Texas Democratic primary unofficial vote totals July 22
Complete unofficial returns show Ferguson beating Culberson for second in the senatorial race by 27 309 votes while Mayfield outpolled Ferguson by 32 602. Other races foregone totals include King for governor and Kerr for treasurer among listed candidates with district figures.
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Dallas
Texas Election Bureau
Ferguson
Culberson
Mayfield
United States
Henry
Ousley
Thomas
King
Neff
Rogers
Warner
Davidson
Edmondson
Jamison
Johnson
Carroll
Christian
Garrett
Kerr
Kirgan
Tennison
Terrell
Bentley
Marrs
Smith
Mason
Robison
Thompson
Judge Court of Criminal Appeals
Harper
Morgan
Wm. Woodall
Sherman Sells Ball Players to Houston
Sherman Texas Aug 8 The Sherman club completes the season’s largest minor league sale selling Fortier Ferguson Seaman and Lewis to Houston for 2500 dollars. The four players join Houston at 1923 season start to help the Sherman club begin 1923 out of debt while other debts remain. Joe Nicely and Claud Alexander of Slaton are visiting relatives.
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Sherman
Texas
Sherman Baseball Club
Houston Texas League Club
Fortier
Ferguson
Seaman
Lewis
Houston
Dallas Sunday
National Board
T O
Joe Nicely
Claud Alexander of
Slaton
The Helpless Hubby Dragging Wife as Alibi in Town
A man avoids duties and blames his wife, using her as an alibi for his failures and unpleasant tasks. The piece portrays him as Henpecked and as a shameless descendant of Adam in a humorous local column.
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Adam
Man in rural Texas unaware of national strikes in 1900s
Sherman notes a backwoods farmer seven miles from Preston Bend did not know of the railroad strike, coal strike, or political runoff news. J. W. Teaton recounts meeting a self-sufficient farmer who cares only for family, farm, and garden, urging simpler lives amid national turmoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
North
Texas
Preston Bend
Neff
Jim Ferguson
Earle B. Mayfield
United States Senate
J. W. Teaton
Sherman Automobile School
United States
Report on Condition of Trains and Strike Fallout
Washington reports the Interstate Commerce Commission will issue a report on locomotives and cars after the railroad strike. It aims to guide possible emergency legislation, with completion expected in a week to ten days. The probe will be impartial, weighing union and executive figures as data show possible violations of federal inspection laws.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Congress
Bert M. Jewell
Association of
Railroad Executives
American Railway Association
Jewell
Harding
Big Four
Brotherhoods
Mayfield Will Speak At Sherman Tonight
Hon Earle B Mayfield Railroad Commissioner who led in the July 22 primary will speak in Sherman Thursday night at 8 oclock Several of his friends from here will attend Sherman friends expect a large crowd to hear him
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Earle B. Mayfield
United States Senate
Sherman
Mr. Mayfield
Pro Prohibition Raid Ends in Oklahoma Tragedy
In Hugo Oklahoma E G Wiggin s and Y C Reed were fatally shot during a raid on illicit whisky stills near Steer ten miles north of Hugo. B H Pendregraft was wounded as Reed’s house was fired upon. Reed’s son fled after Wiggins died of heart region wounds and Pendregraft suffered multiple bullet wounds.
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Hugo
Okla
E. G. Wiggins
Y. C. Reed
B. H. Pendregraft
Reed
Steer
Here
Choctaw County
Wiggins
Pendergraft
Iowa
Revival at Owensboro First Baptist Church Sunday
Rev G M McNeilly pastor of the First Baptist Church will fill the pulpit Sunday morning in Owensboro Kentucky. Telegram received by W F Holland Saturday notes the revival meeting is ongoing. Printed calling cards priced at 1.50 for 100.
