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...Purpose. Of course the legislators of Texas were not half so aroused over the tick and the hoof and mouth disease as might appear. The highway matter was the crux of the situation, and behind the petition was a threat that the legislature might summon itself for impeachment purposes...
...brief, they asked Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson to summon a special session for Jan. 4 that they might: 1) provide funds to oust the tick from Texas steers; 2) provide funds to oust the hoof and mouth disease from the same; 3) "amend the highway laws of this State to such an extent as will, in the judgment of the Legislature, sufficiently protect the interests of the people and promote the establishment of an efficient system of public highways...
They concluded with the suggestion that, if the Governess failed to issue such a call before Dec. 10, they would construe her failure to act as a refusal of their plea to oust the tick...
...taken for what is technically known to the habitues of the race track as a ride last week. My record as a seer, hitherto 100 per cent perfect, was dealt a crushing blow 'When the last tick of the telegraph told me that Pennsylvania had beaten Yale, I, though I am a real man's man, sat down and wept like a child. For I, the ne plus ultra forecaster (pretty erudite, that) had missed. I had broken faith with my public. Such are life's tragedies...
Rumor had it (and the chiefly interested party-John Hertz-refused to make denial), that the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. - makers of the vivid yellow things that flit the streets of the nation's cities as their meters tick off fares-was to be merged with the General Motors Corp...