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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1935
Page
1
Stillwater Ok June 13 Hilled cotton is being tested by Oklahoma A and M College to develop a satisfactory drop hill planter for cotton. Nine years of tests with spacings from six to twenty four inches and one to four plants per hill have been conducted.
Federal Land Banks report show 2398 farms sold in Q1 1935, up from 1196 in 1934. Largest gains appeared in the South and Northwest with a 100 percent rise, announced in Washington.
Astrologers forecast price trends while Myra Kingsley gains favor. Eight blocks of tunneled motor traffic from 34th to 42nd Streets without signals may spur more double decked traffic in mid town. A sandwich man pickets a film ad for Black Fury and Black Pit. He is tall and was revealed to be a Pennsylvania coal miner.
Rev W W Hardt will hold services next Sunday in Fulshear at 9 30 am Brookshire 11 00 am and Pattison 8 00 pm with a Sunday School at 10 00. New members will be received at Brookshire Sunday morning and at Pattison Sunday evening. All members and friends are invited to attend.
A political verse denounces broad taxation on laborers and common citizens. It lists taxes on cattle, crops, clothing, homes, wages, businesses, and even the dead and unborn, urging heavy levies while lamenting burdens on everyday people. The spoof condemns government overreach and calls for harsh fiscal measures on all.
Indian skeletons bearing small holes bored in leg and skull bones after death puzzle Michigan anthropologists who speculate the holes served as exits for the soul’s trips in and out of the body after death.
Washington reports a record cattle exodus from the Middle and Southwest before May rains. The Department of Agriculture notes 66,000 head moved through Kansas City in April and early May, with 26,000 more handled directly. Most cattle from the Texas Oklahoma Panhandle and nearby areas went east of the Mississippi to pastures. Later May and early June rains reduced shipments as ranchers fed dry stock while pastures recovered.
An extensive milo blight inflicts heavy losses across West Texas with 50 percent damage in 50 000 acres of Runnels County and reports of high losses in Tom Green Coleman Taylor Callahan Concho Poke Brown and other counties. Researchers from Texas A and M recommend resistant varieties such as hegari kafir and feterita and advance seeds from a dwarf yellow milo strain cultivated to curb the disease.
Reports say a promising oil sand show reached 3038 feet in the test well near Capps No. 1. Cement has been run this week and a plug may be drilled before Sunday, with outcomes still uncertain.
Austin June 18 Transients especially those from within Texas urged to settle down and avoid road travel by state relief administrator Adam R Johnson Federal officials appeal to railroads and motorists to refuse free transport to transients Several anti hitchhiking laws have been passed Transients told to return home or seek shelter at transient division camps near division depots in major cities of the state
Jacksonville Texas June 14 the tomato movement was lighter in Hast Texas Friday with about seventy five cars moving. Farmers received from 214 to 214 cents per pound for green wrapped and the nationwide movement has been lighter due to unusually cool weather in the North and East reducing consumption and leaving unsold cars in multiple cities.
In Cashel Irish Free State the city hall bans all but Irish dancing. Councilman P Phillips says he will be hard hit since he can only play the saxophone which does not produce Irish music.
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