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...Most Hon. the Marquess of Reading, G. C. B., K. C. B. O., onetime Viceroy of India, a director of the National Provincial Bank Ltd., and of the Midland Bank...
...interested reader of TIME for several years I feel sure that you will be glad to correct an erroneous statement made on p. 30 your issue for Feb. 13, 1928, wherein you state under caption "Bank Robbers," that two innocent Mexicans were shot in front of a Bank at Midland for the sake of the rewards offered...
These Mexicans were shot in Stanton, Texas, 20 miles east of Midland and their assailants are now under indictment for murder. This press statement has given our town some rather unwelcome publicity, your part of which I am sure you will be glad to rectify...
...Midland, Texas...
...Hetty Green, the late unique creative financier among women, had forgotten that she had bought a railroad during the great panic of 1893. The Texas Midland, 125 miles long, had completely slipped her mind. She found it one day when she had nothing better to do than paw over some dusty old papers. She sent her son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, to Terrell, Tex., headquarters of the road, to ascertain its value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became...