The Great Commoner William Jennings Bryan Remembered
In hindsight the era’s fierce free silver battles are recounted as Bryan’s enduring legacy. Despite relentless opposition from ministers and manufacturers, Bryan’s ideas influenced juries of law and policy, from women’s suffrage to the income tax and direct Senate elections, shaping a lasting political record.
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William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
McKinley
Mark Hanna
Slush Fund Fame
Judas
Billy Bryan
Klondike
United States
Champ Clark
Woodrow Wilson
Peace
Old Age Assistance payments mailed for September totals
Old Age Assistance in Austin mails September payments totaling 3,688,278.50 to 170,850 aged recipients at an average grant of 21.59. August numbers were 171,991 recipients at 21.62. Blind aid covers 4,611 recipients at 24.09 totaling 111,057. Dependent Children payments reach 223,170 to 10,677 families with 23,255 children at 20.90 average.
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Austin
Heavy Rain Hits Doss Community with Road Damage
Last week Doss recorded 3 inches of rain with 5 inches reported by Otto Dittmar of Squaw Creek. The downpour caused substantial road and fence damage. Local residents shared Labor Day visits and brief trips to Fredericksburg while notable births and family gatherings occurred among area families.
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Doss
Otto Dittmar
Squaw Creek
Tobias Willms
San Antonio
Labor Day
Otto Mahn
Fredericksburg
Erlene Hahn
Cave Creek
Karl Durst
Otto Strackbein
Milton Wendel
Harper
Emil Lange
Roy
R. Weber
Willie Rosenbusch
Lee Roeder
Ernst Kramer
Klein Branch
Christ Wahrmund
Emil Petsclh
Luekenbach
Peaches Aid Home Demonstration Clubs Reach In Uvalde County
Stonewall grower Simon Burg shipped ten bushels of Elberta and Yelloweye peaches to home demonstration club women in Uvalde County. Mary J. Reed notes about 220 bushels totaling 1100 dollars moved through the county marketing committee with 80 percent club members. Average yield was 17 to 20 quarts canned per bushel, with close to eight thousand pints produced overall.
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Stonewall
Leakey
Simon Burg
Home Demonstration Club
Uvalde County
Burg
Mary J. Reed
County Home Demonstration
County Home Demonstration Council
Stonewall School Opens With 83 Enrolled
Stonewall School opened on September 4 with an enrollment of eighty three students. Ten are entering first year, thirty in high school. Five of six graduates from last term resumed studies, including Agnes Nebgen at St. Marys Fredericksburg and John Pehl in a Draughons business course in San Antonio. Delrose Burg left for San Antonio to attend Alamo Business College.
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Stonewall School
Agnes Nebgen
St. Mary’s
Fredericksburg
John Peh
Draughons
San Antonio
Calvin Beckmann
M. J. Everett
Clayton Kuhlmann
Delrose Burg
Alamo Business College
Pioneer Memorial Viuserm Receives Display Material
The Memorial Museum received loaned items for its collection including a fringed woolen shawl once owned by Mrs Friederich Bang who died at 92. Items also include a rope weaving machine from Germany, an old lamp from the Blums store, and various household pieces. A July addition featured a buffalo horn and Mescalero ceremonial implement. Continued on Page 4 Sec 2.
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Friederich Bang
Margarete Schmidt
Ed Gold
Heinrich Grobe
Germany
New Braunfels
Gilespie County
Robert Blum
Blums
Henry Meier
H. A. Meier
J. T. Estill
Jack Solomon
W. C. White
Gifford
Edward
Fredericksburg
Sugar Shortage Declared With 400000 Tons Lacking
Department of Commerce reports a shortage of 400000 tons of sugar versus a year ago. This refutes claims warehouses overflow with sugar due to rationing. The nation does not have excess sugar, urging readers to subscribe to the Standard.
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Department of Commerce
Groceries Stolen From Llano Firm Lead to Two Arrests
Two Llano men are jailed on felony theft charges after groceries valued at 200 dollars were recovered from the John Orr White Sale Grocery Company in Llano. Police report the items were stolen in a single incident at the Llano firm.
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Llano
John Orr Whitesale Grocery Company
Surgical Dressing Room Closed Until Further Notice
The Gillespie County Red Cross Surgical dressing work room in the courthouse basement will be closed until further notice due to gauze shortages. Mrs. L. L. Keyser, production chairman, announced the action. Raymond Oehler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Oehler, now works for B. F. Walker Inc. in the Odessa oil field.
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Gillespie County
Raymond Oehler
Erwin Oehler
Behrend
B. F. Walker Inc
Odessa
Tex
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Highway 16
Nassau Creek
Harry Wahrmund Doss
Bernice Weinheimer
Pioneer Memorial
Viuserm
Texaco Gas and Oil Scientific
Paul Lindenberg
Elgin Beckmann
Kermit Hahne
Pedernales
Gillespie-Blanco County
Watkins
W. P. Hori
Texas
America
Gulf’s
Gulf's
Gulf
Gulfs
Smith
Gulfpride
Stralthus
Gulf Station
Gasolie
Chrysler
Plymouth
G.M.C
Hk. C. Tiannenmann
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