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recovered at 9:30 p. M.Friday.
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Miss SADIE’ V. MAUSBY
an engineer," la soon
SHOE
of a
dincovered by
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bership In the Klan.
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strike on the railroad that it said
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coo-
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iventon
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skatea.
Federal Reserve yatem and the
War Finance Corporation,
BUILD MRWCRAMT MARINE
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up by that
was
Breaking Funeral
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Transportation, he waid, la the
" also Prineese
aders.
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RAIL MEN MAY
JOIN MINERS IN
COMING STRIKE
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hundred men, comprising the day
shirt had just left before the ex-
Lone Survivor
Death Ship T
of Fatal Voy
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Rescue Crews Working
Frantically; Nine Men
Still Entombed
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Europe in nes
•aid to have
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ficlals will adopt a
policy.
TEX HANGS TO
ALIBI PLEA
with the policy of the ooa
allow all men to profit bs
ateady work, with ample
CHICAGO, March 35.—Eternal
beauty! ". , ‘ .
Misa Sadie V. Mausby of this
eity, who holds the title ot "hum-
"Mool’s F
Laka’s
Sympathetic Strike Is In-
dicated; U. S. Will Pro-
tect Public
ers’ meeting here:
John L Lewia, preaident of the
United Mine Workers obtained
ho sejd.
WONDER WI
LURE OF
FLOOR AT’
1000 values
15.95
Charged With Murder Of
Earl Hensley
FORFO
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off from sheer
drowned.
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nvestigation. Judge
poned a mininter. ad-
enileet and noted an
a ha the marriage cre-
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Witness Tells Court He’s
On City Force and Paid
Big Salary
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there."
Visits to thia floor dei
tendance at the business
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Fiet
investigation of Texas night rid-
era loomed thia afternoon, when
it became known that department
of jjustice agents had received or-
dore from Washington for "all the
thews for theft of a *66 combina-
tion raincoat and overcoat.
The case was set for Friday,
but some of the stats witnesses
were absent and it was postponed
to Saturday morning.
Will Cunningham, manager of
the clothing department of Stone-
atreet and Devia, sald Matthsws
entered the sids door. used the
phone and walked out with the
eoat
A race followed to Commerce-st,
thru a cafe and up to Firth-st.
boruek "TTex"Riekard,ssporta
promoter, being tried in supreme
The City will now be able to
pay cash for improvementa, de-
partments in need of funds will
be amply supplled. bonds will
not be needed for street paving,
and need of an increase in the
achool tax rate will be obviated.
timers."
shore do
Tan,
TRINIDAD^ Col., March 15 -
Nine chirred and burned bodies
had been removed from the Sopris
coal mine near here today, while
rescue crewa worked feverlably in
an effort to locate nine other men
still entombed tollowing an ex-
ploslon late yesterday-
Eighteen men were in the mine
at the time of the blast.
Investigation waa started into
the cause of the bleat. The explo-
sion hurled the top of the venti-
lation ehaft high in thejair.
Workmen on the surface agreed
the alarm and hhstily constructed
Farmer ia as yet ignorant and la
the prey of the democog. ?
Egypt Oeugtea
"Polly or the
Press Newsies Are
Shown Big Time
At Columbia R
The Pres* newntes enjoye
round at the Columbia ek
palace this morning. Abou
youngsters were presett
The management of the
offer* "Doe" Smallwood, tn
of the Cleveland Indians aad
In preparntlomtor the
tion meeting to be held
at Auetin of good rad
of the atate. Count Ju
as the public interests are
corned ;
t. Ask co-ordination of
and atate authorl ties in the
toreement of law.
DIE OF HUNGEN
Two women members died
exposure and hunger, after M
hla own strength gradually 1
.Ing weaker, had held them t
wreckage of the plane. The
pasenger a man, waa abh
cling to the wreckage until
day afternoon when he al
MEN
CLOSE SESSION
1, e. 9N 03198,
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The ekaters. In relaye;
ten miles while Smaliwo
criminal-ct for allege mistreat-
ment of little girla.
