Platform demand to be explained in Waco Texas
The Texas Highway Association launches a campaign of education ahead of the Legislature to clarify the highway plank in the San Antonio Democratic platform. It urges action to enable the state to take over a system of public highways financed and operated under state control while counties retain powers over the remaining roads. Federal aid would accompany a seven percent state system, about 12,000 miles touching most counties, with no reduction of county revenues or powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Tex
Texas Highway Association
San Antonio
Texas
Association
Will Texas Lose Federal Highway Aid?
The Texas Highway Association warns Texas now gets five dollars of federal highway funding for every one dollar the state contributes in federal taxes. Four dollars come from other states. Texas receives more federal highway aid than any other state, but this aid is threatened unless Texas laws align with federal regulations. Other states contributing more have already conformed, spurring a campaign to enact needed legal changes.
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Texas Highway Association
Texas
Federal Highway Fund
Association
Smallpox Quarantine Praised As Blessing In Kansas
A Kansas man expresses gratitude in a card of thanks for a three week quarantine during a smallpox case. He notes wife’s sewing, meals, sleep, and a cousin with four children leaving town to avoid the disease, calling quarantine a blessing.
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Kansas
Denison Defeats Whitewright High In Flashy Game
Denison Yellowjackets beat Whitewright Rangers 13 to 0 at Forest Park. Bruno scored both Denison touchdowns, with Houser and Douglas heavily involved in the backfield and troublesome fumbles limiting scoring chances. Barbee and Holland stood out for Whitewright, as about a thousand spectators watched a hard fought, largely clean contest.
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Denison
Whitewright
Cecil B. Dickson
Denison Yellowjackets
Forest Park
Yellowjackets
Whitewright Rangers
Gillespie
Houser
Bruno
Tucker
Douglas
Holland
Barbee
Clark
Cameron
Coonrod
Willis
Graham
V. Bruno
Marshall
Fleming
Treadway
Boone
Denison—Clark
S. Bruno
W. Bruno
Whitewright—Caylor
Phillips
W. Bailey
Holcomb
Cantrell
Pumphrey
Everheart
Montgomery
Bradley
Beckham
Caldwell
Baker
Burtis
Hill
Dean
Caylor
Carr
Twenty-Two Years Ago in a Simple Pastimes Scene
A reflective vignette recalls life two decades past with lines about unworn fly swatters, wrist watches, appendicitis, white shoes, orchard sprays, radio ignorance, livery bills, rural mail, candle readers, no man made fliers, and a hired girl earning one fifty weekly. It notes young men training for trades at five dollars weekly, and a butcher tipping in liver as a common courtesy, all via an Exchange quotation.
Battery supply advertisement by R S Morehead
If your automobile needs a new battery see me I can supply your needs R S Morehead
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R. S. Morehead
Bromo Quinine Tablets Claim Cure for Colds
An old advertisement notes that Colds cause grip and influenza and promotes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets as removing the cause. It claims there is only one Bromo Quinine and includes E. W. Grove’s signature on the box, priced at 30 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Grayson farmers to get electric lights and power soon
A 50-year grant was awarded by the County Commissioners for an electric light and power line along the Bells Whitewright and Bells Savoy roads to serve farmers. The grant to H. Brodhead and associates includes rights to lay conduits cables poles and wires. It does not exclude others from similar grants.
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Sherman Democrat
Bells- Whitewright
Bells-Savoy Road
H. Brodhead
Blue Star remedy for foot troubles and skin conditions
An advertisement for Blue Star by Dyer & Jones touts relief for corns bunions calluses and various skin diseases including itch eczema ringworm poison oak and old sores. It claims no clothing staining and a pleasant odor.
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Dyer & Jones
Littell
A Cheap Death in a Time of Travel
The item notes a shift in where people seek death or escape, citing a quip about cost and mentioning Kansas City offering a $37.50 option, with references to Nevada for divorces, California for climate, and Galveston for unspecified reasons.
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Rube Goldberg
Kansas City
Nevada
California
Galveston
Funeral package ad promises complete service for cheap
An advertisement boasts a full funeral package including a casket, embalming, grave box, hearse, two cars, chapel, minister and singing for a low price in Kansas City, joking that you can die there for two bits. The copy parodies old times and cheap meals, ending with a quip about dying in Kansas City.
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Mexico
Canada
Kansas City
Prisoner Clinging to Piles After Water Rescue
The prisoner spent about half an hour in the water clinging to piles before being rescued. The exchange notes the man getting very wet as the officer confirms the scene with a terse remark.
Filial Piety Recalled in Dark Humor Tale
An elderly man jokes about his children supporting his life through insurance as part of a quippy exchange on care in his final illness. The wry line highlights family duty and financial safeguards in hardship.
No Worms in a Healthy Child Ad in Tonic
An advertisement claims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic helps troubled children by enriching blood improving digestion and acting as a general strengthening tonic. It suggests regular use for two or three weeks to dispel worms and restore health and notes a 60 cent bottle price.
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Grove
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D. L. Cobb
Sherman
C. R. Drake
C. LaLonde
G. P. Brous
F. M. Echols
Grayson
Mark
Littrell
James F, Ballard
St. Louis
Hayes
Magistrate
Ode Crowell, the Drayman
Sears Grain Co
Biggerstaff & Horton
Davidson’s
Cardus
Nannie Brown
Black Rock
Ark
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