Anti-Saloon League Chief Speaks on Prohibition Gains
Dr. Atticus Webb of the Anti-Saloon League of Texas speaks at the Methodist Church on The Unfinished Task. He cites Census results and Irving Fisher estimates showing prohibition reduced crime and boosted wages and living standards, while warning against repeal efforts and exposing bootlegger propaganda.
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United States
Atticus Webb
Anti-Saloon League of Texas
Methodist Church
America
Irving Fisher
Anti-Saloon League
League
Friends of Liquor
White House
Japan Telephones Lag. Parents Use Children as Funds
An applicant waits ten to fifteen years for a telephone installation in Japan as the system falls behind. Parents often apply for a line in their child’s name as an investment, tying credit to a family member.
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Japan
White Collar Crime Tops National Focus at Conference
The National Crime Commission highlights how white collar thefts outpace violent crime with losses from merchandise fraud, bankruptcies, and embezzlement. Merchandised losses, especially silks, furs, and diamonds, reach about 500 million dollars annually, while fraudulent bankruptcies cost roughly 250 million. Calls grow for tighter federal laws and stronger fencing to seize illicit goods.
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Washington
National Crime Commission
United States
National Association of Credit Men
Congress
Farmersville Triumphs Over Whitewright in Big Win
Farmersville High School defeated Whitewright 42 to 8 on their home field. The Farmersville team, unbeaten this season, extended their bid for the Class B district championship after remaining scoreless until Thursday when Whitewright broke through with a touchdown and a safety.
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Whitewright
Farmersville
Rangers
First State Bank of Trenton Liquidating
The First State Bank of Trenton is liquidating and will close within thirty days. Depositors will be paid in full and a bank examiner from the State Department of Insurance and Banking will wind up affairs. The bank originated as Guaranty State Bank of Trenton in 1913 and later became First State Bank.
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First State Bank of Trenton
I. F. Barrett
State Department of Insurance and Banking
Guaranty State Bank of Trenton
First State Bank
Barrett
The
Tribune
Trenton Tribune
Thanksgiving Home Coming at T. C. U.
Texas Christian University shifts its Homecoming to Thanksgiving Day to coincide with the 1927 football season climax against Southern Methodist University. An expected record turnout of alumni will attend a parade luncheon campus visits games and a library reception.
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Beulah Bell Shank
Diphtheria Fight Expands Across Southeast Oklahoma
In Idabel Oklahoma and surrounding McCurtain County areas health officials push an immunization drive against diphtheria. Over 2,000 children vaccinated in two weeks report 25 diphtheria cases and six deaths. Campaign extended to typhoid with 30,000 vaccinated led by Dr. R J Williams.
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Idabel
Okla
Oklahoma
McCurtain
R. J. Williams
Edison as a Prophet Warns of War and Rubber Project
Thomas A. Edison, described as a peaceful yet wary inventor, pursues rubber production research as a war preparedness measure. He seeks a plant yielding quick rubber in America for emergency use, not for commerce, and predicts an impending European conflict. He states in Popular Science Monthly that war is coming.
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Thomas A. Edison
America
Europe
Popular Science Monthly
United States
American rubber and trade wars warn of dependence
A Wichita Falls Record-News opinion argues the United States relies on tropical rubber and cannot compete in its production. It notes tropical wages of 30 cents a day, labor demands, and that European nations unite in trade against the United States as it seeks to export cotton and grain and shut out foreign goods and workers.
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America
Tropics
Europe
Wichita Falls
Clock Winding Mechanism Tied to Temperature Change
The Polytechnic Institute at Zurich, Switzerland uses a clock wound by a mechanism triggered whenever the temperature shifts by two degrees, adjusting the timekeeping with each notable thermal variation.
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The
Polytechnic Institute
Zurich
Switzerland
Stereotypes on honesty across groups from insurance claims
Insurance sources claim the honesty of fat people of either sex and of women, married individuals, and Chinese can be relied upon. The remark reflects biased generalizations about multiple groups.
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Commercial Bank Bldg
Sherman, Texas
Whitewright, Texas
Ben Savage
FORCE
ForceTonic
Gordon’s Cash Grocery
First State Bank of
Trenton
Edison
Auto Tops
Hoffman’s
Jacob
Pangburn
Bow-Wright Drug Co
Reeves
South Side
Main St
Chesley Rutledge Confectionery
Tironton
Ironton
Whitewright Lumber Company
Garland Gas Ranges
Pittsburg
Supreme Service
Stateville & Spindle
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