Supporting the alibi yesterday
waa testimony given by Dr. John
H. Rickards, who attended ths
late Colonel Theodors Roosevelt;
Frank Flournoy, matchmaker for
the promoter; Mrs. Helen B. TAl-
etson, head of the senographie de-
of the world,
i annual banquet will ; 1
z k
mdih,uo
hhi
Former Mayor is
Ordered To Cease
Office Of Mayor
Looks Almost Like
A Wedding Bower
to carry 00 per cent of the non-
union coal mined in the United
Government Will
Protect the Public
Big mystery, tolkat
What was on the 11th floor a
the Texas Hotel today T
The 13th floor was pleanantiy h
ferred to thruout the Texas Cotto
Armour Subpoenaed
To Take Stand In
v Kansas City Case
By Unitea Press
CHICAGO, Marek 36—J. Ogden
Armour, head of the packing com-
pany. will go to Kansas City Mon-
day to testity in the hearing on
the Misttetoe Yards cane.
Armour had not planned to tes-
tify at ths hearing out hs was sub-
poena ad today.
raliroada were planring to refuse
to handle cars carrying non-union
coal.
More than 50,000 railroad tele-
graphers already have ratified the
“protective agreement" in which
they agree to support the minors
in any wage controversy.
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Suspends Sentence
And Gate Minuter
which occurred nearly a year ago
were dragged out to aid tn the
probe.; 9 - F-"e
. Authorities weemed to pin their
hopes on clearing up the investi-
gallon one "contesalon" said to
be looked for by the distriet at-
torney’s office. 1 |
With rumor naming any one of
a score of prominent citizens as
A bond issue is to be sub-
mitted within six months, ’Us
said, the bonds to be used to re-
tire the note which will cover
the *760,000 loan.
A bond issue for that purpose
will stand about one chance in
ten of carrying.
It’s terry business for a city
At this morning's eseaton
delegates to tarry for the pi
dential election, and psured tl
"the 13th floor would atuu
eonimtdona. the
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4. Announce the striking min-
ecu must not interfere with minera
" who want to work. It the opertors "ix.
been the bodies uhd
facial exprensions of American
women. ■ :
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Five years in ths penitentiary (
was the penalty the jury in crimic
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peered but with no one to defend
1 hjugg
A « "Do you wish to plead guilty tt
I Judge Wilson asksd.
PU ♦ "No, Mr. I.amnatgnilty, * she
• tepiled. Attorneys Baskin and
ecomrrg !
TODISCUSSTAX
RITE PROBLEM
March 2
Fifty thousand employes of
Ford Motor Co. will enjoy
days ott each week in the tuti
■danl Ford, president of the o
pany. announced that a polle
a five-day, 40 hour week, we
be placed la effect immedint
Tke minimum wage of ** a
will be continued.
Ford said every man mm
more than one day a week
rest and time to devote to hi
0.
ra-.’sn
Variable wini
the "master mind" behind the
lashinga, police hoped that some
person or persons, in order to ploslon occurred.
the promiss of W. 8. tone, chief
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Eigineers, as a "rail chief and
cltizen" to support and assist ths
miners. ____
WILL JOIN MINERS
Twenty thousand Norfolk and
RAINCOATTHEFT
■ iajaa.h
to show that Rickard was attend-
ing a football game at a time
when it is alleged Sarah Schoen-
tn l ng knocked
had piayed tw
or wome Fori
‛i was wenen
"'MANMPpin.. March BB. — A
tragic picture of how five persons
lost their three as the result of
the senplane, "Mins Miami," crash-
Ing into the see between Miami
and Bimini was drawn by sailors
Majestic—"A Dress Rehearsal,"
Georgs Choos, produetlon,
heads sevsa-aot bill.
Raises —. Dorothy Dalton,
W "
Up
NO REPLY GIVEN
YO NEFFS OFFER
a makeshift ventilator shaft
clear the mlns of tbs fumse.
First ettorts to gst into
partment of ths New York Trust
Attornsy Max D. Stuer sought ployen nnounce a aympathetie
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s emmdhie
f
I
t
0 Turning On The
Spotlight
Finance Commissioner Town-
send ia quoted as being "elated
over the prospective transfer of
foreign sclentista, which changes
old faces into new.
She will leave from New York
sometime in May under auspices
of 30 millionaire eastern socletx
leaders who have agree to pay ml
1.78
.91
.36
10223
of the vessel Wiliam Greene
which rescued the mole aurvivor of
the craft, Robert Moore. pilot.
The story of ths tragedy was
told to the saflors by Moore,
aboard the Greene, before he
J. Maurice Champ. indicted for
the murder of Earl Hensley at 4th
and Main-St* these weeks ago, will
go to trial next Monday.
The prosecutors will not a*k for
ths death penalty, it 1* thought.
