Record Peanut Shipment En Route to Chicago Candy Maker
The largest peanut shipment to a single candy company moves from Southern points to Chicago. Some 400 carloads totaling over 12 million pounds shelled are part of the company’s yearly needs. If laid end to end the goobers would circle the globe more than twice, creating a 57 000 mile strip. The firm uses about 45 million pounds yearly to produce a billion candy bars.
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Chicago
Globe
Otto Y. Schnering
Schnering
Morgan to Serve on Grand Jury at Three Dollars a Day
International banker J P Morgan will serve on the February Mineola County Court grand jury at three dollars per day. He has an estate in Glencove Nassau County and was drawn to work before County Judge Lewis J Smith. Morgan earlier called jury duty a responsibility and privilege. He was excused last summer while abroad.
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Mineola
L. L
J. P. Morgan
International
Glencove
Nassau County
Lewis J. Smith
Morgan
George Hyde
Europe
Better Homes Campaign Under Way 1928 in America
Secretary Hoover launches the seventh annual Better Homes in America campaign. Local committees, including women and civic groups, demonstrate cost efficient, healthy, and stylish homes with budgets under five thousand dollars for many houses. National week runs April 22 to 28, 1928.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
America
Better Homes In
Better Homes
Coolidge
James Ford
Harvard University
Chambers of Commerce
Plant Some Trees for Fruit Shade and Beauty
February is tree planting time in Whitewright where hackberry is the preferred shade tree for hardy growth. The sycamore and box elder have drawbacks and fruit trees should be peaches and plums with some grape vines for jelly. Buy nursery stock, prune fruit trees to a single stem 18 to 24 inches tall, and follow Texas Forest Service guidance for selecting regionally successful trees.
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Whitewright
Texas
Texas Forest Service
War of 1812 schooner claim yields 23000 with interest
An illustration shows a $3000 United States claim for seizing James Crooks’s schooner during the War of 1812 growing to $23600 after 115 years of interest. Other items note pillow hugging to guard against falls and the House Expenditures Committee trimming obsolete reports, saving over $50000 yearly.
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United States
James Crooks
Toronto
Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy Advertised by Bow-Wright Drug
Sore gums pyorrhea and bleeding gums are addressed with a guarantee to please or refund. The Bow Wright Drug Co promotes a bottle of Leto's Pyorrhea Remedy claiming unique results and certainty of relief.
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Leto
Bow-Wright Drug Co
Proper Tree Transplanting Instructions
The instructions cover selecting trees with healthy root systems and abundant small roots, avoiding dry roots, digging a four foot by three foot hole, refilling with rich top soil if needed, planting no more than one inch deeper than original, packing soil firmly, and mulching with the top two inches of dry pulverized dirt.
Ground Broken for Addition to Waples Memorial Church
A F Platter of Waples-Platter Grocery Co started construction on a new church addition in Denison costing about 60000. He praised early church efforts while Rev Claud Simpson Rev W D Thompson and Rev H M Timmons attended the ground breaking ceremony for the educational wing and district meetings.
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Denison
A. F. Platter
Waples-Platter Grocery Company
Waples Memorial Church
Platter
Claud Simpson
The
Methodist Church
W. D. Thompson
H. M. Timmons
Face on the silver dollar and its Navy ties
The Tampa Tribune notes the face on the silver dollar and its connection to a broader Marine presence in Nicaragua. The piece links the image to historical naval wage and wartime symbolism without graphic detail.
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Tampa Tribune
Notice of Application For Letters Testamentary No 5625
Notice to Grayson County Texas sheriffs and constables that Ben F Short has filed for probate of Mollie S Potts deceased estate. Court to hear May first, 1928 at Sherman courthouse. Requires publication for ten days prior.
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State of
Texas
Grayson County
Grayson
Mollie S. Potts
Ben F. Short
City of
Sherman
Favorite Prescription Brings Relief, Texarkana Woman Claims
Mrs. C. E. Shipp of 307 Oak St Texarkana says Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription improved her health after mid life. She credits relief from aches and pains and lasting well being. Available as tablets or liquid. trial package via 10 cent request and free advice from Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel Buffalo NY.
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Texarkana
Texas
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New Museum of Languages
Sorbonne
Paris
BUICK
Flint, Mich
Sherman, Texas
Richard Griffith
Baltimore
House Committee On Expenditures
Congress
GROVE
Planters National Bank
South Side
Main St
R. Q. Loving
Grayson Co
Rey Eeearty
Lucile Schleuse
Northrup, King & Co
Northrup,King &Co’seeds
Faaa Iy ii
Gordon’s Cash Grocery Service
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