Texas cattle shipments rise but overall decline in 1934
Texas cattle and calves shipments to Fort Worth and interstate points rose 14 percent in the first quarter, totaling 10 396 cars, while hogs and sheep receipts fell. For March shipments, cattle up 26 percent offset by declines in hogs, sheep, and calves, yielding a 7 percent year over year drop overall. Interstate poultry and eggs shipments fell 21 percent in March. The UT bureau notes brighter beef prospects despite present hog price malaise.
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Austin
Texas
Fort Worth
Interstate
Bureau of Business Research
University of Texas
Bureau
Youth Sentenced For 94 Cent Theft
Amarillo youth G. W. Shelton was sentenced to two years in the State penitentiary after a 47th District Court jury found him guilty of a pool hall burglary involving 94 cents. He allegedly entered Recreation Hall at 304 Pierce Street by kicking a door.
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G. W. Shelton
Amarillo
State
47Th District
Shelton
Pierce Street
Pioneers in America Began Eastward Migrations Across Continent
A Smithsonian map by David S. Bushnell Jr. shows prehistoric migrations from the Pacific to the Atlantic with tribes moving eastward over centuries. Algonquians, Siouxans, Iroquois, Muskhogeans, and Caddoans are traced, with evidence from burial grounds and sites across Alaska to Kentucky.
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America
F. B. Colton
Associated Press
Washington
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Smithsonian Institution
Pacific
Atlantic
Mississippi River
David S. Bushnell, Jr
Canada
New England
North Atlantic Seaboard
Northwest
Great Lakes
Asia
Bering Strait
Siberia
Alaskan
Kentucky
Tennessee
Bushnell
North America
Asia Minor
Old World
Mediterranean
Virginia
Carolinas
Lakes Erie
Atlantic Coast
David I. Bushnell, Jr
Club Woman Is Sensation As She Pulls Snakes
Houston April 26 Mrs Bruce Reed of Port Arthur caused a stir at the Fourth District Texas Federation of Women's Clubs convention by pulling snakes from her bag to argue that they make good pets. Delegates shrieked as the snakes entwined around her arms and neck while she urged they are clean economical and satisfactory pets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Bruce Reed
Port Arthur
Texas Federation of Women's Clubs
Auxiliary to Postal Group Planned Here
Postal supervisors from the Panhandle are invited to Amarillo next month to form an auxiliary to a regional postal supervisors association. The meeting, in the federal building on Saturday May 19, will set membership rules with two delegates from each of at least 25 post offices. Speakers include W Bruce Luna and C B McClelland.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Federal Building
Postel Returns Date to Save Demurrage
Amarillo merchants received a suggestion from M. E. Dilday superintendent of mails of the Amarillo post office to print shipping labels with a 15 day return limit. The post office department will resume a demurrage charge July 1 on all COD parcels left in the post office more than 18 days. After July 1 a charge of five cents a day will be assessed on parcels over the limit.
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Amarillo
M. E. Dilday
Post Office Department
Dilday
Workers Obstinate In Dock Negotiations
Galveston steamship interests said no progress in wage contract talks with shoremen ahead of a May 1 deadline. Steamship men asserted Galveston Houston Texas City and Corpus Christi crews had no control over Sabine.
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Galveston
GalVeston Steamship Interesta
Tong
Houston
Texas City
Corpus Christi
Sabine
District ports bar work after April 30 uncertain
The statement notes ports could not be included in the contract and that continuing after April 30 depends on the ILA decision.
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Mississippi
Southwest
Department of Agriculture
Brusn
Cadooans
Gray
Tan
Rose
Hoppe
New York
National Republican Club
Theodore Roosevelt
Prague
Upper
Lower Austria
Bavaria
Germany
Wm.l.ball
Blackburn
Amarillo Res
Sunshine Dairy Foods
Kelloggs
Kellogg’s
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Chitwood
Aluminum
Williams Hardware
Taylor
Beitr
Turkey
Greece
American Tobaco Company
Iin Tay Taite
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