Whitewright Key Rate Drops to 37 Cents City Class
Whitewright is designated a first class city for fire insurance as the state commission approves credits lowering the key rate to 37 cents. New schedules reflect a full property re rating and reduced exposure charges. The change is expected to save residents about 15 000 annually on premiums and follows years of city led efforts to cut costs.
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Whitewright
State Fire Insurance Commission
Insurance Department
Railroads Seek Further Wage Cuts Across System
Chicago June 6. American railroads demand wage reductions to erase the $600,000,000 rise granted last year. A referendum vote is sent to 250,000 maintenance of way workers on accepting cuts ordered for 93 railroads. The wage cut hearing continues with 142 railroads represented and Big Four spokesmen opposing broader reductions.
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Chicago
New
Labor Board
J. W. Higgins
Western Railroads
United States Railway Labor Board
W. S. Carter
L. G. Sheppard
W. G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Ocean freight rates jump after Gulf-Ports conference
Ocean freight rates from Gulf ports to Hamburg Bremen Antwerp Ghent and French Atlantic ports and Rotterdam rise 33 to over 100 percent after the return of major lines to the Gulf shipping conference New Orleans reports. Rotterdam Antwerp rates set 10 percent below Hamburg Bremen. High density cotton rates rise for June July deliveries to Antwerp Ghent Rotterdam and for August through December.
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Galveston
Gulf
Hamburg
Bremen
Antwerp
Ghent
Rotterdam
Compagnie Generale Trans-Atlantic
French Line
Lloyd Royal Belge
Holland American Line
Gulf Shipping Conference
New Orleans
Rotterdam-Antwerp
Hamburg-Bremen
French Atlantic
Pecos River flood damages railroads and isolates towns
Pecos Texas reports wide Pecos River flooding over tracks of the Texas & Pacific and Santa Fe lines. Water 3 to 5 feet deep in places, forcing reroutes via Sweetwater and Dallas. Washouts close Toyah Creek bridge approaches and isolate Abilene to Brownwood on the Abilene Southern line. Detours cause delays across Fort Worth Denver Rock Island Santa Fe and St. L. & S. F routes.
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Pecos
Texas
Joe
Texas & Pacific Railroad
Santa Fe
Toyah Creek
Dallas
Panhandle
Wichita Falls
Abilene
Fort Worth
Woman Air Pilot Laura Bromwell Killed in Crash
Mineola New York June 5 Laura Bromwell renowned woman pilot and loop the loop record holder was killed at Mitchell Field while attempting a second loop after completing the first. The 23 year old Cincinnati native had set the loop record May 15 with 199 loops in 80 minutes and flew a two mile straight course at 135 mph earlier that afternoon.
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Mineola
N. Y
Laura Bromwell
Mitchell Field
Miss Bromwell
Cincinnati
John W. Inzer to Speak in Whitewright Friday
John W. Inzer national chaplain of the American Legion will visit Whitewright Friday afternoon arriving about 5 o'clock from McKinney. He will address citizens from an improvised speaker’s stand on the east side of the First National Bank building. Preston P. Everheart Post will host and arrange details with the local band providing music.
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Whitewright
John W. Inzer
American Legion
First National Bank
Inter
McKinney
Chaplain Inter
Preston P. Everheart
Texas Cotton Crop 71 Per Cent Normal
Texas cotton crop on May 25 was 71 percent of normal, up from 60 percent a year ago, with conditions varying by county. Weather and pests caused delays and replantings, but early soil prep was favorable. North Texas counties show varied percentages from 67 to 97, with district average 79.
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Houston
Texas
F. N. Gray
Texas Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department of Agriculture
West Center
Northwest
North Texas
Clay
Collin
Cooke
Dallas
Denton
Fannin
Grayson
Hunt
Jack
Kaufman
Montague
Palo Pinto
Parker
Rockwall
Tarrant
Wise
Local School Gains in Scholastic Count
Grayson County total scholastic enrollment of 20,249 approved by the State Superintendent Miss Blanton. Acton reports state aid will be based on these figures. City schools gained 359 while rural schools dropped 851, indicating urban gains came at rural expense. Comparisons show 1921 and 1920 figures for Whitewright Sherman Dorchester Gunter Tioga Collinsville and others, with total independents 11,535 and rural 8,712, county total 20,249 versus 20,239 prior year.
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Grayson County
Blanton
Geo. W. Acton
Mr. Acton
Whitewright
Sherman
van Alstyne
Denison
Whitesboro Ced Ae
Dorchester Ie
Gunter
Sceuins
Fewer Hogs on Texas Farms in 1920 Than 1910
Dallas June 4 Texas Industrial Congress reports 1920 hog census shows 2,282,774 hogs on Texas farms, down 103,589 from 1910 when 2,336,363 hogs were counted. Texas ranks eighth among states in hog numbers.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas Industrial Congress
Lightning Kills Farmer Near Pottsboro
Denison reports Geo Campbell was struck dead by lightning while sheltering under a bois d arc hedge on his farm one and a half miles southeast of Pottsboro. The incident occurred Thursday afternoon around 4 o'clock as he planned to return to his plowing after the storm.
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Denison
Geo. Campbell
Pottsboro
National figure Rev Inter to preach in city church
The audience may include every ex-service man in reach of Whitewright and other city residents. Rev Inter is a national character due to his high post and wartime service. The Sun reports he will preach at eleven oclock Sunday morning at the Baptist church in his city, unable to reach Whitewright Friday due to floods and impassable highways.
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Whitewright
Inter
Sun
Baptist Church
Pigs Trained to Detect Moonshine Still Sites
Dallas June 5 Federal agents announced trained pigs will locate moonshine stills in North Texas. Prohibition Agent Claude Handley said one hog is in training to scent boiling mash, then be released near suspected sites to track mash and guide investigators.
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Dallas
Texas
Federal
Prohibition
Claude Handley
Handley
Peanut Hull in Lung Ends Life of Little Girl
Norma Shealy infant daughter of Mr and Mrs John Shealy of Quitman Texas died Saturday in a local sanitarium after an operation to remove a peanut hull lodged in her lungs Pneumonia developed after the hull was swallowed last Tuesday While playing on the floor the child picked up the hull and it went down the windpipe into one lung
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Dallas
Norma Shealy
John Shealy
Quitman
Texas
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