Per Capita Cost To Run Texas In 1923 Was $9.86
Washington reports that Texas spent $9.86 per person in 1923. The state’s total expenditures reached $48,451,602 with current expenses at $46,895,000 and interest and improvements accounting for the rest. The era’s tax and debt figures show a per capita burden of $5.30 in property taxes and a net indebtedness of 91 cents per person.
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Texas
Washington
Istical Division
Department Commerce
Ita
Morehead's Filling Station Patronage Note
A brief patronage message from Morehead's Filling Station thanking customers for their support and promising quick service in a concise local-merchant tone.
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Morehead’s
Active Liver Tonic With Calomel Free Tablets Ad
An active liver without calomel is assured by taking Chamberlain's Tablets for stomach liver and bowels. Never sicken nor gripe. Only 25 cents.
A&M Advises Early Fight Against Hopper
Farmers in Texas are urged to preemptively combat grasshoppers this year by inspecting likely egg beds in sod and rocky outcrops where large gatherings occurred last autumn. If eggs are abundant, mark spots and apply brain mash poison when hatchlings emerge to prevent field damage. Eggs described as pencil-diameter, 40 to 50 packed together in a bag.
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A. & M. College
Jazz Slayers Mother Murder Admit No Spankings
San Francisco, Jan 26. Dorothy Ellingson, 16, who killed her mother after being forbidden to attend a dance, says she was never spanked by her mother and blames herself for the tragedy. She shot the woman, then attended a dance and later confessed. She also wrote a poem lamenting the deed and her ruined life.
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San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Dorothy
Stone Mountain Half Dollar Obverse Features Lee and Jackson
A description of the coin shows the obverse with Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson mounted. Lee gazes toward Jackson’s pointing direction. Stone Mountain and year appear lower left. The reverse bears United States of America and E Pluribus Unum with an eagle on a mountain summit. the motto memorial to the valor of the soldiers of the South and liberty with half dollar beneath. sculptor initials G. B. incised on the obverse.
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Robert BE. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Lee
Jackson
Stone Mountain
United States of America
Liberty
G. B
Curious Chinese Letter On American Customs Causes Stir
An Exchange excerpt quotes a letter from a Chinese writer describing Americans as beyond redemption. The piece claims Americans eat large meat chunks uncooked, bathe daily to mask odors, and use knives at table while women are served first. It reflects old stereotypes and social tensions of the era.
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China
Stone Mountain Half Dollars Begin At Philadelphia Mint
Philadelphia Jan 24 Coining of the Stone Mountain half dollars started last week at the Philadelphia mint. Commemorating Confederate soldiers and the Georgia memorial carving the coins are sized to standard half dollar and will be exchanged for par value with the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Association in Atlanta. Congress limits coinage to 5,000,000 pieces. South observers included Gutzon Borglum and Hollings Randallgh, E Rivers, Joseph H McCord, and Rowland B. Mahany. The obverse shows in God we trust and 13 stars in two groups of four and one of five.
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Philadelphia
Stone Mountain
Ned Nearly and the breakfast surprise tale
A short tale recalls Ned Nearly as a very young boy who fails to come down for breakfast one morning. His parents and siblings search his room, creating a moment of family surprise and curiosity.
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Ned
Ned Neardly and the Very Nearly Man
A tale about Ned Neardly who is always almost achieving reading writing and counting. His family teachers and employers note his almost but never quite success. The story ends with his death and a tombstone declaring he was not quite.
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Ned
Frank Crane
Untold Workplace Slack Sparks Tense Exchange
An unreliable boss berates a clerk over repeated requests for time off citing a dying wife. The clerk defends himself, saying he cannot depend on his wife for anything, underscoring a strained employer employee dynamic without clear resolution.
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