LYNCHINGS IN 1920 TALLIED IN UNITED STATES
Texas led with ten lynchings in 1920, followed by Georgia with nine and several states with three each. The Tuskegee Institute report shows sixty-one total lynchings that year, with most in the South and a minority in the North and West, including eight white victims and one black woman.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Texas
Tuskegee Institute
Lone Star
Georgia
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Minnesota
North Carolina
Oklahoma
California
Arkansas
Illinois
Kentucky
Ohio
S. Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Card of Thanks from Jones Family for Whitewright Fire Loss
To our many dear friends and neighbors and the good people of Whitewright gratitude fills our hearts for your remembrance after our home burned on November 21. May God bless every kind heart that offered sympathy and every hand that helped us. Yours with grateful thanks, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Jones.
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Whitewright
M. W. Jones
Pilot Grove Church Calls Rev Morris as Pastor
Rev Morris of Sherman preached at Pilot Grove Baptist Church in Sunday services. Local residents return home from extended trips in the West. Misses Bailey Lesler and Roberta Sloan visit Denton and Dallas. Mason St John returns from San Antonio. families visit relatives in Waco and Elmont. A holiday update on residents and an advertisement for Liquid Borozone ointment finishes the item.
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Morris of
Sherman
The
Baptist Church
Taylor Scott
John Hartsfield
Wilve
Jane Bailey
Denton
Realand Lesler
Dallas
Roberta Sloan
Mason St. John
San Antonio
Waco
Mr. Scott
Will McSpedden
Tom McSpedden
George Parrish
Elmont
J. D. Judd
D. W. Garland
Honey Grove
J. D. Garland
Dennis
Willie
Corder Judd
Wesley Judd
May Adams
Joe Smith
Orangeville
S. F. Garland
Red River Family Demonstrates What Can Be Done at Home
Paris Texas January 3 E E Crow a Red River County farmer near Woodland brings butter eggs and other produce to Paris regularly He raises nearly everything he eats and even part of his clothing He started with three sheep three years ago and now has fourteen He shears clean and uses wool for knitting mitts sweaters and socks with his wife and adopted son in bad weather at home
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Paris
Texas
E. E. Crow
Red River
Woodland
Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days
An advertisement promotes LAX FOS WITH PEPSIN as a syruphonic laxative for habitual constipation. It claims prompt relief with regular 14 to 21 day use to induce regular action. It emphasizes stimulation and regulation and pleasant taste, priced at 60¢ per bottle.
Corn liquor to be used as fuel predicts engineer
Chicago January first. A. H. Gilbert told the American Society of Agricultural Engineers convention that corn alcohol could supplement gasoline as a motor fuel. He noted demand for gasoline exceeds supply, estimated one bushel of good corn yields 2.6 gallons of alcohol, and called for tax reductions on fuel grades of alcohol.
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Chicago
Ill
A. H. Gilbert
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Duty to scent liquor and trail it in citizen role
A Richmond Times Dispatch remark frames enforcing liquor laws as a citizen duty. It notes good citizens should act even if it means taking on work, reflecting on vigilance and civic responsibility.
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Federal
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Christmas in Ely and Enterprise Brims With Cheer
Community enjoys a festive season with a Christmas tree at Marvin and Santa’s on time visit. Local residents visit relatives across Whitewright Dallas Chickasha McKinney and Ector while others share meals and attend church services. An old ad promotes White's Cream Vermifuge for children.
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Marvin
Santa Claus
Dora Hornbuckle
Whitewright
Etta Wade
Verner Smith
Joel Ross
Near
Ector
Aubrey Wilson
Dallas
Gladys
Chickasha
Okla
Charlie Wilson
Claud Booker
Ernest Harrison
Dimon McCarley
George Edmond
Near McKinney
W. C. Brown
Charlie Medearis
Bro
Fleming
Enterprise
Lieut Gov Elect Would Use Convicts on Highways
Lynch Davidson lieutenant governor elect proposes using all Texas convicts to build hard surfaced highways. He would sell prison farms, an estimated 7 million dollars, to fund road work and remove prison competition with Texas farmers, enabling consolidation of the prison commission with other state boards.
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Gov.Elect
Austin
Texas
Lynch Davidson
No Worms in a Healthy Child Ad Claim
Advertisement asserts children with worms have poor color and stomach issues. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is promoted as a two to three week medicine that enriches blood, improves digestion, and strengthens the whole system. It claims to expel worms and restore health, priced 60 cents per bottle.
