Garner Elevated by 30 Years of Tugging
UVALDE Texas profile of John Nance Garner shows a self made rise from Texas representative to Speaker of the House and Democratic vice presidential candidate. friends recall a patient builder who avoided fanfare while shaping national influence and maintaining deep local ties at Fair Oaks in Uvalde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uvalde
John Nance Garner
National House
Fifteenth
Texas
Congress
M. B
Pete) Walcott
Walcott
Garner
Red River County
Mighty
John Garner
Ross Brumfield
Whit” Whittington
Whittington
Fair Oaks
U. S. Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Washington
Rio Grande Valley
Uvalde County
Carter seeks re election to Grayson County District Judge post
R M Carter asks Democratic voters of Grayson County to re elect him as District Judge 15th District Court citing a record of honest effort diligent handling of criminal and civil cases and service aiding congested Dallas and East Texas courts. He notes the high duties of the office and urges consideration of his candidacy despite limited in person contact.
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Uvalde County
Garner
William Henry Crain
Uvalde
Crain
District
Congress
Washington
Grayson County
Dallas
Texas
R. M. Carter
15Th District Court
Tax Bankruptcy Threatens Tax Bankruptcy Threatens
The threat of tax bankruptcy looms as tax levies take a day’s labor weekly from each person. Somber notes show a rising share of workers on public payrolls and mounting state deficits. Counties seize land for unpaid taxes while bond issues default, crippling schools and public services.
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Melvin Traylor
First National Bank of Chicago
New York Sun
Ohio
Mark Sullivan
Fort Worth
Roads in America praised by English traveler
An Englishman returning from a long American tour described most roads as good. He praised the Lincoln Highway Washington Boulevard and Jefferson Highway as excellent. He criticized branch roads built by a Frenchman named De Tour as 'orrible and poor.
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America
Hamerica
Washington Boulevard
Jefferson
Humor Sketches and Jokes From A Vintage Page
A collection of dated quips and comic exchanges featuring punchlines about marriage, alimony, doctors, dance, and social one-liners. Jokes touch on romance, vanity, work, and social expectations with playful misreadings and wordplay across a miscellany of fictional scenes.
Jokes and jests from a bygone household antics column
A series of humorous home skits and quips span bigamy jokes to nurse introductions and a boy seeking jam. The dialogue riffs on marriage, manners, and mistaken identities with a playful rural tone and quick punchlines. The pieces showcase light moralizing and family banter.
Unclear excerpt notes Eva and Molly in dialogue
Fragmentary quotation features Eva highlighted in a crowd and Molly noted for staying out with a brief conversational exchange.
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Eva
Molly
Classic Vaudeville Exchange Sparks Lively Courtroom Gibe
A humorous courtroom exchange features a judge and comic characters Rastus and McGinty. The judge quips about liquor as Rastus claims his wife struck first. The dialogue contrasts old fashioned courting with modern behavior and ends with McGinty explaining his parentage.
Night Radio Spat Over Locked Safe and Missing Code
A woman cries out in frustration at a late hour while her husband battles a stuck radio dial. He insists he cannot be disturbed as he searches for a missing combination and worries someone is locked in the safe.
A Girl May Love You From the Bottom of Her Heart
A playful line notes that affection can coexist with interest from others, suggesting humor about love and competition and a light social observation.
Gave Him the Words Foreman
An excavation job applicant responds to a hard labor test by noting that some of the country’s best judges have found him fit. The remark frames a blunt exchange over capability and judgment in a hiring context.
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Uvalde Bank
Tully C
Whitewright
Vim
Kirkpatrick
NYAL
Sinclair
Sinclair P. D
Sinclair “Fly
Sinclair Refining Company (Inc
B. B. Hall
Reserve District
First National Bank
United States
Banking House Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
U. S
State of Texas
Grayson
Joe Hughes
J.C. Allred
E. L. Craig
T. P. Wells
J. J. Hogan
Fifteenth District Court
Sam
Jess
Elsie Dome
Cornell Widow
Doctor
Rastus
Hollywood
Vicum
Willie
Jimmie
W.N
Poley) Butridge
Paul Stephens Whitewright
Joel R. Bond
Kaufman County
Court OF Civil Appeals
Collin and
Grayson Counties
Bond
Rockwall
Vaughan
Dallas County
North Texas
Grayson, Collin
Ellis Counties
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