PUBLIC SCHOOL HONOR ROLL FOURTH MONTH LISTS MANY GRADES
Public school honor roll for the fourth month lists first through eleventh grades with numerous students named per class. The A Club entries include multiple grades, and the highest averages cite Tom Everhart, Jo Hestand, Billy Blaine. Enrollment reaches 700 with 110 students above 90 and 12 failures. Also ads for Herbine and Rub-My-Tism medicine appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Smith
Gertrude Brannon
Lois Truett
J. Frank Roberts
Margaret Pierce
Delma Webb
Clifford Robinson
Johnnie V. Dossey
Grover Biggerstaff
Mary Lee Andrews
Alwilda Ryan
Baby Nell Penn
Aubrey Cook
Alberta Blanton
Milliard Murray
Virginia Smith
Fay Turner
Charlie Belle Truett
Milliard Mangrum
Guy Yowell
Margaret Freeman
Mardell Pumphrey
Lois Cates
Jack Bogle
Edna Horton
Robert Everheart
Mary Lou Ross
Oma Caperton
Loren Mangrum
Lola Myrick
Martha Bow
Dorothy Binion
Frances Phillips
Evelyn Wilson
Joe Weldon Carr
Eugene Melver
Ben Sturdivant
Grace Vestal
Addison Vestal
Kate Smith
Lillian Weathery
Clara Craig
Billy Blaine
John McGaughey
Grady Halliburton
Lavern Henderson
Eva Jane Skaggs
Margaret Newsom
Earl Blanton
Clara May Truett
Emma Lucile Craig
Tom Everheart
Bryant Jared
Grover B. Smith
Ellea Stapleton
Clyde Montgomery
David Everheart
Inez Mason
Elizabeth Newsom
Maurine May
Theresa Everheart
Margaret Everheart
Wilma Harper
Jo Hestand
Women Subject to Poll Tax Levy in Texas Opinion
In a Texas opinion the Attorney General's Department declares that every resident aged 21 to 60, both men and women, is liable for the State poll tax of 1.50 starting 1921, with the tax becoming a lien on property excluding homestead. The Tax Assessor must assess all eligible residents, and nonpayment may lead to levy and sale of property. The ruling extends to county poll tax of 25 cents. an ad for White's Vermifuge ends the paragraph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Attorney General's Department
Texas
Kramer Says U S Will Never Be Literally Dry
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer said the United States will never be literally dry but that prohibition is here to stay. He forecast lingering sentiment for prohibition and practical enforcement after the current generation passes, with a few individuals still making intoxicants at home as the sons and daughters of today grow up without a taste for liquor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Kramer
Man gets fifteen years for 19 cent grocery robbery
Kansas City Maine Jan 12 Albert R Patters 24 pleaded guilty in Criminal Court to a robbery netting 19 cents. He received a fifteen year sentence in the state penitentiary for taking part in the grocery store theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Albert R. Patters
Patters
Plan to Establish Colony of Americans in Mexico
Sherman Jan. 10. I W Taylor Sherman L Dicken Howe Jeff D Hall Dorchester went to Buena Vista Vera Cruz Mexico to investigate locating a colony of people from North Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Sherman
I. W. Taylor
L. Dicken
Howe
Jeff D. Hall
Dorchester
Buena Vista
Merkel imposes 830 curfew for youths under sixteen
Abilene Texas Jan 8 Merkel city council passes curfew ordinance to keep boys and girls under sixteen off streets after 8 30 pm unless with a parent or guardian. Also an ad for Liquid Borozone antiseptic with prices 30c 60c and 1 20 sold by Dyer and Jones druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Texas
Merkel
Here
Dyer & Jones
Special Blanks For Farmers Income Tax Forms 1040F
Farmers with net income of 2000 or more for 1920 must file by March 15 1921. The Bureau provides Form 1040F to record sales of livestock and produce and a summary of income and expenses attached to Form 1040 or 1040A. Include all farm product proceeds and barter values in gross income. Deduct ordinary farm expenses to determine net income. Use actual receipts or complete accounts with inventories. Form 1040F explains both methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Collectors of Internal Revenue
Making Corncob Pipes Is Worth Million to Missouri
Jefferson City Mo Jan 12 The corncob pipe industry in Missouri last year neared a million dollars with sales totaling 912890 as reported by State labor commissioner W H Lewis Six factories produced 26056800 complete corncob pipes 2324880 wooden pipes and over one million reed stems to be distributed across the United States and abroad Thousands of these pipes are smoked in Germany in the home of the genuine meerschaum The industry highlights Missouri origin and export reach
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri
W. H. Lewis
Missouri Meerschaums
United States
Germany
Lewis
Cure a Cold in One Day with Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as a one day cure for cold symptoms. It claims to stop cough and headache and relieve the cold, with E W Grove’s signature on each box and a price of 30 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E.W. Grove
Refining Company Fined $99,000 in Interstate Shipping Case
In Muskogee Oklahoma on January 10 the Gulf Refining Company received a $99,000 penalty in federal court for mislabeling interstate shipments. Attorneys for the firm appealed Judge Robert L Williams's decision. Ninety nine counts carried a minimum fine with a potential maximum of $1,980,000. The case involved shipping casing head gas as unrefined naptha with large alleged differences in charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Gulf Refining Company
Robert L. Williams
Williams
Texas Brothers in Double Elopement to Maryland Town
Elkton Md Jan 10 A romance begun in Willow Grove while the sailor from Temple Texas met a girl from Doylestown Pa ends in a double elopement to Elkton George Cowen 23 marries Nellie Shaffer 18 while brother Robert Lee 32 wed Helen Shaffer 21 The couples married by Rev Moon then went to Conway near Pittsburgh for a four room apartment Both brothers found work with the Pennsylvania Railroad to stay near the girls and the weddings followed
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkton
Temple
Texas
Doylestown
Willow Grove
Philadelphia
George Cowen
Nellie C. Shaffer
Robert Lee Cowen
Mr. Moon
Conway
Pittsburgh
Navy
U. S
Robert
Cowen Brothers
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dear May and Will Exchange Vindictive Mail
The piece recalls a brief mutual exchange where a rejected suitor seeks vengeance after a prior proposal. Dear May responds with a playful twist, admitting she forgot whom she refused. The exchange captures light literary humor from the era and credits American Legion Weekly. 666 relief mentioned as a cold remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May
Will
American Legion Weekly
A Tribute To Woman
A reflective piece extols womans love as the enduring force of humanity. It frames women as redeeming, virtuous, and the source of art and music, asserting female desire stems from love and outmatches male flaws in influence and beauty.
Marvel of Promptness Herbine Medicine Ad
An old advertisement touts Herbine as a remedy for biliousness constipation and upset stomach claiming it corrects these conditions promptly. It lists a price of 60 cents and notes availability from a seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyer & Jones
Rum pus Ridge yard cry over swallowed fishhook incident
In Rum pus Ridge Arkansas Gap Johnson shouts in a yard as a commotion erupts over a baby who was playing with fishing tackle and swallowed a fishhook. Bear cat laments the danger and questions the fuss while others react to the accident in a rural setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Ark
Sam Hill
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Traol
Mark
Littell
James F, Ballard
Ceeug UA
St. Louis
West Texas
Golden Medical Discovery
Dr. Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
Refining Company
Texas Brothers
Maryland
Kimbell
Hale
Canova Coffee
Sbe OG
Prince Albert
W.T. Nicholson
Robert G. Ingersoll
Whitewright
Luther Smith & Son
Garland & Hileman
Farmers Union Gin Co
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