Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Health News
Bryan residents share updates on friends and relatives visiting from Houston Dallas and Kerrville. Circulation covers medical recoveries, travels to Austin for Guy Lombardo, aid to families with funerals and returns from business trips in Dallas Fort Worth and Tyler.
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A. M. Waldrop
Houston
Mr. Waldrop
Bryan
Austin
Guy Lombardo
Lois Kraft
Bernice Kraft
Harry Wayne Williams
Earl Tardy
Milton Edge
McKenzie
Esteen C. Harrison
Tabor
Curt Oliver
Dallas
Fort Worth
H. L. Jackson
Caldwell
Hugh Looney
Texas
Angleton
Edgar Mainard
Shelter Belt Plan Aims to Halt Drought with 4 Million Trees
The Christian Science Monitor reports the United States launches a shelter belt program to plant 4,000,000 trees along windbreak corridors from the Canadian border to the Texas Panhandle. The Forest Service will establish 154 miles of belts across North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Texas this spring requiring about 21 009 man days of work. The initiative builds on long standing prairie experiments and aims to reduce dust and soil loss while fortifying the grain belt against future droughts.
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Prairie-Plains
United States
America
Canadian
Texas Panhandle
American Tree Association
Forestry News Digest
United States Forest Service
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Christian Science Monitor
Lump Sum Appropriations for UT and A M
Gov Allred proposes lump sum state funds for the University of Texas and Texas A&M College with a cap on tax money, broad policy guidance, and post audit. He argues regents and directors can better judge needs and allocate funds, potentially justifying removal of line-item budgeting if boards prove capable.
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James V. Allred
University of Texas
Texas A. & M. College
University
House
Senate
Bryan Plans PWA Work With 4 Billion Federal Program
Bryan officials join Fort Worth meeting on potential PWA projects. City lists include garbage plant paving College Road drainage auditoriums schools market gym airport and Carnegie library repairs. Officials stress rapid action and thorough local planning to secure grants and start projects soon.
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Bryan
Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Julian Montgomery
PWA
N. A. Stewart
R&r. G. Williams
College Road
Carnegie Library
Montgomery
Germany weighs terms as France and Britain push pact
Germany remains undecided on accepting a proposed pact from England and France as it does not satisfy all German demands. The article notes France may have abandoned some old ideas, and argues the proposal aims to curb bilateral alliances against Germany.
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Germany
England
France
Malaria Inflicts Heavy Texas Economic Loss
Malaria causes an annual economic loss in Texas of about four million dollars. The text urges action to eliminate the mosquito from the area, noting that residents must bear their share of the burden.
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Texas
White House hints at Blue Eagle flight path
Dispatches from Washington state indicate the Blue Eagle's future line of flight will follow roughly its present course, though many are puzzled by what that present course entails.
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Washington State
Blue Eagle
White House
Planning Bryan’s Shape for Public Works Benefit
The note discusses preparing Bryan so she can act quickly if it’s found she may benefit from the four trillion dollar public works program. It emphasizes early planning to avoid delays once eligibility is confirmed.
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Bryan
Quanah Hotel Restored to Echoes of Early Days
Quanah Texas Feb 2 The Quanah Hotel one of the oldest structures in the city is being remodeled to restore its early day appearance. The three story building was erected in 1890 and was a show place of Northwest Texas. Tornadoes twice ripped off the roof and a gas explosion caused damage. The second-story balcony once extended the full length of two sides was removed long ago.
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Quanah
Texas
Broadway's Gay Nineties Recalled Through Fading Echoes
A nostalgic tour of the Broadway scene and era's decline recalls musicians, dogs, stars like Edna May, and figures such as Constance Collier, Florence Walton, and Robert E. Sherwood. It contrasts vaudeville urgency with modern nights of clip joints, gangsters, and altered entertainment values.
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Constance Collier
Florence Walton
Pat Campbell
Spot
America
Europe
South America
Australia
Africa
Orient
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Bowery
Haymarket
Groundhog Shadow Reflections Light Up Spring Mood
A playful column notes springlike weather and shadow lore from Feb 2. It cites Maxwell Anderson and Robert Burns while recalling the groundhog and readers’ tendency to fear shadows. A closing quip by George Bernard Shaw adds a tangy atheist remark.
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George Bernard Shaw
Stewards to Meet at First Methodist Church
The board of Stewards of the First Methodist church will meet Tuesday night at 7:30 at the church. Chairman E J Jenkins asks every member to be in his place.
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First Methodist Church
E. J. Jenkins
Twenty Five Years Ago in Bryan from February 1910
Recap of local notes from Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot. Q O S Johnson lessee of the new opera house discusses furnishing plans after visiting Houston. Cr N Simpson returns from South Texas with an attachment patent for riding cultivators. A former Packers employee testifies to the federal grand jury about the National Packing Company and its 23 subsidiary concerns. Rev Lockett Adair’s revival movement grows beyond expectations. Lt John Butler returns from North Texas on business. George W Dunlap of Milli can attends to affairs in Bryan. J S Harrison postmaster at Keith buys supplies from Bryan merchants.
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Bryan
Federal Grand Jury
Beef Trust
National Packing Company
Lockett Adair
John Butler
North
Texas
George W. Dunlap
Millican
J. S. Harrison
Keith
Grimes County
Rest for critics and planners in a South Seas retreat
The author jokes that many local critics and tax raisers should vacation on a quiet island in the South Seas to relax and talk to themselves. He notes such men are jealous and haughty, work too hard, and that the country might also benefit from their rest.
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South Seas
College Board urged to decide Astin Loan fund use
The James Robert Astin Student Loan Fund of 15000 dollars, bequeathed by Mrs. Mable Astin and overseen by the College Board of Directors, remains untapped after September and February registrations. With loan funds insufficient, students withdraw for lack of aid until an early decision reallocates the fund to its intended purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Robert Astin
Mable Astin
Astin
College Board of Directors
The
Texas Aggie
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Fred Tankerman
J. H. Smith
Navasota
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Georgetown
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L. N. Boddie
Jimmie Gregg
Travis Bryan
F. L. Henderson
Butler Hickman
Tyler
P. W. Bruner
Fort Bend County
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Quanah Hotel
New York
O. Henry
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Second Avenue
Brooklyn Bridge
Shanghai
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Harry
Victor Herbert
George Gershwin
Bronx
Edna May
London
Oscar Lewisohn
Miss May
Syracuse
N. Y
Buckingham
Robert E. Sherwood
Frank Adams
Life
Sherwood
E. V. Cutler
Mrm
Gong
Maxwell Anderson
Scotland
Robert Burns
Mr. Groundhog
Waite
Eagle Printing Co
Fanette Rivkin
Hauptmann
Associated Press
Everett Sanders
Calvin Coolidge
Grace Coolidge
John Coolidge
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