Allred Starts Second Term as Texas Governor
James V. Allred, inaugurated for a second term, is hailed as a rising statesman with earlier service as attorney general. The piece notes his improved address to the 45th Legislature and outlines hopes for social welfare, conservation, agriculture, penalties reform, and care for the disabled and aged, wishing him a successful stewardship.
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James V. Allred
Texas
Allred
Commonwealth
Alfred
Annual Bryan Houston Chamber Dinner Promises Hines Talk
The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual dinner in the Texas A M College mess hall with Harry Hines of Wichita Falls as principal speaker. The program features music, tributes, and new board introductions as the group urges strong member attendance to shape 1987 community progress.
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Bryan and Brazos County
Hines
Chamber of Commerce
Guy Adriance
V. V. Mercer
College Inn
V. B. Breazeale
D. L. Wilson
C. C. Todd
Delinquent Juvenile Problem Raised in Bryan
A report describes five youths aged seven to twelve defying officers after burglarizing a business house. The piece argues juvenile delinquency is a citywide issue, needing attention from law enforcement and citizens, not just Chicago or Newark.
Democrats stage March 4 deficit dinners
Loyal Democrats plan deficit dinners on March 4 to raise funds. The event aims to highlight fiscal policy concerns while appealing to supporters.
Strange as It Seems by John Hix on Goethe and Werther
The essay traces Goethe's inspirations from a dagger under his pillow to Werther’s self destruction in the Sorrows of Werther. It notes Goethe’s impulse to write after near death and ties events to broad historical curiosities including England’s kings and Cromwell.
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John Hix
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wetzlar
Germany
Goethe
Charlotte Buff
Werther
England
Oliver Cromwell
The Penn Family Line Births and Deaths
William Penn founder of Pennsylvania born October 14 1644. His son Thomas born 57 years later and 61 years after that Thomas' son Granville Penn born. Granville Penn died in September.
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Penn
William Penn
Pennsylvania
Thomas
Granville
Granville Penn
Prohibition of Quoits in Medieval England
The article notes quoits became so popular in 14th and 15th century England that archery was neglected. To protect national defense, King Edward III banned quoits by law and Richard II issued further prohibitions on the game.
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England
Edward III
Richard II
Satirists and satire in American journalism
New York reports editors and critics debate American satire’s state. The piece contrasts U S styles with England, notes figures like Kaufman and Lardner, recalls Brooklyn Bridge squalor, cites the Dayton Bryan hoax calls and a Park Row hunch about a major yarn about to pop.
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New York
America
England
Max Beerbohm
A. P. Herbert
Bill Nye
Petroleum V. Nasby
King Lardner
Lardner
George S. Kaufman
Park Row
New Jersey
Charles Chapin
Nashville Newspaper Office Scene in Boo Story Scene
A Southern newspaper man vouches for a spooky Boo Story set inside a Nashville newsroom during a time of local press pride. The scene dramatizes journalistic bravado and small town gossip amid presses and ink.
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Nashville
Bryan business men organize for good roads bond issue
About fifty Bryan businessmen met in Carnegie hall and elected L. L. McInnis as chairman. Ed Hall A M Waldrop W E Saunders W R Sanders and Judge Board spoke in favor of the road bond. Meantime W B Roman Capt John W Gee died in the city.
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Bryan
Carnegie Hall
L. L. McInnis
Ed Hall
A. M. Waldrop
W. E. Saunders
W. R. Sanders
Judge Board
John W. Gee
Exchange
Ben Powers
Austin
B. F. Patterson
Anderson Street
Federal Building
James O. Chance
New York
S. H. Hickman
Butler
Waco
E. J. Butler
Spain’s Radical Drift Amid War Washington Debate
Editorial notes Spain shifted to a mixed rule with socialists communists and anarchists in Madrid and Valencia while workers seize control in Basque and Catalonia. Russian and Axis aid shape fighting as fascist Franco aims dictatorship. Postwar balance may favor regional liberty over centralized control.
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Spain
Madrid
Valencia
Basque
Catalonia
Russia
Germany
Italy
Christian Science Monitor
Melancholy for Rudy Vallee After Wife Fay Webb Dies
Reporters and photographers kept on hand as gossip circles around Rudy Vallee in deep sorrow after Fay Webb's death. A favorite traffic gendarme jokes about pedestrians facing stricter enforcement, while Vallee remains focused on work and home.
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Rudy Vallee
Fay Webb
Community Spotlight and Finance Debate Highlights
A survey of locals at workplaces and shops features J A Rhodes and others in daily life. Gov Allred discusses state finances and a proposed move to tax homesteads out of taxation, with calls to address tax dodgers and revenue gaps.
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James V. Allred
Texas
A Futuristic One House Legislature Concept
The St Louis Globe-Democrat imagines a unicameral Miami University model with 25 members in six year terms. It would have no speeches, a council table three days weekly, and Supreme Court review before any law. Reserved for personal issues, it questions whether eloquence would vanish in practice.
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Read Bain
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Nebraska
State Supreme Court
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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General Motors
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Travis B. Bryan
C. Richardson
Beckwith
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