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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
4
A county wide exhortation urges Gillespie County students to return to school with definite plans and originality. It argues ambition alone fails without hard work and moral growth, and that building a solid foundation in local schools shapes future life and character.
The article recalls soil erosion as a national issue with Texas leading early conservation work. Since Spur Sub-station experiments began in 1926, contouring and terracing reduced runoff, transformed gullies, dried swamp beds, and allowed cattle to graze on improved pastures, yielding benefits for current and future generations.
The Dallas Association of Life Underwriters, per Texas Weekly, launches an educational campaign to stress hand signals as a safe driving measure across Texas. A Dallas traffic survey found 66 percent of drivers gave no signals when turning and five percent signalled wrongly, with only 29 percent signalling correctly.
A compact meditation on happiness that links contentment to retirement from pomp and the quiet joy of self-satisfaction and intimate conversation with a few close friends.
A statement on how true greatness lies in willingness and ability to grasp and reflect an inspired call to right and justice.
A public-language critique denounces purveyors of hate as preying on ignorance and superstition to spread bigotry across communities. The piece links such vendors to social harm and urges readers to resist prejudice.
The Texas Weekly notes granite and marble as Texas’s neglected indestructible building stones with West Texas sources in Llano Gillespie Mason San Saba Blanco counties. It urges a public education program to boost native stone use, citing The Texas Institute of Natural Resources in Austin as a data source for available Texas stone.
Texas State Department of Health warns that acute appendicitis drives surgery every minute in the United States and peritonitis kills one person every 29 minutes. Prevention hinges on prompt recognition and surgery, with delays largely due to self treatment and laxatives.
For narrow back or side yards up to about 20 feet wide and 35 to 40 feet long there are many games for all ages. Table tennis, shuffleboard, paddle tennis, badminton, tether tennis, croquet, horseshoes and lawn hockey all work. Rotate games as seasons change and give the grass a rest.
W L Brandon and son Leroy led Kendall County Fair results with nine prizes including top awards in sheep and goat divisions. Betty Lee Brandon won a blue for mohair. Mrs Leroy Brandon second. Texas turkey producers urged to prep for market with September 15 feeding, October 1 readiness, warming and vaccination guidance from Texas A and M extension: develop fattening mash, grain, green feed. use stab vaccination in wing web and pigeon strain vaccine for temporary immunity.
A ledger of representative J. W. Rothmann & Sons live stock sales shows numerous buyers and lots of cattle calves cows sheep and hogs with prices and weights. The article also notes significant peach orchard damage in Central Texas and promotes a new peach borer treatment using ethylene dichloride emulsion as safer for young trees.
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