Texas Highway Association Calls for Broad Public Education
Waco Texas — President W W Crawford of the Texas Highway Association says Texas lacks adequate highway laws because facts have not been presented to the people. He urges nationwide organization to inform citizens, newspapers, chambers of commerce, and civic bodies to secure progress and federal support.
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Waco
Tex
Texas
W. W. Crawford
Texas Highway Association
Crawford
Chambers of Commerce
Wealth concentration in 1918 United States revealed
National Bureau of Economic Research figures show 1918 national income of 61 billion dollars. About 21 million families, average would be 2900 dollars yearly if equally shared, but 22 percent received half the income while 78 percent shared the other half. Top 521 individuals reported over 500 thousand dollars in single income tax returns, total 536 million. Two million at the bottom earned as much as the 521 at the top. Wealth concentration is extreme with 2 percent owning 60 percent, 33 percent owning 35 percent, and 65 percent owning 5 percent.
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National Bureau of Economic Research
United States
We do not make a lot of noise sales claim
A terse store message invites passersby to watch and judge the business by sticking around to see the goods. It asserts confidence in offerings and implies transparency through demonstration over time. The tone is promotional and self assured.
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Grove
Hogwallow News items mix wit and wisdom
Sim Flinders jokes about a vanished conscience while Jeff Potlocks frets over a dull son. Clair Hancock boasts his wife bought new window shades. The Excelsior Fiddling Band plans a Musket Ridge wedding engagement next Thursday and practices a sad tune. Yam Sims laments the unlikely mule kick with no injuries.
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Clair Hancock
Excelsior Fiddling
Musket Ridge
Lifelong Surplus of Birthdays and a Narrow Window
Wash Hocks reflects on life's surplus yet uncertain remaining birthdays. Slim Pickens visits Hog Ford to ride with the Mail Carrier, who already bears a heavy load but grants Slim a ride today.
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Wash Hocks
Slim Pickens
Hog Ford
Slim
Local Snapshots From Early Evening Notes
Luke Mathewson jokes on bachelorhood while a girl’s single status shifts appeal. A tin peddler misses a sale at Jefferson Potlocks’ home as signs confuse him. Sidney Hocks dodges chickens on a ride past Mrs. Tobe Moseley. Cricket Hicks earns new Laurel for hair with a wooden collar button prize. Constable departs for Musket Ridge seeking Sim Flinders over a disturbance during a quiet game of checkers.
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Jefferson Potlocks
Jeff
Sidney Hocks
Tobe Moseley
Cricket Hicks
Depuy
Musket Ridge
Sim Flinders
League of Nations
Calf, Pig, and Rumor Feats Highlight Rural Wit
Fletcher Henstep recalls tackling odd tasks like halting calves and steering cows, yet admits fending off a wild rumor proves the toughest. Cricket Hicks keeps writing to a Thunderation area girl while Sid Hocks quips about Cricket’s spelling as a hindrance to romance.
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Fletcher Henstep
Law partnership to include daughter in Texas office
Mrs Falvey will not practice until her daughter joins as partner next June. When Miss Falvey begins practicing with her mother the pair will run the firm as a mother and daughter partnership, adding the term and daughter to the office name. Miss Falvey is 21, her mother 44.
City Ad Valorem Taxes Now Due at Fire Station
1922 city ad valorem taxes are ready for payment and due at the city collector’s office located in the city fire station.
Mother and Daughter Lawyers In Austin Firm Emerges
Mrs Falvey earned her bachelor of laws from the University of Texas last June and her daughter Miss Falvey plans to finish law studies there next June. The two will form a new Austin law firm after years of study and hard work, dreaming of the professional partnership.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claim
Classic testimonial style advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as curative for catarrh. Claims internal action through the blood, a forty year seller by F J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio. Price seven cents. testimonials offered.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
First Texas paper Cotton Plant began in 1829
The Cotton Plant, Texas first newspaper, printed September 29 1829 at San Felipe de Austin near Bellevue by Goodwin Brown Cotton. It was four pages, three columns, nine and a half by twelve inches, priced six dollars per year.
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Texas
San Felipe de Austin
Bellevue
Goodwin Brown
Paper Deal at Sun Office Sparks Frugal Buyers
A Sun office ad touts 75 sheets of good typewriter paper for 25 cents, drawing shoppers seeking cheap office supplies. The brief offer highlights value and limited quantities, signaling a quick sale.
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Sun
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Dunk Botts
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Yam Sims
Luke Mathewson
Thunderation
Sid Hocks
Cricket
Tutt
Dad
Ironized Yeast Co
Atlanta
Billy
Kellogg's
Kelloggs
Kellogg’s
Pk Kellogg Roasted Corn Flake
W. K. Kellogg
Kerry
Sorc
Sora
Ford
Ford Motor Co
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Cole
Manning
Clark
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