Will Investigate Prison Charges in Texas Legislature
Texas House votes 126 to 4 to authorize a sweeping inquiry into graft and mistreatment in the penitentiary system. Rep. T. K. Irwin of Dallas to lead the committee, with hearings set as prison officials and accountants are summoned for executive sessions. The probe aims to uncover irregularities stretching back years and to expose graft in prison operations.
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Austin
Texas
T. K. Irwin
Dallas
Miriam A.ferguson
Irwin
House
House Committee On Penitentiaries
Board of Prison Commissioners
J. A. Herring
H. H. Sayles
Prison Commission
W. R. Dulaney
A. H. King
Len Martin
King
Butterwhite
Loftin
Shearer
Kayton
Dale
R. M. Johnson
Palestine
Penitentiaries Committee
Wells
Maxwell, Jasper and
Robinson
Norman G. Kittrell
Houston
H. T. McDonald
Huntsville
Thirty Days Military Training This Summer
Plans approved by the Commanding General announce CMTC camps this summer at Ft Sam Houston, Ft Bliss, Dallas, St. Sill, Ft Logan, Ft Huachuca and Ft Crockett. Four thousand one hundred slots expected. about five thousand six hundred applications. First come first served. apply now via the CMTC Officer at Ft Sam Houston.
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Ft. Sam Houston
Ft. Crockett
Ft. Bliss
Dallas
Texas
St. Sill
Oklahoma
Ft. Logan
Colorado
Ft. Huachuca
Arizona
War Department
Eighth Corps
Mason News
The Business of Being an American Citizen
Judge William H. Atwell says real citizenship rests on strict law adherence and civil duties. He argues aiding bootleggers is aiding crime, and drinking fuels violations of Prohibition, urging citizens to be fair, tolerant, and law-abiding to be truly American.
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Dallas-Times Herald
William H. Atwell
United States District Court
Herb ine Liver Tonic Promises Health Boost for Workers
Advertisement advises working people to use Herbine to relieve languor and malaise from sluggish liver. It claims the medicine purifies the system restores energy and ambition. Price 60c sold by Simmons Drug Store. 1-5x
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Simmons Drug Store
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promotion Claims Relief
An advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine relieves catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It describes an ointment for local inflammation and an internal tonic that acts through the blood to restore mucous membranes. Sold by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio for over 40 years.
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Hall
Toledo
Ohio
Little Buck Shot at Henry school Friday night
The Taye Oak School will present the play Little Buck Shot at the Henry school house on Friday night February 6. The community is invited to attend.
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Little Buck
Local Drugstore Sells New Dandruff Remedy Metals
A local druggist unveils an entirely new remedy for dandruff named Metals. Claims say many cases are cured with one application and the most aggravated in a week or two. The product is pleasant to use and inexpensive with a positive guarantee. Simmons Drug Store sells it for seventy five cents.
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Simmons Drug Store
Dix
Rural phone stockholders meet over Union rates
The Fairview meeting drew large attendance amid strong dissatisfaction with Union Telephone rate levels. A county rural company was formed with a president and secretary, and a three member committee was named to press Union for lower charges. If no relief is found, rural lines may withdraw and install a rural switchboard with a bonded collector to ensure bill collection.
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Union Company
Union Telephone Company Threatens Rural Lines
A speaker warned that a pending suit could lead to judgment and sale of the rural Union Telephone Company, risking every rural line in the county. He urged caution, insisting no long term contracts and noting the talk was only advisory guidance from a Union representative addressing the audience.
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Union Telephone
Plausible but Elusive Plot Teases Fatal Dream Vision
A fragmented excerpt hints at a writer's dream of death from last week. The wording suggests a literary or psychological angle, with unclear references to a person and event. Further readable context would clarify whether this is fiction notes or a diary fragment.
Unregulated canal competition hurts railroads and West
W B Storey of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway argues against the Gooding bill to strip the Interstate Commerce Commission of power to equalize canal rates. He warns that removing this authority harms Central West commerce, industry, and agriculture, reduces rail traffic, and benefits steamship lines operating via canals.
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Middle West
Central States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Senate
House
Intermountain States
Atlantic
Pacific Coasts
Atlantic States
Central and
Middle Western States
Pacific Coast
Atlantic Seaboard
Atlantic Coast
Great Western
Western Railroads
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Central West
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Will
P. A. Walker
Newburg
Thediford
George Newby
San Saba
H. C. Burt & Co
Houston, Texas
First State Bank
Richland Springs, Texas
A Guaranty Fund Bank
H. Gibbons
J. B. Miller
Fairview
Slate
Scott
Son É Hull
The
Brite’s
San Saba, Texas
U. S
Federal Reserve Bank
Commercial Paper
A. Horton
Santa Fe
Congress
Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fa Rathway System
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