America's Cotton Mon Opoly Threatened
A lengthy editorial notes Congress failed to pass a deficiency bill for a bonus payment, yet the Treasury will fund the program anyway, risking credit and echoing a long habit of fiscal improvisation. It weaves in a China Wall fact and discusses cotton shortages driving European production and colonial activity. Also departs into a Llano River camping party led by Mrs. Tipton and Mrs. Striegter with music, fishing, and a tan-inducing conclusion.
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Congress
Treasury Department
Treasury
Hook and Crook
Llano River
Grandma
Tipton
N. L. Striegter
Fredericksburg
The Raveled Sleeve of Care and Global Cotton Talks
An eclectic column mixes rural humor with notes on global cotton production. It discusses rising acreage in Sudan and other regions, China’s cotton led profit, Indian and Australian expansion, and potential American shifts toward domestic demand if world supplies grow. It also cites rail and naval treaty questions and a optical Pacific air crossing, closing with fascist pilgrim housing plans.
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Sudan
China
India
America
South America
Asia
Africa
Australia
Stingy with his boys a leader by work ethic
The Autobiography of a Stingy Man argues parents ruin children by easing paths. The speaker says he withholds money, rewarding only earned income. He cites successful leaders who worked from youth and insists his sons must earn education and a business start, despite social odium.
Glaciers Created Rocky Mountain Peaks in Longs Meeker and Lady Washington
Remnants of the ice age shaped valleys in Rocky Mountain National Park and formed three major peaks Longs Meeker and Lady Washington with Lane’s reaching 14 255 feet. The fish crop of the world costs consumers about a billion dollars annually and seven hundred eighty million goes to harvesters.
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Long’s
Meeker
Lady Washington
Lane
Monument planned in Oberndorf for Silent Night centennial
One hundred years after Silent Night was composed in Oberndorf near Salzburg Austria a monument is to be erected there to commemorate the event. The village prepares a memorial to the famous Christmas carol and its origin.
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Oberndorf
Salzburg
Austria
Shoes by poker rules in Hiram Jones tale
In a parable from Hoyle style humor a townsman sees a shoe sale with a sign promising three of a kind, asks for two pair, and learns the clerk enforces two pairs cost six dollars while noting three nines cannot form four nines. Judge Ny delivers a playful courtroom twist.
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Hiram Jones
Hiram
Schroeder Bros Mens and Boys Dress Hats
Schroeder Brothers advertise mens and boys dress hats with a subscription pitch to the Standard. The brief notice promotes headwear and engagement with the local newspaper.
Market Report Cotton and Grain Prices July 25
Market report lists prices for cotton spots and basis middling, corn white shelled, wheat No. 1 per bushel, oats, cotton seed, peas No. 1, cane, eggs infertile per dozen, butter fat, fryers, and turkeys. Includes scattered figures and unit prices.
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Wm. Langerhans
Texas
Radio Five
Wm. Engel Sr
State House
Fredericksburg Independent School District
Max H. Schoenewolf
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Cotton Assn
Klaerner’s
South Heights Bridge
Traveler's Cafe
Euclid Ave
Fredericksbur Standard
Fredericksburg Publishing Co
D. R. Schumacher
WM. Habenicht
Sis
Frederiksburg Publishing Co
Great Wall of
Sleeve of
Care
Colonel White
Ink Judson
Yassah
Brother Bogus
Dar
Spence
House of Commons
Ramsay MacDonald
United States
Pacific Ocean
United States Army Service
Kashiwabara Bay
Paramushir Island
Japan
Italy
Rome
Stingy
Hoyle
t'Von
Schroeder Bros
Carney
Lahkadie
Antoiieus Empire
Fors
Gs Ie
Joseph Bros
Sadie
Palm Beach
Blue Bell
Deices Hall
Hye
Sugarman Bros
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