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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1934
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions re elect, trust in court, debts, and a dubious list of names and places. It is unclear but implies a political or legal notice with multiple scattered proper nouns and towns such as Corpus, Robstown, and Port.
President Roosevelt approved a 4.5 million loan to complete the Hamilton dam power project on the Colorado River, Texas. The project will store about 1.6 million acre feet of water, support irrigation, municipal uses, and navigation with a system of locks and dams as far upstream as the mouth of the river.
A wrinkled, grey haired man stands in a doorway and asks for five cents to buy tobacco, claiming he has no sick wife or starving children. The scene shows a new keep-acting device used by reporters to test public sympathy, contrasting the man’s plea with garbled narration.
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