Texas imposes annual tax on marble machines
Austin reports Texas continues taxing marble machines despite disputes over legality. The $30 yearly tax plus $15 from county and $15 from city aims to fund enforcement, with operators noting profitability challenges. Legal status remains unsettled after Civil Appeals ruling branding them gambling devices, while higher courts have yet to rule. Tax for November and December due this week. operators have paid over $33,000 so far.
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Austin
Texas Tz
Waco
Supreme Court
Court of Criminal Appeals
Kimberlin
Flush Kidneys of Acids and Poisons
Advertisement-style note urging readers to take Gold Medal Haarlem capsules to cleanse kidneys and relieve symptoms like scanty urine pain and night visits. Mentions additional symptoms such as bad headache leg cramps puffy eyes moist palms and nervousness and claims the product is a grand kidney stimulant sourced from Haarlem.
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Haarlem
Hanlem
Hall
Sidney
Ross S Neighbors Claimed by Death in Lavernia
Ross S Neighbors a San Antonio cattleman and trail driver died at the home of Mrs W G Scull in Lavernia on Tuesday aged about 78. Funeral will be held Wednesday at 3 30 PM in Lavernia conducted by Rev B G Rogen. Survived by son R S Neighbors and daughter Mrs W J, and six grandchildren.
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Hoss Simpson
San Antonian
W. G. Scull
Lavernia
BG. Rogen
Soledad Street
Seguin
San Antonio
Brather
Kansas
Nannie Margaret, Evans Neighbors
Selma
Neighbors
Maj
Robert Simpson Neighbors
Texas
Virginia
W. J.nd
Mrs Crawford to Get Baby Back
Pearl, La. November 11 2 Mrs Louis Crawford a 24 year old wife of a WPA worker awaited the return of her 8 day old baby she bore in secrecy to hide it from her husband Judge Robert D Jones ordered welfare workers to return the child after Crawford admitted inventing the story of a dog delivering the infant to her doorstep to cover her alleged indiscretion with a 44 year old man.
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Pearl Hyeh
Louis Crawford
WPA
Robert D. Jones
Trueheart Funeral Services Held in San Antonio
Funeral services for John Qver Trueheart 81 lifelong San Antonio resident were held Tuesday at the Zizik Kearns chapel with Rev. C Garcia officiating. Interment followed in San Fernando Cemetery No 2. Trueheart, a descendant of James Lawrence Trueheart who fought in the Texas independence war, is survived by brothers FE G Trueheart of New York City and T R Trueheart of San Antonio.
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John Qver
Ion Trueheart
San Antonio
Zizik-Kearns
Slaying case moves to inspect widow’s attire in autopsy probe
Defense counsel for Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt requests a county court order to obtain the widow Verna Garr Taylor’s autopsy report clothing and other exhibits. Coroner’s test on Taylor’s hands showed negative for gunfire, contradicting earlier claims she fired the revolver. Denhardt, 60, faces an examining trial on murder charges as investigators await paraffin results from his hands.
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LA Grange
Henry H. Denhardt
Verna Garr Taylor
New Castle
John Marshall Berry
Defense
Morgan
Denhardé
D.L. Ricketts
Ricketts
Enid
Denhardt
Germany demands specific charges for 23 Germans held in Moscow
Moscow reports Germany delivered a protest demanding the exact charges against 23 Germans arrested in Moscow Leningrad and provinces in sweeping raids. The German ambassador handed the demand to Foreign Commissar Litginoff, signaling no quick resolution. Tokyo reports Russo German relations strained as Russians share moved up on the Tokyo exchange.
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Moscow
Germany
Russia
Leningrad
Mazimn Litginoff
Count Werner von Schulenberg
Tokio
INS
Tokin
French Strikes Fight Over Return
In ROLAALX France on November 11 striking textile workers battled among themselves over returning to work. Mobile guards restored order as thirty holdouts barricaded a mill and resisters climbed walls with ladders while hurling bricks and stones at each other.
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Rolaalx
France
Strike Shuts Bendix Co Plant in Indiana Lockout
About 4000 Bendix Products workers at the Bendix plant in South Bend Indiana were ordered from the facility by J P Mahoney vice president and works manager as a strike halted operations. The plant doors were locked leaving workers outside with folded arms and no clear explanation for the action.
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Soush Bend
Ind
Bendix Products Corporation
J. P. Mahoney
Gorks
Farm Debts Report Made at National Farm Meet
Columbus November 17 Federal Land Bank Commissioner A S Goss told the seventieth annual convention of the National Farm Organization that thousands of American farmers intend to reduce debt through education and sound credit. He urged credit based on repayment ability rather than collateral and noted nearly 3 billion dollars tied to misspending and debt relief within the land bank system.
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Columbus
Univ
Federal Land Bank
A. S. Goss
National
Orange
National Farm Organization
Goss
Land Bank Commissioner
America
Cures Hay Fever by Iodine Plating Report
Austin November 17 reports a home remedy for hay fever. Mrs Harold Tipsley and friends soak feet in hot water for 18 minutes then apply a thin layer of iodine up to the ankles. Relief is not instant but appears in two to three days and treatment can last one to three weeks with repeats.
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Austin
Red Cross Drive Reports 3 Local Offices At 100 Percent
Ed J. Falk announced that three Bexar county offices reached complete enrollment in the annual Red Cross drive. The D and A Opheim er bank the A and P food stores and the Missouri Pacific city ticket office led with 100 percent participation.
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Pet
Red Cross
Ed J. Falk
American Red Cross
Bexar County
D. and A. Ops Peoheimer Bank
A.and P. Food Stores
Missouri Facific City Ticket Office
Murder Charge After Texas Slaying At Maberry Home
Jo Ma Maberry, 55, faces murder charges for the shooting death of Lonnie Mitchell, 38, at Maberry’s Maberry home three miles south of here. Mitchell had asked for directions to his mother-in-law’s house and, after knocking, was shot about 25 minutes later. Relatives said Mitchell was hard of hearing. Maberry told County Attorney Musslewhite he fired after seeing a form on the porch and hearing no reply.
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Slurrin
Jo Maberry
Lonnie Mitchell
Hous
Maberry
Mitchell
W. D. Forsyth
Musslewhite
Twin Disaster Brothers Peach of Pair at Getting Bad Breaks
Tacoma report on twin railroad engineers Sawyer brothers from Centralia and Auburn, both recently injured in separate falls from locomotive water tanks.. They share a hospital room and work opposite ends of the same division, with families noting a mystic bond while the pair show little outward emotion.
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Peach
Tacoma
Wash
Sawyer
Bretheary
Ale, Sawyer
Cenitralia
E. A. Sawyer
Auburn
Chicago
Ngw
A. E
Northern Pacific
E. A
A. B
Agai
Death of captain and two crew men in ship disaster
New details emerge from a maritime accident as the captain and two crew members are reported lost overboard from the freighter Tweedhank amid a treacherous gale. A radio operator says he was marooned in the radio room and could not reach the bridge. The vessel, en route from St Vincent to Boston, lay about 25 miles east of near York when the tragedy occurred.
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New York
Joss
Tweedhank
Radio-Marine Corporation
Chatham
Treavy Gale
Bank Line
MacKenzie
York
St. Vingcent
Cap Verde Islands
Boston
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Ross S
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Comprpaller’s Department
Kimperlin
Attorney General's Department
Mrs. Crawford
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Trueheart Funeral Services
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