Continuing rains add to farmers problems across Texas
Heavy rains and cool upper Gulf air hit Texas farms with moisture shortages in some areas while others see crops thriving. Reports from reporters across the state note flooding in some fields, delayed harvests for sorghum, cotton damage from boll weevils, and good pasture and livestock conditions in East Texas. Central regions report adequate moisture and steady crop progress, with peach harvests in Blanco and Gillespie counties and sorghum planting around 30 percent complete in the Panhandle.
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College Station
Gulf
Richmond
Texas
Senate
Whitsett
Asjcom
Joe Glover
Gonzales
Bend
Joe Rothe
Weslaco
Rio Grande Valley
Walter Scott
Nacogdoches
R. G. Burwell
Stephenville
West
Roy Huckabee
San Angelo
Blanco
Gillespie Counties
Ray Siegmund
Ft. Stockton
John Surovik
Mt Pleasant
Ted Martin
Denton
Rolling Plains
James Simmons
Vernon
W. H. Jones
Lubbock
Panhandle
W. W. Grisham Jr
Amarillo
Elderly Woman Smokes Pipes in Hospital
West Plains Missouri AP reports Queen Ann Daugherty, 80, brought her three pipes to a hospital for a broken left leg. She says she started smoking at age five on a physician’s advice for asthma and claims she has not had an asthma attack since. Her home is Tecumseh Missouri.
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West Plains
Queen Ann Daugherty
Wine Shipped In Rubber Bags Heads To Puerto Rico
A San Francisco report says the freighter Flying Trader carries 2 500 gallons of vermouth in rubber bags developed by the United States Rubber Co. Each bag holds 500 gallons and saves space when empty. The note ends with a stray remark on xenophobia and Puerto Rico imports.
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San Francisco
Flying Trader
Puerto Rico
United States Rubber Co
California
Newburgh Cracks Down on Welfare Recipients
In Newburgh New York city manager Joseph Mitchell leads a major welfare reform effort to reduce relief rolls amid a rising nonwhite beneficiary share and fierce political clash. The plan bars unwed mothers with illegitimate children from aid and requires able bodied relief workers to perform city labor, prompting legal pushback from state officials and local Democrats.
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Newburgh
N.Y
Hudson River
Joseph Mitchell
South
New York
de Lattor
Peeket
State Welfare Department
Mitchell
William Ryan
Sears Hunter
John O’donnell
Rentutre
Tchéll
Thhe
Deanna Durbin Ends Acting Career in France Life
Deanna Durbin says she has retired from acting though fans doubt it. She and her family visit Paris, enjoying a private life with husband Charles Davidson and children in an old farm near Paris. She cites public publicity as the reason for retirement and jokes about adapting to domestic life.
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Bob Thomas
Parisapi
Deanna Durbin
Hollywood
Visi
Charles David
Peter
Deanna
David
Paris
Deviha
Deanni
Nobiody
Fred Astaire
Betty Hutton
France
Davids
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Iener
AiBille
Altman
Moore’s Shoe Store
Wilkenfeld
Pilgrim
Munity
John
Eska
Wave
the Tower
Scarborough
Phar
Macy
Brunson's
Decker
Troy Bonarue
Claudette
Colbert
Karl
Mulder
Iu.s
Harold Greenwald
Francis Lederer
Rabkex
Wesley Rabke Jr
Stimson
Baytown
General Telephone Co
Otto Rabke Sr
Yorktown
Tex
David Wesley Rabke
Wesley Rabke Sr
Weeantohe
W. Oola Casey
James
Black's Pharmacies
Texas Decker
Stertin
James Darren
Michael Callan
Deborah Valley
Carl Reiner
Peggy Cass
Eddie Foy, JR
Ey Donnel
Vicki Trickett
Vorby
Duke Wherley
Willie Richelberger
Alpha Misher
Matherne
West Pearce
Betty
Swift
U.S
Florida
Spears
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