
Lewis M. Adams
James A. O'Connor
Columbus
N. M
Ulysses H. Grant
Third
Howard P. Kirtley
Medical Reserve Corps
Southern
Salt Lake City
Utah
Adjutant General of Army
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Salt Lake
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Paul D. White
Elliott Co. Cutler
Massachusetts General Hospital
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Camp Stotsenburg
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William. J. Snow
Adrian
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Spaulding JR
Louis T. Bosseau
Second Field Artillery
Schofield Barracks
Hawaii
John E. M'Mahon
Tiemann N. Horn
William
Guignard
Browning
Dennis H. Currie
William Lassiter
Camp Stotsenberg
Thomas J. Johnson
Twenty-seventh Infantry
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M’cammon
Tunius Pierce
Alexander J. Stuart
Clyde J. Meckney
Ninth Cavalry
Leon R. Cole
Robert
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Edward A. Miller
Fagle
John F. Curry
Thomas M. Anderson JR
Charles C. al
William L. Libert
James
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Robert HH
Noble
Twenty-second Infantry
Mark Hersey
William T, Littlebrant
Walter E. Prosser
Fl Paso
Fort Huachuca
Fort McIntosh
Earl C. Carnahan
Publicity meeting to fund San Antonio winter tourism ad
A joint Thousand Club and Chamber of Commerce session on Friday plans a $10,000 publicity fund for San Antonio as a winter tourist resort. The semi annual gathering will hear a report on last year’s fund use, with light refreshments served on the Gunter hotel lawn. A Dallas stopover by Second Indiana Infantry is noted.
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Gunter Hotel
San Antonio
Bank of England raises discount rate to six percent
London reports the Bank of England lifted its discount rate from 5 to 6 percent, a precautionary move to protect exchange and balances as money tightens. The decision follows years at 5 percent since August 1914 amid heavy wartime financing and New York market vigilance. In Washington, the Fed raised commercial paper rates for Chicago and Kansas City districts, with increases to 4.5 percent on short paper and 3.5 to 4 percent on trade acceptances.
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Kansas City
Forest Fires Threaten Guernville Cottages and Towns
Forest fires rage in a canyon and on brushy hills near Guernville California destroying trees and menacing several towns and numerous summer cottages.
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Cal
Canon
Grove Park Inn Asheville The Finest Resort Hotel In The World
The Grove Park Inn in Asheville North Carolina promotes its resort amenities including a 120 acre 18 hole blue grass golf course water from Mount Mitchell nearly seven thousand feet high and dairy from Biltmore estate It features tile floors mosaics Aubusson rugs pure air and no noise from trains or cars with top orchestral and organ performances inviting refined guests and families For information contact Southern Railway offices or Grove Park Inn Asheville NC.
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Sunset Mountain
Asheville
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Geo. W. Vanderbilt
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France
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Boston
Southern Railway
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Potash From Banana Reported In England
English chemist tested banana stalks to see if the fiber could be used for paper making. He found the juice alkaline and rich in potash with little soda, a result confirmed by Dr Hanley at Leeds University. A ton of stalks yields about 188 pounds of dried matter with 13.7 percent potash and 64 pounds of ash at 47.5 percent.
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Oil City
England
Hanley
Leeds University
Potash Market Adds New Ingredient for U.S. Plant Growth
A report notes the inclusion of potash at twenty five pounds of pure content as a notable addition to an agricultural source. The mention implies potential for U.S. cultivation. The text also contains inserted dialogue fragments from various publications.
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