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...passenger train on the Santa Fé railroad rumbled smoothly through the night over the plains of Texas. A proud train crew was in charge; proud because back in one of the Pullmans slept a handsome, motherly middle-aged woman, no less a personage than Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, Governess of the whole huge state...
...novel agreement was made last week by the Democratic candidates for Governor of Texas. One of them is Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson to succeed herself. The other is her Attorney General, Dan Moody, who has attacked her Administration as inefficient if not corrupt, as husband-ridden...
...American Woman's Association had wanted money for a clubhouse, and busy Misses Anne Morgan and Miriam K. Oliver had arranged the shadow races as part of a two-day program new to local sport patrons, a canine carnival. The shadows were whippets. Other creatures performed- a shepherd dog with ten woolly charges, a circus of Pomeranians, high-jumping hounds, racing police dogs- but the whippets had a world's championship at stake and their fleet heats monopolized the interest of the tens of thousands of spectators...
Died. The Misses Rebecca and Miriam Rosenbach, sisters of famed bibliophile** Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach (TIME, March 1, RELIGION), at Philadelphia, of pneumonia, within a few hours of each other...
...reference to evolution," it said, "has been eliminated by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson from a textbook on biology used in Texas. One of the passages deleted states with an egotism which is entirely unwarranted, we are accustomed to speak of man and animals whereas we ought to say man and other animals, for certainly man is an animal just as truly as the beast of the field...