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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1934
Page
6
In Shreveport Louisiana bootlegging persists as a local industry amid lax state laws. Liquor runners exploit no wholesale licenses and cross into Texas only to face hijackers. Ruses like caravans and camouflage keep illicit shipments moving despite enforcement.
Austin emerged as the Texas capital with 1839 land sales by Judge Edwin Waller and the first city election. The Archives War ended in Austin's favor at Walnut Creek, and the capital moved between Houston and Austin until 1845. Austin became temporary state capital, later permanent, with the 1871 railroad arrival and 1882 Capitol start.
The article lists 850,700 injuries from last year with 11,830 skull fractures and 196,340 cases of severe shock. It notes 273,112 killed in the past decade and an estimated 190,000 more deaths should occur in the next six years, urging readers to use Want Ads to recover lost items.
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