Health Committee Forms malaria fight in Fannin County
The Vannin County Health Committee met in Bonham to review the State Health Department and Fast Texas Chamber of Commerce malaria eradication program. The plan includes mosquito proofing rural homes, adult education, school lessons, town mosquito control, and medical-professional outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vannin County Health Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Bonham
State Health Department
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Fannin County
A. G. McRae
A. S. Broadfoot
B. C. Fewell
W. EB. Lasseter
Honey Grove
Elwood H. D. Club Wins First Prize in Health Contest
The Elwood Home Demonstration Club scored 77.7 points per member to win 100 cans from Sid Smith in the Rural Health Contest. A. G. McRae and Miss Min Eldridge praised the campaign as a milestone in East Texas health work, with extensive home screenings, mosquito control, and sanitation improvements across Fannin County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elwood
Sid Smith
East
Texas
A. G. McRae
Miss Min
Eldridge
C. M. Adams
State Health Department
East Texas
Fannin County
Gift to Warden Henry Hill by Joliet Convicts
Convicts at Joliet contribute 800 for a farewell gift to Warden Henry Hill who is leaving to head the new federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
den Henry €. Hill
Pennsylvania
Mrs Ferguson to Speak in Dallas Friday Night
Former Governor Miriam A Ferguson and her husband former Gov James I Ferguson will appear in Dallas Friday at Lake Cliff Park with John W Pope presiding. A women's meeting at Adolphus Hotel Friday morning will precede a city drive and luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Miriam A. Ferguson
James I. Ferguson
Lake Cliff Park
Joe K. Morris
North Texas
Fergusons
Ft. Worth
Ferguson
Adolphus
Cottage Bend School Closes After Community Farewell
Cottage Bend school ended with a large chicken dinner on May 27 and a baseball game for staff and students. County Superintendent Farris Pirtle and local leaders oversaw events. A Friday night play Mammy's Lil Wild Rose closed the ceremonies, with a community cast and stage built by Jim Cox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottage Bend
Farris Pirtle
Messrs
Shinpaugh
Walter Boyd
Broadfoot
Lem Tittsworth
Magouirk
Dr. Carter
Mammy
Lil’ Wild Rose
Daniel French
Hay Ware
Lester van
Orville Redman
Westle Carver
Loyd Francks
Jackson—Collie Ferguson
Old Joe
Theodore Newell
Rose O'May
Lillian Cox
Mammy Clelie
Poland Executes Spies for Delivering Polish List
Warsaw reports two Soviet spy cases ended by execution. An engineer and a civil clerk were put to death after authorities concluded they had provided Moscow with a complete list of Polish agents in the Soviet Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Poland
Soviet Republic
Minneapolis Boy Johnson Catches Falling Baby
Minneapolis-Raymond Johnson 12 made a good catch saving a life when he glimpsed a baby sliding from an apartment roof. He grabbed the child and was knocked down. The baby suffered a possible skull fracture but doctors expect survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Raymond Johnson
Letter Carriers Hold Fourth District Meet in McKinney
The Rural Letter Carriers Association of the Fourth District held its eighth annual convention at Finch Park, McKinney, Texas, with about 225 attendees. The program featured W. W. Brown’s address, officer elections, a speech by A. M. Wolford, a Washington Memorial talk by Wallace Hughaton, and service medals for retiring carriers J. W. Weath and T. Calloway plus a piano number by R. B. Howery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mckinney
Texas
Fourth Congressional District
Finch Park
W. W. Brown
Decator
Texas Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
A. M. Wolford
George Washington
Wallace Hughaton
Rand
Texy Masons
J. W. Weath
Prosper
Nine tame seals hired to watch San Francisco docks
In San Francisco nine tame seals were kept in the city aquarium and then put on the payroll of the commercial fishing industry to deter other seals from leaving the bay. Bids of ten dollars each failed to free the animals, prompting fishermen to object to releasing them into the Pacific as they would roam the bay and disrupt business.
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San Francisco
Commercal
Pacific Ocean
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Elwood H. D. Club
James J. Walker
New York
Samuel Seabury
Hofstadter
Seabury
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Woosevelt
Mrs. Ferguson
St. Johnsbury
Robert Swmers
Fairbanks Vocational High School
Hester O’may
Mary Purcell
Peevey Prench
Kathryn Cox
Betty van
Nina Hest
Pabe Jean--Christine Newell
Coourtrane
Renfro
Jim Cox
Higgenboham-Steger Lumber Co
Bill Tidwell
Ail
Texas Guinan
Paris
France
Tex
Ross
Che x. Leeb
Vhesterfield
Rut Eyting
Tosacco Co
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