Farmers Short Course at A and M College Heads Named
The Farmers Short Course at Texas A and M College will run July 27 with about 8000 attendees from farms. Lectures, informal exchanges, and home economics sessions attract growers, papers editors, and rural residents in College Station. The Austin Rotary Club promotes state picnics to foster neighborly ties among residents of each state.
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Texas A. & M. College
College Station
A. & M. College
McClintock Will Denied Probate in Chicago
William Darling Shepherd, recently acquitted of McClintock murder, lost the first legal bid to gain the estate. Probate Judge Henry Horner refused probate, leaving Shepherd the estate minus an $8000 annuity to Isabelle Pope, McClintock's fiancee, due to undue influence presumption.
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Chicago
William Darling Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
McClintock
Henry Horner
Shepherd
Isabelle Pope
Evacuation of Ruhr Towns Under 1924 Accord
French and Belgian troops prepare to evacuate cities in the Ruhr and parts of the Rhineland under the 1924 London agreement enforcing the Dawes plan. Evacuation of Dusseldorf Duisburg and Ruhrort is scheduled by August 16 if Germany meets Dawes obligations.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Duisburg
Rubrort
Harmony Reigns at Goose Creek City Council Meeting
Harmony returned to Goose Creek Texas as Mayor Fortinberry presided after prior refusals to recognize him. The Goose Creek city commission and mayor agreed the welfare of the city comes first and laid aside differences to work together.
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Goose Creek
Tex
Fortinberry
American envoy Bancroft ill in Japan with stomach ulcer
Edgar A. Bancroft, the American ambassador to Japan, spending summer at Karuizawa in Central Japan, has been sick for several days. Initially thought to be indigestion, doctors now fear a stomach ulcer. He is confined to bed.
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Tokyo
Edgar A. Bancroft
Japan
Karuizawa
Sheriffs to Meet at Eagle Pass in 1926
Eagle Pass was chosen as the 1926 meeting place by the Texas State Sheriffs convention held in Beaumont Texas. W N Ellison of Lockett was named president and R M Miller of Concho County vice president of the state association.
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Austin
Tex
State Board of Control
Agnes Stephens
Carry Weaver Smith
Gainesville
Jennie Burleson
Woman's Confederate Home
J. Thomas
C. E. King
Gatesville
Arthur McMordie
Donald McDonald
Odie Minatra
Corsicana
William Thomas
T. B. Bass
Abilene State Hospital
A. W. Tabor
E. Winfree
Taber
J. G. Springer
Austin State Hospital
T. M. Scott
State School For the Deaf
M. B. Brown
State School For the Blind
J. D. Martin
Deaf, Dumb and Blind School For
J. W. Bradfield
Austin State School
George F. Powell
Terrell State Hospital
J. B. McKnight
E. B. McMordie
Waco
W. J. Johnson
Austin Hospital
San Antonio State Hospital
C. W. Castner
San Antonio
Wichita Falls State Hospital
F.&. White
W. M. Shytles
State Hospital For Insane
Rusk
Beaumont
Eagle Pass
Texas State Sheriffs’ Convention
W. N. Ellison
Lockhart
R. M. Miller
Concho County
Ford Bids on 200 Vessels for Scrapping
Washington Henry Ford on Thursday bid 1,706,000 dollars for 200 ships allotted by the Shipping Board for scrapping.
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Ford
Washington
Henry Ford
Shipping Board
Attorney General Rules On Gasoline Tax Revenue
The attorney general holds three fourths of gasoline tax revenue from September 1925 will go to the state highway department and one fourth to the available free school fund. The opinion confirms revenues cannot be moved to general funds without legislative change. It addresses the $9,000,000 expected over the next two years and cites 38th and 39th legislature acts.
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Austin
Tex
State Highway Department
Attorney General’s Department
S. H. Terrell
Ernest May
Terrell
Highway and Education Department
39Th Legislature
State Highway
State Department of Education
89Th Legislature
English novelist Mary Cholmondeley dies in London
English novelist Mary Cholmondeley died Wednesday at Kensington London. Her novels began in the late 1890s and included The Danvers Jewels Diana Tempest Red Pottage Moth and Rust and The Romance of His Life The latter was issued in 1921.
