Bonham Woman Holds Early Texas Map of 1839
Bonham resident Mrs. Alice McClellan, widow of Judge E. D. McClellan, owns a rare 1839 Texas map compiled by her father R. Hunt and Jessie F. Randel. The map, drawn from General Land Office records, shows Red River and Nacogdoches counties with trails, buffalo herds, Indian villages, and a line of march of General Rusk. Mrs. McClellan, 78, has lived in Bonham 76 years, moving there in 1848 from New York.
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United States
Fannin County
Gainesville
Buffalo
Nacogdoches County
Fannin
Red River
Roxo de Natchitoches
Waco
Caddo Lake
Pecos
Gains Landing
Nacogdoches
San Antonio
Rusk
General Rusk
Clarksville
Jack County
Mrs. McClellan
Frisky Tales From Hogwallow Headlines
A collection of humorous local vignettes from Hogwallow. Characters like Frisby Hancock and Columbus Allsop encounter odd misadventures across a sleepy town, with playful banter about frogs, overcoats, and kitchen-table debates.
Tiny steel gauges insured for twenty thousand dollars
Eleven minute pieces of steel vary by one millionth of an inch and are on display at the Petit Salon in Stanleigh Court Dallas. Crafted by Carl E. Johansson, the blocks must be kept at 68 degrees and handled with tweezers to preserve their exact measurements. The set is insured for $20,000 and draws attention for its precision and fragile nature.
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Stanleigh Court
Dallas
Carl E. Johansson
Johansson
Fifty Injured In Louisiana Storm In New Orleans
A severe wind and hailstorm struck sections of New Orleans on Thursday night injuring fifty people and wrecking many homes. Police estimate property damage will exceed a quarter of a million dollars.
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New Orleans
Texas plants 30 400 acres in melons
Texas will rank second in watermelon production this year behind Georgia if weather stays favorable. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics lists Texas plantings at 30 400 acres, compared with Georgia 40 700, Florida 28 830, South Carolina 10 800, Alabama 8 340, North Carolina 4 490, and California 38 800 in the Imperial Valley.
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Austin
Texas
Georgia
South
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Co-Operative State Federal Market News Service
Florida
South Carolina
Alabama
North Carolina
Imperial Valley of California
Teacher acquitted on charge of assault
Sherman April 20 after forty minutes deliberation the jury in the G E Chapman case returned a verdict of acquittal Saturday night Chapman former principal at Layne School near Denison was charged with criminal assault upon one of his pupils He denied the charge on the stand after the girl testified on Saturday
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Sherman
G. E. Chapman
Chapman
Layne School
Denison
Helps Over Hard Places Remedy Advertisement
Diluted with water this Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is easy to take and quickly eases sudden stomach pains cramps and intestinal disorders. A mother is perfectly safe giving it for childhood stomach aches.
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Chamberlain
Fortune for Smiles in Meriden Will
A Meriden Connecticut factory superintendent left nearly all his estate about $59 000 to a young newspaper hawker who brightened his days with smiles. The boy had helped support himself by selling papers and never failed to cheer the aged man.
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Meriden
Conn
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The fragment describes a young man gaining independence through the will of a person he encountered while selling papers at a factory, noting the impact of the circumstance on his freedom.
Million+ Texas poll tax receipts issued this year
Poll tax receipts issued as certificates of registration in Texas total 1,195,239 across 251 counties, an increase of 181,421 from last year. Dallas County leads, with Harris, Bexar, and Tarrant next, while 227 counties show gains and 24 decline.
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Texas
Dallas News
Galveston News
San Antonio Express
Dallas County
Harris
Bexar
Tarrant
Grayson
Haha
Fanninia Sésteek d’ AgUle Collin
Hien
Samar
Tariff as Great as All Local Taxes Combined
Revenue from taxes collected by states counties cities townships and local units for the year ended June 30 1928 totaled 4 224 616 000 about 38 86 per person The present Republican tariff is estimated at no less than 4 000 000 000 or 36 36 per capita These tariff taxes hit agricultural regions hardest. Sun and Dallas News
To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
An old patent medicine note promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tapiete as a one day cold remedy. It claims to stop coughing and headaches and to work off the cold with E W Grove signature on each box. The price is 30 cents.
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E.W. Grove
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Bonham Woman
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Frisby Hancock
Sile Kilden
Tickville
Fitcher Henstep
Jefferson Potlocks
Columbus Allsop
Ellick Helwanger
Washington Hocks
Atlas Peck
Sim Flinders
Migaof
Sim
Sidney Hocks
Yam Sims
Sidney
Sun and
Louisiana
A.bthrifty
Planters National Bank
Mangrum Brothers
Sun
Worle
Lele
J. F. Lill
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