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Application for State Aid: Rural and Small Town Schools - Scholastic Year 1919-1920

Description: An application for state aid funding filled out by C. C. Cox for the Splendora school in Montgomery County, Texas, Common School District 15. The application includes detailed information about the school's employees, students, grounds, sanitation, library, and other relevant information.
Date: August 18, 1919
Creator: Texas. State Board of Education.
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Eucaline Cotton Picking Book

Description: A notebook sponsored by the Eucaline Medicine Company, advertising their tonic for fever treatment and weight gain. Every other page includes a brief testimonial above a space for notetaking; the opposite pages each have tables for calculating weight gain. There are handwritten notes from C. C. Cox on work-related topics on the cover, back, and first few pages.
Date: 1919
Creator: Eucaline Medicine Company
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Free Text Book Law

Description: A printing of the Free Text Book Law, which was enacted by the Texas state legislature in February 1919. Included at the end is a list of books adopted by the Board of Education by subject. A small slip of paper is also included, defining the term "maximum attendance."
Date: March 1919
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

[Instructions for Schools and Victory Savings Week, 1919]

Description: A pamphlet from the War Savings Division of the Federal Reserve to American public schools with instructions for the celebration of Victory Savings Week, a national celebration and pledge drive for the first anniversary of World One One's end. Included are letters addressed to principals, teachers, and parents, specific instructions for schools on how to organize events and collect money pledges during the week, and lyrics for "thrift songs" to be sung. A return envelope and the sending envelop… more
Date: October 22, 1919
Creator: Smith, Frank M.
Partner: Private Collection of the CC Cox Family

Journal of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South: 1920

Description: Journal of the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including the proceedings of the annual conference, committee reports, updates to conference leadership and contact information, and other related information. Index starts on page 84.
Date: 1919/1920
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Texas Conference.
Partner: Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church
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