Southwestern Drug Corp Formed From Texas Wholesale Firms
J M Penland of Waco heads the new Southwestern Drug Corporation a $3 500 000 concern with Dallas headquarters formed from the Texas Drug Company Greiner Kelly and other firms to coordinate manufacture and distribution and lower consumer prices Directors include J M Penland W E Greiner J T Coulson R T Gibbs C M Penland and James A Baker.
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J. M. Penland
Waco
Whitewright
Southwestern Drug Corporation
C. M. Penland
Dallas Morning News
Dallas
W. E. Greiner
J. T. Coulson
Austin
Texas
R. T. Gibbs
Houston
Homer L. Bruce
Charles E. Richardson
Texas Drug Company
Greiner-Kelly Drug Company
H. W. Williams & Co
Fort Worth
Ainsworth Drug Company
Thompson Drug Company
Amarillo
Houston Drug Company
Waco Drug Company
Texas Capital
Greiner
Penland
Coulson
Corporation
Mr. Coulson
Mr. Greiner
H. W. Williams
Neal Ainsworth
H. P. Moore
B. H. Stephens
J. G. Davis
B. H. Lawrence
M. W. West
James A. Baker
National
Wholesale Druggists’ Association
Waco Chamber of Commerce
Land Is Nephew Of Dallas Pastor Dr. George W. Truett
The text identifies land as a nephew of Dr. George W. Truett, who serves as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Is
George W. Truett
The
First Baptist Church
Dallas
Prayers In Columbus Mark Mississippi Press Meet
Dr. T. D. Batema opened the sixty fourth annual Mississippi Press Association gathering in Columbus with a lengthy prayer asking divine mercy for newspaper people. The benediction touched on their access to information, social circles, and the balance between faith and journalism ethics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Miss
T. D. Batema
First Presbyterian Church
Mississippi Press Association
China
Paradise
Kiawanis
Rotary
Chamber of Commerce
Pearly Gates
St. Peter
Greenville man dies in electric chair in 1929 execution
Willie Grady twenty, a Greenville resident, was executed at the State penitentiary in Huntsville for an October 1928 attack on Mrs. Vada Roberts. He proclaimed innocence and expressed fatalism as three electric shocks delivered the sentence, with death pronounced at 12:26 a.m.
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Huntsville
Willie Grady
State Penitentiary
Vada Roberts
Greenville
Noted Irish immigrant Thomas Sloan dies at 117 years old
Guthrie Oklahoma reports the death of Thomas Sloan aged 117, born in Mount Shore Ireland in 1812. A sailor and cobbler who hunted in Yellowstone, he fought no Civil War duty due to age, worked on rail bridges for the Northern Pacific, and lived in Mulhall before retiring with his stepdaughter in Guthrie. His second wife Mary Sloan survives.
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Guthrie
Okla
Thomas Sloan
Weshinig Irving
West
Tommy Sloan
Atlantic
England
Robert Fulton
Ireland
Sloan
Samuel Morse
Mount Shore
County Downs
America
United States
Yellowstone Park
Rocky Mountains
Great Western
Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln
Boston
Northern Pacific
Cherokee Strip
Oklahoma
Mulhall
M. R. Nickens
Alfred E. Smith
Mary Sloan
More Deadly Than Diphtheria In Traffic Deaths
New York State Department of Health figures show New York City traffic killed 18.3 per 100 000 in 1927, while the rest of the States averaged 26.6. The article contrasts motor deaths with typhoid fever as a public health concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State Department of Health
New York City
Traffic death rate cited as 10 times typhoid in Denison
A captioned comparison notes automobile traffic deaths dwarfing typhoid fever rates, placing emphasis on urgent public safety action. The Denison Herald quotes alarm and calls for drastic measures, while the Toledo Blade adds a wry regional aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denison Herald
Boy Answers History Yet Chooses Moses for Money
A priest offers a quarter to a boy who names the greatest man in history. Louie Musante says Columbus, Frank Mace shouts the Prince of Wales, Rubie Rubenstein names St Patrick but confesses in heart Moses. The priest awards the quarter to Rubenstein, citing business in the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Columbus
Louie Musante
Prince of Wales
Frank Mace
St Patrick
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R. B. Anderson
DRS
Sherman
Jno. T. Nall
Sears
Cc” Nall
RED Ball Bus Line
Leonard and
EARL
Carl Jenkins
Dyer & Jones
Toledo
Mangrum Bros
Goodyear Tire
Goodyear
Adams Motor Company
Ford
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