Cost of Government in Texas Advances in 1925
The cost of maintenance and operation of Texas general departments for the year ending August 31 1925 totaled 55 165 298 dollars or 10 88 per capita per US Commerce. Education apportionments to minor civil divisions reached 23 187 766 dollars. Interest and outlays totaled 69 345 952 dollars with highways accounting for 20 979 760 dollars and construction 10 938 881.
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State of
Texas
United States Department of Commerce
Dieting risks disease and health in postwar youth
The home service of directors of gas companies warns that strict dieting by American girls jeopardizes health and may cause nervous breakdowns. It urges balanced meals with proper nourishment and cooking, noting fitness requires nutrition as well as exercise.
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Home Service
200-Pound Snake Is Lost in Comal Wood
New Braunfels on September 27 reports a 16 foot boa constrictor named Big Boy weighing 200 pounds escaped from its cage at the Comal County Fair. A large posse hunts the reptile after it broke through its cage, drank at the Comal River, and vanished into the woods. The escape disrupted fair activities as spectators shifted from horse races to the chase.
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New Braunfels
Big Boy
Comal
North Texas and Southern Oklahoma Peace Officers Meet
The Sherman convention of the Peace Officers Association heard speakers attack abuse of suspended sentences and jury leniency. Ray Winder and Roy M. Finley cited cases in Cooke and Grayson counties, arguing juries influence leniency and that the law fosters crime and perjury.
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North Texas and
Southern Oklahoma Peace Officers’ Association
Sherman
Chamber of Commerce
Ray Winder
Cooke County
Auto For Every 53 Persons in America
The United States reports 19,978,832 total motor vehicles, with 17,288,000 passenger cars, taxis, and buses. Texas registers 904,050 vehicles, up 6 percent from 1925, including 820,476 passenger autos and 83,574 trucks and tractors, with 2,877 dealers and 8,466 chauffeurs. State receipts total 13,046,170, mainly from licenses, with about 9.4 million spent on state highways and 3.6 million on local roads.
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United States
Bureau of Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Texas
Nothing Like It on Earth Boro Zone Cure
Advertises Boro zone liquid and powder as a fast, safe wound healing treatment. Liquid priced 30c 60c and 1.20. powder 30c and 60c. Sold by J L Kirkpatrick Drugist.
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Earth
Tunney Wins Heavyweight Title In Rainy Philadelphia Fight
Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey to take the world heavyweight championship in a ten round bout held in Philadelphia. The match drew a record crowd of 132000 and nearly $2 million in gate receipts as Tunney outboxed and outfought the aging champion.
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Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
King
Philadelphia
Dempsey
Tunney
Marines
New York
Greenwich Village
Sherman Court Sets 116 Cases For Week Of October 11
One hundred sixteen cases are scheduled in the fifteenth district court for the week starting Monday October 11. Ninety one defendants face liquor law violation charges.
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Sherman
Fifteenth District
Fall term district court opens October 4
The first criminal setting for the fall term is announced in the fifteenth district court. The grand jury will be convened Monday in the same court, and indictments on crimes since June are expected to be returned.
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Fifteenth District Court
California Farmer Seeks Large Potatoes From Neighbor
An eastern farmer who moved to California learns his neighbor grew unusually large potatoes and sends his hired man to procure them. The brief item notes the exchange as a local curiosity in the California town.
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California
Califor speaks urged return in terse exchange
A fragment shows someone instructing another to "go right back" with a reference to "a hundred pounds" as part of a terse exchange likely from a Californian context. The incomplete wording limits clarity but implies an insistence on returning or paying a sum.
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Califor
Pottery Worker Refuses Help in Labor Dispute
A worker declares in a quoted remark that she will not cut a potato for any man, signaling resistance amid workplace tensions. The comment underscores gendered labor expectations and solidarity dynamics within the shop.
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Comal Wood
E.W. Grove
Chesley’s
Chesley Rutledge Confectionery
MEET
America
J. L. Kirkpatrick
Clark & Meador Good Hardware
W. J. Barbee Agency Insurance
Planters National
Planters National Bank
Mangrum Bros
the National Battery Station
Dan S. Dickerman
Whitewright
the Sun
Roscoe Pace
Bow-Wright Drug Company
O. G. Bow
R. A. Bow
J. M. Wright
Bow-Wright Drug Co
Wright & Pace
the “University
First National Bank
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