Wheat adjustment program offices open in Amarillo
Texas wheat growers in the Plains will receive several million dollars for complying with 1936 allotment terms. John R. Edmonds announces the program from a courthouse office in Amarillo. About 20 000 farmers will be paid next fall including 130 Potter County farmers under AAA filings despite the Supreme Court ruling.
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John R. Edmonds
Texas
Plains
Potter County
AAA
Supreme Court
Congress
Farmers to receive six week bonus for wheat allotments
Farmers will get 2 1 2 cents per bushel for six weeks for the amount of their farm allotment, minus a small local admin cost. Allotments are based on average wheat yields from several base years. Mr Edmonds of the Texas Extension Service, state wheat agent since 1933, will oversee about six weeks of work in the commissioners’ court room.
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Texas Extension Service
Commissioners’ Court Room
Buck Griffin Killed in Corsicana Area Crash
Buck Griffin a 70 year old farmer and local political figure was killed when his car apparently hit a shoulder on Highway 31 near Powell and overturned near Corsicana. Passenger Mrs Elsie Knipe in critical condition in hospital. This marked the sixth traffic fatality of the year and fifth on Highway 31.
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W. T
Buck) Griffin
Navarro County
Highway 31
Powell
Elsie Knipe
Knipe
Griffin
Miss Wilson Visits Parsons Former Home
Miss Eloise Wilson of the Resettlement Administration staff travels from the RA office to Parsons Kansas for a visit to her former home. She is to return Sunday and works on the regional director's staff.
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Eloise Wilson
Resettlement Administration Office
Parsons
Kas
Miss Wilson
Patricia Collinge A Broadway Star of Stage and Sea Motifs
The article profiles Patricia Collinge an Irish born actress who rose from musical comedies to Broadway leading roles. It notes her major stage turns including The Queen of the Moulin Rouge The Girl and the Wizard The Blue Bird Thunderbolt Sister Beatrice Pollyanna Just Supposed marriage to J Nichols Smith in 1921 and shows with Dudley Digges Edith Evans and Joseph Schildkraut. It adds personal details about her Nantucket house with her husband and her love of reading and the sea.
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America
Pat
Tilly
Leslie Howard
J. Nichols Smith
Patricia
Hedda Gabler
Dudley Digges
Actor’s Theatre
Anatol
Joseph Schildkraut
Edith Evans
E. M. Delafield
Angus
Proust
Beerholm
Delafield
Nantucket
Dublin
Ireland
Row Over Bonus Ends in Gunfire in Utah
In Ogden Utah June 17 an ex wife demanded a veteran Jim Crow 36 share in a bonus. Crow was shot in the hand and his sister Mrs Della Stone 42 wounded in the abdomen after she interceded. Deputy Sheriff Lee L Clausse said Blanche Crow 30 fired at Crow and then at Stone. Blanche Crow held for questioning.
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Ogden
Utah
Jim Crow
Della Stone
Lee L. Clausse
Crow
Blanche Crow
Fragmented thoughts and wartime notes drift through a long page
A collage of dense clippings covers health musings on aging and diet, labor politics in France, Dionne twins family news, a Newark cat tragedy from the Essex County Humane Society, and Uncle Sam’s postwar bonus bond dispersal to millions of veterans. Miscellaneous dire warnings and prayers punctuate the slice of backlog.
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Newark
Essex County Humane Society
Humane Society
Sam
Arsenic in a Teen's Death and Historic Debt Reflections
A 16 year old dies with arsenic in his body while his father and grandfather perished in cremation. Ashes will be examined for arsenic as suspicions of life insurance fraud arise. The text notes that arsenic survives burning and contrasts past rail disruptions by caterpillars with today’s news. It also comments on the national debt rising from one to thirty four thousand million dollars and questions wartime profit.
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Carrel
Chesterton
Europe
Glamorous Continued From Editorial Page
Diary style excerpt shows Gail debating living cheaply with a roommate Natalie as they plan a late dinner. Gail fears questions about her date with Derek and contemplates sharing expenses versus hiring help. To Be Continued.
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Natalie
Derek
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