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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1938
Page
2
A Bowie column rails at pencil-written checks and check-raising, urges ink and pin use, warns against strangers handling accounts, and jokes about parade crowds, fashion, farming, courting, and city life to lampoon local habits and common sense.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economies notes 121,000 Texas farms lack milk cows, urging new land diversion from cotton to food and feed crops. Farmers may add two cows per farm for full cotton benefits, boosting dairy output and farm health while silos store feed for droughts. The piece also discusses broader policy ideas and social issues amid wartime economy pressures.
The House passed the Wage and Hour Bill by 14 to 97 and sent it to the Senate, which previously approved it 56 to 2 on July 81 1987. The bill seeks a 25 to 40 cent hourly wage floor and a 40 to 44 hour workweek, amid intense lobbying by business groups.
The article describes wartime wage policies and their effect on food costs, notes Congress plans for a Food and Drug Bill, and highlights Texas prosperity amid national recession. It details rising migration of unemployed toward Texas, hitchhiking trends, and hardships facing young workers and graduates seeking scarce jobs.
Mr and Mrs August Nobile plus Mr and Mrs Louis Nobile and Miss Mae Fenoglio were shopping in Bowie Saturday afternoon. Pete Giabetti entertained friends Sunday evening. Thomas Chandler of Montague visited Melvin Fenoglio on Sunday. Henry and Ray Fenoglio were Sunday dinner guests of Kenneth Chandler of Montague.
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