Local residents report visits and good health updates
Mrs S J Williams and Mrs Bradsj aw show improvement. Clyde Sedler of Whitewright visited Saturday afternoon. C D Hunter and family visited F C Williams. J T Cox and wife spent Sunday with son J J Cox. Hunter attended business in Bonham. Otto Russell dropped by Friday. Odas Hicks went to Whitewright for carpentry today. Joe Smith of Orangeville was in the community Wednesday. FC Williams traveled in Grayson county Friday. Residents hope roads allow attendance at Marvin's Chapel singing next Sunday the 17th for convention day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S J. Williams
Brads
Clyde Sedler
Whitewright
C D. Hunter
F. C. Williams
J. T. Cox
Ely
J. J. Cox
C. D. Hunter
Bonham
Otto Russell
Odas Hicks
Doctor laments wife’s mind is entirely gone
The New Haven Register quotes a doctor expressing sorrow over the wife’s mental decline. Mr Peek responds casually noting years of her giving him “four pieces of her mind” daily for fifteen years, highlighting a troubled domestic tone.
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Doctor
Mr. Peek
New Haven Register
Station master killed by train in Portugal incident
Braco de Prata, Portugal. A station master supervising traffic was struck by a passenger train and buried beneath it before he sprang up and shouted at the engineer for ignoring signals. Albert Tipper, 73, a former Billing, Missouri resident, has recently passed the state bar exam.
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Braco de Prata
Portugal
Albert Tipper
Fasher
Billing, Mo
Optimistic Bonham talk credits mills and world trade
Bonham Roterians heard a thoughtful talk by Mr John Saunders at the regular meeting. He recalled 1931 as a disastrous year caused by war impact and urged cooperation with nations to balance world trade. Saunders contrasted 1930 cotton mill closures with full employment and $130,000 in local payrolls over eleven months.
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Bonham Roterians
John Saunders
Mr. Saunders
Hoe
Charles Hassell
Bonham
Halsell
Joe Hrdlicka
Hugh ‘Rodgers
Hawaiian turmoil debate over Massie case inflames Congress
Flawaiian delegate Victor S. K. Houston defended the Honolulu jury in the Massie trial controversy. He criticized Admiral Pratt's Hawaii remarks as inflammatory and defamatory and called the claim of a reign of terror an exaggeration. Houston presented his view of the Island Paradise turmoil and the alleged attack on Mrs. Thalia Massie by Joseph Kahahawai and others.
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Admiral Pratt
Hawaii
Victor S. K. Houston
Congress
Island Paradise
Houston
Honolulu
Joseph Kahahawai
Thalia
Massie
Too Much Talk In Arkansas And Across The Nation
A poem by R. F Walters rails against excess in Arkansas and nationwide during the early 1930s. It laments surplus cotton wheat corn hay cows milk and silk while noting poverty and idle talk. A separate note mentions Far East supply to the United States in 1931 with figures for raw silk rubber tea and cane sugar.
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Far East
United States
Waithead seeks county precinct one commissionership
W. E. Waithead, a farm resident north of Ector, seeks the precinct one county commissioner post. He emphasizes strict economy, a low tax rate, and full value for public money, asking voters to judge him on qualifications and merit and to consult neighbors about his character.
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W. E. Waithead
Ector
Whitehead
D&sw
On Texas Farms by Darrow Extension Service Editor
W. H. Darrow explains Texas farm conditions and agricultural practices in this Extension Service column. The piece surveys crop, soil, and livestock ideas, offering practical guidance for farm families and communities across the state.
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Texas Farms
W. H. Darrow
Extension Service
Home Demonstration Club Women Prep 1% Hot Beds
In Lubbock County women from home demonstration clubs prepared 1% hot beds for early garden planting and noted more are in the works.
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Lubbock County
Prings in the Turnips to Typewriter Shower
L V Little of Telephone presents a humorous scene as he feeds a typewriter with a mess of turnips and greens raised on sandy land. The note thanks Brother Little for the big feed, reflecting a lighthearted local moment.
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L.V. Little
Telephone
Brother Little
Woman grows variety vegetables in 1931 garden
From an irrigated plot of 2400 feet square Mrs J C Busher garden demonstrator for Waungite Home Demonstration Club in Runnels county has kept her family in fresh vegetables every month of 1931. She had 37 varieties and from one to 22 different varieties each month. Her net profit is 153.65 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Busher
Waungite Home Demonstration Club
Runnels County
House to Vote on Billion Dollar Proposition Soon
The House plans a vote tomorrow on a one billion reconstruction finance corporation measure, with the Senate already approving it. In other items Lydia Hodgkin, a 72 year old globe trotter, travels from Europe to Marshall Minnesota and will stop in Chicago to visit her sister.
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HOUSE
Associated Press
Washington
Jun
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
New York
Lydia A. Hodgkin
Globe Trotter
Marshall, Minn
Europe
Chicago
Farmer’s crooked terraces cut cotton yield, says Harris
C E Harris of Whiteflat Community Motley County insists a farmer should be straight in business but crooked in farming. He notes two years of crooked terrace rows yield only one third bale per acre while neighbors reach about 300 pounds per acre. He argues the land wastes and soil erosion cut returns.
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C E Harris
Whiteflat
Motley County
Farmer Sells Tomatoes and Potatoes After Dry Year
A Travis county farmer with an acre and a half of swampy ground, left barren since 1925, sold 275 dollars worth of tomatoes this year and 140 bushels of sweet potatoes. County agent terraced surrounding slopes to keep surface water on the hillsides.
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Travis County
Farm profits prompt poultry pivot amid cotton gains
An Upshur county farmer bragged of six bales of cotton on 7 12 acres earning $119 but quit poultry work saying no money in chickens. The county agent showed another demonstrator earning $23240 from 386 hens last year. Ernest Ritcher of DeWitt county ran a dairy herd with 21 cows paid 35 cents an hour for October chores, yielding $223 profit per dollar of feed.
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Upshur County
Sprite Cotton Patch
Ernest Ritcher
DeWitt County
Pupils Travel Distances In Jewel County Kansas
Jewel county rural school pupils covered 84 600 miles in 1931, an amount roughly equal to six trips to the North Pole. Among 128 students, some reside as far as 21 miles away daily.
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Jewell
Kans
Jewel County
North Pole
Daly
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