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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1930
Page
8
A humorous wedding vignette where the bride protests embarrassment as the groom glances toward an exit door and the best man tenses to intervene, implying a dramatic, comic moment during the ceremony.
Dialogic fragment presents a courtroom style question and answer about a woman's refusal to marry George. The exchange hints at a tragic accident or illness as possible causes, leaving whether the suitor's fate was sealed by misfortune or deliberate choice.
A playful verse depicts a performer glancing at a starry sky from a Rear Seat view. The narrator imagines how the star would appear to him with glasses up and sits close in a vaudeville setting.
In a humorous exchange Pat moves his chicken-house with friends. They find the trek strenuous yet continue. Halfway, the coop is lowered for a rest and Pat calls from inside the house that he is carrying the perches.
A brief exchange shows a man asking for $10, but another offers help by covering carfare with a dime and urging him to fetch his wallet. The scene highlights a small act of assistance amid a tense moment.
A humorous dialogue depicts a prospective maid saying she left her last job because her former employers were too highbrow and constantly fighting. The mistress questions her, highlighting class and racial tensions in a fashionable household setting.
A motorist complains about an extra oil charge, while the garage man explains it refers to oil left on the car upholstery. The exchange captures a terse dispute over shop fees and service practices.
A concise cartoon caption shows a man replying to a question on foreign relations with a witty line about his “poor relations” receiving all his attention. The exchange uses humor to deflect policy focus.
A reflective verse notes how old economic lessons resurface across lands as people seek explanations for unclear phenomena. It emphasizes collective striving to make sense of uncertain financial tides.
A humorous exchange shows a mistress and her housemaid clashing over who will handle a task. The maid retorts that she could do it herself as quickly as the mistress speaks, highlighting mutual impatience in domestic tensions.
A terse line from Btray Stories notes the peril of attempting a debt payment. The quoted remark implies a fatal consequence tied to repaying money, reflecting cautionary folk narrative style.
Jefferson Medical College researchers report experiments linking rheumatic fever to focal infections such as infected teeth and tonsils. Dr Virgil Holland Moon described using infected cotton swabs to cause chronic infections in animals, yielding heart and artery changes like human rheumatic fever. Autopsies confirmed parallels to human cases.
Berlin police discovered and raided a private Kantatrasse residence where seven women were arrested for gambling. The women, idle housewives by description, formed a club after being excluded from other venues and were playing rhummy instead of baccarat when officers interrupted the scene.
A rare lemur from East Africa is received by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prof Adolph H Schultz explains it will be kept for habit and behavior studies before joining about 300 other monkeys apes and lower primates in the anatomical collection, said to be the largest such collection.
Hammond Louisiana reports engineer Ford of the Illinois Central Panama Limited sacrificed his life to save a fourteen year old boy when the boy’s stalled auto stopped on tracks. Ford and the fireman were fatally scalded and the boy survived but wounded. Ford previously resolved never again to cause a death after a past crossing fatality.
In Glacier Park Montana a Crow adopted by a Native woman at the Glacier National Park reservation is considered a good omen by the tribe. The bird entered the tepee through an open flap and has remained nearby, even sleeping in the wigwam at night, with the community treating the encounter as favorable medicine.
Charles F. Rogers former assistant botanist and deputy state entomologist at Colorado Agricultural College writes in a bulletin on Canada thistle and Russian knapweed and their control. Copies are available by writing to the Colorado Experiment Station. The bulletin notes these weeds are widespread and advises clean seed, clean machinery, and methods to prevent seed formation including mowing spraying burning of mowed weeds clean fallow and crop rotation.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns gardeners that cutworms damage seedling tomatoes cabbage lettuce and melons by biting near the ground mainly in spring and early summer. Use bran bait with dry bran white arsenic or Paris green molasses and water to control them.
A garden pest called the onion maggot injures onions from early spring through the year. The maggot is a footless pale grub that feeds on onions then becomes a small housefly like adult. Control with Bordeaux oil emulsion spray weekly for five to six weeks.
The notes urge paper mulch to boost yields in a dry season and compare a treeless farm to a dog without fleas. They discuss cost per hour for tractors and horses, deep planting risks for beans, weed bed depth, and mustards seed destruction. North Dakota introduces Golden Sunshine corn as an early hybrid. Pie plant and asparagus noted for food value and health benefits.
Greater Romania shows dramatic agrarian reform after World War I. Land distribution reached 8.6 million acres to over 1.4 million peasants, capping individual holdings at 1,285 acres, with Transylvania and others joining the nation. The era blends ambition with higher borrowing costs and transit challenges while expanding crops, industry, and oil potential.
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