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Grove
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription Miracle Claim
An San Antonio letter from Mrs. Annie F. Epps credits Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription with curing her feminine troubles after illness in early marriage. She reports six bottles restored health and recommends the product to all women in inward trouble. Trial tablets offered for 10 cents via the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
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San Antonio
Texas
Doctor Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Annie F. Epps
Rogers Street
Invalids
Buffalo, N. Y
Unmarried Woman Wins Nat Goodwin’s Goods
New York Georgia L. Gardiner, a former stage girl, wins Nat Goodwin's furniture after convincing surrogate John R. Cohalan that the actor loved her and would have made her bride No. 7. Gardiner cared for Goodwin in his final illness. on his deathbed he wished her to possess his New York apartment contents. Goodwin’s father, Nathaniel C. Goodwin, must account to the court for $15,374 linked to the late comedian.
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New York
Georgia L. Gardiner
Nat Goodwin
John R. Cohalan
Miss Gardiner
Nat
Nathaniel C. Goodwin
Herbine Herbal Remedy Bouts Biliousness Indigestion
A brief advertisement for Herbine claims it corrects biliousness indigestion and constipation. The product is described as a fine herbal medicine that drives out impurities and restores healthy conditions in the system. Price is 60 cents. Sold.
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Dyer & Jones
Urge Farmers to Quit Credit System in Dewitt County
Cuero Texas Jan 3 One major recommendation from county acreage reduction meetings is to eliminate the credit system and operate on a cash basis for farm supplies. Dewitt County plans a 20 percent cotton acreage reduction for 1921 with some farmers trimming up to one third.
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Cuero
Texas
Dewitt County
Seven American banks to be opened in Mexico City
Washington reports seven American banks will be established soon in Mexico City with an aggregate Latin American investment of about a billion dollars contemplated by American bankers. The embassy said the plan favors Mexico and also transmitted a modernization scheme for the penal civil and commercial codes to the Mexican Congress.
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Washington
Mexico City
Latin America
Mexico
Mexican Congress
Record in Land Case Completed in Texas Trial
Austin January 1 The record in the State of Texas versus Capitol Freehold Land Investment Company et al. has been completed in the 58rd District Court of Travis County with judgment for the State. The 1,212 page document will be filed in the Third Court of Civil Appeals after appeal from the lower court. The suit sought to recover 62,000 acres of land in western Texas claimed to exceed the 3,000,000 acres donated by the state to the defendant for Capitol construction.
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Austin
State of Texas
The
Capitol Freehold Land Investment Company Et al
Travis County
Less Than Acre Makes $498 In Ribbon Cane Syrup
Athens Texas December 30 Four hundred ninety eight dollars is the record amount from three quarters of an acre of ribbon cane obtained by L W Miller a Brownsboro farmer From the three fourths acre he made 332 gallons of syrup for which he received 498 The pan used for syrup making has been in the Miller family over forty years bought by his grandfather for 400.
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Athens
Texas
L. W. Miller
Brownsboro
Earl Fields and Miss Kate Benson wed on Christmas Day
Earl Fields and Miss Kate Benson, prominent Beth el youths, were married on Christmas day in a ceremony performed by Rev. I. E. Teague at his home.
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Earl Fields
Kate Benson
Bethel
Town
I. E. Teague
Hayes Healing Honey with Grove Open-Trate Salve
A cough remedy package offers Hayes Healing Honey with Grove Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat relief. The combined treatment, designed to soothe inflamed tissues and reduce cough, is sold in a single carton for 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayes
Grove
Real estate agent hunts buyers on Sunday tour
A Chicago agent staging a land sale used a Sunday excursion to a prairie subdivision. As he feigned a sale via phone, a visitor arrived to connect the line. The scene ends with a brisk, improvised pitch about corner lots and deeds.
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Chicago
Buena Vista Avenue
Hillside Drive
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Mark
Litteles
Littell
James F
Ballard
St. Louis
Kimbell
Hale
Prince Albert
W. T. Nicholson
A. Y. Creager
F. W. Creager
A. Y. Creager & Co
Sherman, Texas
New Laundry Agency
Snow White Laundry
Denison
Blincoe
Overton Stateville
S. C. Chambers
Ford
Sears Auto Company
Whitewright, Texas
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