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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1935
Page
4
The piece argues only about five percent of Texas farms have electricity and suggests rural electrification via a $4 billion public works plan is unlikely to move fast. It notes the need for plant construction or acquisition and calls for careful local surveys before supplying current, deeming this aspect of relief programs less valuable than others.
Texas Highway Commission chair Harry Hines rallying to secure 100 million from the federal government for vital Texas roads. Brazos County praises past support but urges extensions from Burleson to Highway 36 and a College area to Roans Prairie route to reach underserved areas. Local advocates warn many requests may be refused unless urgent, but significant work relief funds could back new and improved roads across the state.
Sheriff Roy W. Nunn warns residents to lock autos and secure property to combat a surge in thefts. About 500 chickens have disappeared recently, some found dead, others sold cheaply or stored for thieves. Community cooperation with officers is urged to halt the epidemic.
The postwar European strongman Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, revered as Poland’s father of the country, died Sunday night. His passing shocks statesmen and may affect Franco Polish relations and the balance with Germany as Poland’s stance shifts amid new security pacts and peace talks.
The Senate Agriculture Committee was instructed on April 24 to report by May 12 a revised Bankhead bill to aid farm tenants displaced by AAA operations to acquire and cultivate land. The piece discusses tenancy forms, instability, and the need for rehabilitation and owner-operators amid Southern cotton farming.
County board of supervisors reconvened Tuesday morning as the Board of Equalization to continue its work. The group began Monday afternoon and will extend sessions until all duties are completed.
The 500 mile wide barrier between the Soviet Union and Germany raises questions about its future. Analysts ponder whether it will stay as a buffer against Soviet governance, reflect its ties to France, or hint at closer ties with Germany, exciting continental and British foreign offices.
The Chicago Tribune commends Secretary of State Cordell Hull for pursuing trade agreements to boost exports. The anti administration paper argues for continued expansion, opposing contraction or isolation as a path out of present conditions.
Hundreds of Louisiana farmers applauded Secretary Wallace as he urged support for the President and praised the AAA. They cheered Louisiana congressmen who rebuked Long for criticizing Wallace and Roosevelt, and the crowd likely would have cheered Long if he had spoken.
The Bryan Daily Eagle argues high cost of passing bills at 669.50 per statute and urges repealing many laws rather than enacting new ones. It blames lobbying and the trade off system, calls for fewer legislators, fewer bills, and tougher ethics to cut costs and restore representative voters. It cites Blaburne Times-Review as origin.
Richard Le Gallienne, nearing seventy, retreats deeper into Parisian seclusion while producing occasional sonnets for American readers. The piece lists American writers popular abroad, notes Eva Le Gallienne’s Broadway rise, and recalls Vesta Victoria’s return to stage life alongside other excerpts on literary and vaudeville figures.
Midnight to 1 a m Grand Central subways carry tipsy crowds heading home. Passengers are generally jovial with playful mood and sing songs. One rider caused a stir by skinning a car and scattering his changes as he left at Times Square.
An English journalist visiting with former Prime Minister Lloyd George is ushered into a grand dining room. He is greeted with large napkins and the ex-premier ties a buttonhole, flashing a ready smile.
The passage discusses names that carry an air of dignity, noting examples like Gertrude, Howard Chandler Christy, William Rhinelander Stewart, Maurice Barrymore, Richard Harding Davis, Edward King Gaylord, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Irene Hayes, a red-head who began her commercial career from a Kansas platform stop.
The Club Gaucho proprietor invents a caped doorman who rides a horse to greet taxi arrivals with a sweeping Buenos Noches. However uptown slummers may not recognize him if he is on foot horseback or riding a high bicycle.
A roundup of local notes from Bryan including Dr Boliver J Lloyd ill and sent to Asheville NC for care. D B Lloyd of Reliance travels to join him. Bryan baseball to host two games with the Chicasha Indians at Allen Academy. T J Gray announces for justice of the peace. Rev J H Gambrill and Cone Johnson lead temperance talks in Dallas. Beall Chatham of Mexia plans marriage to Eula Lamar Ross in Bryan May 31 1910. Theodore Roosevelt to serve as special ambassador to Edward VII funeral. Mrs W G Drummond and Misses Della Ella Edge visit from Cottonwood.
A Texas Capitol report discusses how general laws tied to county population counts risk applying to wrong areas after future censuses. It notes many special local laws and the political fallout for sponsors. County home rule is praised as a cure, enabling independent action without new special statutes.
A visitor recalls Holdenville Oklahoma visiting publishers Tom Phillips and Stan ley Maddox. The narrative celebrates Holdenville as a historic oil town with Camp Holmes Fort Edwards near Little River, noting leaders like Henry Leavenworth and Jefferson Davis and figures such as George Catlin and Nathan Boone.
Local report outlines a clash between public utilities and the Tennessee Valley Authority over electric supplies. The piece references Franklin’s mapping of lightning and a printing detail involving Yellow second sheets sold in packs of 600 for 60 cents by Eagle Printing Company.
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