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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1934
Page
4
The U S Bureau of the Census published Texas birth rate with national figures. Texas registered 107 924 births last year and ranked first in birth rate 17.9 per thousand of population third in births filed and fifth in population.
A satirical piece on editors and mistakes notes how typos spark uproar far beyond their size. It compares misprints to larger errors in professions like carpentry, law, and public life, while urging learning from errors and staying resilient.
A quip contrasts medical errors with editor mistakes as a good night remark. The line frames accountability and humor around professional missteps without naming people or places.
Washington August 21 President Roosevelt authorized a new government loan to the Commodity Credit Corporation raising lending on cotton to 12 cents a pound for low middling or better. Growers may borrow if not selling now, with regulations similar to last year, as prices hover around 13 cents amid strike threats and cotton certs delays.
Hog prices show choice truck hogs 175 to 250 pounds at 5.75 and lighter weights 3.50 to 4.50. Fat muttons 2.00 to 2.25, lambs 3.50 to 5.50, goats slow. General run hogs and lambs weak. Grain prices list cotton 13 cents basis middling, oats 45, wheat 90, ear corn one cent, shell corn 80, maize 1.40 to 1.50 per bushel.
A two year search ends with the discovery of the Fannin massacre burial site near Goliad Texas. Professor J E Pearce and Judge J A White assist in the excavation after charred bones five feet deep were found. Plans include a monument shrine and a paved drive from the Austin Refugio highway.
Durst Maier extends a cordial invitation to all visitors to stop by their Fan-cooled Store during the Fredericksburg Fair. The brief note encourages guests to visit while in town and explore merchandise or displays.
A large barn two miles north of Carrizo Springs owned by T. F. Blackard burned Sunday night. A car farming tools and several tons of feed were lost. Origin of the fire is unknown. Neighbors found it and a fire company saved the residence. Insurance partially covers the loss.
We express sincere thanks to relatives and friends for help during illness and burial of Johanna Beckmann nee Beckmann. Gratitude to Revs Haag and Flachmeier, pallbearers, grave diggers, wake attendance, Mrs Max H Beckmann, Beckmans Quartett, mourners, visitors, and those who sent flowers.
Box 208 Prederiecksburg Texas seeks a young work mule no less than 15 percent bands high. Must be gentle and not a fence breaker. Provide full description and expected price.
A letter to voters says TLS Lattimore is not O S Lattimore, a longtime Court of Criminal Appeals judge. It notes S Lattimore is the son of C S Lattimore and warns that if H S Lattimore is elected to the Supreme Court, a father and son could both sit as judges, potentially holding half the state’s civil and criminal judicial power.
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