Convictions Rise in June Term of Fifteenth District Court
Sherman July 28 Thirty-six convictions and four acquittals were recorded from forty criminal cases tried in the June term of the Fifteenth district court. Numerous defendants pleaded guilty, with sentences ranging from two to four years in the penitentiary, and several cases resulted in suspended sentences or acquittals. Key pleas included Bill Alexander, C. W. Champion, W. F. Clancy, and Co. E. Linxwiler, among others, with multiple liquor and theft related charges.
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C. W. Champion
W. F. Clancy
Henry E. Campbell
J. E. Ethridge
Glover Howard
Co. E. Linxwiler
Bob Laxton
Lela Mae Lewis
Pottsboro
C. E. Nichols
John A. McGrew
John Shannahan
Edgar
City Boy
Slape
Earl Thurman
Alfred Walker
Minnie Ratliff
Catherine Robinson
George Rosswell
Frank Benedict
Benedict
H. C. Riley
Charley Lankford
Finn Lloyd
Dugan Turnbull
Denison
W H Stedham's new shop offers tire setting and blacksmithing
W H Stedham advertises expert tire setting for wagons and buggies both hot and cold with guaranteed satisfaction. He also offers blacksmithing and woodwork from a new shop east of his previous location, highlighting years of specialization.
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W. H. Stedham
Van Alstyne Boy Dies From Injury at Work
Glen Cude Tate aged 14 of Van Alstyne died Friday at 7 p m after his right arm and side were badly injured by a mixing machine at a local bakery. He was rushed to Sherman Hospital but died about six hours later. Survived by father L D Tate sister Mary Evelyn 13 and brother Knox 11. mother died six years ago.
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Glen Cude Tate
van Alstyne
Sherman
Sherman Hospital
L. D. Tate
Mary Evelyn
Knox
Transfers Required Before August First for School Shifts
County Superintendent Acton announces transfers must be completed before August 1 for any child moving between districts this term. Parents urged to act at once to avoid impossibility of transfers.
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Acton
Adul Islands Pygmies Believe Birth Heralds Evil Spirit
A fragment notes a Bay of Bengal people on the Adul Islands who regard each newborn as host to an evil spirit. Mothers reportedly act under this belief, shaping cultural practices surrounding infants.
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Adulman Islands
Bay of Bengal
Laxa Tive Bromo Quinine Ad by E W Glove signature
An old advertisement touts Laxa Tive Bromo Quinine as superior to ordinary quinine for tonic and laxative effects without nervousness or head ringing. It urges readers to recall the full product name and look for the signature of E W Glove.
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E. W. Glove
The Signal Tower and Blue Beards 8th Wife at the Rex
On Monday August 3 Virginia Walli stars in The Signal Tower with an all star cast and an action packed plot including a train crash and a dramatic fight in a signal tower plus a love story. Also comedy On the Ice. Tuesday August 4 Gloria Swanson stars in Blue Beard s 8th Wife a dazzling tale of a French beauty testing her husband across sensational scenes. Also a comedy. Wednesday and Thursday August 5-6 The Crowded Hour starring Bebé Daniels offers Broadway style drama about a good girl who loses a man and finds her soul. Also comedy tenting out.
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Virginia Walli
Gloria Swanson
Bluebeard
Gloria
Bebe Daniels
Skeletons and skulls shape island mourning rites
The text describes ritual self scarification by cutting to release spirits, with widespread body scars among islanders. Women wear dead husbands' skulls as tokens of mourning. After a death, small people bid farewell, bury, desert, then return months later to exhume and wash bones in the sea. They perform a skull dance, adorn the skull and jaw with red ocher and white clay, and gift these to chief mourners worn as necklaces.
Prohibition Hasn't Hurt Us Yet Displays Prosperity Figures
Walter W. Head, president of the American Bankers Association, cites large-scale indicators of U S prosperity including 110 million people, 3.7 million square miles, $300 billion wealth, $40 billion bank deposits, $70 billion life insurance, 24 million dairy cows, 60 million hogs, and substantial outputs in crops, oil, and manufactured goods to argue economic strength despite prohibition.
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American Bankers’ Association
Walter W. Head
New York
America
Information binds our people for a common purpose
A brief excerpt discusses disseminating information to bind the populace by shared aims. It emphasizes organized communication and collective effort to strengthen unity and advance communal goals. The tone suggests civic or organizational guidance rather than a narrative event.
Warning on buying headlights for automobiles
Austin July 28 Automobile headlight department warns owners not to buy headlight gear until testing stations in Texas counties verify conformity with the new law. Official lists of approved devices will be available at the stations, which open August 1.
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Austin
Texas
Automobile Headlight Department
Bargain Piano Sale From Brook Mays in Dallas
A Dallas piano house advertises a new player piano with bench and late-roll collection and a rebuilt upright with stool and searf. Both instruments are offered at bargain prices on reasonable terms. Send inquiries to Brook Mays & Co., the Reliable Piano House, Dallas, Texas.
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Brook Mays & Co
Reliable Piano House
Dallas
Texas
Significant Bryan Dates From 1860 to 1906
Chronology notes William Jennings Bryan events from his 1860 birth in Salem Illinois through milestones including graduation from Illinois College in 1881, marriage in 1884, election to Congress in 1890, 1896 Democratic nomination and loss to McKinley, 1898 service as colonel of the Third Nebraska Volunteers in the Spanish American War, 1900 defeat to McKinley, and a 1906 world tour.
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Salem
Ill
Illinois College
Mary Blair
Perry, Ill
William McKinley
Nebraska Volunteers
McKinley
Bromine Quinine Label Claims Cures Colds
A short note notes that the Bromo Quinine tablet is advertised to remove the cause of colds grip and influenza. It mentions a single product name Bromo Quinine and a signature on the box reading Wc or W.Groves.
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E W.grove
Notable political career of a Wilson era figure
Timeline of actions and roles from 1908 to 1925 outlines defeats and nominations, service as Secretary of State under Wilson, a 1916 Democratic National Convention delegation, 1924 opposition at the Democratic Convention, leadership in the Scopes prosecution, and death in Dayton Tennessee on July 26.
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William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
al G. Smith
John T. Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
Cars Owned in U S Could Seat 70 Million People
The seating capacity of motor vehicles in the United States is about 70 million, about thirty times railroad coach capacity. With a population around 110 million, two thirds could be moved thirty miles per hour coast to coast on good roads. It’s in Whitewright buy it here.
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United States
Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old patent medicine claim advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets that allegedly stop cough and headache and cure a cold in one day. The box bears E W Groves signature. The ad emphasizes rapid relief and a single day cure.
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E.W. Grove
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