More than 100 year* were
meted out this week by juries in
Criminal-et. John Cornish Mill-
er got S3 for hijacking, O. O.
Owen* one year for making boose
as an insect killer “for big chick-
en*," and Earl Matthews five for
walking off with a *66 overcoat.
Federal Officers"
May Take Hand In 1
bloftrim-
mhats,.
feld was with him in his apart- Btates.
r' Reports olalmed to have been
recetved byseveral members of
the general policy commnittee of
the miners aaid employee of come
oe was soo-
the marriage
-u
Explosion occurred in the main
workings, >000 or more feet in.
and the nine missing men are be-
lleved to be fully 6000 feet back
in the mine.
. Hundreds of person*, including
frantic relative* of the entombed
men, crowded around the mine en-
trance after the exploslon. Two
mine wore unsuecesaful because of
the heat from the blast. It was
nearly an hour before squads
with oxygen helmet* could enter.
The first bodies were brought
to ths surface two hour* after
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Testimony of ".tool pigeons” B?yrieazrparen 3
and their use by police and federal •me"*
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grAaE
Mu2earos CITY, Okla., Mar. 1
25-Exceptionally heavy rains
fell in the western aad south cen-
tral mection of the stats during the
last 13 hours, according to reports
to the government weather bureau
hesinea midnight 1.64 ineheg of
rain fell in Oklahoma City. Altus
reported 1.37 inches and Mumko-
gee .04 lechs*. B
agent* to trap liquor law violators
wars discounted if aot frownsd
upon Friday in federal-ct when
the jury declared Mrs. Jennie
Cook, charged with .both sale and
"Your industrr will follow your choose to keep the minen open,
flag," G. J. Santa Cruz of the V. .. ......-........
pmooioai-mGueoar PatrolmenDenies
th* American Merchant Marine. ~
"WASHKNOTON, March 26.—
The government has decided on a
program of protection for the pub-
lic during the walkout of miner*
echeduled to start ons wssk from
today.
Until work l« suspended nil of-
dear themselyes of connection
with the case, would “squeal.”
meme Snipa f’ Hn*Etbw-
edge, prominentdumberman -as
bare of the Ku Kinx Klan were
planning to start a move to make
the membership lists of the Kina
publlo aad to authorize the wear-
lag of a button to denote mem-
civie ner of severai Olympic mi
walking race against three
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Introduced yesterday for od action by rail and mias work- |
" - • MJ, based on thesollowine ala ■
nitlcant developments at tbs min-
Shell Go to Europe in Search
Of’ Secret to Eternal Beauty
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koptpdcrottaynpoucdovenrpmpontsThe
Gov. Fat Neff Saturday morn-
ing had received no reply from
Distriet Attorney Hughes of Dal-
las, to whom he offered renger aid
la enforcing the law there, fol-
lowing floggina udministred by
Dallas mobs.
"I stand for ths courthouse and
her officers against ths mob," gov-
ernor Neff told District Attorney
Hughes, "and the power of the
etate is a( yonr command.”
Governor Neff (poke nt tke
Founders’ Day celebration at the
Baptist seminary here Friday
night. .
and the fragrance was wafted to
every nook and corner of the City
Hall mat floor • n, A
Nov there was no one getting Ms
married, neither were any of Abe Sa2.
Otty Halers sending them toSbalr
wivs.N 9 \ . i"Te V
They come from the five focal__
Morists who are members of the
*e Talmadge, national flower men. associatlon,
----- which opens its fifth annual flow- He
er show in Indtanapolis today tonit
old- business of the
eat* him. He
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""CESIVKLAND, Ohio. March 36.
—-Attenton today riveted on the
4,000,000 railroad employee at the
nation as the general policy com-
mittee of ths United Mine Work-
ers left Cleveland, having ap-
proved unanimously the strike cell
of 400,000 anthracite and bitumin-
one miners, scheduled for mid-
night March *1.
Action to be taken by the rail-
workers, tingly or collectively, in
the mine teup aituation, is prob-
lematical, but developments dur-
ing tbs miners" "war couneil" ses-
sion hers are believed indicative of
posaible eloee alliance of the two
groups during ths walkout period.
9,800,000
The railroad employee include
>,*00,000 member* of the "big
tour" brotherhoods and thousanda
of railroad shop craftamen, tele-
graphers and maintenance of way
men.
years, postal clerk 13 year*.
