Alfalfa on Rio Grande and Other Notes
Hidalgo county sheriff John Crossner reports ninth alfalfa cutting on his Rio Grande plantation yielding about a ton per acre at $15 per ton due to high roughage demand. Headlines cover Senator Culberson’s public works bills, expositions, health conference fever shifts, a slaying acquittal, bank solvency hopes, Confederate women events, and other national and local items.
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John Crossner
Hidalgo County
Rio Grande
Disputed Federal restraining order upheld as state acts valid
Reports confirm the courts sustain state authority and deny federal injunctions blocking legislative actions. Goldfield troops deployed to quell unrest amid unsettled mining strike conditions. The text mentions miners killed in a disaster, a Republican convention in Chicago, and King Oscar's death in Sweden.
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Goldfield
Nev
Deep plowing proven profitable for corn and cotton
San Antonio reports experiments at the government Experimental Farm showing deep fall plowing 12 to 15 inches deep yields 10 percent more than shallow plowing. Deep plowing with harrowing conserves winter rains, reduces root rot, and helps crops endure droughts, with a green winter and promising prices foreseen for next year.
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San Antonio
Theovernment
F. B. Headley
Campbell
Drouths
Government Bureau of Weather
Texas
Frantic rush on crowded car ends with stranger aiding woman
A six o’clock car is packed beyond standing room when a young woman struggles to stay upright. Each lurch drops her back into the arms of a large man who steadies her, urging her to remain seated.
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Kansas City
Washington
Davis Bias
Senate
Platfogym
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Alfalfa
Culberson
Victoria
Jamestown
Exposition Company
Mexico City
the Woods Bank
Austin
Daughters of the Confederacy
Confederate Widows Home
St. Petersburg
Taft
Russia
Aoki
Japan
Takahira
Root
Baltimore
Ridgeway
Philadelphia
Houston
Galveston
New York
Henry Havermeyer
Sugar Refining
Long Island
Raleigh
N. C
State Supreme' Court
Mononaugh, W. Va
Chicago
Stockholm
Sweden
Oscar
Mexico
J. A Love
Little Rock
Arkansas
Sierra Madre
del Rio
Southwest
Allison- Richey
Union Depot
Kansas
Toyo
Victoria, Wharton, and
Maverick CounTies
Reony
Ritzer Bro
Jewelfrs
Commerce St
San Antonio, Texas
Union Meat CO
Beef and Pork Packers
Schaeffer Photo Supplies
Houston, Texas
Texla
Texas & Louisiana Lumber CO
MR. Bok
Union Iron Works
Mill Supplies
Houston, Tex
Union Iron Wooks
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