Texas Passes 99 Laws Coming Into Effect June 11
Austin reports that 99 laws from the 37th legislature will take effect June 11, with 41 other bills already in force at different dates. Highlights include tax delinquencies, guardianship for the mentally unsound, county tax assessor pay, court costs, city charters, road districts, sanitation rules for bakeries hotels and eateries, public betting bans, and provisions for oil and gas leases, school land sales, and utility regulations. The collection also covers tax rolls, probate appeals, railroad provisions, and a range of municipal and state tax and governance changes.
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Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
General Fund
Game, Fish and Oyster Department
Texas
Confederate Home
Confederate Women’s Home
Mutual Life
State Insurance Department
Port Lavaca
Secretary of State
Railroad Commission
J. J. Kane and Associates
Galveston
Courts of Civil Appeals
Commission of Appeals
International Trading Corporations
Lloyd's Plan
Corpus Christi Seawall Aid
Dairy and Food Department
State Board of Health
State Depository Board
Kerrville
State Welfare Commission
State Highway Department
Fort Worth Mother of Football Star Killed by Car
Mrs. Mattie B. McMillin mother of Alvin Bo McMillin was struck by a car in Fort Worth business district and died at age 70. The incident occurred Monday.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Mattie B. McMillin
Alvin
Bo) McMillin
Roberts Captures Central California Tennis Title
Roland Roberts defeated former national champion William Johnson 6 4 4 6 6 2 to win the Central California tennis championship in Sacramento on Monday.
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Sacramento
Cal
Roland Roberts
William Johnson
Navy appropriation bill passes Senate with 495 million
The Senate approved the Navy appropriation of 495 million dollars for the next year by a 54 to 17 vote after weeks of debate. The bill preserves most provisions, removes 1.5 million for Alameda base construction, and includes Borah’s amendment for talks with Britain and Japan on five year naval limits. It sets 120000 personnel, 90000000 for shipbuilding, expands aviation, and authorizes two aircraft carriers and continued Charleston dry dock work.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Naval Affairs
Alameda
Cal
Borah
Great Britain
Japan
Charleston
S. C
Tulsa resumes normal governance after martial law recall
Tulsa returns to regular city and county authority as Adjutant General Barrett recalls the martial law proclamation and sends troops back to stations. National guardsmen totaling 825 remain on active duty to prevent further rioting that left about thirty dead four hundred wounded and property losses near 1.5 million.
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Tulsa
Okla
Chas. F. Barrett
Mexicans Return Home Under Texas Repatriation Plan
A train in three sections conveyed about 1200 Mexicans through San Antonio on Thursday returning home under a repatriation plan. The group was gathered in North Texas and this marked the second Texas detachment following an earlier group of over 1000.
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San Antonio
Texas
Middle Western States
Texas Chamber of Commerce
A. and M. College
College Station
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Minneapolis
North Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Boundary Fight With New Mexico Over Rio Grande Delimitation
New Mexico filed a brief supporting its claim to the true boundary between Texas and New Mexico along the Rio Grande near El Paso. The dispute, long standing, is headed toward the Supreme Court for resolution.
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Washington
Texas
Supreme Court
New Mexico
Rio Grande
el Paso
British Advance Into Silesia Amid Skirmishes
British troops advance into Oppeln in Upper Silesia as Polish rebels clash with German self defense units. Looting is reported from interior areas where Poles retreat.
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Oppeln
Upper Silesia
Upper Silesian
Indians Burn Bridges in Nogales Area Action
Yaqui Indians operating in Sonora Mexico have burned three railway bridges and placed obstructions on tracks, prompting disruption of cross border rail traffic and raising regional tensions.
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Nogales, Ariz
Sonora
Mexico
Lord Byng Named Governor General of Canada
London announces the appointment of Lord Byng of Vimy to succeed the duke of Devonshire as governor general of Canada, effective imminently. The decision was confirmed on Friday in an official announcement.
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London
Lord Byng of Vimy
Canada
Duke of Devonshire
Fire at Oakwood Devastates Barton Residence and Church
A Tuesday blaze in Oakwood near Palestine Texas caused more than $40,000 in damage destroying the J W Barton residence described as the finest in Leon County and the adjoining Baptist Church.
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Palestine
Texas
Oakwood
J. W. Barton
Leon County
Miners Strike Settled in Paris
Paris reports the Austrian lignite miners have settled their strike with a wage increase of 20 percent understood to be granted to the workforce.
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Paris
Train Fire Destroys Twenty Six Cars Near Trinity
A Gulf Coast Lines fast freight train near Trinity, Texas, suffered the destruction of twenty six cars by a Thursday fire. No further details on causes or damages were provided.
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Houston
Texas
Trinity
Porter, Grant Aide and Ex-Envoy, Dies at 84
General Horace Porter, last surviving member of Ulysses S. Grant's military staff and former U.S. ambassador to France, died Sunday in New York in his 85th year.
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New York
Horace Porter
Grant
France
Light snow reported across Montana with heavy falls in mountains
Light snows spread across Montana with the heaviest falling in the mountain regions per local weather reports.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Texas and Oklahoma Hog Populations Decline in Census
Washington reports total U S hogs at 69 386 000, up from 58 185 000 a decade earlier. Texas counts 2 232 774 hogs, about 100 000 less than 1910, with breakdowns by age and class: pigs under six months 1 113 000 sows six months plus 393 000 boars six months plus 34 235 and other hogs over six months 693 000.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Texas
Not What They Looked For by Dr William Lyon Phelps
Yale scholar Dr William Lyon Phelps told a Philadelphia dinner a story about an old music hall artist returning to a town to find his act no longer elicits laughter. The manager explains the audience changed their jokes but remembers the performer as Bil, not forgotten, just outdated.
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William Lyon Phelps
Yale
Philadelphia
Bil
Bill
Incompatibility Cited in Divorce Suit
A divorce filing cites incompatibility as the reason for split. The dialogue notes a misspelled term while outlining the grounds referenced in court.
Two Things Not Looked For Andrew Carnegie Story
In Autobiography Andrew Carnegie recalls Matthew Arnold failing as a lecturer in the United States. Arnold sought tips from Josh Billings who advised balancing humor with earnestness. Billings quips that two unprepared outcomes are death and twins, provoking audience laughter before a sober finish.
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Andrew Carnegie
Matthew Arnold
United States
Josh Billings
Josh
Mr. Arnold
Self-made boasts cut short by unfinished work
The phrase notes that many men claiming self made status cease work before completion, implying vanity precedes final achievement and suggesting results define true merit.
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Roberts
California
Silesia
Lord Byng
Post Office Department
San Marcos
Lockhart
Hempstead
Caldwell County
Thomas Gambrell
W. Hassell
Denison
S. P. Sadler
Texas State Railroad
Treasury
Williamson
Milam
South Texas
Yoakum
Texas City
Texas City Board of Trade
Brazos County
the Planters’ Bonded Warehouse Company of
Dallas
Giddings
Port Arthur
Gulf of Mexico
The
Highway Commission
W. W. Boyd
Federal Reserve System of
Bayer
John C. Calhoun
New York City
Holland
Gottlieb
Star Products Co
Cameron
Harold Somers
de’ Kall Ave
Brooklyn
Ec-Zene
Ec-Zene Company
University Avenue
Saint Paul
Kremola Safa
Ear
Carter
Ada
Ur Peter & Co
Louisville, Ky
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