Cotton King sees troubles for Roosevelt farm bill
Will L. Clayton, famed as the world cotton trade leader, warned 500 delegates at the Texas Cotton Association convention in Galveston that Roosevelt’s farm relief bill risks nationalizing agriculture and tax burdens to fund benefits. He argued the plan would distort markets, destroy wealth, and fail to create new buying power or wealth.
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Galveston
U.P
Texas Cotton Association
Will L. Clayton
Roosevelt
Houston
Washington
Clayton
United States
Phillips
Jess
Hiccough Victim Analysis on Cotton Prices and Relief
Clayton warns that higher American cotton prices created by government policy would curb U S consumption while boosting production abroad. He argues tariff driven stagnation and war debts have ruined markets and calls for farm relief free of political lobby influence.
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Clayton
Widow Seeks Steady Work in Amarillo or Nearby
A widow named Mrs J L R writes from 508 Maryland Street seeking cafe and housekeeping work. She offers experience, willing to work in Amarillo or out of town, favors steady employment and reasonable wages.
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Amarillo
Maryland Street
Tack
Help Wanted and Lost Dog Advertisements Fragment
Classified style notices show a widow seeking hourly work and a cook housekeeper offering services. Other items include a saddle and bridle request, a good home offer, a lost collie named Bumpy with reward, two girls seeking work as domestic helpers, a practical nurse available, and a plea for assistance for an unemployed widow mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tack
Lubbock
Jobless Woman Seeks Honest Work in Lubbock
A jobless woman with bookkeeping and dictation skills appeals for permanent work in Lubbock. She lists experience in a large mail order house university and lumber firm, offers references, and asks for any honest labor to support herself and her child. She has canvassed the city for over a year with little paid work.
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Cation
Lubbock
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
O. E
He'll Work On Cars Says S J Pounds
Sidney J. Pounds lists mechanic skills including washing greasing and overhauling cars and offers to work to stay with his wife and baby at 1302 North Fillmore Cottage 22. The piece contrasts Dr Roosevelt attending and hints the nation awaits a capable leader amid political exhaustion.
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Sidney J. Pounds
North Fillmore St
Cottage
Roosevelt as Doctor of the Nation in a Wall Street Cure
A reader imagines Franklin D. Roosevelt as a physician restoring a sick nation. The parable uses banking imagery to praise FDR the leader who trusts the people over Wall Street and promises recovery through expanded currency and public work.
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Farm Board
Mellon
Morgan
Wall Street
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Farm Housekeeper Seeks Farm Contact for Job Offer
A farm housekeeping role is advertised as needed with an applicant seeking contact with farmers in need of help. The note invites interested parties to respond.
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Monroe Street
Mrs. Wafford
Dial
Bumpy
Burger
Frank Burger
West Fifth Avenue
Oo. J
Polk ST
Harry
Holland Men’s Store
Junior Welfare League
Paramount Theatre
Best
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Polk Street
Amarillo Bank & Trust Company
Welfare League
Morrow-Thomas Howe. CO
I. J. Quinn
South Lincoln Street
News-Globe
Poun Sreaey
Kiavnons
Philllea
Eee
San Epee
Phillips Olen
Phillips 66
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