Word: tex
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Circular letters explaining the advantages of a home for unmarried mothers are lewd, lascivious, obscene; and hence are improper matter for the U. S. mails. So said two Federal courts in Texas, while sentencing Dr. John C. Dysart, proprietor of the Queen Anne Private Home at El Paso, Tex., to five years in the Leavenworth Penitentiary and fining him $2,500. Proprietor Dysart, it seems, had sent out some form letters, intended for physicians; but several of the letters fell into the feminine hands of El Paso schoolteachers. Irate, they called in the law. Proprietor Dysart was found guilty...
...send the $10 to Whittlesey, send it to me. W. A. NICKERT Philadelphia, Pa. Sirs: With Christmas at hand Send TIME to a friend EINAR HILSEN Minneota, Minn. Bad. - ED. Sirs: "Time out" said the football player. "TIME out," said the business manager of TIME. J. S. HODGES Denison, Tex. Sirs...
...cotton situation in the South lately. I happen to live in the county which raises more cotton than any other county in the world as general rule and it is a vital matter to us since cotton is our lifeblood. JOSH H. GROCE Groce & Groce Attorneys at Law Waxahachie, Tex...
Once, in Dallas, Tex., there was a mediocre dentist with ,an eye for business ventures. He joined the Ku Klux Klan; now he is Imperial Wizard; he knows he has money and he thinks he has power...
Prejudice! Graft! My tactics a bombshell! Prosecution frightened! My case is over! These were the jubilant cries last week of Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, 49, unofficial Baptist Fundamentalist, of Fort Worth, Tex., who on July 17 decreed death to Dexter E. Chipps, lumber dealer, and acted as agent himself (TIME, July 26 et seq.). The now deceased had ventured to expostulate with the parson for maligning D. E. Chipps' friend, the Mayor of Fort Worth. Pastor Norris, who has since been at liberty on bail, preaching weekly to vast throngs, has now secured a change of venue...