Interscholastic League Adopts 18 Year Old Rule
The State Executive Committee approved an 18 year old age rule for all contests effective September 1 1936. The change aims to modernize participation rules and place Texas ahead of other states. Also approved were plans for a statewide student self government conference and extensions to tennis events and junior declamations for the 1935 86 school year. Hemphill County also expanded irrigation garden projects with 16000 feet of tile laid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austina
State v
Roy, Bedichek
Bureau of Public School Interests
University of Texas
Bedichek
Texas
New York
Texas promise and perils for emigrants in a letter
A letter from M. Jones discusses Texas as a promising cotton and sugar country with abundant crops and livestock. It warns that emigrants face many difficulties and high labor, but a skilled planter with labor can prosper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Jones
Reed
Houston
Tam
Texas
Aardvark born in new colony seeks Texas move
A letter describes an aardvark creation at Brane Zoo fashioned from various animals with a vacuum cleaner tongue. The writer urges young readers to face hardships in a new country, notes business prospects for men of integrity, and invites a visit to judge for oneself before deciding to relocate to Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smeret
Brane Zoo
Ats
John Perry
Nash
Vana Cleve Laboratories
Peach Point Plantation in Texas Ties to Stephen F. Austin
University of Texas archives reveal Peach Point Plantation as home of Mrs James F Perry sister of Stephen F Austin. Abner Strobel notes it as a cotton and sugar plantation with home offices and a still vivid family memory of daily prayers and Bible reading. A 1839 letter from James Perry in Peach Point to Great Mc Grandy Jr in Missouri is preserved amid the plantation papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Abner J. Strobel
Peach Point Plantation
James F. Perry
Stephen F. Austin
Peach Point
Freeport
Great McGrandy, Jr
Potosi
Missouri
Ex-Hubby Walks in On Honeymoon Ousts Bridegroom
Oakland, California. William G. Schuster testified in an annulment after ten days of marriage when his wife Dorothy Fitzgerald Schuster’s former husband arrived and declared the couple reconciled. Superior Judge T. W. Harris granted the plea, noting Schuster did not know of the prior marriage and divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Dorothy Fitzgerald Schuster
William G. Schuster
Schuster
Dorothy
April Hen Flock Earns 331 15 for Mrs Duewall Report
Mrs Walter Duewall of Burleson County reports April profit from 183 hens totaling 331 15. Hens laid 8756 eggs 815 dozen sold for 58 70. Three chickens sold for 1 50 bringing receipts to 60 20. Feed costs 1100 pounds mash 20 45 and 400 pounds grain 8 60 total expenses 29 05.
The Story of Cotton in Collingsworth County
An introductory portrait of cotton as central to Collingsworth County. It traces cotton’s vast global impact from fiber to industry, notes the gin’s pivotal role in value, and previews a weekly series on cotton history and its importance to producers and the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Cotton
Collingsworth County
Whig
Wwe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hemphill
H. M. Cantyell
Toreador
U. S
Madrid
Los Angeles
City Humane Department
PRPP
Texas History Series
Ford Dealers
Ford
U.S.C
Atsar
Etead
Wellington United Cash Stores
Raburn Grocery
B & M Grocery
White Front Grocery
Nunnelley Market & Gro
Cal Sugg
J.T. Slay
Dodsonville
Steve Owens Grocery
L. A. Rollings Grocery
Scott & Hadel Wesson Cash Store
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