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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1937
Page
2
The piece argues advertising should promote local shopping in Bowie to keep residents and deter pricey imports. It stresses a friendly, community focus over self serving boosters and notes zoning should be enacted early to protect property values from junkyards and wrecking yards. It warns late action makes passage harder and risks investment protection.
The author argues that idle Libor over five years could have funded a nationwide road building program. Such a system would employ all classes, require no costly overhead, and create concrete trunk highways with feeder roads. It would be elastic, economical, and provide lasting value beyond cycles of depression.
Sue Barksdale reflects on rent and deed ownership in a humorous column filled with quirky aphorisms. She notes cobwebs signal a vacant house and jokes about neglecting routine maintenance like oil changes. The piece ends with a wry twist on common sayings.
Uncle Jim warns soil washing ruins bottom lands while Texas Extension Service advocates terracing contouring and strip cropping to control erosion. Best gains come when land is fertile, but protecting eroded lands can be profitable even without crop recovery. Legumes may help restore land and shield fertile low areas from further loss.
A reflective column jokes about hometown friends returning with fortune and names a neighbor sending a son through college. It contrasts liberal education costs with state taxes and notes a royal abdication for love while Solomon clung to power with many wives.
The President and Congress debate tax loopholes draining millions annually. A Senate resolution calls for public hearings while the House limits testimony. Lawmakers rail against exemptions and lobby influence in tax laws as revenue shifts from income to sales taxes.
Mrs. M. A Bryan News Editor of the Bowie News and her family traveled from Bowie to Charleston West Virginia spending three weeks with her father Dr. J. P. Thomas. The letter describes rain in Texas and Arkansas, a visit to Hot Springs and Lake Hamilton, views of trees and a large stern wheeler on the lake, poverty in parts of Arkansas and Tennessee, beauty of Memphis homes, rough traffic in Nashville, a show boat on the Cumberland River, and travel through Kentucky to reach Kenova West Virginia. They crossed the Ohio River at Catlettsburg and reached Charleston late Tuesday night after touring the region and noting rocks danger signs and cheerful remarks about their driver Austin Bryan.
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