Texas Items Roundup Of Charters Bonds And Appointments
The State banking board grants a charter to Guaranty State Bank of Petersburg Hale County and a $60,000 school bond issue passes. Orange County rice acreage unlikely to exceed 300 acres. League of Texas Municipalities convention slated in Wichita Falls June 21 22. Pablo Gonzalez Garza to build a 30 story San Antonio tower. Postal clerks and carriers convene in San Antonio June 3 4 5. San Antonio Chamber urges U S recognition of Obregon government. Houston County road district bond approval $65,000 5 percent serial bonds. Southern district revenue headquarters remain in Austin. Senator Sheppard advised by treasury department. Magnolia Park Texas earns 15 percent fire insurance credit. loss ratio .313. Mary Biddle Grigsby named nurse examiner for Texas. Special elections set for June 25 following deaths and resignations. Five Galveston public weighers named. Waco completes state home for dependent children at $96,400. opening awaits legislature funding. Major Littlefield endowment to UT adds $100,000 for Southern history. April births 5812 deaths 2978 with 20 twin and 1 triplet sets. illegitimate births 42. Peach crop prospects 62 percent normal about 1.7 million bushels. Austin university land expansion bond approved with 19 sureties up to $1,350,000. Oil drill east of Palestine hits 46 feet of lime rock at 600 feet. Dallas Garland and Dallas Cedar Hill road contracts next month. Garland road $894,000 nine miles. Cedar Hill road $414,000.
Senate approves Borah plan for naval disarmament conference
The senate voted 74 to 0 to authorize and request the president to invite Britain and Japan to a conference with the United States to agree on substantially reducing naval expenditures and building programs over the next five years. The move aligns with administration forces and signals broad support among absentees. The amendment directs prompt entry into an understanding or agreement to be reported to each government for approval.
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Washington
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Great Britain
Japan
United States
Seventeen Texas War Dead Arrive Home From Battlefront
Bodies of seventeen American soldiers killed overseas in World War I arrived in Texas. The list names soldiers from 360th and 358th Infantry units with their nearest relatives and hometowns such as Wallis Brenham Galveston Seguin Liberty Hill Georgetown Rockdale Temple Falfurrias New Ulm and more. Local relatives identified include Mrs. Eunice Huddleston and John Ripple Sr. among others.
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San Antonio
Texas
International and Great Northern
Lemuel J. Johnston, Jr
Lemuel Johnston
Wallis
Walton D. Hood
Alamo Post
The
American Legion
Edgar F. Merrem
360Th Infantry
Ninetieth Division
August R. Schweiss
A. C. Schweiss
Brenham
Willie A. Rosenbaum
156Th Infantry
Rudolph Rosenbaum
Burton
Ralph M. Hanson
J. D. Hanson
Perry Landing
Ed J. Krueger
Ed Krueger
Giddings
Vernon Holland
Annie Riley Holland
Galveston
Charles W. Ogle
W. E. Ogle
Houston
James R. Ranft
John H. Ranft Luling
Russell Moseley
358Th Infantry
Virginia B. Moseley
Walnut Springs
Alvin Bormann
Charles Bormann
Jesse W. Dycus
345Th
George W. Dycus
Liberty Hill
Oscar A. Noren
John Noren
Georgetown
William M. Huddleston
Eunice Huddleston
Rockdale
John Ripple, Jr
Sixty-fourth Infantry
John Ripple
New Ulm
Charles Smith
522D Infantry
Shelby Smith Temple
Jose Gonzales
Doroteo Gonzales Falfurrias
Markets Report from Bureau of Markets U S Agriculture
Livestock and meats prices eased in Chicago with hogs down to 45 60c per 100 pounds and cattle lower. May 26 prices show hogs 7.80 8.10, beef steers 7.25 8.50, cows and heifers 4.75 8.50, veal 7 9, fat lambs 8 11.50. Stocker shipments totalled 33 345 cattle and calves 5 264 hogs 11 049 sheep. Prices for fruits vegetables and grains moved down or steady with hay firmer and feed markets quiet. Continuous regional price ranges and week ending data included.
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Bureau of Markets
Washington, D. C
Chicago
San Benito ships first 1921 cotton to Houston on record sale
The first 1921 cotton bale from E Matz near San Benito reached Houston and sold on the Cotton Exchange floor for 1300. Weighing 634 pounds, it was classed strict middling with 28 milometers staple. The buyer paid high auction and the event drew a large crowd of cotton men.