Experience in office?
on g . Have tried between rix and
His Booze Sales eight thousand cases of all kinds.
Heals of claimt"
By Uelted Preme
BEAUMONT, March 25. — E. J.
Dirtenbacher, former mayor of
Beaumont, was enjoined from
ceiling Uquor on premises owned
by him here. In action taken by
County Attorney Marvin . Sour-
lock. Diftenbacher is now under
two indietments for liquor law
violations./
« HUNTING, W. V., March M—A
pretty 16-year-old girl arraigned
before Judge George R. Hettiy, la
juvenlle-ct here, waa given a "ute
genthen -ylpeaa : 1 1 ‘
per “ehare” waa "being in
The girt, nentenced a few days
ago for incorrtgibility, made a
plea that abe was .a love and nak-
ed the court W suspend sentence
"tis paid.
There a pretty picture. Too
pretty to be true.
The overdraft will atill be on
’ overdraft after the loan goes
thru.
There really isn’t much dif-
ference between the city owing
the First National bank of Frt
Worth *760,000 and the First
National bank of St. Louis an
equal amount—except, in this
ease, ons half of ons par
interest. Ths Fort Worth bank
geta 4 per cent. The St. Louis
bank offera the loan nt 6 1-3
percent.
If the city ia to have all the
cash Commissloner Townsend
talks about, it will get it by go-
lag to the banks and borrowing
some more—-or else the Spot-
light’s arithmetie is on the
blink.
ta
Shrmdut
mpAAhsd"Ra, W, . 20 H : 2
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would intertere with spring piaut-
tag, gardening, etc.
B. L. Anderson wan elected
president ot the Texas Cotton Aa-
sociation Baturday at ths closing
sesnton of the 11th annual son.
ventton at the Texas Hotel.
The following board of direc-
tors were elected: George S: wul-
man, J. L. Goldman and J. B.
Orita of Dallas; L. TIdeman of
Gaiveston; H. M. Croswell and
Ben Clayton of Houston; T F.
Bush of Waco. nnd M. H. Reed
of Austin. ,3 ,
Dallas woo tbs nsxt convention
over a close race with Kouston. 4
"EX-GOVEHNOR TAIKS
Ex-Governor Richard I. Man-
ning of South Carolina doctored
the key to the cotton eltuation
roots In educating the cotton pro-
ducers end their famiites how to
make their living on the farm,
how to grow a variety of produets
and raise chickens and cows, kow
to increane ths production per
■ere end to thus stall off tbs
advent of. such pests on the boll
weevil. G ev ;
He aaid the southern cotton
Flowers, flowers everywhere.
Mayor Cdekrell’s offlee resembled
a flower store this morning. Bask-
ets and wreaths or every kind of
flower sold by local florists were
heaped on the commisston table.
poeeeeneereneerreeberpnrerroom
Introducing Our
Office Seekers
e e e
HUGH L SMALL
Candidate for
District Attorney
Pollee Patrol Driver Ed Lee
said yesterday afternoon, in rot-
erence to tbs charge that the Ma-
haffey tuneral had been broken by
Mart and life of any induntry. 4
---- - , J. Dabney Day of the First Na-
■ Bat the colonel tooted them this tlonal Bsnk of Les Angelen. sold
time o. •haie satiataction. Altho two-thirds of tbs world population
avallable totormation" on Tsxas
whipping parties. ■
Charles E. Breniman, egent in
charge of ths local federal bureau
is preparing to send data on all
whippings’ in ths horthern dis-
trict of Texas to the department
headquarters at Washington.
No indication -waa contatned in
the orders received here as to
whether the justie department
planned steps against ths night
riders. The orders merely said to
"compile fact*.”
’♦ • •
By United Prose
DALLAS, Mar. *5.—The trail
of the night rider*, believed re-
eponsible for ecores of whipping*
in North Texas, had led author-
ities into a maze of charges aad
counter charges from which they
were attempting to pick their way.
today.
As the investigation into the
more recent whippings slowly pro-
Monday. aad alee mn who were
thacity"ttavirerata trop fS manroqindit."inosFmonca
WontPtomdPt* ItH eeoac
Bank of St. Louis, ; ity thut some connertauvemem. Ear Matthe
ess:.ws
1007 (
2 ’ ■ gyhe gWevCgar7gakg”“3eg3gg 3v
eeorerepeeeeeeereseseseeeneen.