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London
Mary Cholmondeley
Kensington
Dianna Tempest
Oil royalty fund tops half million for UT system
The six month total for oil royalties paid by Big Lake Oil Company to the Texas University land fund reached 556841.13 dollars. State Treasurer Gregory Hatcher announced the receipt of 105053 dollars in royalties from Reagan County in June, contributing to the fund total.
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Austin
Tex
Texas University
Reagan County
Big Lake Oil Company
Gregory Hatcher
Girl Slayer Gets Life Sentence In South Dakota Case
Watertown South Dakota Winfred Meek 21 of Garden City was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the remainder of his natural life in the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls after pleading guilty in circuit Tuesday to killing Byrle Healey 17 year old Garden City girl last Sunday
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Watertown
S. C
Winfred Meek
Garden City
Sioux Falls
Byrle Healey
First Bale Brings $305.86 in Yoakum Auction
The season opens with a bale from E. M. Vanote on the John G. Smith farm near Hope community selling at 30.25 cents per pound. Total proceeds, including premiums and seed sale, amount to $305.86 to the owner.
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Yoakum
Tex
E. M. Vanote
John G. Smith
Hope Community
Argentine Swimmer Fails Channel Bid Near Boulogne
Exhaustion almost cost Lillian Harrison her life as the Argentine swimmer failed to complete a Channel crossing from Cap Gris Nez to England. After 15 miles swum, she was five miles from the English coast when cramps halted her bid on Thursday.
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Boulogne
France
Lillian Harrison
English
Miss Harrison
Cap Griz Nez
Tax Collectors Hold Convention Selects Corpus Christi as 1926 Site
Tax Collectors' Association met in Austin to pledge support for state tax assessors and to back a publicity drive for poll taxes. Corpus Christi chosen as the 1926 convention city with Guy C. Raley of Wichita Falls elected president.
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Austin
Tex
Tax Collectors’ Association
Corpus Christi
Guy C. Raley
Wichita Falls
Hardware Jobbers Elect Officers in Texas
Galveston Texas W T Herrick of Waco was elected president of the Texas Hardware Jobbers Association at the convention closing sessions Friday. Other officers chosen include W A Cortes Houston first vice president P J Kelly Dallas second vice president S M Wadley Waco secretary treasurer.
Huntsville Sees First 1925 Cotton Bale Sold
Huntsville Tex. The first Walker County bale of 1925 cotton was weighed at 496 pounds and sold for 23 cents per pound. J L Brooks of the Loma community delivered the bale and won the chamber of commerce prize of 100 dollars for the best bale.
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Huntsville
Tex
Walker County
J. L. Brooks
Loma
Chamber of Commerce
Brooks
Autumn Styles For Women Display At National Garment Show
New York styles reveal more leg and less neck for next fall as the National Garment Retailers Association showcases autumn modes for women. Prominent designers present current silhouettes emphasizing simplified necklines and longer skirts, signaling a shift in municipal fashion taste.
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New York
National Garment Retailers Association
First bale of cotton at Sealy sold for 26 6/8c
Vy koukas and Zboril harvested Sealy Texas first bale for John M Zapalac. Bale weighed 556 pounds and sold to local cotton buyers at 26 6/8 cents per pound.
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Sealy
Tex
Vykoukas & Zboril
John M. Zapalac
Bill's a Lucky Lad Inherits From Late Employer
Bill Hays of St Louis aged nineteen stands to inherit between 15000 and 20000 from the will of Charles Herboth founder of the Herboth Mercantile Company who died. The office boy had been employed only four months. Hays plans to place the money in a bank and buy a home for his mother.
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Bill Hays
St. Louis
Charles Herboth
Herboth
Young Hays
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Maine
John D. Rockefeller
Russell Delaney
Clarendon Municipal Beach
Delaney
Marion McCarthy
William T. Merry
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University of Illinois
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