County Relief Ends January First in Texas
The Texas Relief Commission announces that relief benefits will end January 1 with only twenty percent of staff retained for up to three months if federal funds allow. About 650,000 unemployable Texans will lose medical care after January 1, and local communities must absorb aid responsibilities. merchants must file distributing orders by January 8 to avoid state delays.
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Austin
Relief Commission
Texas Relief Commission
Texas
Martha
Vicks
The Nicest Santa Chris Finds a Home for Christmas Kitty
Martha Weeks takes in a stray kitten that keeps visiting her doors for a week. A mill manager, seeking a home for his family, arrives with a Christmas gift plan for his daughter, and terms are arranged. The kitten becomes the house’s heart and a quirky holiday Santa Claus.
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Martha
Hilda Gray
Miss Weeks
Horse Royalty for Texas Centennial Exposition
Internationally famous $1060 Champion Six-Hitch Clydesdale team owned by Wilson & Co to be shown in the mammoth livestock exhibit at Dallas during the 1956 World's Pair. Photo shows left to right Thomas E Wilson chairman of the board Edward Foss Wilson president of Wilson & Co and
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Wilson & Co
Dallas
Thomas E. Wilson
Edward Foss Wilson
Christmas Candle Use Across Nations Mentioned
The article notes Christmas candles were adopted from Europe and common in Scandinavia on Christmas Eve lighting windows for Kristine the gift bringer. Bayberry candles are favored for their green color scent and emblem of triumph.
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Europe
Scandinavia
Kristine
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Santa
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Horstmann Bros
Firestone Batteries
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New Funeral Home
Leland Green
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New Home Chambers
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Grace Wooore
NBC
Vicks VapoRub
J. K. Freeman
Cameron, Texas
John Deere
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Cameron Macine Shop
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Rou
Henry Ford
Aut Setlaat Reese
Ford
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United States
Lincoln
Lincoln-Zephyr
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