Flying hostesses and fame at 14 berths aboard the Mercury
The article profiles Gillespie Airline hostesses La Nell Braun and colleagues on the Mercury airliner. It describes training, duties like comforting passengers and aiding with air sickness, and anecdotes about celebrities and reporters. It notes Braun’s name change from Braeutigam and her Texas origins.
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Los Angeles
Dallas
Rea
Mercury
Braeutigam
Chicago
Oklahoma
John Kimbrough
Tom Harmon
New York
Horse Show
Miss Bracatigam
J. W. Baaeutigam
Fredericksburg
Braun
la Nell
la Nell Braun
West Texas
San Angelo
Gillespie Farmers Approve Peanut Marketing Quotas
Gillespie County peanut producers joined growers nationwide in approving marketing quotas for 1941 to 1943 peanut production. In Gillespie 55 voted for quotas and 27 against with nationwide support around 90 percent. Quotas apply to farms where more than one acre of peanuts is threshed and enable a loan and diversion program with penalties for excess production.
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Gillespie County
Texas
Oklahoma
Mason Highway Re-Topped in City
The city tore up the Mason Highway segment within its limits due to months of poor condition. Mayor Krauskopf says the first block beyond Kraus corner will receive caliche followed by an asphalt resurfacing.
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Krauskopf
Kraus
Fredericksburg Highs class designs Happiness Club displays
Fredericksburg High School advertising students over several weeks created window displays for the Admiration Coffee Happiness Club. Students listed include Esther Klein Clarice Greathouse Amanda Goene Ora McDougall Myrle Roos Ruby Feuge Resenda Roos and many merchants such as Blum s Store Pig gly Wiggly and Woerner Grocery. Subscribe to the Standard.
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Fredericksburg High School
Admiration Coffee “Happiness Club
Blum’‘s Store
Esther Klein
Clarice Greathouse
Amanda Goene Handy Andy
Ora McDougall
Myrle Roos
Ruby Feuge
Resenda Roos
Piggly Wiggly
Dan Anderegg
Marvin Jung
Weston Luckenbach
Willow City community notes and social happenings
Willow City reports include a 19 13 score in favor of Willow in a referenced game and a Friday weiner roast on Edgar Gold's ranch with chaperones O K Nix Dittmar Gold and Nolan Althaus. The town recounts illnesses flu and the Eckert Willow school play attendance plus softball scores 10 11 boys and 29 4 girls. Attendees from nearby families visit Morris Ranch and San Antonio Battle of Flowers parade travelers listed.
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Willow
Edgar Gold
O. K. Nix
Walter Dittmar
Nolan Althaus
Otto Grienke
Trene
Eddie Grienke
Morris Ranch
Logan Young
San Antonio
Vernon Gold
Marlin Althaus
Irene
Hugo Crenwelge
Felix Schaefer
Felix
Eckert School
Eckert-Willow
Eckert
N. H. Greathouse
Farrel Smith
Emil Horlen
Chas. A. Sagebiel
Retirement Fortune Attributed To Duty And Honesty
The country newspaper editor retired with a substantial fortune. He credits his success to close application to duty strict honesty rigorous economy and a large inheritance from his uncle totaling nearly one hundred thousand dollars.
Livestock Raisers May Expect Larger Profits In 1941
Texas livestock regions show gains in farm cash income with higher prices for wool mohair milk and related products. University of Texas statistician Dr. F A Buechel cites larger January 1 inventories above normal livestock conditions and rising shipments as demand grows with payroll gains in the North and East. The state wide agricultural income index reached 101.7 in March 1940 and 117.5 in March 1941 with first quarter totals $57,401,000 vs $46,576,000 the year before.
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Texas
University of Texas Business
F. A. Buechel
Bureau of Business Research
Bureau
Complicated Gadgets Sold to Save Time at Home
A humorous look at household devices and devious gadgets marketed to prevent housewives from boiling coffee in a pot. The piece satirizes how complex mechanisms clutter kitchens while promising quick, effortless routines.
Local Committee Named To Assist In Defense Bond Sales
A seven member committee of Fredericksburg business and civic leaders was named to assist in the sale and publicity of the new U S Defense Bonds offered by the Federal Government starting May 1. Chairman Robert Klingelhoefer and members A L Cameron H E Wahrmund Paul Weber Mrs Leola Mathisen Mrs Lina Lewis and S H Smyre named for Fredericksburg. Other county supporters include Hugo Weinheimer Stonewall H J Robinson Willow City Albert A Wendel Doss Reginald Morris Morris Ranch and John Morris Tarper.
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U. S
Hugo Weinheimer
Stonewall
H. J Robinson
Willow City
Albert A. Wendel
Doss
Reginald Morris
Local residents undergo minor surgeries in April
Mrs Emelia Klein is undergoing an operation in a local hospital on April 23, followed by Felix Schaefer on April 28 and Lee Roeder who had a tonsillectomy on April 28.
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Emelia Klein
Felix Schaefer
Lee Roeder
Basse Transferred to Puerto Rico from Oklahoma post
Lieutenant Udo Basse of the U S Army Dental Service, son of Mrs Henry Basse, is transferred from Lawton Oklahoma to San Juan Puerto Rico. He is due to sail from Charleston South Carolina on May 6 after visiting Fredericksburg May 1. Also Lieutenant Chester Borchers moves from Brownsville Texas to the Philippine Islands.
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Udo Basse
U. S. Army Dental Service
Henry Basse
Lawton
Oklahoma
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Basse
Charleston
S. C
Fredericksburg
Chester Borchers
Dental Sevice
Brownsville
Texas
Philippine Islands
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