EXTRA HEAVY YIELD OF CORN PREDICTED
Texas population surpasses 5 million with growth of about 100000 yearly. Wealth rising faster than population per Internal Revenue Bureau. Texans urged to exploit granite, peach and fruit farming, but streets and roads need upkeep. state meets and spitting contests noted. Washington forecast reports corn at 3.095 billion bushels and widespread crop prospects.
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Census Bureau
Texas
Mexico
Internal Revenue Bureau
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Texas to Spend 2.45 Million on School Textbooks
State Superintendent S M N Marrs told the board that Texas plans a fiscal year expenditure of 2 449 500 for free textbooks in schools starting Sept 1. The textbook fund shows a 60 000 balance. Marrs urged setting aside 2 389 000 from taxes for educational purposes under existing contracts, but the board deferred action pending taxable value estimates.
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Kistin
Pex
Texas
Superintendent of Education
S. M. N. Marrs
Board of Education
the& Text Book Fund
Eating Hopefully At Madrid Pearl Discovery
A humorist note claims a man, while eating oysters in Madrid, found a pearl valued at 500 dollars. The tale suggests the finder is eating toward a necklace.
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Madrid
London
Federal Revenues Cut in 1925 Fiscal Year
Washington reports that federal internal revenue for the year ending June 30, 1925 fell only 212 million dollars from 1924. Total receipts stood at 2.584 billion, with 1.762 billion from direct income taxes and 822 million from miscellaneous sources. In 1924 income taxes brought in 1.842 billion and miscellaneous 954 million.
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Washington
Federal Treasury
Woman Displays Son After Forcible Removal Case
Mrs. Virginia Canaday presents her 5 year old son Roscoe Jr. in San Antonio claiming she remains in first class fighting trim and ready to defend herself in Texas or New York. She admits taking the boy from his paternal grandmother Mary Canaday at Forest Hills New York on Tuesday.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
New York State
Virginia Canaday
Roscoe Jr
Mary Canaday
Forest Hills
N. Y
Jury Selected In Scopes Trial in Dayton Ohio
Dayton Ohio reports jurors have been chosen for the Scopes trial. Twelve men were selected to hear the case accusing John Thomas Scopes of violating the Tennessee law that bans teaching evolution in public schools.
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Dayton
Ohio
John Thomas Scopes
Houston Sees June Rainfall Burst Friday Morning
A heavy rain fell in Houston Texas lasting about forty three minutes Friday morning totaling 1.58 inches between 10 27 and 11 10 a m The moisture exceeded the state June average for the period and contributed to the month’s rainfall tally across Texas.
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Houston
Texas
Tex
Plan to finance tick eradication in Texas
Fort Worth, Tex. Members of the livestock sanitary commission expect a $500,000 yearly tick eradication program but have only $80,000 for next year's inspector salaries. The plan seeks a 50 50 share among 100 Texas counties after securing cooperation from county commissioners and cattle raisers.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Texas
Leo Callan
Callan
Caesar Kleberg
Kingsville
E. L. Jarrel
Tyler
Commissioners Courts
Textbook board defers adoption in Texas meeting
The State textbook commission, formed in Austin, voted to defer all textbook adoptions until the second Monday in October. Governor Ferguson presided as ex officio chairman with Marrs noting contracts will not end before Sept 1, 1926, and existing book funds are exhausted for 1925-26. A rule barred firms or attorneys from presenting books without written permission.
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Austin
Tex
State Textbook Commission
Miriam A. Ferguson
Marrs
Ferguson
Texas
Depositors in Defunct Banks to Be Paid Off
Austin Texas depositors in seven defunct banks will receive 1 215 000 dollars from the state guaranty fund. The state bank board drew the sum from the treasury and Bank Commissioner Charles O. Austin will distribute it. The banks named are American State Bank Harrisburg Peoples State Bank Ranger Security State Bank Cooper First State Bank Rio Hondo Rock Island State Bank Yes Island.
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Austin
Tex
State Bank Guaranty Fund
State Bank Board
State Treasury
Charles O. Austin
American State Bank
Harrisburg
Peoples State Bank
Ranger
Security State Bank
Cooper
First State Bank
Rio Hondo
Rock Island State Bank
Yes Island
Bodies Taken From Pickwick Club Ruins
Suffolk County grand jury opened inquiries into the Pickwick Club disaster in Boston after a collapse last Saturday that killed 43 people. Authorities reported that the last debris pile was cleared with no new casualties found.
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Boston
Mass
Suffolk County Grand Jury
Pickwick Club
Texas Youths Pay Penalty in California Executions
Three Texas youths were hanged in California on Friday for the murder of Los Angeles patrolman Glenn Bond. Lewis Perry, 19, and Thomas Bailey, 22, were executed at San Quentin, while Edward Montijo died at Folsom. All three faced the same crime.
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San Francisco
California
Lewis Perry
Thomas Bailey
Texas
San Quentin Prison
Edward Montijo
Folsom Prison
Glenn Bond
Los Angeles
King Tut Palace Excavated by Egyptian Exploration Society
The palace of King Tutankhamen, who ruled about 3500 years ago, was unearthed in middle Egypt by the Egyptian Exploration Society. Thomas Whittemore, American representative, announced on Friday after arriving aboard the Mauretania.
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King Tut
New York
King Tut-Anhk-Amen
Middle Egypt
Egyptain Exploration Society
Thomas Whittemore
Mauretania
Houston Gets Good Rain Deluge Breaks June Total
Houston, Texas saw heavy rain Friday with a 1.58 inch downpour between 10 27 and the end of the two hour period surpassing the month s June total.
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Houston
General Guillaumat Refuses Moroccan Command Post
Paris reports General Guillaumat has declined the appointment chosen by Premier Painleve to replace Marshal Lyautiey as commander of the French army opposing Abd El Krim's Rif tribes in Morocco.
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Paris
General Guillaumat
Painleve
Marshal Lyautiey
Abd-El-Krim
Morocco
Soldier Killed by Lightning at Camp Stanley
San Antonio Texas George W Hamilton private troop E 112th cavalry a Texas National Guard unit was instantly killed by lightning at Camp Stanley Friday.
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San Antonio
Tex
George W. Hamilton
112Th Cavalry
Texas National Guard
Camp Stanley
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University of Texas
Russia
Ilya Tolstoy
America
Texas Pink Granite Company
Burnett
Athens
Texas State Checker Players’ Association
Dallas Y. M. C. A
State
Louisiana
Santa Barbara
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
Cal
Hotel Californian
State Street
Miami
Beauty
Ruth Woodall
Atlantic City
Lorita Clarece Simmons
Spanish Harbor
Fla
Temblor
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