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Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 24, 1950

Page

5

Han Goes Goofy Weeks Feature Sparks Laughs From Tom Tully

The piece recounts Tom Tully promoting quirky weekly observances such as Home Laundry Week and Peanut Week, noting his humorous fixation on weeks and the impact on his film crew during Branded in Globe Arizona. It highlights his comment on Leave Us Alone Week and the unexpected popularity of Cherry Week with Bow-Tie Week slated for May.

Virginta MacPherson Tom Tully Tully Tolly Globe Arizona Lough Weel

Wonder Drugs Won’t Cure Spring Fever Epidemic

New York reports spring fever as a universal malady, with Dr. Alexander Chaikelis of City College of New York saying no drug cures the seasonal ailment. He notes about 90 percent of people are in the throes of April, feeling irritable, listless, and unmotivated as temperatures and humidity rise. He attributes mood shifts to thermostat and glandular changes in the brain, explaining there is no proven remedy beyond time and adaptation.

New York iPi Alexander Chaikel Chaikelis City College of New York

Baytown parking meters report odd tokens and totals

City Manager C D Middleton notes a red token jammed in four meters with the flag up as unused funds. In Baytown and Goose Creek areas meters logged 26,998 coins totaling $823.43 for the traffic fund, plus $562.12 in Goose Creek, $208.29 in Baytown, and $32.42 in Pelly meters.

Baytown C. D. Middleton Goose Creek Beytown Area

Shin-Kicking Doesn't Stop One-Legged Man

Attorney J Lester Johnson kicked his client’s shins after the defendant continued talking to the judge. Johnson asked why the defendant ignored the kicks and claimed the leg must be wooden. The passage notes Hipling’s poem The Powers (1902) linking Germans to the Hun.

Wis J. Lester Johnson Johnson Hipling

Rain Averts Crisis in Texas Animal Kingdom

Recent rains averted a threatened crisis in Texas wildlife and wheat farming. E G Marsh of the Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission said moisture arrived during the birds spring reproduction period and spurred growth of food for future use by quail wild turkey and doves. Deer antelope and other game benefited as well. Water levels rose easing rationing at a fish hatchery during spawning.

Austin Tex Animal Kingdom E.G. Marsh Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission Marsh

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