Farmers Pay Excessive Rates on Farm Credit
The Department of Agriculture reports North Carolina farmers pay high store credit rates averaging 26.6 percent, while banks charge about 6 percent. The study urges thrift and better banker contacts through county agents and farm organizations to improve farmers’ credit standing. It notes high merchant credit use, large total debt, and that banks carry less than one sixth of merchant credit.
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Department of Agriculture
Farm Credit Tn North
North Carolina
Festival Nativity Date From Festal Calendar Note
The piece cites In A. PD. 556 for observance in Rome of Christ’s Nativity on December 25 in a Festal calendar by the local church. It mentions Hippolytus of Portus in the early third century as dating December 25, and places it in the fortieth year of Augustus’ reign as the presumed birth date of Christ.
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Rome
Hippolytus
Portus
Augustus
Tord
The New Year Blessing Poem by Horatio N Powers
A devotional New Year verse from Horatio N Powers in the St Louis Globe Democrat salutes an undeveloped year. It invites growth, knowledge, grace, love, and divine blessings through symbolic images: a flower, a book, a tree, a path, a house, a landscape, a fountain, a casket, and fruitful deeds.
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Horatio Nelson Powers
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Watchman Killed as Bank Entered in Ferris Texas
Ferris Ellis County Texas December 10 Wm Horne a 52 year old night watchman for the city of Ferris was killed when a bank was entered by unknown suspects. Further details unavailable.
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Ferris
Ellis County
Texas
Wm. Horne
Christmas Song Reflection by Clara McCulley
A Kansas City Star poem by Clara McCulley laments the repetitive holiday customs while praising the Christ Child tale. The piece contrasts consumerism with the traditional Christmas spirit and hopeful angelic peace.
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Christ
Clara
McCulley
Kansas City Star
Reason for Christmas Observance Dec 25 Believed Origin
The piece argues December 25 as Christ birth anniversary is an ancient institution though earliest claim traces to a distant apostolic era. It notes Western practice before December 25 and questions the fixed assignment to that date.
Ferris City Hall shooting leaves official dead after bank break in
Horne, a Ferris official, was found shot in the City Hall office around 5 30 am Saturday. A bank vault knob was knocked off during a break in at Farmers and Merchants Bank next door. Investigators suspect a lookout outside the City Hall and have no solid clues. Horne leaves four children. his wife is deceased after twenty years as a Ferris resident.
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Farmers and Merchants’ Bank
Ferris
Horne
Lon Flippen
Nichols
Flippen
City Hall
Dallas
Henry Forbes
Billie Batchelor
Will Burrow
Waxahachie
Jenny Wilson
Mr. Horne
Mar
Ferris Lodge Odd Fellows to Held Funeral Services Sunday
Funeral rites for a local man will be conducted Sunday under the Ferris Lodge of Odd Fellows auspices. A separate classified notice lists a for rent five room house with bath and garage near Yee High school, box 569, phone 28.
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The
Ferris Lodge of Odd Fellows
Yee High School
Room For Two School Boys In Mrs Eplen's Home
Housing offer stating room available for two more school boys with a partial board arrangement possible. Contact Mrs J M Eplen for details.
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J. M. Eplen
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Uation
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