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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
2
Readers see a roundup of timely items from multiple communities highlighting notable events, public notices, and community updates that reflect regional life and concerns. Local officials, schools, and organizations are mentioned in a broad survey of happenings.
A sweep of national affairs covers Taft proposals on pure food laws, liquor shipments to prohibition states, sugar industry testifyings, and Senate votes. Also details on Lorimer probe hearings, fires, lynching cases, and deaths from Cox Davis to Hoke Smith’s mother. Major rail deals in Missouri and Texas, and municipal bonds in Beaumont. Civil notices and a Paris embezzlement verdict wrap the report.
Spur to build an $18,000 schoolhouse. Panama fortifications under way. Fort Worth enacts a safe and sane Fourth proclamation. Palestine bank plans a $75,000 bank house. Waco eyes a $200,000 hotel. Nebraskan Land & Milling builds a $30,000 Texarkana elevator. Sulphur Springs crate plant employs 25. Moran News plant burned for an $800 loss. Elks lodge in Temple at $35,000. San Antonio targets gambling. many arrests. Georgetown ships Vermont granite fountain. Harlingen to boost crop handling with gin, compress, oil mill. Brookston shooting fatality in Williams ranch dispute. Arno Irrigation expands to 15,000 acres. Mount Vernon man killed. widow and ten children left. Texas Socialist encampment set for Grand Saline in August. Reynolds farmer John Northcutt found dead after horse kick. Wichita Falls blocks paving nears end. plan for more blocks. Winfield Scott gin dismantled for larger unit in Cleburne. Dallas windstorm causes damage. Interstate wooden cars may be banned by 1915 bill. Gainesville waterworks to overhaul system. Oklahoma forest fire causes heavy timber losses. Burleson lightning strike fatal to Jesse Pierce. Summer capital project proposed in Congress. Bartlett-Florence railway sold to Bartlett Western Railway, with expected completion to Florence.
Texas League standings show Oklahoma City leading with 71 games won and a .546 percentage, followed by Fort Worth Dallas Houston and San Antonio with varying records. Southwest Texas towns Corpus Christi Victoria and Beeville post strong to fair marks as Bay City lingers. Rainfall across the Deep South and Texas states continues heavy through Saturday while railway consolidation moves Texas lines to the Katy for 3.3 million dollars, marking a major shift in independent railroad ownership.
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