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Houston
Texas
San Benito
Cotton Exchange
E. Matz
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf Coast Lines
the Exchange
G. G. Henson
Valley Gin Company
John T. Lomax
Farmers’ Guaranty State Bank of
H. P. Boyd
New Orleans
Houston Exchange
San Benito Tomato Trade Hits High Value
In San Benito Texas nearly 26 000 crates of valley tomatoes were bought last week with a cash outlay to growers over 22 000 dollars. To date more than 300 carloads have shipped with 100 more in sight. At 85 cents a crate in the current market the season averages about 1 per crate. overall value could reach 600 000 dollars.
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San Benito
Texas
Two Sisters Found Dead in Chicago Gas Tragedy
Police believe the deaths of Adana May, 43, and Sadie Rainer, 45, were by their own actions in a gas-filled Chicago apartment. The two middle aged sisters were found Wednesday in what is suspected as a joint suicide pact.
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Chicago
Adana May
Sadie Rainer
Ranger Plant Burned
Ranger Texas fire Monday destroyed a large part of the Parkersburg Rig and Tool company plant causing losses around 50000 dollars.
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Ranger
Tex
Parkersburg Rig and Tool Company
Fort Worth Live Stock Market Sees Slow Trade Decline
Slow trading marked the Fort Worth stock market with light receipts in all divisions. Cows and yearlings sold 25 cents lower, steers weak, calves about $1 lower. Hogs averaged 25 cents lower, sheep unchanged. Two carloads of steers brought $5.25, sold to a stock buyer in decent flesh.
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Fort Worth Stock Market
Fort Worth
Texas
Cureton Clarifies Three Fourths Value Clause Insurance Opinion
The state fire insurance commission, backed by the attorney general, rules the three fourths value clause is inoperative for total loss on real property in towns with any Texas key rate, operative for partial losses in higher key rate towns, and for total or partial loss on merchandise in such towns. A total loss reflects insured risk, not property value, and the clause must appear on all forms for properties in cities with key rate 41c or more unless exempted on page 286 of the schedules.
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Austin
Texas
State Fire Insurance Commission
All Bergdoll Property Seized in Philadelphia
All Bergdoll property in Philadelphia, tied to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, a convicted draft evader and deserter, now in Germany, valued at about $850000, was seized Friday by Colonel Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian of the United States.
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Philadelphia
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Germany
Thomas W. Miller
United States
Bridal Superstition As Omen Of A Happy Marriage
An old belief holds that a bride who slips while walking up the aisle signals good luck and a long, happy married life as she approaches the altar.
Either or Beth
A brief Dallas News reflection notes that perceptions of the world swing between worsening and better informed, suggesting shifting optimism and concern.
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Either
Beth
Dallas News
Women Hoboes Now Warn Sparks Division Trains
The Sparks division of the Southern Pacific company reports growing concern over female hoboes. A third woman hobo was warned off a Sparks train recently, described by trainmen as young and attractive. Portland Oregonian.
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Sparks
Southern Pacific Company
Portland Oregonian
Paris Negro Hanged in County Jail
Virgil Sampson, 40, labeled Negro, was hanged in the Paris Texas county jail today for criminal assault on a young girl several months earlier.
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Paris
Texas
Virgil Sampson
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State Banking Board
Guaranty State Bank of
Petersburg
Hale County
Capital Stock
Schulenburg
Orange County
League of Texas Municipalities
Wichita Falls
Pablo Gonzales Garza
King” of
Mexico
Post Office
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
Obregon
Attorney General's Department
Houston County Road District No
Southern District of Internal Revenue
Sheppard
Treasury Department
Magnolia Park
Neff
Mary Biddle Grigsby
Mount Vernon
Franklin County
State Board of Nurse Examiners
Jewel Parr
San Angelo
J. C. McNealus
Dallas
O. B. Black
E. K. Marrast
O. R. Hoecker
J. E. Labuzen
Worthy Boy
C. M. Wollston
Waco
H. A. Wroe
George W. Littlefield
University of Texas
Littlefield
University
Littlefield Fund For Southern History
Bureau of Vital Statistics
E. M. Johnston
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Chamber of Commerce of Austin
Palestine
Dallas Garland Road
Cedar Hill Road
County Commissioners Court
Garland Road
Cedar Hill
Britain
Battlefield
South Carolina
New York
Louisiana
Bliss
Kentucky
Tennessee
Florida
West
Kansas City
Timothy
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Memphis
Prairie
Minneapolis
St. Louis
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Seaboard
Gulf
Winnipeg
Boston
Wisconsin
Cureton
Bergdoll
Lee
J. P. Burnett
Nursing
Baptist Sanitarium
Lamar
Royal Baking Powder Co
Dr.Price
Independence
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