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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1936
Page
4
The readable text is limited and lacks identifiable persons organizations places dates or events to summarize into a coherent news item. This card notes an unreadable fragment with no discernible action outcome or context.
WPA trucks five in Brazos county were withdrawn after high costs. The district office cited per yard and per mile rates totaling 80 cents per eight mile haul, with $22.40 daily pay for a seven hour day. City offered $1 per hour, but officials said bids were required. Contractors’ 20 percent commission alleged. About $3,250 paid Dec 13 to Feb 21, contractor $750.
An essay argues that small communities once thrived on personal barter and buyer seller trust, but big business dominates modern life. It praises telling the business story honestly through print and quality goods, noting public confidence is earned by transparency and reasonable prices. The piece cites advertising trade and a New York group on poverty to illustrate the point.
Texas A and M researchers design a compact 20 by 10 foot frame unit with a 192 cubic foot cold storage room a scalding vat smoke house and a sink. The system enables killing dressing refrigeration curing and storage of meats plus canning laundry and lard rendering on the farm. Construction costs 840 at the college with options to reduce if a building exists.
The piece surveys high earners in New York's nightlife, naming Dwight Fiske and others like Clark & Delys, Endor & Farrell, Eve Symington, Jean Sargent, Frances Maddux, Sheila Barrett, Eddie Carr, and Jimmy Durante. It notes jazz venues shifting away from orchestras, and includes anecdotes about banking, cons like fake inheritance schemes, and a reminiscence with Al Smith.
In wartime Paris Jed Kiley runs a night club where a man calling himself Lord Chester loses his coat. Kiley jokes the wrap room gate kept coats, the first coat chosen turns out to be the Prince of Wales in disguise, an old raincoat worn during the war.
Rev. E F Carrington led Sunday services at the Baptist church with large crowds attending both. A singing gathering at W D Mills residence drew several musical numbers. Several residents, including Mra N Cole and Mrs C F Goen, are on the sick list. Mrs C L Andrews broke her left arm recently. Mr S B Pate and houseguests Helen and Bettye Nelle visited Cullen Frazier family. Cecil Maudine Kelley improves after appendicitis operation at Wilkerson clinic. A singing event is planned at Free Will Baptist church in Bryan Sunday evening.
Edge residents report a strong Sunday school gathering after weeks of bad weather. Influenza affects several in the community while Mrs. Henry Bynum and Catherine Elliott remain ill. Newman Power, school principal, visited nearby.
The notice lists multiple visits among local families including Payne McDonald Wilson Broadus Sanders Barnett Flanigan and Frame. It notes teachers and school children planning a trip to Old Washington for the Centennial celebration and invites all to attend with friends.
Huntsville Feb 25 The total population of the Texas state prison system reached 6 001 inmates the largest number in state history announced W M Thompson chief of the Criminal Record Bureau The count lists inmates at Asylum 28 Blue Ridge 416 Central 71 Clemens 625 Dering 326 Eastham 540 Ferguson 165 Goree 127 Harlem 614 Huntsville 1158 Ramsey 850 Retrive 33 Wynnes 257
In 1930 President T O Walton unveiled the seven point A and M Farm and Home Plan. It calls for preserving land as capital stock, using adapted crops and live stock, balancing farm business, low cost methods, living at home, producing quality products, and marketing on quality. The plan remains sound and practical with or without government help. It is urged as a preserved blue print for prosperity in Texas farming.
Oliver Goen’s enrollment boosts Rock Prairie 4-H to 25 members and Edge adds three cards lifting Edge 4-H to 35. The piece ends with question who wins this year in the ongoing competition.
S. McCleary, manager of the Montgomery Ward store, announces a radio party for all 4-H club members on Saturday, March 7 from 11 30 to 12 30 during Farm and Home Hour. A special 4-H program will be broadcast and the assembly place will be announced next week. Watch the papers.
The baby beef show will be held Saturday March 14 from 10 a m to 2 p m likely at the red barn Calf judging starts at 10 a m and the auction sale at 2 p m This event is a major cattle industry occasion for Brazos county and will indicate future industry trends.
The extension service lists feed needs per animal type including horses mules dairy cows beef cattle hogs sheep hens and turkeys with corn hay and pasture requirements. The first 4-H member to submit correct detailed feed needs to the county agent will win a prize at the next club meeting. State the acres of land required to produce this feed using county average yields.
Club members planning a trip to the Houston Fat Stock Show on Sunday March 8 must notify the county agent at once. The event is hosted by the Lions Club and invites club members to join as guests.
The article notes widespread black rot in Brazos county sweet potatoes and urges systematic control. It recommends dipping potatoes for 15 minutes in corrosive sublimate at four ounces per 50 gallons of water and repeating the process with slips for safety.
The note urges removal of dirt from the first bud on grape cuttings grafted in January and February. It also calls for completing all pruning this month including shrubs and roses.
Mrs J W Burrows of the Millican Home Demonstration Club seeks a foundation pattern to fit her spring wardrobe with private sewing sessions. Mrs A H Keller of the Kurten club demonstrates the foundation pattern method, highlighting individual sizing and easy sewing.
Fragmentary text references a foundation and demonstration with sewing patterns. Mentions Mrs Jerry Home and Wade, Sramek, Harmon, and an agent. Lacks clear event, date, or location details to establish a definite news item.
A damaged clipping mentions a funeral and several individuals including Mr and Mrs Fort Novosad and a Mr Wheelock. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear relationships or dates, with references to a Sunday visit and an aged person.
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