Reduced Tourist Travel Rates Slashed Nationally this Summer
Washington April 12 railroads slash passenger rates to boost summer travel to national parks Grand Canyon Atlantic City and New England coast resorts. Cuts reach up to one third of wartime increases with two fare classes three months and fifteen days. Campaigns aim to spend $1 000 000 on advertising from June 1 to September 30.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
Mississippi River
National Park
Colorado
Grand Canyon
Atlantic City
Jersey Coast
New England
Michigan
Great Lake
Farm finance bureau created at A and M College Station
Texas A M College Station announces a new division of farm and ranch economics in the experiment station to study costs of producing cotton cattle and sheep and to help farmers market products at fair profits. H M Elliott will lead the bureau with federal Rural Economics backing from Washington and support from Director Youngblood and President Bizzell.
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College Station
Texas
A. & M. College
Experiment Station
Bizzell
Youngblood
H. M. Elliott
Extension Service
America
Burea
United States Department of Agriculture
Elliott
Washington
Federal Bureau of Rural Economics
S. C. White Leghorns eggs for sale advertisement
S. C. White Leghorns Eggs for sale from Young and Johnson strains. $1.25 for 15, $2.25 for 30. My hens are from Young's bred to lay strain and headed white cockrels from M. Johnson, 210 to 285 strain hens. Satisfaction and safe delivery strictly guaranteed. Mrs. A. R. Bridges, RB, 1, Clifton, Texas, 4-21. When a fool man gets into trouble he goes to a woman for sympathy. And he merely acquires more trouble.
Senator Bankhead Favors Better Highways
Mineral Wells Texas April 15 Delegates at the seventh annual convention of the United States good roads association begin marshalling forces for Fridays floor fight over the Bankhead National Highway route About 1 000 delegates from almost every state arrived as routes are debated Governor Charles H Brough presides and Governor Rufus C Pleasant is slated to deliver the principal address tomorrow Senator Bankhead of Alabama president of the association declares public support for improved roads Federal appropriations if matched by states and counties will total nearly 600 million for road building and maintenance in the next three years Also Annie Webb Blanton and Minnie Fisher Cunningham spoke urging better roads and suffrage support.
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Mineral Wells
Texas
United States Good Roads Association
Bankhead National Highway
Union
Charles H. Brough
Arkansas
Rufus C. Pleasant
Louisiana
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Annie Webb Blanton
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Galveston
Cunningham
Texas Woman Suffrage Association
Sankhead
Man who marries a girl with a pug nose
A witty saying notes that marrying a partner with a distinctive nose ensures life will produce surprises and unexpected outcomes. The quip reflects humorous yet pointed views on marriage and fortune.
Deep test planned near Walnut North of town
Ben edum and Trees start another deep test north of Walnut in the John Gordon survey area between Walnut and Hill Creek. Wassom and Coleman of Wichita arrive to locate a deep test west of Walnut Springs near the M. E. Carroll survey, with geologists reporting favorable prospects. J B Conley of Strawn arrives to head drilling, J H Houser of Fort Worth seeks a northwest town contract, and Barton McLendon of Idabel negotiates for acreage north of Walnut Springs.
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Walnut
John Gordon
Hill Creek
Wassom & Coleman
Wichita
Kansas
Walnut Springs
M. E. Carroll
J. B. Conley
Strawn
Texas
Wal
Nut
J. H. Houser
Fort Worth
Barton R. McLendon
Idabel
Oklahoma
Bread rises with alarm clock in oven trick
A reader suggests an odd method to make bread rise by placing the loaf in an oven with an alarm clock set to go off. The alarm supposedly triggers the bread to rise as it bakes.
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Lucille
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McCormick and Deering
Schows
Deering
Ent
Clifton, Texas
S. C. White
Senator Bankhead
County Oil News
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