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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1937
Page
4
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The county tax assessor collector’s office is under pressure after an audit showing missing funds. Officials face questions about possible remedies, with talk of civil action to recover money and no final grand jury decision yet. The law blocks ousting elected officials for past terms, prompting debate on repealing or amending it.
Residents and officials in Bryan and Brazos County back Texas A and M College but condemn cadet vandalism and disturbances. Friday night disturbances near a city club involved intoxicated cadets and beer venues, prompting calls for stricter enforcement, closer supervision off campus, and potential license revocation of offending establishments.
Citizens with 477 petition signatures urged Brazos County commissioners to schedule a vote on whether to hold an election regarding prohibition. The charge cites liquor and beer interests corrupting politics and police, arguing beer saloons were run under brewery control and could have changed the prohibition outcome.
A column surveys Australia's 169 year wait for land claims with notes on Manoel Godbino de Eredia and Dampier. It recalls James Cook’s 1770 claim, then shifts to domestic life about Mrs. Berry waking at 4:00 A. M. for 38 years of breakfast duties, and ends with Manhattan’s last farm fading as a trailer camp looms.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive exam for Bindery Operative in the Government Printing Office. Pay is 66 cents an hour with retirement deduction. Full details available from Will S Collard secretary Civil Service Board of Examiners at the post office.
Denton notices a dedication program at Texas State College for Women to celebrate completion of a $1,300,000 building project. The event occurs on a Saturday, marking a milestone for the campus and its facilities.
Plans outline a formal dedication on Saturday morning with Secretary Harold L. Ickes invited to speak. President L. H. Hubbard signed the proposal, and Governor James V. Allred, Julian Montgomery, and state Public Works Administration officials are among invitees to attend the event.
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The East Texas Chamber of Commerce starts a five year one variety cotton contest with annual awards to boost quality and per acre production. Brazos county communities are urged to enter to improve crops and gain potential honors. The Eagle publishes full rules and regulations.
The Eagle reported a landslide defeat for the road bonds proposition in yesterday's election. Early tallies confirmed the outcome as reports continued to arrive. A. H. Ramsey hauled lumber for J. Z. Ramsey's Union Hill store project while Peyton Irving plans Bryan home residence after leaving A. & M. College.
Amid New York’s Cauliflower Corners scene, Jack Dempsey and rivals Mickey Walker Tony Canzoneri James Braddock and Benny Leonard invest in eateries tied to boxing fame. Poet Berton Braley recalls pool days with Braley and Smith’s tea room charm endures, while a Park Avenue fragment notes Paring knife misadventure at Third Avenue.
The piece recalls a top industrialist famed for jingles and a famed ghost writer Dave Freedman who died recently. It describes a philosophy joke about love and marriage, Freemans rise from the Ghetto to wealth and decline, and notes Smith's book shop on rue Cambon as a lingering landmark.
J. M. Shafer 94 veteran newspaperman died Monday in Plainview separating twins believed to be the oldest in the United States. His twin Lydia V. Whitlock of Los Angeles survives. Born December 12, 1842 in Mahoning County Ohio, he came to Plainview in 1890 and founded the Hale County Herald, foreunner of the Plainview Evening Herald, after trading horses for a printing press. He began newspaper work as a boy on the Genese Republic and helped print the first copy of the Denver Post at age 14. He later moved to Steph...
A Board of Life Insurance Commissioners reply clarifiesNo late information was given to a Bryanite who asked about a Texas insurer Judge H O Ferguson and Erwin Smith discussed the matter Irene Thompson deputy tax assessor collector checked her watch Mrs Emma Griffith back at the courthouse aiding old age assistance Will Holmes back in town to hand out coffee post office at 7 am busy D Mike, popular farmer ally with Brazos county folks Judge W C Davis met Brazos county attorneys to fix the criminal docket urging prompt trial dates Non jury trials and insistence on appearances have reduced costs and cleared the docket in recent terms
The Dallas News argues a stringent drivers license law protects the majority by removing unsafe drivers. Official figures show 3,600 Ohioans barred since 1935, a small share of 2,000,000 drivers, yet reducing deaths and injuries benefits all residents nationwide.
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In Greenville Texas Shafer published Stephen ville Empire and married Lydia Dupuy. He founded the Cisco Telegram and ran the Plainview paper before selling it in 1911 to B O Brown. He died at his daughter's home with survivors Tom Shafer of Wasco California and two daughters in California and Utah.
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