Labor Dept Reports Wages Pressing Need for Minimum Laws
The Texas Department of Labor finds most women and girls in industry earn under 15 a week. A minimum living cost is 15 weekly, with 44 percent of female workers meeting that wage. Commissioner Mc Kenny urges a workable minimum wage law for women and children. Data comes from 3,474 establishments employing 77,286 workers including 33,504 women and 199 under 15. Textiles show 55 hour weeks. men average 19 weekly, women 13.50. many families include wives and 228 under 15 laboring.
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Texas
State Department of Labor
Department
Charles McKenny
Lowden’s Silence Good To His Party
Former Gov. Frank O Lowden, Western Republican leader and figure in farm policy, continues to stay silent on the presidential campaign. His stance puzzles allies and rivals, as farmers look to him for guidance while he remains publically noncommittal.
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Oregon
Ill
Kansas City
Frank O. Lowden
Mid-West
Lowden
Sinissippi Farm
Smith
Illinois
Frank Lowden
Cows Prove Salvation of Five Farmers
Frank Holt of Meadolake Milk Products addressed the Lions Club at Hotel Grayson in Sherman on how small dairy herds sustain farm homes, improve soil fertility, and support cotton country economies by producing milk and dairy goods. He cited five local farmers who shifted from debt to dairy wealth, reducing borrowings as their cow herds grew from four to ten.
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Holt
B. B. Wilbanks
Club
Commercial National Bank
Wilbanks
King of Kings Premier at Washington Theatre
The premier showing of Cecil B. De Mille's The King of Kings plays Washington Theatre on October 22 23 and 24. The film recreates biblical Jerusalem and Herod’s Palace with vast sets and about 10 000 props. Jeanie Maspherson adapted the story and De Mille directed delivering tender gripping drama with an imposing cast.
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Cecil B. de Mille
Washington Theatre
de Mille Organization
Temple
Jerusalem
Palace of
Jeanie Maspherson
Mr. de Mille
To Set Colors With Epsom Salt Method
A teaspoon of Epsom salts added to a bucketful of water will set colors most effectively. Soak the fabric in the solution, then wash in the usual way.
Pig Parade and Town Talk Fly Across Bounding Billows
Hogtown anecdotes mix with local chatter as a pig wanders streets under marshal leniency. Community voices joke about opportunity, summer wildlife, and railroad manners while Albert Lee Jackson visits Mrs May and relatives with Mrs Jackson and Albert Lee Jr. joining the stay.
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Albert Lee Jackson
New York City
Sore Spots and a Tagline for Suits and Overcoats
An editorial compares ugly property to a sore thumb in a fine town, noting how neglect harms streetscape and neighborly opinion. The piece ends with a local ad inviting readers to view suits and overcoats for sale.
Citation by Publication in Maggie Cox Estate
The State of Texas commands the Grayson County Sheriff to publish notice for twenty days. R A Moyer as Administrator has filed the first and final estate report in Grayson County Court. The report will be heard at the next civil term in Sherman on the first Monday in December 1928.
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Texas
Grayson County
Grayson
Maggie Cox
R. A. Moyer
Court House
Sherman
A. D
Writ Execution Certificate Notice in Grayson County
Witness R Q Loving Clerk of the County Court of Grayson Texas records the execution of a writ. The document bears the seal and is dated September 20 1928 at Sherman with official deputized by Lucile Schleuse.
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R. Q. Loving
Grayson County
Texas
Sherman
A. D
Lucile Schleuse
Guardian asks to settle minor estate of Bernice Jones
The guardian Geo. L. Hamilton asks the County Court of Grayson County to hear his final report on the estate of Bernice Jones a minor. The hearing is set for the next civil term at the Court House Sherman on the first Monday in December 1928. Interested parties may appear and contest the report.
Writ Issued By Grayson County Clerk in 1928
County Court clerk R Q Loving of Grayson County Texas issues a writ dated September 1928 with deputy Lucile Schleuse recording the action. The notice appears in a local legal-court filing.
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Department Labor
Reserve District
First National Bank
United States
Banking House Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
U. S
State of Texas
R. A. Gillett
J. P. Montgomery
C. B. Bryant
F. E. Douglas
J. M. Wright
Reserve District No
Planters National Bank of
Whitewright
Banking House
I. H. G. Webster
H. G. Webster
R. L. Sears
J. H. Waggoner
Guy Hamilton
First National Bank of Bells
New York
Joe Hughes
Thyra Badgett
E. L. Craig
J. J. Hogan
C. R. Badgett
Hogwallow News
Dunk Botts
Slim Pickens
Sidney Hocks
Tickville
Sim Flinders
Society of Gentlemen and Ladies
Exchange
America
Fisher
Miami
Chicago
Los Angeles
BUICK
Pearce Motor CO
Sherman, Texas
State of
Bernice Jones
Geo. L. Hamilton
F. O. Mangrum
Octavus Roy Cohen
Pace & Montgomery
Bonham
Taylor-Owens Hdw. Co
The
Bank of Friendly
Planters National Bank
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