Tax League Seeks County Audit in Grayson County
A five member committee of the Taxpayers League of Grayson County was appointed to urge the county commissioners to authorize an audit. The group, meeting in Sherman, discussed hiring Gordon-Wolfe and Co. for a fee of 50 percent of recovered funds, or none if no money is found. They plan to petition taxpayers to press for an audit immediately.
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League
Mr. Johnston
Commissioners Court
Johnston
Edwin Kidd
Kidd
Dallas
Grayson County
H. A. Ivy
County Commissioners Court
Mr. Ivy
W. W. Talley
Jim Hestand
Will Higgins
Three Marlborough Sayers Celebrate Triplet Birthdays
Mrs. A. S. Sawyer of Marlborough England marks a unique family milestone as her three children reach their first second and third birthdays on the same calendar day.
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A. S. Sawyer
Marlborough
Eng
Kay Kimbell Sells Smith Flour Mill
Sherman lines up a major expansion as Commander-Larabee announces acquisition of the Smith Flour Mill from Kay Kimbell and stockholders. Daily capacity to rise to 4,000 barrels with total Sherman mills exceeding 8,000 barrels after expansion. J. Paul Smith to head Texas offices. plans foresee industry shift toward the Southwest and Texas.
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Minneapolis
Guy A. Thomas
Commander-Larabee Board
Hardenberg
Texas
Sherman
Smith Mill
Commander Larabee
J. Paul Smith
Smith Company
Fort Worth
Texas Panhandle
Texas Gulf Ports
North Atlantic Territory
O. L. Caywood
Kimbell Milling
Commander-Larabee
Caywood
Smith Brothers Grain Company
Rock Island
Smith Organization
Oddities and facts from a bygone era
A collection of trivia notes spans fashion marriages and superstition plus curious laws and historical tidbits. Items include Indian wedding kerchiefs, Iowa Minnesota drug restrictions, baton mastery, dress sizing myths, toy elephant trunks, and a Los Angeles judge’s handshake rule. It notes Casey Jones’s widow royalty, French avoidance of the word depression, Capone imprisonment cost, a caterpillar muscle count, and cross country microphone reach.
Stork Nest Turkeys Rivalry Ends in Tragic Death
In Esebey near the Bosporus a stork nest yielded a turkey chick after a boy planted a turkey egg. The male storks killed the suspected mate, then the father stork laid the fledgling beside the dead bird as Mehmet Efendi learned the truth.
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Istanbul
Esebey
The
Bosporus
Mehmet Effendi
Papa Stork
Mehmet Efdendi
Mehmet
Plougastel Bridge Claims Largest Concrete Structure
The article notes the Plougastel bridge in Scotland as potentially the world's largest concrete structure of its kind. It explains use of alum in cement for foundations and piers where seawater touches concrete, portland cement for the massive arches out of reach of seawater, and luminous cement to cope with subterranean sulphates enabling safe foundations.
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Plougastel
Scotland
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Tax League
United States Congress
Tom Wells
Bells
Westinghouse
Kay Kimbell
Smith Flour Mill
East St. Louis
III
Castoria
Iowa
Minnesota
Los Angeles
Casey Jones
France
U. S
A. Capone
New York
San Francisco
Uncle Sam
Lone Star Communityp
Natural Gas Co
S. H. Montgomery
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