Numerous Weekend Visits Across Dallas to Paris and Sherman
We report on a flurry of weekend visits and travels as families from Dallas Commerce Sherman Denison Bonham Ennis Garland Irving and other towns visited relatives and attended Decoration Day services at Pilot Grove Cemetery. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Tom Norris Mr. and Mrs. R S Turner Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crouch and many others with out of town relatives from Greenville Trenton Bells Savoy and Belle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Norris
Dallas
Joe Crouch
Sallie Huber
Fred Cook
Ben Hall
Denton
Fred Cook Jr
Ennis
Joe Cook
James O'Neil
Abernathy
Hayes Taylor
Dahlia Gotham
Lubbock
R. E. Massengale
Robert Cole
Sherman
Ralph Wallace
Lola Scott
Pilot Grove
Harold Doss
E. T. Doss
Elbert Thompson
Pilot Point
R. B. Owens
Sabinal
Eugene McIver
Bonham
Jack Hansard
R. S. Morehead
Evelyn
Celia Mae Riley
Joe Clary
Edgar Tarpley
Greenville
Claud Jones
Holmes Connelly
Trenton
J. W. Price
Lloyd Walters
Beulah
Voter turnout and highway signs highlight Texas politics
The piece notes Saturday elections and precinct conventions shaping Texas offices for two to four years. It describes new oversized interstate highway signs across 707 miles and the planned coast to coast system. It also reports on the Veterans Land Board profit projection, state sidewalks, mineral rights on county roads, and a Grayson County tax sale with sheriff.Located in Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Highway Commission
Texas Highway Department
Attorney General's Department
Jack Cook
Kleberg County
State OF Texas
Grayson
Tarrant County
John B. Kinnaird
T. F. Owens
J. B. Kinnaird
Varas
Sherman
G. W. Blanton
Grayson County
Lester Day
Whitewright Sun
Ten Great Truths on Prosperity and Independence
Ten statements list universal truths about wealth, thrift, and social policy. The passage closes with a note that the Communist Party is outlawed in Turkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of Man
Communist Party
Turkey
Slogans Through Time Echo Presidential Campaigns
A historic survey traces political slogans from 1840 to 1960s campaigns, noting two dollars a day and roast beef, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, Dont Swap Horses, The Full Dinner Pail, Normalcy, New Deal, and Ike. It questions future war cries and party loyalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Van
Martin van Buren
Tippecanoe
Tyler Too
Willliam Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Horace Greeley
Grant
James G. Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Blaine
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
U. S
Warren G. Harding
Babies and Battles in 1809 and a cobalt note
A reflective excerpt recalls a year between Trafalgar and Waterloo when many famous births occurred while battles raged. It argues that large historical shifts are often driven by new lives, not grand campaigns, ending with a note on cobalt’s role in magnetic magnets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trafalgar
Waterloo
Gladstone
Liverpool
Tennyson
Somerby
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Massachusetts
Charles Darwin
Shrewsbury
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
Felix Mendelssohn
Hamburg
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R. S. Turner
Commerce
L. H. Darwin
E. Barkley
Hutchins
J. A. Harper Jr
Mrs
Cecil Magers
Bertha Magers
R. L. Bradley
Lynn McKinney of
Jim Grider
Oscar Finnel
Honey Grove
Lizzie Finnel
Myrtle Menasco
George Key
Rincard Barnst
Emily Appleby
Paris
Clarksville
Mrs. Cecil Watson
Delbert Bowen
Hale Center
Wendell Withrow
Sid Askins
Burkburnett
Joe Parnell
Willie Stapleton
Denison
Jess Blanks
Tom Ford
Stevie
Austin
Edgar Ayers
Grady Williams
John Ball
Beulah Huseman
James Stuteville
Richardson
Jack Morton
Irving
Grover Stuteville
John Reeves
John Dale Reeves
Garland
Eugene Reeves
McKinney
David Reeves
Henry Reeves
Amarillo
J. A. Thomas
Kilgore
J. P. Darwin
J. M. Kidd
Lula Walls
Dora Livingston
Gainesville
W. C. Thornhill
Daniel
WBAP
Para Pol. Adv
Iva Davidson
State Capitol
Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Veterans Land Board
Bill Allecorn
Allcorn
State Building Commission
Capitol
Jack
Pd. Pol. A.v
Coolidge
Fdr
Adlairadly
Ike
Hubert Humphrey
God
Federial Depot Insurance Cay
Pol. Pol. Adv
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