What Price Economy Bryan Needs Recreation Facilities
The Bryan city government is fiscally sound due to cautious budgeting, but residents face a recreation deficit. Citizens urge building a swimming pool, gymnasium, auditorium, and tennis courts, arguing such facilities would boost entertainment, sport, and culture. The piece condemns neglect and warns the city risks a lasting void without investments in public recreation.
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Bryan
Monte
Navasota
Brazos County
Give Them a Chance After Election
Post election editorial urges unity and responsible civic engagement. Voters have spoken, officials elected or re-elected. Citizens should support the new teams while offering constructive criticism to improve county district and state governance.
Bryan Tax Rate Cuts Highlight Bryan's Low Taxes
Bryan voters enjoy a tax rate of 1.45 dollars per 100 valuation, with renditions near 35 percent of property value. Over six years, rates fell 40 cents and renditions rose as new construction appeared. Despite cuts, service remains solid with planned additions for fire, police, and street departments, keeping Bryan financially stronger than many Texas cities.
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Texas
Bryan
Strange As It Seems Sailed Great Circle Concept
John Hix explains great circle sailing showing that shortest routes between ports bend as an arc due to earth curvature. He notes only equatorial points lie on a straight line from departure to destination. Also describes Salix herbacea, tiny willow grows two inches in Rocky Mountain regions and other high areas.
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Rocky Mountains
Idaho
Montana
British Columbia
Eurasia
White Mountains
Vermont
Strand Theatre Era Sparks Ironic Amateurs Paradox
New York commentary surveys Broadway's Strand as amateur hour hub and dream factory on its third floor. It catalogs talent scouts, fashion illustrators, and public behavior, with wink at past glories and modern showbiz quirks through 1936 lens.
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New York
Strand Theatre
Shartbreak House
Paradise
Tony Pastor
Major Bowes
Fred Allen
Cedars
Lebanon
Strand
Milner Receives Call on Sending Boy to A and M College
Twenty five years ago a Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot item reports Col R T Milner president of A and M College receiving a long distance call from a Smith County citizen who wished to send a boy to the college. The fragment notes a public interest in education but ends abruptly with the citizen's statement.
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Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot
Col
R. T. Milner
A. and M. College
Smith County
Constructive Mission for League of Nations at Geneva
Editorial urges nations to use the League honestly to prevent war and to revise unjust treaties by peace. It argues strengthening or weakening the League won’t ensure peace without leaders committed to justice, citing Manchuria and Ethiopia. The piece highlights Sir Samuel Hoare’s call for justice before enforcing peace and invites a genuine effort to lessen war causes at the September Assembly.
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Assembly of the League of Nations
Geneva
Europe
Ethiopia
League
Manchuria
League For Good
Samuel Hoare
Assembly
League of Nations
Christian Science Monitor
College to Add Dormitories and Expanded Accommodations
Reportedly crowded college prompts clarification that more dormitories will open next session. Two new dorms with 102 rooms each will create a total of twenty two dormitories on campus. Local residents G W Showers and H T Lawler are mentioned in recent moves and property transactions. M L Hewit and Hazel return from Buffalo, noting snow there and record high temperatures locally.
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Correc
Collee
G. W. Showers
New York
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Toledo
Ohio
H. T. Lawler
UT Board takes no action on Daily Texan censor rule
The University of Texas Board of Regents discussed protests against its censorship rule for the Daily Texan in an informal session. Leo Haynes, secretary, confirmed no formal action was taken on Monday regarding the student newspaper policy.
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DAILY
TEXAN
Austin
Board of Regents
University of Texas
Leo Haynes
Avement notes and small town life blur in parish column
A snippet of church verse opens a community column filled with everyday chatter from Brazos county towns. Readers share visits, errands, and brief notes about residents like J H Conway returning from vacation, J W Lester at lunch, and E H Heatly heading to a warehouse while familiar locals and travelers appear in short vignettes.
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J. H. Conway
J. W. Lester
E. H. Heatly
Hig
Cole
Main Street
A. C. McDowell
Tabor
McDowell
East Texas
Yellow second sheets offered for carbon copies
Fagle Printing Co advertises 500 sheet packages of yellow second sheets sized 84 by 11 inches for only 50 cents, promoted for carbon copies typing and practice work.
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Fagle Printing Co
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John Hix
Los Angeles
John C. Walworth
Owens
WeNaught Syndicate, Inc
Thyra Sumter Winslow
Claudette Colbert
Arkansas
Hollywood
Yellville
Arkansan
Rae van Buren
James Montgomery Flagg
Russell Patterson
Lyendecker Brothers
Arthur William Brown
Ham Fisher
Dean Cornwell
Bette
London
Bern Ali Haggin
Grimalkin
Saks
Lillian Russell
Grivets
Harry Richman
Monte Carlo
Isle of Bing Bong
Queenie Vassar
Squire Mauck
Cemetery Hill
Squire
McNaught Syndicate
Humans
Genc Carr
Joe R. Tatman
J. W. Shugart
Shugart Motor Co
King
M. C. Atkins
Southwest Telephone Company
North Texas
Court House
Grace Avairy
Helen Kidd
Ennis Canady
M. M
Erskine
Dana Carnes
Lillie Rush Hoppess
J. F. Rosebrough
J. W. Sandifer
Mike Coleman
Mr. Coleman
Jess Gilpin
S, VY
Norwood
Edison English
Homer Mathis
I. Maniloff
Abert Goodman
Dave Munday
Louis Wehrman
Jess Gammon
Jimmie Allred
Gammon
Allred
Wrigley Ball Park
Morris Schulman
Calif
Yegil Estell
Ole Martinsen
Galveston
Gulf
Estell
Martinsen
Bill McMillan
Lubbock
Venice
Italy
St. Mark Cathedral
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