Nation’s
Weather
the government will Iseue a com-
munication to federal agenta
thruout the nation outiining its
course of action during the tieup.
The govern meat will:
1. Order all agents to protect
mining property against any vig-
Isaos. 0 v "c ,
>. Warn both sides against
any suggestion of violence snd
declare ths attitude of ths govern-
ment as "Impattiat" except Insofar
I that the time to not far off tunerai aad in fast dt
m the Paclfle WfU baths trade Sueeinemau
sheer exhnustion. Me to la a
pital here now.
Two of the five persons dut.-
overboArd after the plane eraah-
ed into the sea, Moors told the
sailora. Ooe of these waa a wo-
man. __________•
possession of liquor, not guilty
after the so-called "stool” had
testified he bought the whlaky.
The raid on Mrs. Cook’s home.
100 «. 17th-at, was ataged Jan.
47 by Officers Hukill, Thornberz,
Crawford, Richardson and Lawler
following Officer Alcorn’s report
■he had bought some whisky from
Mrs. Cook.
MARKED MONEY
3 Alcorn aaid he took bls own
marked money and Went of his
own accord to got the liquor.
* Alcorn admitted it was his
bustness to trap violators by pose-
lag marked money to them. He
said be worked under Thornberg
aad Hukill and was paid *110 a
month by the city.
"He wasn’t working for us at
tee time," Hukill testified. "rWhen
ths hones was searched I found
one pint of liquor under the din-
dag table," he aaid. t
.B DIDN’T DENY IT
* Mrs. Cook said she was washing
dishes at tha sink whan the search
Aras made. She didn’t deny the
liquor was found but declared
she didn’t know it was there and
that tt was not hers.
When her case was called Mrs.
Cook, now Mrs. J. W. O’Hare. ap-
How long have you been county
Judge?
Two terms.
Law degree?
Took bar examination after at
tending night school here—-was
first to get license from the school.
Any other of flees?
Was justice of the peace two
to get away into debt on cur-
rent expendes, then to vote
bonds ot put itself beck on its
foot. 5 . .... •- . '
The overdraft should be paid
off by installments taken from
regular income. Some of the
current year’s revenue should
have been est adds for this pur-
pose. It wamn‛ If necessary,
ths tax rats should be tncreaa-
sd to permit partial payment Of
the overdraft next year. 2
The savings of a little inter-
est which might be made by is-
suing bonds to fund this debt ie
overshadowed by ths public pol-
nal-et Saturday gave Earl Mat-
nts I
immediately
mayor an er-
tion frees him-
uslon.
alesh
and Mrs. Lewrenee E." Smith
and Mr. and Mro. Auzunt Buite
all of Kansas City, 20 and
Phis.
Shortly after the boat let!
Miami Wednesday morning ot
the ill-fated trip to Bimini Island
ons of ths propeller blades broki
and it was forced down.
Ths craft rods tbs waven u
safsty and without much dittieul
ty. drifting northward in the Gul
Stream.
No trouble developed anti
Thursday morning when some
thing struck against tha hull «
the boat and it began to leak.
Men and women took turns a'
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general shoe
nuxviyas.
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My record as justice and county
judge and law enforcement with-
out fear, favor ovfrictiorf
Japs Pleated At
U. S. Ratification
Of Pacific Treaty
1' -am- j : e
By United Press
TOKIO, March >8. — Japanese
offtMaia expressed themselves to-
day as highly gratified 'over the
action of the United Btates sen-
ate in ratifying the four-power
Pacifie treaty,
They declared the* there was
no objection on the port of Japan
to the Brandsgee remervation
which the senate passed, addlug
that it was looked on by their
government as inconsequential.
YouTel‛Em,Qld
Dearg Testae Mt
Alweye Rainleu
B **
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'Amicable Settlement May
Come Monday
Confidence that ths controversy
with ths school-bd on its request
for a school tax rats inereas can
be amicably settled when ths next
meeting is held Monday, was ex-
prssssd by Finance Comminloner
T°H“acinrea the omission of
Mistletoe Heights and Rosen
Heights from tbs echool-bd's re-
port, cut at least *3,000,000 from
its estimate on taxable valuations
in territory to be annexed.
He waa to make an investigation
of property valuations in all sub-
rbs on the annexation program
May. .uc.u.
Heavy Rainfall is
p ; Reported in West
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Siler, Leon M. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 145, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 25, 1922, newspaper, March 25, 1922; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1546891/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.