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G. M. McNeilly
First Baptist Church
Owensboro, Ky
W. F. Holland
Schools Will Only Get $10 Per Capita
Austin aug 9 the state board of education plans to apportion no more than 10 per capita for the next fiscal year based on about 1 350 000 students a $3 per capita decrease from the present. an emergency three to four million dollar legislative appropriation is sought to supplement the distribution and maintain salaries. the tax board previously raised the ad valorem tax rate to the constitutional limit to support this need.
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Austin
State Board of Education
Annie Webb Blanton
Pat M. Neff
Comptroller’s Department
Texas
State Automatic Tax Board
Exports Slump During Year Ending in June
Washington report shows sharp declines in the fiscal year ended June 30 across raw materials foodstuffs and manufactures. Raw material exports fell to 926 million from 1.288 billion, while imports stood at 909 million versus 1.051 billion. Foodstuffs exports were 1.144 billion, imports 638 million, with drops from 1.758 and 1.395 billion respectively. Manufactures exports declined to 1.622 billion from 3.33 billion, and imports totaled 1.045 billion versus 1.287 billion.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Man Crushed to Death by Auto in McKinney
McKinney Texas August 7 John Carter a Roland merchant was killed when an automobile driven by Jacob Buschbacher of Detroit skidded and crushed him against a service station brick front while he sat on a bench. Carter weighing over 300 pounds was about 50 years old and died en route to City Hospital.
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McKinney
Texas
John Carter
Roland
North Tennessee Street
Carter
Jacob Buschbacher
Chene Street
Detroit
Mich
Mr. Carter
War fraud charged in three indictments
Indictments returned by a special grand jury accuse Ernest Morse former director of sales at the War Department FE M Davis president of Davis Chemical Co New York and Alexander W Phillips with defrauding the government of more than one million dollars tied to the sale of the Old Hickory Powder Company near Nashville Tennessee The government spent 85 million dollars to build the plant but received only 3 450 100 from the sale according to the indictment
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Washington
Ernest Morse
War Department
FE. M. Davis
Davis Chemical Company
New York
Alexander W. Phillips
Davis
Old Hickory Powder Company
Nashville
Tenn
Federal Control of Railroads Looms Up
Washington reports President Harding weighs congressional power to seize key rail lines especially those servicing coal fields amidst a shopmen strike. Bert M Jewell signals workers would return if government seized all rails, while White House says no final plan exists. Senate leaders remain divided on new takeover legislation as a big four meeting looms.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
Bert M. Jewell
Jewell
White House
Senate
House
Cummins
Iowa
Railroad Labor Board
Missouri Pacific
Gompers
Ferguson Name to Be on Runoff Ticket
Dallas Aug. 7 By unanimous vote the State Democratic Executive Committee certified the name of James E. Ferguson of Temple as a runoff candidate for the United States Senate in the August 26 primary. The move followed debate with Judge John W. Gaines who opposed Ferguson's inclusion. Mayfield opposed elimination of Ferguson. Gaines plans to seek an injunction in Bexar County to block certification. The committee canvassed July results and certified candidates in ballot order amid a crowded hearing with observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
State
Democratic Executive Committee
James E. Ferguson
Temple
United States Senate
Ferguson
Barry Miller
Senator Culberson
John W. Gaines
San Antonio
Mr. Ferguson
Earle B. Mayfield
Senate
Gaines
Mayfield
Texas Election Bureau
T. W. Davidson
Marshall
Billie Mayfield Jr
Houston
Cullen F. Thomas
United States
Thomas
Judge Gaines
Bexar County
Frank C. Davis
Texas
Davis
Woman Kills Wolf Raid on Hen House in Sherman
Sherman Aug 8 Mrs Verda Nervella of 719 South Vaden street reported awakening to a terrible noise in her hen house at 3 30 this morning. She fired twice with a .38 revolver after a huge wolf charged from the hen house into the street and the animal dropped dead.
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Earle Mayfield
Bill
Grayson
Preston
Oklahoma
Hambone
Mistus
DE Bois
Lawdy
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