Blue Grass Dreamer Chooses Home Over City Offer
Linda Gordon, a magazine hopeful in wartime Manhattan, declines a staff job to return to her ailing Uncle Sandy in Kentucky. A Merry Maid racing victory and a marriage proposal from Monte Hill entwine as she weighs loyalty, love, and a dream of country gentility against urban ambition.
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Linda Gordon
Manhattan
Selmont
Merry Maid
Monte
Monte Hill
Belmont
Jook
Moxie
Moss
Ull
Bruce Radford
Bum
Uncle Sandy
Radford
Jim
Jerole
Mabbattan
Linda
Horeman
Linda Turan
New York
Monte Wis
Linds Gordon
Radford Farm
Jerry
Seattle
Bruce
Sandy
Monte Tally
Loans Announced For 1938 Cotton And 1937 Corn Loans
The agriculture department broadened its efforts to halt farm price declines by offering loans on 1936 cotton and raising the 1937 corn loan to 57 cents a bushel. The move aims to finance withholding from markets and to set a price floor. Corn rose about a cent and a half after the announcement. The cotton loan, the second since mid July, uses base rates near the minimum under new crop control laws.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department of Labor
Gist
Working To Place Murray On Ballot
GALATOMA CITY August 26 Former Governor W H Murray may appear as a nonpartisan United States senator candidate as petition drives target 150000 signatures. Maddox reports 250 volunteers circulating across rural areas with Tulsa and Oklahoma City to host final push next week. The 1934 ruling requires independent candidates file during pre primary period.
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Galatoma City
Ur—k. L. Maddox
W. H. Murray
United States
Murray
Senate Ballot Matchups Set Facing Elmer Thomas and Glasser
Democratic incumbent Thomas will contest Elmer Thomas while Republican nominee Harry Glasser leads in the Senate ballot. The contest features a bipartisan slate with Thomas seeking reelection and Glasser vying for the seat opposite him.
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Elmer. Thomas
Harry
Glasser
Collision near Lonoke costs two lives
A head-on crash one mile south of Lonoke on the Little Rock highway killed Mr. G. J. Cox of Blytheville, about 50, instantly and his wife, 43, who died later in a Little Rock hospital. Ira P. Deloach of Dallas, Texas, and his daughter Nellen, 18, escaped with non serious injuries.
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Lonoke
Ark
UPI— Ja
Here
Little Rock
G. J. Cox
Blytheville
Cox
Ira P. Deloach
Bal- Jas
Tex
Nellien
Serial Story Photo Finish Comedic Duel of Linda Gordon
Linda Gordon returns to rural Kentucky with her Uncle Sandy after a car incident near the Radford Farm. Bruce Radford, newspaper man and rival, reappears seeking Linda while a public auction of Radford stock looms. She plans to reclaim the Gordon colors and resume her NY ambitions, hinting at an arranged future with a promising colt.
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Phoenix Trust Co
Radford
Wm. Radford
Brown’s Barn
Rss
Jerry
Linda
Bruce Radford
Linda Gordon
Bruce
Colt
Pompoon
Fempey
Sandy
Farmers Guests Of Rotary Club in Ada Oklahoma
Ada Rotary Club hosted 21 farmer guests at a Ruralurban acquaintance day luncheon at the Aldridge hotel. Dr. A Linscheid spoke on farming importance, urging land conservation and better mutual understanding between farmers and townspeople. Former guests and list of attendees are noted, along with a final Ada News classified ad closing remark.
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Ada’ Rotary Club
Aldridge
A. Linscheid
Linscheid
E Mers
Alfred Summers
Maxwell
John _ McIntyre
Qil Center
P. R
Frisco
Bob Ellis
Frank Shermat
Wrnnewood
Bill Johnson
Uel Bumpers
Jos
Phillips Plans Inspection Tour of State Institutions
Oklahoma Democratic nominee Leon C. Phillips returns from vacation and announces a tour of inspection of state institutions starting at Northeastern Oklahoma Junior College in Miami. The schedule includes visits to schools, hospitals, and Negro institutions, with stops in Claremore, Alva, Woodward, Enid, and more before the November general election.
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Leon C. Phillips
Oklahoma City
Phillips
Okemah
Miami
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Eastern Oklahoma
Hos Italy
Claremore
Oklahoma Military Academy
Muskogee
American Legion
J. A. Morrow
Sallisaw Legislate
Alva
Northwestern State Teachers College
Supply
Western Oklahoma Hospital
Woodward
Rodeo
Enid
Northwestern Oklahoma
Pn Wee
O Daniels Pleads For Candidates In Texas Radio Appeal
Governor nominee W Lee O Daniel urged Texas voters to support six men for major offices chosen on business grounds. He asked voters to vote per conscience and warned against attacking him for backing other candidates, saying the real issue is funding the old age pension.
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Fort Worth
W. Lee O'Daniel
Texas
O'Daniel
O'Dannel
County Boy Takes Honors In Wildlife Conservation Camp
A Panhandle area 4 H club delegate, Robert Bushers Owl Creek, scored 95 out of 100 in rifle fire at Robbers Cave wildlife conservation camp near Wilburton. Camp leaders praised his accuracy while 80 4 H boys and girls from northeast and southeastern Oklahoma attended under supervision of E W Cinnamon and Mrs Cinnamon. Ben Osborn and Frances K McGinnis led sessions on bird and plant life, propagation, and farmer benefits, with morning hikes and evening wildlife shorts highlighting conservation.
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Pontotoc County
Robbers Cave
Lula
E. W. Cinnamon
Cinnamon
Fom Hale
Oklahoma
Ben Osborn
Soi
Conservation Service
Frances K. McGinnis
Stillwater
Demos Call For Organizing Meets in Pontotoc County
Precinct meetings were held September 6 with rural gatherings at 2 pm and first class city precincts at 8 pm. The county convention will meet September 10 at the county courthouse to elect delegates to the state convention. The state convention is set for Tulsa on September 19 to write the Democratic platform. Pontotoc County, entitled to seven delegates, based on 8000 votes in the last presidential election. Joe Beck chairs, Lattie Braly is vice chair, W. T. Melton secretary.
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Pontotec County
Tulsa
Pontotoc County
Joe Beck
Lattie Braly
W. T. Melton
FDR Warns Against Pension Short Cuts and Tax Risk
President Roosevelt warns against California talk of S30 weekly pensions for all over 50, calling it a shortcut to Utopia and a hidden tax on the poor. He cites his social security address and cautions the public about financing methods tied to stamped warrants.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
California
Rust Brothers Form Foundation To Aid Cotton Pickers
Memphis August 24 John and Mack Rust founders of a mechanical cotton picker announce the Rust Foundation to apply most of their personal profits to uplift southern agricultural workers They seek incorporation at Nashville and propose income limits to guard equity The foundation aims to rehabilitate unemployed sharecroppers and farm laborers through research education and experiments to seek a lasting solution to poverty and unemployment
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Memphis
Tenn
John and
Mack Rust
Rust
South
Rusts
Nreshville
Smith Reappointed To NRLB Board
HYDE PARK New York August 26 The president today reappointed Donald Wakefield Smith of Pennsylvania to the National Labor Relations Board for a five year term His existing term expires August 27 President Green of the AFL discussed the term's expiration with the president but had no objections and urged the board to be more judicial in mindset.
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Hyde Park
WN. Y
Roosevelt
Donald Wakefield Smith
Pennsylvania
National Labor Relations Board
Smith
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
NLRB
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