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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
16
Farmers in Alvin profit from cane plants while Galveston County drainage costs reach 166 900 dollars. Yorktown ships 52 hog carloads worth 100 000 dollars. Jefferson hosts the Texas Fox and Wolf Hunters association December 27 to 31.
Washington reports final 105,708,771 people for the United States as of January 1, with state totals listed. Contiguous U S gains 25,663 from preliminary figures, and possessions total 12, ... 488. The figures include Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and other territories.
Digest of the November 15, 1920 state department of vigilance and banking report for Texas banks. Total resources listed at $414,862,755 with $248,366,626 in loans and discounts, $28,766,275 in bonds and cash, and $18,631,448 in acceptances and bills of exchange.
Washington announces a continued pink bollworm quarantine extending to New Mexico. Movement of gna seed from Dona Ana County is restricted while parts of Texas and Louisiana are already under quarantine.
Paris reports Andre Lefevre the war minister resigned Thursday in protest of the new military service bill now before the chamber of deputies. The measure calls for 18 months of obligatory service, while Lefevre had urged two years in the field.
Austin Texas report that the state board of education did not buy new bonds this month and will wait for the new administration to take office. Officials found no funds available to purchase additional bonds for the permanent school fund.
The proclamation by the president on December 9 announces protection for Danish subjects under the American Copyright Law of March 4, 1909, as issued by the State Department.
The census bureau announced Chicago's population at 2,701,705. White residents number 2,589,104, with 106,104 Negroes and 3,607 of all other races making up the total.
The American legation in Warsaw was robbed of about 3,000,000 marks roughly equivalent to $5000 and several valuable documents, authorities said on Thursday.
Washington believe Congress will pursue economic relief measures this winter to offset price slumps and credit distortions affecting farmers and stock raisers. Committees clash over approaches while party organizations sharpen campaigns for 1924, with Republicans and Democrats rebuilding headquarters and planning fundraising and outreach strategies.
A playful exchange appears in American Legion Weekly where a young man asks if May accepted his proposal, and May replies she had forgotten her response while recalling a prior no to someone else. The brief spoof highlights lighthearted correspondence about memory and romance.
A playful vignette features a speaker recalling a bold proposal moment with Miss Maiachance-Righto and a promise not to forget It. The exchange has a whimsical tone and focuses on memory and sentiment between two named figures.
The excerpt describes Boose’s cellar as unseen by raiders and notes a fizz real week. It mentions police regions as the only area on Earth free from rats.
The state election board completes the November canvass showing Democrats winning by about 130,000 in total votes of 387,599. Key offices led by George Terrell 310,790 and Anne Webb Blanton 309,834 with other party results detailed.
Austin voters approved two constitutional amendments from the November general election. The first allows small cities to raise the total tax rate to 1 percent. the second removes the $1 per $100 valuation tax cap on independent and common school districts. A third amendment to set state officer salaries was defeated.
In Manila the entire constabulary garrison has been disarmed and placed under arrest. Thirty eight soldiers admitted participation as complaints are prepared for prosecution for the riot on Wednesday that caused four American deaths and seven Filipino deaths.
A body of French troops was ambushed near Djebli in Syria on the night of December 3. Twenty soldiers were killed and forty injured. Premier Leygues informed the cabinet at a council meeting chaired by President Millerand.
Seventeen teen miners were killed and 26 injured when a train carrying them collided with a freight train at Gruetzwald railway station in Sarregue Mines, Lorraine, on Wednesday.
The Lima Peru dock strike that stalled harbor traffic at Callao has been settled and active work to clear pier congestion has begun.
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