Early Days in Fannin County
A 1845 46 47 tale of outlaws in Fannin County Texas and a lynching. Big Horn Smith evades and then is hanged by a citizen mob after a failed trial and shifting justice. Nails dies of a gunshot in Bois d Arc bottom as Smith flees near Austin later captured and returned for trial. Some locals defend the lynching as self defense. others call it mob violence.
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Big Horn Smith
Nails
Big Horn
Bois d’Arc Bottom
Smith
Texas
Bois d’Arc
Austin
Fannin
Bonham
Beasley and Mangrum Express Gratitude to Patrons
Local shop Beasley and Mangrum welcomes customers with emphasis on appreciation for patronage when buying gas oils tires tubes accessories or shoe repairing services.
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Beasley & Mangrum
Account Books For Farmers Distributed In Grayson County
The Sherman Chamber of Commerce published an account book for farmers in Grayson County. It helps farmers list property, itemize costs for planting and harvesting, and compute monthly and yearly totals to assess profits or losses.
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Sherman Chamber of Commerce
Grayson County
Atlas Peck Takes Wife to Tickville on Monday
Local quirky notes recount Atlas Peck and wife shopping for a dress, reflecting on long held plans. Small town vignettes include Old Miser of Musket Ridge tearing down a cow shed due to high costs and various neighborhood happenings.
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Atlas Peck
Tickville
Atlas
Use of Cotton Breaks Record
Cotton consumption in March reached a record 694,193 bales of lint per the Census Bureau. Exports for March again topped 1,000,000 bales, lifting eight months of the cotton year to 8,829,056 bales including linters, driven by Germany leading buyers with 2,346,541 bales. UK bought 2,183,398 bales and Japan 1,268,719 bales.
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Census Bureau
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
40 Mile Ride To School Would Divide District
Brownsville April 20. Residents of Hargill seek to split the Edinburg district the largest in area in the United States. A petition to the Legislature argues that a 40 mile daily round trip to Edinburg school exhausts pupils who must be ready at 5 a.m. for the bus, with a 20 mile ride each way.
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Brownsville
Edinburg
United States
Hargill
Hidalgo County
Norway to end prohibition era liquor controls
Oslo reports that when the law replacing prohibition takes effect this spring the dry agents will be reduced to rare inspections in remote districts. Government aims to curb bootlegging by offering high quality liquors at low prices, with Scotch at 2.50, brandy at 2, aquavite at 1.50 per bottle. Prohibition was decisively defeated in a referendum.
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Oslo
Norway
Government to Legalize Liquor Trade Under Control
A cabinet plan drawn up last October aims to legalize liquor selling under government control. A Sun Want Ad offers to sell the document or its details.
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Dum
Hayes Healing Honey and Grove Open-Trate Salve Combo
Quick cough relief by Hayes Healing Honey paired with Grove Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat. The two remedies in one carton claim to halt coughing as the throat heals and salve soothes chest cold and croup symptoms. Priced at 35 cents.
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Hayes
Grove
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Fannin County
W. A. Carter
S. H. Montgomery & Son
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Washington Hocks
P. M
Jeff Potlocks
Excelsior Fiddling
Poke Eazley
Dock Hocks
Sap Spradlen
Rock Springs
Edwards County
Southwest
St. Louis
The
Republic
FORD
Ford Motor Company
America
Adams Motor Coo
Lilley Dry Goods
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