Texas Confederate Homes Preserve Veterans in Austin
The Texas Confederate Home for men and the Texas Confederate Women's Home in Austin house 232 veterans and widows. The men age around 88 on average with funds for upkeep, pensions, medical care, and daily routines including leisure and romance. The women's home shelters 78 women with a similar pension and state support.
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Texas
Austin
Lee
Jackson
E. L. Hardin
Texas Confederate Women’s Home
Mae West Film Renamed The Belle of New Orleans
Mae West announced the renamed film The Belle of New Orleans after It Ain’t No Sin faced censors. The studio recalled the release, will resubmit, and reshoot scenes to remove objectionable features. Some footage is set in New Orleans.
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Hollywood
Mae West
New York Board of Regents (Censors
New Orleans
Promulgation of Liquor Bottle Regulations
Washington acts to curb bootlegging by requiring government permits for bottle makers, certified buyers for sales, and marking each bottle with permit number year of manufacture and purchaser symbol. Bottles to be used once only and export restrictions limit possession. destruction allowed.
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Washington
Coolidge
The
Treasury
Congress
Internal Revenue Bureau
Black German shepherd guards Lindbergh child at North Haven estate
On Penobscot Bay Maine the large black German shepherd roams the Dwight W Morrow estate and guards Jon Lindbergh now nearly two years old during his second summer vacation. Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh are at the Morrows summer home with Constance Morrow and Betty Gow the nurse. The dog protects Jon from strangers while the family enjoys the island retreat.
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North Haven
Maine
Dwight W. Morrow
Jon Lindbergh
Charles
Jon
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Penobscot Bay Island
Constance Morrow
Lindbergh
Morrows
Arctic
Betty Gow
Duck Hunting Stamp Design Finished by Darling
Washington reports the new duck hunting stamp, priced at $1 per hunter, features a waterfowl scene. J. N. Darling, known as Ding, designed it for the Bureau of Biological Survey. Revenue, projected between $600,000 and $1,000,000 annually, funds wildlife habitats.
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Washington
J. N. Darling
Bureau of Biological Survey
Farm Bankruptcy Officials Named By Judge Bryant
W H Rayburn of Bonham brother of Congressman Sam Rayburn was named supervising conciliation commissioner for the Eastern district of Texas by Federal Judge Randolph Bryant. Judson H Wood of Sherman was named Grayson County commissioner as part of a district wide panel under a Congress act amending the bankruptcy act to aid farmers.
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Bryant
Sherman
W. H. Rayburn
Bonham
Sam Rayburn
District of
Texas
Randolph Bryant
Judson H. Wood
Grayson County
England’s ghosts keep over 150 estates empty
Belief in the supernatural is widespread in England with more than 150 manor houses and castles said to be unoccupied because ghosts flit about the premises.
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England
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Texas Confederate Home
Colorado River
John B. Hood
Texas Division
United Daughters of the Confederacy
J. A. Ricks
T. J. Wilmuth
Tom Winfree
Wharton County
Lucy B. Parker
W. T. Bagby
Southern Ice & Util. Co
W. R. Vineyard
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Mangrum Bros
Paul Stephens
United States
Electrolux
Lone Star Communitypgg Natural Gas Co. Gas System
Finders
India
Vīai le
Sahara Desert
Africa
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